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Two New Space Discoveries Have Rocked the Science World — Each Will Be a Game Changer
Tom McKay's avatar image By Tom McKay  3 hours ago 125 SHARES
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The news: Two hot discoveries are rocking the way astronomers, physicists, and space scientists view the universe — and they're truly something.

The first is intense: Scientist John Bradley from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California took a microscopic look at the interplanetary dust particles lurking at the edge of Earth's stratosphere. He found minuscule bits of water hidden in the <25 micrometre flakes of dust, which are already half the width of a single human hair. New Scientist explains:

"The dust is mostly made of silicates, which contains oxygen. As it travels through space, it encounters the solar wind. This stream of charged particles including high-energy hydrogen ions is ejected from the sun's atmosphere. When the two collide, hydrogen and oxygen combine to make water."

Scientists have also previously found carbon and organic compounds in star dust.

According to researcher Hope Ishii, who was involved in the study: "The implications are potentially huge. It is a particularly thrilling possibility that this influx of dust on the surfaces of solar system bodies has acted as a continuous rainfall of little reaction vessels containing both the water and organics needed for the eventual origin of life."

The same dust is expected to be found across other solar systems as well.

In other words, the ingredients for life are likely spread throughout the universe, making it that much more possible humanity is not alone.



And in another stunning discovery: cosmologists from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg might have just viewed dark matter for the first time, as pictured above.

As BBC News explains:

"The cosmic web suggested by the standard model is mainly made up of mysterious 'dark matter.' Invisible in itself, dark matter still exerts gravitational forces on visible light and ordinary matter nearby.

"...  Cosmology theory predicts that galaxies are embedded in a cosmic web of "stuff", most of which is dark matter. Astronomers obtained the first direct images of a part of this network, by exploiting the fact that a luminous object called a quasar can act as a natural "cosmic flashlight."

Why is this so important? Their research adds significant credence to the standard model of cosmology, which predicts that as the universe expands and grows, it forms clusters and nodes under the influence of gravity, like a gigantic universe-spanning web. Invisible dark matter still forces gravitational influence on visible light and normal matter nearby.

According to the scientists, glowing hydrogen lit up by the quasar being studied traced out an "underlying filament" of dark matter attracted to it by gravity.

"We now have very precise measurements of the amount of ordinary matter and dark matter in the Universe," said Prof. Alexandre Refregier of the ETH Zurich, who did not contribute to the study.

"We can only observe a fraction of the ordinary matter, so the question is what form the remainder takes. These results may imply that a lot of it is in the form detected here."

Hell yeah, Science. Illuminating the universe since 1500 B.C.

If you were ever worried that you won't live to see the really cool stuff science discovers, rest easy. It's happening around you every day.


...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......

The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.


STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS

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According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), this
January was the warmest since 2007 and the fourth warmest January on record. It was also
the 38th January in a row with temperatures above the average for the 20th century
temperatures were 1.17 degrees above average globally.
The last 'below average' temperature for January was in 1976.

A survey by the National Science Foundation reveals that 1 out of every 4 Americans do not
believe the earth revolves around the sun.

This level of ignorance might be why the Anti Science GOP has such an easy time sowing doubt about
climate change.


The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral
philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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A survey by the National Science Foundation reveals that 1 out of every 4 Americans do not
believe the earth revolves around the sun.

This level of ignorance might be why the Anti Science GOP has such an easy time sowing doubt about
climate change.


Or it's actually why you and the other global warming Nazis have been getting away with this scam for so long.

Also goes to show how crappy education is when government is in control.






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Or it's actually why you and the other global warming Nazis have been getting away with this scam for so long.

Also goes to show how crappy education is when government is in control.




That's tight when you don't have empirical evidence- go to the name calling card. The fave tactic of you stick your fingers in your ears and go "lalalalala" ultra-conservatives.
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What does the OP have to do with climate change on the earth?
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That's tight when you don't have empirical evidence- go to the name calling card. The fave tactic of you stick your fingers in your ears and go "lalalalala" ultra-conservatives.


But it's cool when Boxy uses terms like 'Teabagger' 'Gunhuggers' or 'Denier' and you don't say sh*t.

I stand by my statement of 'global warming nazis' and I don't care if you have a problem with it.

If you want to believe that falsified and corrupted data fed into a 'climate change' model with a formula proven to be wrong results in 'proof', then who am I to judge what religion you choose to follow because that isn't science.







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But it's cool when Boxy uses terms like 'Teabagger' 'Gunhuggers' or 'Denier' and you don't say sh*t.

I stand by my statement of 'global warming nazis' and I don't care if you have a problem with it.

If you want to believe that falsified and corrupted data fed into a 'climate change' model with a formula proven to be wrong results in 'proof', then who am I to judge what religion you choose to follow because that isn't science.


I believe the science.  There is consensus about climate change among the vast majority
of scientists.  The only climate change dispute is among politicians.


The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral
philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Two New Space Discoveries Have Rocked the Science World — Each Will Be a Game Changer
Tom McKay's avatar image By Tom McKay  3 hours ago 125 SHARES
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The news: Two hot discoveries are rocking the way astronomers, physicists, and space scientists view the universe — and they're truly something.

The first is intense: Scientist John Bradley from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California took a microscopic look at the interplanetary dust particles lurking at the edge of Earth's stratosphere. He found minuscule bits of water hidden in the <25 micrometre flakes of dust, which are already half the width of a single human hair. New Scientist explains:


Well........it's the real BIG BANG THEORY.....I wanna be Sheldon!!!


When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche


“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.”
Adolph Hitler
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