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Photography of Curiosity Landing Site on Mars First HD Panorama of Gale Crater - photoJPL.com .

Photography of Curiosity Landing Site on Mars First HD Panorama of Gale Crater - photoJPL.com .

Top 10 Strange Topics That Need More Explanation Weird Stuff The world if full of mysterious objects, people, places, and events that need more research. In the last 30 years, humans have made some incredible scientific advancement in the area of archeology, astronomy, computer technology, radar, physics, chemistry, biology, and statistics. People are beginning to understand more about how the Earth was made and have identified anomalies that exist in space. Some of the research has opened up questions about historic events and scientific theories. We can only hope that people will evolve and gain a better understanding of bizarre historical events, instead of moving in the opposite direction. On the day that John F. Another mysterious figure that was seen during the JFK assassination is the umbrella man. In the aftermath of the assassination, the umbrella man sat down on the sidewalk next to the Stemmons Freeway sign. A less common theory is that the umbrella man used a poison dart to immobilize JFK during the assassination.

Stellarium Constellations Your Age on Other Worlds Want to melt those years away? Travel to an outer planet! <div class="js-required"><hr> This Page requires a Javascript capable browser <hr></div> Fill in your birthdate below in the space indicated. The Days (And Years) Of Our Lives Looking at the numbers above, you'll immediately notice that you are different ages on the different planets. The earth is in motion. The top-like rotation of the earth on its axis is how we define the day. The revolution of the earth around the sun is how we define the year. We all learn in grade school that the planets move at differing rates around the sun. Why the huge differences in periods? Johannes Kepler Tycho Brahe Kepler briefly worked with the great Danish observational astronomer, Tycho Brahe. Here you see a planet in a very elliptical orbit. Kepler's third law is the one that interests us the most. Let's just solve for the period by taking the square root of both sides: The Gravity Of The Situation Isaac Newton ©2000 Ron Hipschman

The Moon - september 2012 All images taken with Celestron C14 EdgeHD (356mm) and Skynyx2.2 camera from Paris suburbs. Processing with Autostakkert, Iris and Photoshop.Best view of the images with full-HD screen in subdued surroundings. Clavius (sept 8th): The area of Moretus (sept 8th): Arzachel and the Straight Wall (sept 8th): Deslandres and Pitatus (sept 8th): Copernic and Stadius arena (sept 8th): Plato, Mons Pico and Montes Teneriffe (sept 8th): Ptolemaeus and Alphonsus (sept 8th): Sinus Iridium (sept 9th): Copernic and Stadius, closer to the terminator (sept 9th): The area of Clavius (sept 9th): Bullialdus and Hippalus rimae (sept 9th): The area of Pytheas: 12 Seats for Maximum Relaxation We’ve been known to post a perfect nap chair or two (or dozen) here on Design Milk so we thought we’d round up our favorites of nap’s past and add a few new spots to help you prepare for maximum relaxation… Let’s start with POWER’NAP. I mean, they had me at the name. Designed by Ninna Helena Olsen, this origami-like design “gently encloses your body” while looking like a work of art. Yes, please! I’m sure this sculptural chair would fit into any office. The Cradle just screams cozy, doesn’t it? The Loopita might look like a giant Hot Wheels track but I think it looks like a sleek lounge spot for two. I just want to dive into this like it was a big leaf pile, don’t you? One of our personal faves has always been the Couch Sleeper by Anne Lorenz. It looks like relaxing on a bed of squishy volleyballs, but the Feel Seating System Deluxe is made up of 120 “soft and extremely pleasant” balls. Oradaria Design came up with the Blandito®, a transformable pad for lazy living.

Dark alien planet discovered by NASA An alien world blacker than coal, the darkest planet known, has been discovered in the galaxy. The world in question is a giant the size of Jupiter known as TrES-2b. NASA's Kepler spacecraft detected it lurking around the yellow sun-like star GSC 03549-02811 some 750 lightyears away in the direction of the constellation Draco. The researchers found this gas giant reflects less than 1 percent of the sunlight falling on it, making it darker than any planet or moon seen up to now. [The Strangest Alien Planets] "It's just ridiculous how dark this planet is, how alien it is compared to anything we have in our solar system," study lead-author David Kipping, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told SPACE.com. "However, it's not completely pitch black," co-author David Spiegel of Princeton University said in a statement. "It's a mystery as to what's causing it to be so dark," Kipping said. This article was reprinted with permission from SPACE.com.

The Present - Universal Truth - The Ultimate Truth A man should look for what is and not for what he thinks should be. Albert Einstein Truth you can check: It is as matter of fact as the ground and as useful as food. It's the kind of truth that can make hate and war as unnecessary as ignorance. Charles Darwin revealed how evolution works, but not what it really means. Evolution is no longer just a theory; it has been proven true beyond a reasonable doubt. The evidence says we evolved as life evolved. Human beings did not just appear at the top of the evolutionary ladder to reap the benefits of those millions of years of evolution without having to live through it. In other words, you were those other animals. You had to be lower animals to be a human now. In addition to the fossil evidence, the genetic code proves that all animals, including us, evolved from bacteria over the last 700 million years on earth. In other words, you were a microbe, an insect, a fish, a dinosaur, an ape... How do you know you are dead? Everything is balanced. 1.

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