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Friday, March 21, 2008

Listening and Reading...

Listening to Bran Van 3000, Drinking in L.A. Nice, simple song. Okay video. Relaxing to listen to it.

Reading the Telegraph's article on Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist. His articles are thought-provoking and easy to understand.

It's a four-day weekend. Enjoy it.

Labels: Bran Van 3000, life, Michio Kaku, music, physics, space

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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Lunar Eclipse!

Wow. I can see it.

It's not everyday you get a chance to see something like this. It gently nudges you to remind you that they are much bigger and more important things happening in the Universe.

These things have been happening since before Man was born and will continue to happen long after we've gone. No matter how much we try to control nature, our lives and even those of others, there are just some things that we have no control over.

Go outside and look.

Labels: eclipse, life, Moon, space

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

China Bans Reincarnation, Plans To Takeover The Moon!

Described by Mathew Philips as one of history's "more absurd acts of totalitarianism," China has banned Tibetan Buddist monks from reincarnating without permission.

According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, this is "an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation."

[via Digg]

In other news, the Beeb informs us of China's big push for the Moon. Part of which includes sending a spacecraft to Earth's satellite in three years' time and also plans for a Chinese space station.

[via BBC]

Labels: China, life, news. religion, politics, space

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Friday, August 10, 2007

Meteor Shower, Aug 12/13

Lloyd Alter over at TreeHugger tells us to be on the lookout for The Perseid Meteor Shower. The show starts on August 12 at around midnight and lasts until around 2:00 AM, Monday.

[via Digg, TreeHugger, ESA Portal]

Labels: space

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Saturday, August 4, 2007

"Two Moons On Aug 27"

This e-mail landed in my Gmail account today:

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Subject: Two moons

Subject: *Two moons on 27 August*

*27th Aug the Whole World is waiting for.............*

Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting August.

It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. This will
cultivate on Aug. 27 when Mars comes within 34.65M miles of earth. Be
sure to watch the sky on Aug. 27 12:30 am. It will look like the earth
has 2 moons. The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287 .

Share this with your friends as NO ONE ALIVE TODAY will ever see it
again.

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After running it by Google, it turns out that it was true, back in 2003. Furthermore, according to the Urban Legends and Folklore section of About.com, the same e-mail made an appearance back in 2005 and 2006.

Labels: news, space

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