So what would you regard as the most successful vehicle ever? It's an interesting question and I guess we all have a different answer, as we all have a different opinion on what success is. I would really like to know your thoughts on this one. My contender was launched on August 30th, back in 1984 for the very first time from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. You have guessed it, my contender is the Space Shuttle Discovery.
She had arrived less than a year earlier, and her first mission was to deploy three communications satellites. The name ‘Discovery’ has featured on many historic vessels such as Henry Hudson’s ship that explored Hudson Bay searching for a northwest passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and even the ship James Cook used in the 1770’s during his voyages in the South Pacific when he discovered the Hawaiian Islands.
In the name of exploration, the Space Shuttle Discovery was in a league of her own though. During her career she completed over thirty successful missions, more than any other orbiter in NASA's fleet. Over the years Discovery has carried satellites into space, ferried equipment and crew to the International Space Station, and has performed countless scientific experiments. She was launched into space on her last mission on February 24th, 2011. During her career she spent a cumulative total of almost a full year in space. In the photo below you can see Space shuttle Discovery attached to the top of NASA's modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, ready for her final ferry flight on Tuesday, April 17, 2012. The Boeing took her to to her final resting place as a space exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution.
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Two Quick Points:First, the best advice for first time telescope buyers is to attend a "star party" given by an astronomy club in your location. You'll be...Read complete review
Two Quick Points:First, the best advice for first time telescope buyers is to attend a "star party" given by an astronomy club in your location. You'll be invited to look through members' telescopes and you'll come away with a first-hand appreciation of what to expect in the areas of capability, price and availability. You'll also get an idea of what your child might be able to handle.Second, even a bare-as-bone telescope designed for a beginner can be expensive. For example, what might be called the standard telescope for a moderately interested amateur astronomer, a six-inch Dobsonian reflector, will cost over $200. And for what some people might call high-end or professional telescopes the prices begin in the thousands.This may be why the time-honored advice given by experienced amateur astronomers to the parental question what should I get for a child just taking an interest in the sky has been a pair of binoculars and a good star map or beginner's book, such as "Turn Left at Orion". Most binoculars have acceptable optical performance, are relatively inexpensive and will still be of some use if the astronomy interest doesn't pan out.But practically all beginners want a bona fide telescope, an instrument that will "really show something". So there is a market for small telescopes aimed at beginners and children. Frankly, most if not all of them will show lunar craters, Jupiter's four Galilean moons and Jupiter's two prominent cloud bands on a good night. While all of these telescopes make compromises of some sort to be affordable, but all should meet some basic requirements and of course some will be better at that than others.I can't recommend Educational Insights Nancy B'S Science Club Moonscope because there are a number of beginner telescopes roughly in the same price range, for example Celestron's 70mm Travel Scope or their Cometron FirstScope that have better fundamentals and will perform better.The Moonscope has a clear aperture of 45mm (the diameter of its lens. Both of the Celestron units are larger in aperture. They will resolve details more clearly and capture more light. Both should be easier to use and will accept some standard accessories if a child's astronomy interest grows.Here are some basic requirements that any telescope should meet:1. A TELESCOPE SHOULD BE RIGIDLY MOUNTED. The legs of the Moonscope are plastic and will easily transfer vibrations should they or the surface on which the scope is set up is bumped. Also because the Moonscope and its tripod are extremely light a good breeze will give it the shakes. Few things are more aggravating than trying to observe something through a vibrating telescope. Having to "fight the telescope" could really deaden a child's interest. All beginners telescopes have this problem, but it's especially obvious with the Moonscope due to its construction.2. A FINDER SCOPE SHOULD CLEARLY SHOW AND HELP PINPOINT A TARGET. Like the cross hairs on a rifle, a telescope finder helps you point the more powerful main scope at a target which would be difficult or impossible to center using the main scope alone. Usually, they are adjustable, but the finder on the Moonscope is not. It's a pre-aligned plastic tube that's partially closed at one end. Unfortunately, it's next to useless. It totally distorts the image of the Moon and using it to point the Moonscope at Jupiter, a really bright star-like object, was just about impossible. I gave up and pointed the telescope by sighting up the main tube – a skill picked up over the years. Most beginner scopes include a small telescopic finder and an adequate finder should be considered a necessity if a child is to use