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Spectacular new video of Comet Lovejoy (oh boy):
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30th December 2011, 06:39
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Spectacular new video of Comet Lovejoy (oh boy):
Spectacular new video of Comet Lovejoy (oh boy):
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30th December 2011, 07:12
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RE: Spectacular new video of Comet Lovejoy (oh boy):
... and boy was everyone surprised that plucky ball of rock and gas survived the sun's corona.
I can't help but imagine the comet being named after the simpson character Reverend Lovejoy. Do you know where it's headed next? I imagine the first trip through the sun must have slowed it down and changed its orbital trajectory as that it might plunge into the sun again soon. |
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If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan |
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30th December 2011, 07:57
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RE: Spectacular new video of Comet Lovejoy (oh boy):
(30th December 2011 07:12)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote: ... and boy was everyone surprised that plucky ball of rock and gas survived the sun's corona. It is headed away from the sun, outbounded towards somewhere else, probably the outer solar system. But it hasn't passed the Earth's orbit yet, and is only visible from the southern hemisphere. It will be visible from the Northern hemisphere towards the south in the coming months, if it stays as active as it currently is; and if so, it should be quite a sight. Considering the battering it has taken, it could also break up. If that happens, and if it stays active after breaking up, it could give us a really interesting show. Then again, it could fizzle out. You never know about comets. |
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