Fifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization. Thus began one of the boldest scientific projects in history: the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). A great lecture with slides from the Royal Society. Join the [...]
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Take a trip to Titan with Cassini Huygens
The solar system may seem a barren place when it comes to life or anything similar. Obviously we are here on our lovely planet so that statement is not true. The other planets don’t seem likely to harbour life except perhaps Mars, but the life there if there is any, is not obvious as we [...]
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Plate Tectonics, Hold on! The Surface of the Earth Moves
So why do mountain ranges form, earthquakes happen, volcanoes erupt and Islands appear? Have they been here since the beginning of time perhaps created by a roving asteroid or comet Or perhaps there was a massive collision of two planets when the Earth got formed creating islands and mountains. This is all complete rubbish of [...]
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Why Won’t That Supernova Go Bang?
A massive old star is about to die… How a supernova explosion will be observed and what with. [podcast]http://www.weirdwarp.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/why wont the supernova explode.mp3[/podcast] By NASA Join the forum discussion on this post – (1) Posts
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Solar System Creation In a 10 Minute Read.
Wouldn’t it be good to know how you got here? Well unfortunately the answer to that is unknown. It has been thought about for a long, long time and one day we will probably know the answer. What we do have good idea about though is how the solar system formed. Throughout the galaxy gigantic [...]
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Part 2:Half a Cup of Coffee and a Continuation of the Tour around the Solar System
After flying around the solar system in my bubble I have landed on Mars and am very close to Olympus Mons. Olympus Mons is about 90,000 feet above the surface of Mars. This is about three times the height of Everest. It is about 480 km across at its base and at its top is [...]
