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Quickie: California wildfires – December 5th, 2017
Quickie: California wildfires – December 5th, 2017
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Posted in Politics: California Edition
Tagged california, californiawildfires, creekfire, earth, modis, photography, satelliteimage, science, spacetechnology, terra, thomasfire, usa, venturafire
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NASA Examines Hurricane Lidia’s Eye on the Baja
NASA Examines Hurricane Lidia’s Eye on the Baja
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solar spiral dance
From the uploader: Cascades of spiraling magnetic loops observed in extreme ultraviolet light by SDO danced and twisted above an active region on the Sun (April 3-5, 2011). These loops are charged particles spinning along the magnetic field lines, and … Continue reading
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Tagged nasa, science, solar activity, solar dynamics observatory, youtube
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visual boom
I learned the other day that a sonic boom has a visual component! The picture is of an aircraft speeding along just below the sound barrier. At that speed, the drop in air pressure as the aircraft forces its way … Continue reading
the stupid: it burns
This is quite possibly the most creatively obtuse rendering of evolutionary theory I’ve ever come across. I’m still shaking my head. Pushing teens into being sexually active. (h/t Pharyngula) On a similar subject, this guy got elected. People voted for … Continue reading
court answers intelligent design challenge
Some good news on the intelligent design in biology classes debate… On Tuesday a federal judge ruled that Pennsylvania’s Dover Area School District broke the law when it became one of the first school districts in the United States to … Continue reading
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Tagged legal, politics, religion, science
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another piece of brilliance
How ridiculous to make evolution the enemy of God. What could be more elegant, more simple, more brilliant, more economical, more creative, indeed more divine than a planet with millions of life forms, distinct and yet interactive, all ultimately derived … Continue reading
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stupidity…
Testimony: Creationism was pressed Everyone’s still missing the point, plaintiffs included. The issue isn’t really one of separation of church and state, or else it would be entirely illegal to have classes touching on religion at all in schools. This … Continue reading
cool!
Although the picture makes me giggle…looks like a basic one story bungalow house being flung at a rock… https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2005-098 Like 0
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https://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/04/30/dawkins/index.html Like 0