the telescope.3. A TELESCOPE SHOULD HAVE GOOD OPTICS. The Moonscope comes with two eyepieces, a 20mm and a 4mm. The view through the 20mm is acceptable, but the image produced by a binocular of comparable magnification is significantly sharper. When compared to the image produced by a slightly larger, but more expensive telescope with more expensive eyepieces, the difference is clearly obvious.The 4mm eyepiece indicated as giving a magnification of 90 is a bit of a disaster. First the power is at the limit recommended for a scope of this size, even with perfect optics and great seeing conditions. The views that one would normally get at this power, even with expensive equipment, will be disappointing – a bit dark and "mushy". But the 4mm eyepiece is far from being optically perfect. Move the object you're viewing to the periphery of the field of view and it turns into a "blob". After using the 4mm a few times, I put it permanently in my pocket.Also eyepieces for modern astronomical telescopes come in two standard diameters, 1.25 and 2 inches. The Moonscope eyepieces are smaller and non-standard. You have only the two eyepieces that come with the Moonscope. Starter scopes, such as those mentioned above, use standard eyepieces so other eyepieces with different magnifications or fields of view (and things like filters which fit them) can be added.A NITPICK. The Moonscope comes with a permanently attached star diagonal (the device that bends the light path 90 degrees and accepts the eyepieces). A diagonal presents a "mirror" image of what you're viewing. North is north, south is south, but east and west are reversed. This is mentioned in the activity journal that comes with the Moonscope. However, the lunar chart in the activity journal shows the Moon in its normal orientation. This could be confusing for a youngster trying to navigate the lunar surface and identify its features.Sparking a child's interest in astronomy is a laudable goal. It can lead to a lifetime of interest, activity or in some cases, even a profession. Taking a bit of care with regard to the tools a child will use to explore the sky for the first time can make all the difference.
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I would buy this product again and again
from New Orleans, LA
About Me Parent Of Two Or More Children
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has a couple of great activities to go along with it
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Great gift for my grandaughter
from Little Falls, NJ
About Me Grandparent
Great lenses for distance views
Reach for the stars
By Bonnie G
I think the Moonscope is perfect for my youngest daughter. She always loves looking at the sky and asking questions about it so I knew she would love this product. I think this is a great beginners telescope. It was easy to set up and we like that it has a red LED light so she can read and look at the journal when it's dark outside. I had a telescope when I was a kid but it was nothing compared to this one. Wished this was around when I was a kid. Great learning tool.I received this product for review. All opinions are my own.
from Gilbert AZ
About Me Education Oriented, Parent Of Two Or More Children, Stay At Home Parent
My 7 year old son loves science and living in Arizona we are lucky enough to have many clear nights to look at the moon and stars. He was so excited to get this moonscope. He goes out on our patio in the evenings and looks at the moon and stars. He just loves it. Then he draws pictures and writes about what he sees in the journal that comes with it. It's so neat to see his mind engaging and all the learning he is doing. Plus the joy it brings him. His teacher has already made comment that he is telling stories in school about what he saw. I would absolutely recommend this toy
Easy to use
By angie k
from st louis mo
This moonscope was super easy to put together and get started within minutes of opening the box. My 11 year old took control of this and he is really interested in the moon and looking for the planets. We found it a little difficult to use if we could not find the moon or see any stars. This is best for younger children that would like to have fun with it. It did work nice but we are just a little bit beyond it.
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Makes learning fun!
By Amberlee Cave
from Colfax, CA
I received the Nancy B's Science Club Moonscope from Educational Insights to review and my two little girls love it! They are both obsessed with the moon and stars and love to sit outside just to stare at them. I love that this Moonscope is not only functional for kids but it also has a really cool design and it is offered at a great price. When I was younger I wanted a telescope, but I could never get one because of how expensive they were! Not only were they expensive, but they didn't come in any cool colors either. Living in the country I can always see lots of stars and I was obsessed with them at a young age as well. With this Moonscope I can share this obsession with my girls and not break the bank trying to do so. The Moonscope is fairly simple to use and even comes with an activity journal so you can find something cool and know what you are looking at. It makes it easy for kids to learn more about stars and have fun while doing it. It is a very colorful book too which makes it even more engaging. My youngest gets super excited when we pull out the Moonscope because she has stars on just about everything! I am very happy with our Moonscope and if anything happens to it I will definitely purchase a new one!
