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Offline Smokey

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« Reply #255 on: July 17, 2015, 07:41:53 PM »
Not to mention its elliptical orbit which can throw a calculation.

Or its menstrual cycle.



No, no I'm not I'm not classically astro-trained or inclined.   ;D

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« Reply #256 on: July 17, 2015, 07:50:36 PM »
 :lol

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« Reply #257 on: July 17, 2015, 08:23:40 PM »
"Sliding doors moment.
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Then its made of sh#t" Dont Argue - 2/8/2018

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« Reply #258 on: July 21, 2015, 06:39:07 PM »
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stephen-hawking-and-yuri-milner-announce-100m-initiative-to-seek-extraterrestrial-intelligence/

Good stuff. Even finding nothing is something. I would love us to find something and completely shift the existing paradigm.

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« Reply #259 on: October 08, 2015, 10:34:21 PM »
Add Pluto to the list of "alive" worlds.


“This world is alive,” Stern said of Pluto to a packed room at the University of Alberta. “It has weather, it has hazes in the atmosphere, active geology.”

Last week Nasa released its highest resolution photos yet of the dwarf planet and its largest moon, Charon, revealing new mysteries that its spacecraft New Horizons had uncovered at the edge of the solar system.

The space agency plans to unveil new data and images on Thursday. “Every week I am floored,” Stern said. “Nasa won’t let me tell you what we’re going to tell you on Thursday. It’s amazing.”


Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/06/pluto-charon-photos-nasa-new-horizons-data

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« Reply #260 on: October 09, 2015, 09:00:34 AM »
Disclosure

Slowly slowly
Then he grabbed two chopsticks and stuck them in his mouth , pretending to be a walrus

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« Reply #261 on: October 09, 2015, 01:58:12 PM »
Disclosure

Slowly slowly

Yep. Can't break people's world view in one big hit. Not smart enough to adapt to change that quickly. 

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« Reply #262 on: October 09, 2015, 09:16:19 PM »
There's a star man, waiting in the sky......
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways my ways,” says the Lord.
 
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are my ways higher than your ways,
And my thoughts than your thoughts."

Yahweh? or the great Clawski?

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« Reply #263 on: October 09, 2015, 09:20:23 PM »
There's a star man, waiting in the sky......

There's a starman waiting in the sky
Hed like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a starman waiting in the sky
Hes told us not to blow it
Cause he knows it's all worthwhile
He told me:
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie
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« Reply #264 on: October 18, 2015, 10:38:19 PM »
Ancient teeth rewriting human history

HUMAN teeth discovered in southern China provide evidence that our species left the African continent up to 70,000 years earlier than prevailing theories suggest, new published research finds.

Homo sapiens reached present-day China 80,000-120,000 years ago, according to the study, which could redraw the migration map for modern humans.

“The model that is generally accepted is that modern humans left Africa only 50,000 years ago,” said Maria Martinon-Torres, a researcher at University College London and a co-author of the study.

“In this case, we are saying the Homo sapiens were out of Africa much earlier,” she told the peer-reviewed journal Nature, which published the study.

Full article: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/science/ancient-human-teeth-discovered-in-china-could-rewrite-the-historic-migration-map-of-homo-sapiens/story-fnjwl5wq-1227573222217
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« Reply #265 on: October 19, 2015, 07:00:09 PM »
"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good...."

- Thomas Sowell


FJ is the only one that makes sense.

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« Reply #267 on: November 12, 2015, 11:50:16 PM »
Does the intense gravity of black holes twist time and space so much that the future gets turned on its head? Some mind-bending new ideas by US astrophysicists suggest so.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/science/do-black-holes-reverse-time/news-story/821943ebcc54c3fed700543f195d11fa
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« Reply #268 on: November 13, 2015, 09:23:50 AM »
Then he grabbed two chopsticks and stuck them in his mouth , pretending to be a walrus

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« Reply #269 on: November 13, 2015, 10:05:07 AM »
debunking or decoding?
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways my ways,” says the Lord.
 
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are my ways higher than your ways,
And my thoughts than your thoughts."

Yahweh? or the great Clawski?

yaw rehto eht dellorcs ti fi daer ot reisae eb dluow tI