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G'day Are we wasting time and money on Mars. Should we spend the money on the poor? Should we be playing with big toys. Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera Image Gallery http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/ Definitely we should be spending more money on the poor, but it must be spent very carefully.

Habitable by what? ... I think we have to remember that humans are not the only habitants of this universe. When humans search for habitable planets and moons, I think you can be sure they are speaking of habitability by humans, as opposed to the search for life. Language is important. If we say 'o...

The Hubble Mystery Object http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hubble-M ... 1861.shtml is one more example that cosmologists are merely at the beginning of their studies.

Lots of water has been found on earth's moon also, beginning with mankind's first landings there. http://www.livescience.com/space/080709-moon-water.html
"Water water everywhere .... " I've read that water is the most common substance in the universe.

Habitable by what? Creatures certainly inhabit some moons already, like those moons composed of water and covered by layers of ice, that ice cracking and spraying geysers. Where there is liquid water, there will be life. I think we have to remember that humans are not the only habitants of this univ...

Chris Peterson wrote: Black holes are essentially passive. They work like a rock works.

I think the plutonium used in nuclear bombs could be described as rocklike.

Chris Peterson wrote:
Of course, none of this has anything to do with your incorrect understanding that jets are made of dense material, or come from the inside of event horizons.

Density is relative, is it not?

Chris Peterson wrote: The fact that we don't yet understand the interior of a black hole (assuming there is an interior) doesn't change anything.

Assuming there are Black Holes.

Some months back someone here at APOD used a highlighter to illustrate seemingly circular arrangements of hundreds of stars in an APOD photo. There were many circles highlighted among those hundreds of stars, perhaps and approximately six to 10 stars each circle. We propose that the stars are not ac...

harry wrote:G'day from the land of oz


The Hadron collider may find the smallest subatomic particle that makes up Protons and Neutrons.

This is quite interesting

http://webcast.cern.ch/index.html

http://lhc-first-beam.web.cern.ch/

And it may not.