Category: Science
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Weekend Open Comments
Where were you and what were you doing 25 years ago yesterday? Of course, simply remembering those who died in that accident is insufficient for some. There are those who see a conspiracy in everything.
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Friday Feeling Small Open Comments
Want to feel utterly insignificant? The image below zooms to scales of ~10ly (light-years) to ~1,000,000,000ly. The graphic below shows an area with a radius of approximately 50,000ly around us. There are about 200,000,000,000 stars in that volume of space. Click around a bit. It should give you a little perspective.
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Friday Evolutionary Creation Open Comments
In 2007, the University of Kentucky passed over a candidate for director of its observatory and hired a much less qualified applicant. According to emails and other evidence gathered in the resulting lawsuit, the reason he was passed over was his religious views. You see, C. Martin Gaskell is a Christian. Not only that, but…