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Ceres: An ocean world in the asteroid belt | Astronomy.com

Ceres: An ocean world in the asteroid beltLiquid water, once thought unique to Earth, may be common on icy worlds throughout the solar system. By Eric Betz | Published: Monday, August 10, 2020NASA scientists say that Ceres, a dwarf planet in the Asteroid Belt, is still holding onto pockets of a subsurface, liquid water ocean. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDARemnants of an ancient water ocean are buried beneath the icy crust of dwarf planet Ceres — or...

Coma Berenices (thing) by DataJunkie - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Coma Berenices (thing) See all of Coma Berenices, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by DataJunkie Mon Aug 20 2001 at 10:28:02 This entire constellation consists of an open star cluster. Legends say the daughter of the king of Cyrene, Berenice, married Ptolemy Euergetes, a pharaoh of Egypt in the 3rd century B.C. Her hair was famed for its beauty. As an offering of thanksgiving to the gods, she cut it off when her husband retu...

Space Duel (thing) by Stavr0 - Everything2.com

Space Duel (thing) See all of Space Duel, no other writeups in this node. by Stavr0 (7.7 mon) CC Rep: 17 ( +18 / -1 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Thu Feb 28 2002 at 10:45:56 (thing) 1 C! · C? by Stavr0 (7.7 mon) ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ |\ __\ |\ __\ |\ __\ |\ __\ |\ __\ |\ __\ |\ __\ |\ __\ |\ __\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | S | | | P | | | A | | | C | | | E | | | D...

Spaceship Earth (idea) by jafuser - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Spaceship Earth (idea) See all of Spaceship Earth, there are 2 more in this node. (idea) by jafuser Thu Oct 12 2000 at 7:49:37 An interesting bit of trivia that hasn't been mentioned here yet... The term "Spaceship Earth" was coined by Buckminster Fuller (the inventor of the geodesic dome). If you haven't ever been to Epcot, you might be interested to know that the attraction many people call the "ball" (proper...

Mysterious deep-space flashes repeat every 157 days | Space

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It’s the trip of a lifetime

In the early hours of July 21st, 1969, shortly after the Apollo Lunar Module landed on its surface, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to step foot on the Moon. 28 years later, Buzz wrote a letter to Barry Goldman, a professor at the University of Maryland. Transcript follows. ( Many thanks to Benjamin Cole.) Transcript September 25, 1997 Dear Mr. Goldman, I am writing to you to share some of my personal ideas a...

Ultraviolence: On Color Out Of Space And Adapting Lovecraft

After a 10-year hiatus, director Richard Stanley returns with Color Out Of Space, a technicolor nightmare-scape based on a short story by horror author HP Lovecraft. Stanley takes the 19th-century work, one written with scientific detachment, and creates an intensely emotional narrative fit for 21st-century horror cinema. A colour, unable to be classified or defined, has consumed the very thoughts of a family who have descended onto an ancestral land as a respite from the city. Madness descen...

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Scientists Image the Progression of a Solar Flare for the First Time | Digital Trends

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Theophrastus — De historia plantarum 1644 - The Library of William Morris

Menu Skip to primary content HomeAbbreviations About Acknowledgments Technical issues Search The Library of William Morris A Catalogue ¶ Theophrastus — De historia plantarum (1644) Theophrastus. Theophrasti Eresii De historia plantarum libri decem, graecè et latinè. Amsterdam: H. Laurentius, 1644. Illustrated. Provenance: Mo...

Spaced Repetition for Efficient Learning - Gwern.net

Home Site Me New: mail /r/gwern support onPATREON Spaced Repetition for Efficient Learning Efficient memorization using the spacing effect: literature review of widespread applicability, tips on use & what it’s good for. topics: psychology, Haskell, bibliography created: 11 Mar 2009; modified: 17 May 2019; status: finished; confidence: highly likely; importance: 9 Spacing effect If you’re so good, why aren’t you rich Literature review Background: testing works! Subjects...

These six big moon mysteries remain unsolved

These six big moon mysteries remain unsolvedEven 50 years after Apollo 11 landed on the moon. By Neel V. PatelJuly 18, 2019 Our Apollo missions created more questions than answers.NASA Saturday will mark the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon, which was the first time in history humans set foot on an extraterrestrial world. But Earth’s only natural satellite is still a very unfamiliar place to us half a century later, and its history and geology are still puzzling—largely beca...

Science Fiction Books Featuring Interplanetary Religious Missions

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