By Julie M
from West Seneca NY
About Me First Time Parent, Stay At Home Parent
Awesome! We are working on teaching my son about space and the solar system and we found this. He just loves it. He is constantly counting stars and can spend hours looking at them. This is an excellent telescope for your kids. It is very simple for my son to use, yet it has really great clarity so this will work for him as he grows up as well. The Star Gazer's activity Journal is great for keeping track of activities and it has so much great information in it. It was packaged very nicely and very secure. It was so easy to put together.The directions were fantastic. It seems very strong and durable and I think this will last my son a a very long time. It also folds up nice for when he is not using it to. If I could suggest just one thing different is the color. My son would like a different shade. he says it looks a little girly.(but that doesn't stop him from using it.)
Fun Nighttime Exploration for Kids
By Spit Up is the New Black
We received this moonscope as a gift from the manufacturer. This telescope has been so much fun for our family. My daughter is enamored with the moon and loves to point it out in the sky, so when Nancy B's Science Club Moonscope arrived, we couldn't wait to set it up and see the moon up close!It arrives fully assembled, which is great for busy parents. If you've ever used a microscope in science class back in high school, you'll be able to figure out how to use this moonscope pretty easily. We didn't even need to reference the instruction manual before use.It's nice that it comes with two different eye pieces to change the magnification and it sits nicely atop a table for star-gazing. It's also a clever added touch that the finder scope has a glow-in-the-dark edge so kids can see it in the dark.We really like this moonscope and for the price, it's a great learning tool for kids, especially in this tech-aged world.
Great Learning Material
Great product. Very educational. Really like how this teaches my kids about everything in the sky. Would highly recommend this product. I received this promotion in exchange for unbiased review.
Great starter telescope for kids!
About Me Parent Of Two Or More Children, Stay At Home Parent
I received the Moonscope and Sky Gazers Activity Journal for free in order to give a honest review. All opinions are 100% my own.My daughter wanted a telescope very badly. She is crazy about the moon and stars! When I came across this Moonscope I knew my daughter had to have it but I was a little nervous since the age recommendation is 8-11 years and my daughter is only 3, but when it arrived it was extremely simple for me to put together and surprisingly very easy for my daughter to use. She loves how girly and pretty it is and she was very pleased with how easily she could move it around on her own and view the moon and stars. The only thing I had to help her with was the focusing, other then that I think this is great for younger kids also! I think the thing she is a little to young for at this very moment is the Activity Journal. The Activity Journal is great as well because it lists interesting facts and your child can track, write and draw in it as well as do some activities. The Moonscope also has a convenient little LED light attached to it so your child can see to write in their Activity Journal. I will be saving this for her because I know we will have this great educational telescope for a very long time. It is made very, very well. It is sturdy and very easy to fold up and put away when not in use. I love this adorable telescope as much as my kid does. I think it is a great toy for children and very affordable!
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ASM LUSG01: Space Gate Odyssey
After decades of research and technological development, humanity is about to leave Earth. A system of six viable Exoplanets has been identified. To get there only one means of transport is possible: the space gates. For reasons related to physics and other quantum aspects these portals can only be built in space.
The Confederations have therefore embarked on the construction of their own base in orbit equipped with space gates. You are the leader of one of these Confederations and play your influence in the Odyssey command station to send as many of your settlers as possible to these Exoplanets.
The most influential Confederation will take control of this new system and will hold the future of Humanity in its hands.
Goal of the game
Optimize the construction of your space base: the choice of modules, their layout, the distance between the airlock and the portal are essential elements.
Maximize the sending of settlers to the most favorable sites of the Exoplanets and thus gain a maximum of Influence points.
Be careful not to leave too many open corridors on the space void: this is a real danger for your Colons and could therefore damage your reputation.
The most influential player at the end of the game is promoted to the rank of Governor of the exoplanets system and is declared the winner.


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Dr Rajendraprakash Gupt, Superintendent of Ujjain-based Jiwaji Observatory has said that 2020 would see six eclipses. Out of the six, four will be lunar and the remaining two will be solar.
It is said that only three are expected to be visible from India.
Gupt has added saying that the celestial events in this year will start with a penumbral lunar eclipse during the night of January 10- 11 which will be visible partially in India.
The start of the eclipse is from 10.36pm on Friday night and will continue till 2:44am on Saturday.
The eclipse that can be seen from India are penumbral lunar eclipse and annular solar eclipse.
