Tag Archive: Space

Feb 04 2010

Ten… Thousandth Floor, Please

Space.  A lot of words come to mind.  Infinite, phenomenal… spacious.  Man’s dream for centuries has been to conquer this final frontier.  We’ve made tiny steps in that direction by putting men on the moon, monkeys in orbit, there’s even a fish in there somewhere.  However, only a handful of people, and creatures, have had …

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Dec 23 2009

Is It A Star? A Comet? No! It’s Super-Earth!

GJ 1214b

I’ve always enjoyed science, and Astronomy has been particularly fascinating lately.  I was surfing on one of my favorite sites, StumbleUpon, and it brought me to a page entitled “Most Earth-Like Extrasolar Planet Found Right Next Door” on the Wired website.  Now, if that’s all Greek to you, it basically means that scientists have found …

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Nov 17 2009

Space: Then and Now

Here’s recent news as reported by Space.com: NASA hailed the flawless liftoff of space shuttle Atlantis Monday, a space shot that marked the agency’s fifth shuttle launch of the year… -Space.com Full Article Here I found this article while I was just browsing about the internets, and frankly, it shocked me.  I realized that I had …

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