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Iraq Army uses magic wands to detect bombs ... instead of physical inspections

Category: Skepticism

Some of the Iraqis are kinda pissed off because some of the magic wands have been purchaced for $60,000 while equally effective magic wands were available for cloer to $18,000.

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The Making Of: "Colliding Galaxies Explained"

Category: Cosmos

Starring Felicia Day (This is really funny)... Hat tip: Geeks are sexy....

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Posted by Greg Laden at 10:06 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Universe lets age clue slip

Category: Cosmos

... it is possible to estimate the age of the universe more accurately than you can estimate the age of a horse or a person using only physical evidence. But it is still an estimate, not as well confirmed as if you had a birth certificate ...

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Posted by Greg Laden at 10:44 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

32 new planets discovered!

Category: Cosmos

32 previously unknown exoplanets have been discovered with a high-precision instrument hooked up to a Chilean telescope......

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Posted by Greg Laden at 10:46 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

The LCROSS mission: The video

Category: Cosmos

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Posted by Greg Laden at 11:36 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Get out your telescope, this is going to be good!

Category: Cosmos

Early Friday Morning, plus/minus one half a day depending on where in the world you are, two alien space craft are going to crash into the moon. It will be visible from earth with a small telescope. Read about it here!...

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Posted by Greg Laden at 7:17 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

1st Successful Amateur Hi-Def Video from The Edge of Space

Category: Cosmos

The balloon and camera were launched at 7:44 AM, the balloon burst at 10:51 AM at 107,145 ft. and the camera landed via parachute at 11:40 AM, 89 miles from the launch site after a 3 hr. & 56 min. flight. The camera recorded a...

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Posted by Greg Laden at 11:05 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

"Hey! Where's Juno?" ... "I think it's near Uranus!"

Category: Cosmos

Juno is an asteroid that will be coming into view shortly. To find it, go out into the night in a relatively unpolluted sky and look near Uranus. You can often see Juno with a descent telescope, but if conditions are good, you should be...

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Posted by Greg Laden at 3:35 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

New theory on origin of universe and stuff

Category: Cosmos

Well, not really, but it is an excellent refresher on Genesis. Well, not really it's .... well just watch it:...

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Posted by Greg Laden at 6:46 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Sun equivalent of missing link found.

Category: Cosmos

Well, not really, but it is interesting. The mystery of why temperatures in the solar corona, the sun's outer atmosphere, soar to several million degrees Kelvin (K) --much hotter than temperatures nearer the sun's surface--has puzzled scientists for decades. New observations made with instruments aboard...

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