Space Forum / Astronomy / July 2005

Is there any ice on the comets? Ice theory on comets may be wrong

Yesterday he pretty much said they were going to pursue the offending
country, and bomb the crap out of 'em. So does this mean they'll bomb
London?

Prominences associated with v active spot group that has just passe
over the west limb erupted early this morning - sequence over just
minutes and it was gone posted at
http://home.freeuk.com/m.gavin/pstnew.htm

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Here is a question  I received recently and my answer.

thought-provoking book. The time is surely overdue for a move beyond a
cosmology essentially unchanged conceptually since the theories of

There has been a lot of talk about how the operation of the new generation
of atom smashers may be able to make a kind of mater dubbed 'strange'
matter, and how this strange matter may in fact destroy the Earth. Looking
into the whole business, I was surprised to learn that this ...

Oh, look! I've found Dickless Davie -
http://www.livejournal.com/users/krautboy/243291.html
He's with all his saucerhead friends. Half way down, still missing his
penis. It even looks like him. And with all the fat chicks there, one

Wee Davie Post-edit pulled a bright blue crayon out of the box and
scribbled this in news:2hfCe.10277$rF5.7758@tornado.socal.rr.com:
[snip stuff unrelated to me, just to give you reason to whine]

Jumpin' Jesus!

Apparently, the Gospel doesn't even have Jesus Christ's name

If space is black, why is our sky blue...
thx

What's more likely. A Big Bang where everything starts from
a singularity or M-theory Big Splat (ekpyrotic scenerio)
where two higher dimensional colliding branes produced
the matter and energy in our universe??

I have to explain phases of the moon to some children, but the
explanations I find on the web are leaving me with questions myself.
I've Googled for these answers, but haven't found any coherent answers
on the web.  Unfortunately, I have only about 10 days to get this down,

Last week I discussed in a thread about whether Charge has the formula
of mc^3 since energy has the formula mc^2. A special number kept
cropping up of that of 10^51. And so I revisited Dirac's old book of
DIRECTIONS IN PHYSICS written about 1975 and sure enough on page 76,

Are you a scientist of postgraduate level or above,
working in EU or an Associated State?
Do you require large computing power
to improve your research?

Hi;
Dumb question #1:
It is my understanding that about 4 billion years ago the
moon was much closer to the earth than today (correct ?).