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    from the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), have created a mission to “Explore the Earth Under the Sea”, and have proposed a billion dollar plan to drill and extract samples from the Earth’s Mantle and to eventually find out more about the planet on which…

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    Scientists have discovered ancient grains. No, not the quinoa and spelt you'll find in Whole Foods, but ancient grains with explosive origins from Space. By extracting dust grains from meteorites, scientists were able to find out their history and how they came to Earth. STARS SPEWED OUT PRESOLAR GRAINS ALL OVER EARTH As one may assume, presolar grains are older than the sun. They were thrown up by the stars in the universe hundreds of millions of years ago. Way before Earth had a solar system…

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    project, I contributed as both a director and a media producer, constructing the background and settings of the narrative and completing all post-production tasks. The documentary video describes an exploratory visit by a spaceship in the year 2120 to a planet named Vars, which greatly resembles Earth in terms of its climate, inhabitants, and ability to support life. The astronauts who traveled to Vars soon discovered the reasons for its rise and fall through careful investigations. Despite its…

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    Pt1420 Unit 9

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    The shape of the planets is a result of gravity. Gravity is responsible for holding everything together. Without it,the entire universe would be different. 2.They differ greatly in size; the Sun is much larger than the Moon. While the Sun is a star made of gas, the Moon…

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    Moses Maimonides, in his Guide for the Perplexed written between 1137 and 1190, concerns Aristotle’s natural philosophy and the astronomers’ conflicting truths. Around the twelfth century, most were a devoted Aristotelian, and educated people knew that stars in the celestial realm only had one motion, to revolve in a spherical motion around the centre of the universe . What Maimonides notes however, is that Aristotelian physics could not infer the existence of epicycles and eccentric circles.…

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    Comets Vs Kuiper Belt

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    the Nice theory, The Kuiper belt lies out past the orbit of Pluto. Instead of asteroids, The Kuiper belt has millions of icy comets that circle the Sun very fast, and because of that fast motion, they were flung outward by encounters with the giant planets. Scientist believe that the comet Pluto is a part of the Kuiper belt. The Oort cloud is not really a cloud, but a mass of a over a trillion comets that circle the Sun at a great distance. In fact, the Oort cloud extends over…

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    However, will limiting our options to the recovery of earth and righting the wrongs done on this planet be beneficial in the face of the many possible catastrophic events, besides lack of resources and global warming, that can wipe out humanity and all life as it is known on earth, such as an epidemic or nuclear warfare? The answer is no, colonising…

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    Hypothesis, all the planets around the Sun should all be tilted the same way. This is false, because we have learned that the inner planets and outer planets have entirely different tilts.…

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    The story All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury, is about a group of nine year old kids on Venus who are waiting for the sun to come out after seven years of rain. They were all born on Venus and do not remember the sun because they were two years old when it last shone. One of the children, Margot, came to Venus when she was four and still remembers the sun from when she was on Earth, and her parents might be taking her back to Earth in a few years. When people have a deep loathing for others…

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    Jupiter LOG 3 Explorers

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    Most of them explored the Ocean and the ancient cities that found 150 miles under the Earth but every inch of the ocean had been scoured and the cities had nothing left to tell when I was born. The idea of aliens potentially taking me to another planet felt like my calling. I was lucky to get this job with so many other people applying due to everything on Earth being fully scanned. END TRANSMISSION… LOG 3: Well I’ve made it to Jupiter and all the preparations have been made for the jump and…

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