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• DETECTING THE INEVITABLE

  
  It Must Be the Vapors — Authority: 120
  If there were ever an oxymoron that an entire civilization hasn’t caught on to yet, it is the idea of detecting the inevitable. I’m about to whup a whole sake cup o’zen on your ass here, so be warned. Detection is becoming aware of and possibly pointing out previously unnoticed things. The inevitable, the ...
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• Colliding White Dwarfs May Mimic Supernovae Used to Gauge Astronomical Distances

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 149
  Stellar explosions known as type Ia supernovae have proved invaluable to astrophysicists as markers of cosmic distance. Their brightness and consistency in observed properties allow astronomers to use them as "standard candles" to determine distances to objects in the sky. Just a decade ago type Ia supernovae took ...
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• Our Place in Space

  
  Science Video Resources — Authority: 118
  These are for Grade 9 as we learn about Cosmology together! The universe to scale: Zoom-out from Earth: Images from the Hubble Space Telescope:   Keep asking those questions!
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• Spirituality

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 169
  BTW , I never said you should let science become your dogma or your God and its not what it is to me. If at some point there would be a reasonable evidence for a God, or ghosts or any kind of supernatural I would stop being an Atheist. But so far there is no evidence for such thing and no acceptable reason for me to ...
  12 hours ago

• A Quantum Deity

  
  broken whole - 6'6 Gay Boy Gone Seriously Crazy in Hollywood — Authority: 112
  A little known fact about quantum mechanics is that it disproves Gods omniscience. Now, we all know that a watched pot never boils. What does this have to do with Gods omniscience? Well, did you also know that an unwatched electron doesnt really exist? (Maybe we should call the universe "the vast unwatched"?) Before I ...
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• Thats Odd - a New Kind of Supernova

  
  Apathetic Lemming of the North — Authority: 437
  " New Type of Supernova Discovered " Space.com (November 5, 2009) " A new type of supernova – the explosive death of a star – has been discovered in which helium detonates on the surface of a white dwarf star. " The exploding star, dubbed SN2002bj, was first observed seven years ago in the galaxy NGC 1821 ...
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• The Answer

  
  lewism — Authority: 113
  Why is there something rather than nothing? The answer is there had to be. No comment
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• Pale Blue Dot

  
  Auxiliary Memory — Authority: 113
  I discovered over at Mike Brotherton’s blog that today, 11/7/9, is Carl Sagan Day , and Mike makes some interesting observations about Sagan and Richard Dawkins and the public’s attitude towards their atheism.  For awhile, Carl Sagan was the face of science to the general public, sort of like Stephen ...
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• Space Aliens, Stars, Scientists, and This is Where I Came In

  
  Apathetic Lemming of the North — Authority: 437
  " Stars May be Cosmic Road Signs to Intelligent Aliens " Space.com (November 5, 2009) " When scientists search the heavens for habitable worlds beyond Earth, they dont necessarily know what to look for. A new study has found that the most probable place to find intelligent life in the galaxy is around stars with ...
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• Tweak Gravity: What If There Is No Dark Matter?

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 149
  Theorists and observational astronomers are hot on the trail of dark matter , the invisible material thought to account for puzzling mass disparities in large-scale astronomical structures. For instance, galaxies and galactic clusters behave as if they were far more massive than would be expected if they comprised ...
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• Metascience: The Convergence of Science and Religion

  
  Minding the Planet — Authority: 461
  (DRAFT 7. Work-In-Progress) What is the universe and where does it come from? There are two major schools of thought on this question: Science: One is modern-day science, which takes the position...
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• New CMB Measurements Support Standard Model

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 663
  New measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the leftover light from the Big Bang – lend further support the Standard Cosmological Model and the existence of dark matter and dark energy, limiting the possibility of alternative models of the Universe . Researchers from Stanford University and ...
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• 03 November, 2009 – This Week in Science

  
  This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast — Authority: 106
  Observing Life, Dumpin’ Punkins, Smell of Doom, Driving Bad, the Teapot Effect, Ancient Blasts, Demoting Dinosaurs, Fishy Movements, The Minion Mailbag, and Much More!
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• Cosmic Web Spotted: Filaments of Galaxies

  
  Apathetic Lemming of the North — Authority: 437
  " Huge Galaxy Cluster Hints at Universes Skeleton " Space.com (November 3, 2009) " A gigantic, previously unknown set of galaxies has been found in the distant universe, shedding light on the underlying skeleton of the cosmos. " Matter is not distributed uniformly in the universe, said Masayuki Tanaka, an ...
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• Emission Impossible?: Is Dark Matter Behind the Hazy Radiation at the Milky Ways Center?

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 149
  A haze of radiation at the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy that appears in sky maps taken by two spacecraft at two different wavelengths likely results from a population of high-energy electrons, according to a new analysis of gamma rays in the galaxy. Curiously, some researchers maintain, those electrons are not ...
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• Wireless tech taking a toll on earth science and astronomy

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 149
  Nearly lost amidst the breathless anticipation of all things wireless--whether its the latest smart phone, free Internet hotspot or GPS navigation system--is the potential impact these gadgets may have on scientific instruments that likewise need access to the electromagnetic spectrum. Yet the proliferation of ...
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• Superconducting Rings and Early Development of the Universe

  
  Physics and Physicists — Authority: 499
  Ill sound like a broken record (how many would know that expression anymore?) but Ill say it again that condensed matter physics can be as "fundamental" as any area of physics. Ive said this many times previously , and now we have another clear example of that. This article reviews a recent paper that appeared in ...
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• Stupid Creationist Arguments 3: The Fine Tuned Argument

  
  Lone Wolfs Den — Authority: 118
  The argument is self explanatory. The universe, the earth, blah has been fine tuned fro life. Some take the argument further and say the universe, the earth, blah has been fine tuned for human life.I’ll start with the universe: The majority of the universe is empty space. The vast majority of the matter in the [...]
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• Unusual supernova may be new type of exploding star

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, November 3 (ANI): An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf onto another and detonates in a thermonuclear explosion.University of California, Berkeley, and ...
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• What Arnold Schwarzenegger and the microwave background have in common

  
  Ted Bunn's Blog — Authority: 113
  Governor Schwarzenegger sent a letter to the California assembly along with his veto of a recent bill.  The first letters of each line of the message spell out a certain vulgar phrase .  The Governor’s office says it’s a coincidence, but apparently lots of people don’t believe them. This has a lot in common ...
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