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• poetry without words (audio 1:27)

  
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  I have carried this song in my heart for more than 10 years. It came to me on a Labyrinth I walked for healing after a rollover car crash and subsequent mild traumatic brain injury. It always feels like Home to me. The painting by artist Judith Shaw feels like Home, too.
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• First Attempt at Planetary Imaging

  
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  I think it’s a safe assumption to say that whenever anyone gets into astronomy their greatest desire is to be able to take pictures of what they observe.  The saying that a picture is worth a thousand words is certainly true of astrophotography.  There is certainly a great joy in observing the universe with your ...
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• Asteroid Capture Doesnt Impress Everyone

  
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  Planetary Scientists Casting Doubt on Feasibility of Plan to Corral Asteroid , Science (paywall - sorry) "Asteroid scientists are also a bit miffed that NASA left them out of its planning. They had heard presentations on the concept, but "we just couldnt take it seriously," [Mark] Sykes says. By early February, ...
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• Change-3 undergoing thermal vacuum testing

  
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  ChangE-3 begins thermal and hard vacuum testing at the AIT Hall  facility of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation in Beijing [CNSA/CLEP/CSA]. Emily Lakdawalla The Planetary Society A member of the NASASpaceflight.com forum has posted a large set of photos taken during ChangE 3 ...
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• The Search for another Earth

  
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  "Two possibilities exist: either were alone in the Universe, or were not. Both are equally terrifying." - Arthur C. Clarke. This guest post is by Andrew Rushby, currently undertaking a PhD in earth systems modelling at the University of East Anglia. Andrew usually blogs at  the II-I- blog , the  Pale Blue ...
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• Landslides and lava flows at Olympus Mons on Mars

  
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  Giant landslides, lava flows and tectonic forces are behind this dynamic scene captured recently by ESA’s Mars Express of a region scarred by the Solar System’s largest volcano, Olympus Mons. The image was taken on 23 January by the spacecraft’s high-resolution stereo camera, and focuses on a region known as ...
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• Like From Orbit: More Planetary Annihilation Looksies

  
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  I didn’t back Planetary Annihilation , because my RTS win-loss record is me 1, everyone else infinity wins. But I’ve been enjoying the developer diaries immensely. I love how developers Uber are making a game with the doors wide open. I suppose it helps that it’s an RTS, but it’s rare to see the ground-up ...
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• WHAT MY HEART TRULY DESIRES

  
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  1. That Joy and Freedom and Love and Abundance be restored as the keynote features of Life on Earth - and throughout the Cosmos. 2. That my family, my friends and I shall effortlessly draw to ourselves a neverending flow of material and spiritual well-being; and nevermore be in need, nor suffer scarcity. 3. That ...
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• Life in the Universe by Jeffrey Bennet

  
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  This textbook presents the emerging science of astrobiology in an interesting and mathematically non-stressful manner. Geared towards the non-science major, this book is very accessible to readers of all academic backgrounds. The first chapters cover the basics necessary for understanding the physics, geology and ...
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• May 2nd: Planetary Society: NASA’s 2014 Budget & Planetary Defense Conference

  
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  Podcaster: Casey Dreier ; Mat Kaplan, Emily Lakdawalla Title: Planetary Society: NASA’s 2014 Budget & Planetary Defense Conference Organization: Planetary Society Link : http://planetary.org the video has been aired on Google hangout: http://youtu.be/vXa3pHqUTLg Description:   The latest 2014 ...
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• Mike Hulme on planetary boundaries and other metaphors

  
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  Spaceship Earth? Photo: NCC-1701-A by tram_painter on Flickr (cc-by-nc-nd) Prof Mike Hulme has a thoughtful post on the UEAs 3S blog today on how metaphors affect the way we think (about science and other things), reflecting on a recent talk by Johan Rockstr öm packed with imagery about planetary boundaries, ...
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• Saturn’s North Polar Storm Resembles a Deep Red Rose

  
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  Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI The spinning vortex of Saturn’s north polar storm resembles a deep red rose of giant proportions surrounded by green foliage in this false-color image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Measurements have sized the eye at a staggering 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) across with ...
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• EVE Fanfest 2013 day one: DUST 514, wormholes, and lowsec PvP

  
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  Filed under: Betas , Sci-Fi , Video , Culture , Events (Real-World) , Expansions , Game Mechanics , Patches , PvP , News Items , Opinion , Free-to-Play , MMOFPS , Events (Massivelys Coverage) , Dev Diaries , Sandbox , Anniversaries , Subscription The 10th anniversary EVE Online Fanfest is ...
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• Análisis Planetary Shield. Xbox 360

  
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  Siempre es gratificante poder jugar a un juego que venga de la industria española y hoy el título que os traemos es de AxouxereGames, estudio indie español que nos muestra un juego donde la estrategia, la diversión y  la puntería se mezclan en este título que tiene su origen en dispositivos Android. Antes ...
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• Private Asteroid-Mining Project Launching Tiny Satellites in 2014

  
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  A billionaire-backed asteroid-mining company aims to start putting its big plans into action soon, launching its first hardware into space by this time next year. Planetary Resources, which counts Google execs Larry Page and Eric Schmidt among its investors, plans to loft a set of tiny “cubesats” to Earth ...
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• Partial lunar eclipse to be visible today

  
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  The first of the three lunar eclipses of the year will occur on Thursday, giving astro enthusiasts all over the country an opportunity to witness the celestial event. A tiny sliver of the Moon will be covered by the Earth’s umbral shadow at maximum of the partial lunar eclipse, N Sri Raghunandan Kumar of Planetary ...
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• Mars Stereo View from ‘John Klein’ to Mount Sharp — Raw

  
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  Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Left and right eyes of the Navigation Camera (Navcam) in NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took the dozens of images combined into this stereo scene of the rover and its surroundings. The component images were taken during the 166th, 168th and 169th Martian days, or sols, of Curiosity’s ...
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• Mystery Planet Packs Enormous Surprise

  
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  Kepler rides far above us, looking for other worlds like our own. They are rare – of the 2,740 planets discovered so far, only 122 might , repeat might, be similar to Earth. Most of the planets are closer to Jupiter in size, and, like Jupiter, most are gas giants. At the beginning of April, 2013, however, a ...
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• The Cosmic Eye of Collage

  
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  Sight is the noblest sense, and the starlit sky is the most sublime object we can behold. But what do we in reality see there? Only a kind of large tent, dimly lighted with gas jets . This is the noblest thing the noblest sense reveals. But let the soul appear, and the tent flies into invisible shreds; the ...
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• Public events in May: climate, justice, planetary boundaries

  
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  Next month were running three public events in Brighton on climate change, social justice and planetary boundaries. These events take place during our annual Summer School on Pathways to Sustainability. All of them are open to the public and free to attend. Lecture: Michael Jacobs, Grantham Research Institute / ...
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