Gupt says that penumbral lunar eclipse that can be visible through India will be occurring during the night of June 5 and 6.
The penumbral lunar eclipse will also be taking place on July 5 and November 30 and both of them will not be visible from India.
An annular solar eclipse that will be visible from India will be occurring on June 21. the eclipse will also be taking place on December 14 which will not be visible from India as it will occur during night in the country.
By Shrithika Kushangi


On 6th September, 2023 students of Mahatma Junior college of Education embarked on an exciting field trip to the Nehru Planetarium. This educational journey was organized with the aim of expanding the understanding of astronomy and space science. The Nehru Planetarium, is a renowned institution known for its informative and engaging exhibits and shows.
The field trip to the Nehru Planetarium was both educational and enjoyable. It provided a wonderful opportunity to enhance our knowledge of astronomy, space science, and the wonders of the universe. The engaging exhibits, planetarium show, and interactive workshops left a lasting impression on the students.


Rock Elm: Home To One Of The Rarest Minerals In The World.
First discovered in a laboratory in the 1960’s, reidite has only been found in nature in five locations around the globe.
The Rock Elm Disturbance is an impact crater near the town of Rock Elm Wisconsin in Pierce County. Thought to be created during the Ordovician Period of 450-430 million years ago, the Rock Elm Disturbance revealed a surprise to scientists when the rare mineral reidite was discovered at the site in 2014.
Reidite is a polymorph of zircon, one of the hardest minerals on Earth. It is formed with the same molecules as zircon, under high impact extreme pressures and temperatures, such as during a meteor impact. Reidite is 10 times denser than zircon. Reidite takes it’s name from Alan F. Reid, the scientist who discovered it in a laboratory in 1969.
The discovery was made by NASA Astrobiology Institute member Aaron Cavosie of the University of Puerto Rico with a team of students from the University Of Wisconsin while collecting samples at the meteor impact site. The Rock Elm reidite was only the fourth discovery of natural reidite. Prior to the Wisconsin discovery, reidite was only found in nature at the Chesapeake Bay Crater in Virginia, the Xiuyan Crater in China, and the Ries Crater in Germany. It has since been found at a fifth site in 2015, at the Stac Fada Member in Northern Scotland. Scientists believe the Scottish site is over one billion years old, predating the previously discovered sites including Rock Elm.
For more about this fascinating western Wisconsin discovery, check out this great article with videos of the Rock Elm site.


Mon, 1 August 2022
The Webb telescope recently provided us with the earliest look into the origins of our universe. This cosmic nursery was also the beginning story for our Earth, for life abundant, and for human life. Let us consider the grand story of which we are a part. Sermon delivered by Rev. Anastassia Zinke. Music by Josh Long and the UUCA worship ensemble. Delivered on Sunday, July 31st, 2022.
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On Saturday, 26th of April of 2014, the sun will rise in Wrightsville Beach at 6:26 am and sunset will be at 7:52 pm. The moon will rise in the east (88º) at 4:42 am and will set in the west (275º) at 5:24 pm.
In the high tide and low tide chart, we can see that the first high tide will be at 5:39 am and the next high tide at 6:06 pm. The only low tide of the day will be at 11:49 am.
The lunar phase will be a Waning Crescent. We will have 13 hours and 26 minutes of sun. The solar transit will be at 1:09 pm and the length of time the moon will be visible will be 12 hours and 42 minutes.
What the heck does that mean?
That means, during the Harbor Island (Rec) and Money Island (Open) race, there will be an outgoing tide. During the Graveyard (Elite) Race, it will be outgoing until the second half of the race. The longer it takes you to paddle the graveyard, the sooner you'll see the tide switch with outgoing moving to incoming at 11:49.


Thursday was our last day in the field, and our science teams had only a few morning hours to wrap up their investigations. Becca, Ruby, Sarah, and John were sent out to gather the last bits of data and cached samples for each team. By mid-morning, the science teams had most of the data they wanted to collect, and were spending the bulk of their time drawing strat columns and refining their interpretations. Meanwhile, the rovers and instruments “recharged their solar cells” after several days of hard work.
The team awoke fresh faced and ready to get back into their traverses on day 2. After a chat around breakfast, coffee, and stick throwing for our resident Martian dogs, Ruby, Becca, Sarah, and John prepared themselves to head back out and do their science teams’ bidding, and the TIGER team headed out to finish their in-situ investigations of the field site.
