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neufer wrote:It sometimes just takes a lot of chutzpah

Ah, ok. It's a Jewish scientist leap of faith thing, about the 400 years, then.

neufer wrote:In [the core of] the Sun, the helium-3 produced in these reactions exists for only about 400 years before it is converted into helium-4.>>

Now just how would anyone be able to know that??

Here's a minute and a half of....... well, whatever it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK18bdU ... video_user

Good to hear from you again, Orin, long time no see! Hi; Ann, I just got lazy with the writing! 8-) You, at least , owe us a full paragraph on the New Horizons flyby. Did it meet your expectations? What was the biggest surprise. Are you in postpartum depression? (You were deeply in love with the di...

It's amazing what one can find out at this site. I never knew Hercules had a twin brother.

I didn't know they had 'LSD' back then.

And even then... only if the Force is with you.

There is the possibility of to find salt liquid water on Mars. It can to have elemental life on Mars. But, you need to find another important point for the life: the carbon element Carbon element------------ life Not element carbon ------ not life Silicon Life, and other life forms. http://www.airs...

Hmm... does that make the Tralfamadorians really smart.... or really stupid, or really (??)

NASA's Mars Announcement: Present-day transient flows of briny water on steep slopes Posted by Emily Lakdawalla, The Planetary Society, 2015/09/28 19:26 UTC <<... our filthy meatbag bodies...>> That's why not many aliens come to our planet to visit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tScAyNaRdQ

Hmm... somehow "the ribosomes made me do it", just doesn't sound the same as "the devil made me do it". But then, perhaps the devil is in the details of the ribosomes?

The "part" link goes to an MP3 about football players. I was just about to post about that! I was totally baffled about what it had to do with the image when I have just clicked on that link and an "The Impenetrable Fortress" fantasy league website came up :? Thanks David. I did...

The "part" link goes to an MP3 about football players.

Arvid and Eloi. Sounds like the makings of a futuristic story, in time.

Hmm... one should really use both eyes whilst "examining the edges" of the picture.

bystander wrote:http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk ... -creatures

You can see it walk a little in this 1-minute 44-second video.

Check out old black & white photo's from a smaller telescope, such as these. https://www.google.com/search?q=old+black+%26+white+pictures+of+the+seagull+nebula&biw=1600&bih=775&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CBwQsARqFQoTCNKOnbbl_McCFYRdHgodVwMEsQ&dpr=1 Espec...

Wow! Reminds me of the center of a peach, when you cut it in half and remove the pit. Except that peaches don't normally have a dusty bright streak down the middle.

I like well-planned images. Some of them are almost purrfect.

My first thought: this looks like the last frame of a lingering shot of a sci-fi film explosion effect. My second thought: this after-explosion has lingered for more or less the length of our entire civilization My third thought: that's what the protozoa in the puddle near my front porch might have...

<<Returning to Ceres, Lucky Starr learns that Captain Anton's ship is taking Hansen to a secret Sirian base on Ganymede, whence the Sirians plan to attack Earth while Earth's fleet is occupied fighting the pirates in the Asteroid Belt. Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids introduces the Sir...

How about an easy to make marshmallow gun that is part of a science program about air pressure.

http://www.wfsb.com/clip/11787438/mark- ... -launchers

So just tallying up here, the benefits to society of the lunar missions were Teflon, CAT scans, ICs, LEDs, and solar energy. And the Mars missions have given us the selfie stick. <<Tang is a fruit-flavored drink. Originally formulated by General Foods Corporation food scientist William A. Mitchell ...

Ron-Astro Pharmacist wrote:Quarknado 1

Gas-nados are erupting on the sun. They may be showering its surface with cooked "squarks" that bite with scintillating symmetry and tantalizing tessellations.

Just having some phun with physics.

Yore write, Ron, fizzicks can be phun.