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Want to Help Save the Environment? Here’s How You Can Do Your Part in 2024
If only Captain Planet were a real hero, the state of our environment would be in much better shape than it is right now. Unfortunately, he’s just a cartoon character and the state of the environment is in our hands. According to un.org, climate change is one of the biggest defining issues of our time. With sea levels rising and…
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The Great Global Warming Scam
Prior to the 14th century, western astronomers thought the Earth was the centre of the universe and that the sun, moon, and stars all orbited the earth. Why? Because that’s what the church waanted. The scientists of the time wasted hundreds of years of scientific research on the theory of epicycles, trying to reconcile the Earth centred model with the…
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Spectacular Venus-Jupiter Conjunction: June 30 & July 1
On June 30 and July 1, 2015, look for the sky’s brightest and second-brightest planets to stage their closest conjunction until August, 2016. Venus and Jupiter will be less than one-half degree apart. That’s less than the moon’s diameter on our sky’s dome. Venus is currently about to pass between the sun and Earth. It will sweep some 8 degrees…
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NASA: Possible New Moon Forming Around Saturn
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has documented the formation of a small icy object within the rings of Saturn. Informally named “Peggy,” the object may be a new moon. Details of the observations were published online today by the journal Icarus. “We have not seen anything like this before,” said Carl Murray of the Queen Mary University of London, and the report’s…
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