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Category Archives: Astronomy
My favorite star is Tarazed in Aquila, the Eagle.
So far in my star gazing, I’ve looked at Deneb, Vega, Sadir, Altair, Alshain, Arcturus, and Tarazed plus a lot of others whose names I don’t know yet. I’ve looked at M13 and M31 too, one is a galaxy (Andromeda), and the other a globular cluster in Hercules. I am just getting back into astronomy after a long absence so I am looking at the sky with 15 x 70 Celestron binoculars. They are of course, too shaky to see anything properly yet, but I am picking up a Sky Window early next week and this should allow me to view things a whole lot better. Anyway, by far the most beautiful object I’ve observed to date is Tarazed at RA 19h 46m and DEC +10.36 degrees. At a magnitude of 2.8 it is a K3 class brilliant orange or reddish star only 100,000,000 years old and already fusing helium … Continue reading
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The myth about Nibiru…
PROBLEM: Chicken Little people fleeing and squawking about the end of the world. CAUSE: Lack of thought, common sense, and critical thinking ability. For entertainment purposes, and to keep up with the huge number of conspiracy theories out there, I sometimes watch You Tube UFO and other videos about modern and not so modern mythology. Last night I came across a series of interviews by the “Project Camelot” team, which I’d never heard of until now. I don’t know much about it because this is the first time I saw one. It was almost two hours of an interview with Robert Dean, a former intelligence analyst in the USA. I have no way of verifying anything here and I don’t really know all the characters involved in these multiple conspiracy theories nor the people who try to publicize their own revelations, the so-called whistle blowers. I intend to watch other … Continue reading
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Plate Tectonics of the Universe…
Yeah! More weird stuff! OK. Here we go. This is a post about what the cosmologists and physicists will eventually discover. Analogous to the Earth’s plate tectonics theory, here is how the universe works: Space-time is made up of many “tectonic” space-time plates which drift around the universe and have subduction zones and zones in which new space is created. Black holes are the subduction zones of the universe and the stars are the volcanic areas. When matter is “subducted” into black holes, matter and space and time are swallowed up. To replace this missing mass, energy, and time, it re-emerges from “singularities” at the center of stars. Some “singularities” (the star cores, not “singularity” in the strict physics definition) eventually move away from the upwelling “black hole magma” and simply die out and become relics like neutron stars, white dwarfs, etc., while others explode into super novas for various … Continue reading
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Life on Mars? New Scientific Evidence.
Life on Mars? The above link will take you to a YouTube video typical of the so-called scientists and researchers such as Richard Hoagland and others who make money on the idea that there is a NASA/government conspiracy to hide the truth from us and that there is actual proof of artificial structures on Mars. Just look at the photos! Well, it may be true, but until we get some ground truth let us not jump to wild conclusions. The above video is from a presentation by Tom Van Flandern, Ph.D. The beginning of the video shows him as being associated with Meta Research, Washington, D.C. But in the video itself, he is presented as “a former chief astronomer, US Naval Observatory.” Apparently, the video editors did not think Tom (I shall call him Tom from now on) was good enough so they used the old “appeal to authority” trick … Continue reading
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Asteroid may hit Mars in January?
You can view the whole cbc.ca article here: MARS But I want to talk about something else in the article. I quote: NASA also announced on Friday its decision to delay until 2013 the launch of a half-billion-dollar Martian probe called Scout. The $475-million US Scout atmospheric probe was originally scheduled to launch from Earth in 2011. NASA chose to delay the launch over what it called a “serious” conflict of interest in one of the proposals submitted for the mission from one of two Colorado research institutions, but declined to elaborate. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think that since NASA is publicly funded, that they should allow public input. As it is they are keeping too many secrets. Or else they think that anyone not within NASA is too stupid to be allowed to have any input. Why can’t the general public have a say? Why keep … Continue reading
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Happy Solstice!
The precise moment of the 2007 solstice will be Sat., Dec. 21, 11:08 P.M. MST according to one of my Google searches. Eastern time would make that 1:08 AM Dec 22nd. But let’s not quibble about the hours and minutes here. Today it is overcast so I am glad I took this photo of the sun and its relationship to my horizon yesterday, December the 21st. I took this picture at high noon. Now you all know how long our shadows are up here in the north even though that’s the highest we will see the sun for a while!
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Aliens come from our universe, or, there are no other dimensions…
Except for abstract mathematical concepts, there are no real dimensions other than the three we are familiar with. I believe time is not a separate dimension, merely a characteristic of the existing dimensions. UFO buffs are inundated with theories that claim aliens come from other dimensions, popping into and out of ours to their hearts content, assuming that they have hearts. Impossible. If aliens and their craft exist, they exist in this universe – you know, the one with the three dimensions: width, length, and height. Let’s assume for the sake of argument that aliens do come from another dimension with four axes. Could they visit us? Well, a “no” dimensional universe is merely a point. An infinitesimally small point with no dimension. Nothing can occupy this universe. Translate that point into a line and you have a universe with one dimension represented by a length, but no width or … Continue reading
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