Tag Archives: Planet

Feast your eyes on this spectacular Hubble photo of a spiral galaxy

Posted on May 5, 2019 by The Great One

30 million light-years away, think about that! Light travels at 186,282 miles per second, so… 186,282 x 60 (seconds) x 60 (minutes) x 24 (hours) x 365 (days) x 30,000,000 (years) – that is quite a distance!  The universe truly … Continue reading →

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Professor Jordan Peterson on climate change and climate policy at the Cambridge Union

Posted on November 19, 2018 by The Great One

Too much logic and common sense for the average Left-Tard to grasp. I know, I know, liberals think they’re going to “save the planet”. These people can’t even apply reason to the simplest of issues, as they’re too emotional to … Continue reading →

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Scientists found a new Earth-sized planet nearby… and it might be habitable

Posted on November 15, 2017 by The Great One

Just eleven light years away, a short saunter in terms of the scale of the universe. Unfortunately for us, there is currently no technology that allows us to travel at 186, 282 miles per second; equivalent to 299,792,458 meters per second! … Continue reading →

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Signs of alien life? Mysterious star stirs controversy

Posted on October 20, 2015 by The Great One

Skeptics will always disagree, especially the religious fanatics among us who believe that God created us and only us and that we are somehow special, but the universe is too vast to not contain countless other living creatures. And yes, … Continue reading →

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Methane in Mars Meteorites Suggests Possibility of Life

Posted on June 17, 2015 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Charles Q. Choi Methane, a potential sign of primitive life, has been found in meteorites from Mars, adding weight to the idea that life could live off methane on the … Continue reading →

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Giant asteroid set to buzz Earth, poses no threat

Posted on January 26, 2015 by The Great One

One of these asteroids is going to make “landfall” one day and ruin the flow of our lives… And while the men and women of science track these monsters and try to figure out how to destroy one (should it … Continue reading →

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Two more planets in our Solar System, say astronomers

Posted on January 20, 2015 by The Great One

With all of the madness going on in this world, which these days and for decades to come (as with centuries past) has everything to do with religious dogmatism, it’s nice to know that there are scientists out there who … Continue reading →

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Scientists re-create what may be life’s first spark

Posted on December 8, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press Associated Press SETH BORENSTEINDecember 8, 2014 WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists in a lab used a powerful laser to re-create what might have been the original spark of life on Earth. … Continue reading →

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Depth of Biggest Sea on Saturn’s Moon Titan Measured by NASA Probe

Posted on November 12, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Mike Wall  Kraken Mare, the biggest hydrocarbon sea on Saturn’s huge moon Titan, is at least 115 feet (35 meters) deep and perhaps much deeper, a new study suggests. Radar … Continue reading →

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Scientists Have Discovered A Planet They Thought Was Impossible

Posted on June 2, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Business Insider By Leslie Baehr  The “Godzilla of Earths!” is in the foreground. Behind it is the smaller ‘lava world’. Their sun, in the back, appears to have been created only 3 … Continue reading →

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Alien Planet Camera Is Most Sensitive Exoplanet Imager Yet

Posted on May 14, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor A newly christened telescope imager built to snap photos of alien planets around distant stars is the most sensitive camera of its kind, preliminary tests … Continue reading →

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Astronomers spot most Earth-like planet yet

Posted on April 18, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press By ALICIA CHANG LOS ANGELES (AP) — Astronomers have discovered what they say is the most Earth-like planet yet detected — a distant, rocky world that’s similar in size to … Continue reading →

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The biggest scientific breakthroughs of 2013

Posted on December 29, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: THE WEEK From cloning to potential alien life By The Week Staff | 8:00am ET A galaxy teeming with Earths Astronomers calculated that there are 11 billion possibly habitable planets in our galaxy, greatly … Continue reading →

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Venus Now Shining at Its Brightest: How to See It

Posted on December 7, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGORefer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Geoff Gaherty, Starry Night Education December 5, 2013 6:56 PM Venus is shining at its brightest in the low southwestern night sky just after sunset, making it a fine time for … Continue reading →

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Scientists to Congress: We Have the Technology to Find Alien Life

