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The Science Behind the Sci-fi; Because Aiko wasn't there first^_^
Topic Started: Jan 17 2008, 10:04 PM (1,596 Views)
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Cool video of the Milky Way rising over the skies of Texas.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/19/the-rise-of-the-milky-way/

The stars at night, are big and bright... Deep in the heart of Texas...
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The International Space Station, during a lucky pass, was able to photograph a volcano in the first stages of eruption near Japan. Vulcanologists are tremendously excited about this amazing photo, since it even shows how the atmosphere above the volcano was forced upward during the eruption.

For the article and the amazing photo, go HERE
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There is a group that has managed to compress a decent looking FPS game down to a mere 97 kilobytes.

This just makes you think, with that much data compressed, what would you be able to fit on the usual six discs?
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Death comes to all, Morningstar. The world turns, the dawn comes... and under the light of the sun I shall slay giants."


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Watch this and be humbled: The Ultra Deep Galaxy Field
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The first ever photo of a molecule.
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Damn, that's amazing. For those David Weber fans out there, here's the start of molecular circuitry!
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Watch this and be inspired.

We are all connected.
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METEOR IMPACT

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INDONESIAN ASTEROID: Picture this: A 10-meter wide asteroid hits Earth and explodes in the atmosphere with the energy of a small atomic bomb. Frightened by thunderous sounds and shaking walls, people rush out of their homes, thinking that an earthquake is in progress. All they see is a twisting trail of debris in the mid-day sky:

Click to view an Indonesian news report

This really happened on Oct. 8th around 11 am local time in the coastal town of Bone, Indonesia. The Earth-shaking blast received remarkably little coverage in Western press, but meteor scientists have given it their full attention. "The explosion triggered infrasound sensors of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) more than 10,000 km away," report researchers Elizabeth Silber and Peter Brown of the Univ. of Western Ontario in an Oct. 19th press release. Their analysis of the infrasound data revealed an explosion at coordinates 4.5S, 120E (close to Bone) with a yield of about 50 kton of TNT. That's two to three times more powerful than World War II-era atomic bombs.

The asteroid that caused the blast was not known before it hit and took astronomers completely by surprise. According to statistical studies of the near-Earth asteroid population, such objects are expected to collide with Earth on average every 2 to 12 years. "Follow-on observations from other instruments or ground recovery efforts would be very valuable in further refining this unique event," say Silber and Brown.
Edited by Aiko, Oct 29 2009, 09:17 PM.
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This is a big one.

"Large Amounts" of water on Moon
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I've never wondered this, but I'm kinda glad it got brought up by somebody;

What The Earth Would Look Like With Rings Like Saturn's.
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Death comes to all, Morningstar. The world turns, the dawn comes... and under the light of the sun I shall slay giants."


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