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by Peter FBIS
Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:59 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Global Warming Predictions (2009 April 21)
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Re: 2009 April 21 - global warming

Let's just put to one side for the moment the question of whether little or much of the predicted change is contributed to by man. There appears still to be a consensus that this warming is happening and its effects on mankind could be severe. That would suggest that we should certainly be looking a...
by Peter FBIS
Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:54 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Happy 50th Anniversary NASA ! (APOD 01 Oct 2008)
Replies: 19
Views: 6557

Happy 50th Anniversary NASA ! (APOD 10-1-2008)

Happy 50th from me, too. However, I must say I got a jolt this morning when I saw the APOD showing a V2 being launched. For those of us in London during 1944/5, the after-effects of those things was pretty horrific. More horrific, however, is the apparent closeness of those observers to the launch-p...