Posted on December 6, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGORefer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Tanya Lewis, Staff Writer  For thousands of years, humans have been wondering whether there’s life elsewhere in the universe. Now, the technology finally exists to search for it. To find extraterrestrial … Continue reading →

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What 11 Billion People Mean for Space Travel

Posted on November 28, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Mike Wall, Senior Writer  Robert Zubrin wants humanity to put down roots on Mars, and he thinks he knows how to make it happen at a reasonable price. The key … Continue reading →

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Study: 8.8 billion Earth-size, just-right planets

Posted on November 5, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press By SETH BORENSTEIN  WASHINGTON (AP) — Space is vast, but it may not be so lonely after all: A study finds the Milky Way is teeming with billions of planets … Continue reading →

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Mission Possible: Existing Tech Can Take Humans to Mars (Op-Ed)

Posted on October 20, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Doug Turnbull October 18, 2013 12:23 PM Doug Turnbull writes science fiction based on hard science. Most of his books, novellas and short stories confront problems faced by early settlers … Continue reading →

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Did Venus Give Earth the Moon? Wild New Theory on Lunar History

Posted on October 3, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com by Katia Moskvitch, SPACE.com Contributor October 1, 2013 1:39 PM LONDON —The Earth’s moon may be a present from Venus, which once had a moon and then lost it, a new … Continue reading →

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On Giant Blue Alien Planet, It Rains Molten Glass

Posted on September 3, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com   by Elizabeth Howell, SPACE.com Contributor There’s a “blue marble” alien planet just 63 light-years from Earth, but the world is anything but friendly to life. Researchers say the blue color … Continue reading →

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Earth Life Likely Came from Mars, Study Suggests

Posted on August 29, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com by Mike Wall, Senior Writer NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope snapped this shot of Mars on Aug. 26, 2003, when the Red Planet was 34.7 … We may all be Martians. Evidence is … Continue reading →

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Mercury’s Volcanic Facelift Belies Planet’s True Age

Posted on July 5, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com by Miriam Kramer, Staff Writer July 3, 2013 Mercury is looking good for its age. Even the oldest parts of the surface of the planet closest to the sun are only … Continue reading →

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Double-Star Systems Can Be Dangerous for Exoplanets

Posted on January 7, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Mike Wall | SPACE.com Alien planets born in widely separated two-star systems face a grave danger of being booted into interstellar space, a new study suggests. Exoplanets circling a star with … Continue reading →

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George Carlin – Saving the Planet

Posted on November 8, 2012 by The Great One

Right on… TGO Video: YouTube

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NASA lands rover on Mars to seek signs of life

Posted on August 6, 2012 by The Great One

The United States of America, founded only 236 years ago, is successfully sending nuclear-powered robots to Mars; 570,000,000 kilometers (352,000,000 miles) from Earth, while other countries with a much, much longer history are still living in the Stone Age! This … Continue reading →

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Japan astronomers find most distant galaxy cluster

Posted on April 25, 2012 by The Great One

To think that each one of those tiny disks in the photograph is a galaxy, some similar to our own Milky Way while others being much larger; each containing trillions of stars, planets, moons, asteroids, etc. is truly mind-boggling. Add … Continue reading →

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First ‘Alien Earth’ May Be Found by 2014

Posted on April 4, 2012 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By SPACE.com Staff, Space.com | SPACE.com The first true “alien Earth” will likely be discovered in the next two years, a NASA scientist says. Astronomers have found more than 750 alien … Continue reading →

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Life Found in a Meteorite? Some Scientists Don’t Buy It

Posted on March 7, 2011 by The Great One

I am far more astonished, yes astonished, that certain scientists dispel the notion that there possibly could be life elsewhere in the universe than I am of the contrary. After all, the science of cosmology has proven that there are … Continue reading →

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First glimpse of a planet from another galaxy

Posted on November 19, 2010 by The Great One

The study of cosmology is one of the most fascinating of all the sciences. I can only imagine what discoveries will be made in the next hundred years and beyond, as our technology advances at a geometric rate. TGO Refer … Continue reading →

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