The GHOST team arrived onsite Monday evening, and began our rover investigations early Tuesday morning. The day began with a coordination of teams, and laying out an initial work plan, by the team’s PI, Aileen Yingst.
We have an excellent team working on the GHOST project this year! Check out their bios below:
While we are out in the field pretending to be Mars rovers, we need to be able to gather the same kind of data that we acquire on Mars. There are many impressive instruments on both Spirit and Opportunity – the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) – as well as Curiosity – the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). For this week, we are limited to those instruments which we are capable of taking out into the field, and many of the MER and MSL instruments do not have field-portable analog instruments here on Earth.
Fortunately, we have two field-portable instruments that are excellent analogs for those on board the current Mars rovers:
On April 18th, a group of us will descend on a mystery location in Utah where will will spend five days roaming around the desert pretending to be Mars rovers for the GeoHueristic Operational Strategies Testing (GHOST) program. These rover tests have no actual rovers, as those are extremely expensive and logistically difficult to get out in the field. Rather, we have people pretending to be the rovers, and others (myself included) acting as the instruments onboard those rovers.
This year’s objective is to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of utilizing a walkabout approach to investigate the field site, instead of the commonly-used linear traverse.
I am currently a third year Ph.D. student in geology. Lately, I’ve found myself talking with a lot of prospective grad students and friends interested in going back to school. By now, I’ve managed to sort through my thoughts and experiences from the past few years, and have found some things I really wish I had known or thought to do back when I started. So in an effort to reach as many prospective grads as possible, I thought I would take some time to put together something that I hope people find useful. Some of these things may be geology-specific, but I’ve tried to keep it applicable to the sciences in general.
So you’re thinking about grad school?


We live in an awesome age of exploration. Over the past decade or so, we've found hundreds of planets orbiting different stars in our galaxy.
These "exoplanets" are too distant to truly see, even with our most spectacular telescopes. As a substitute, we detect them after they go between their father or mother star and Earth, dimming the star's gentle at common intervals. These passes are known as "transits".
Now, nevertheless, astronomers have turned this idea on its head in a brand new examine, asking which of those alien worlds would possibly have the ability to spot Earth and the remainder of our photo voltaic system in the identical manner.
Simpler to see
The primary counterintuitive factor that they discovered is that it’d really be simpler to see the smaller planets of the photo voltaic system than its huge gasoline giants. ”Bigger planets would naturally block out extra gentle as they go in entrance of their star”, said lead writer Robert Wells, a PhD pupil at Queen’s College Belfast.
”Nevertheless the extra essential issue is definitely how shut the planet is to its father or mother star – for the reason that terrestrial planets are a lot nearer to the Solar than the gasoline giants, they’ll be extra prone to be seen in transit.”
The second is that solely a most of three planets might be ever detected directly, and even then not from all over the place outdoors the photo voltaic system. ”We estimate randomly positioned observer would have roughly a 1 in 40 likelihood of observing no less than one planet," stated Katja Poppenhaeger, a co-author on the examine.
"The likelihood of detecting no less than two planets can be about ten occasions decrease, and to detect three can be an extra ten occasions smaller than this.”
Narrowing down the checklist
By narrowing down the checklist on this manner, the staff ascertained that solely 68 of the hundreds of exoplanets we've recognized would have the ability to see a number of of the planets in our photo voltaic system. Solely 9 of these can be ideally positioned to look at transits of Earth.
And right here's the kicker – none of these are considered inhabitable. However! The staff estimates that there ought to be roughly ten presently undiscovered worlds that are each favorably situated to detect Earth and able to sustaining life.
Which implies ten possibilities that an alien civilisation on the identical expertise stage that we're at would know that our planet even exists.
The staff's subsequent plan? Goal these transit zones to seek for exoplanets. And possibly determine the house of our first interstellar buddies alongside the best way.
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NASA’s Twins Study just hit another major milestone. The long-term investigation of Scott Kelly’s health after nearly a year in space shows that the early findings from 2017 were valid — with some new insights into possible health issues for future Mars travelers.
The astronaut spent 340 days on the International Space Station in 2015 to 2016, along with Russian crewmate Mikhail Kornienko. The milestone flight was the longest single flight of any American, providing investigators an opportunity to see how human health changes in nearly a year.
But there was another advantage to using Scott as a test subject; he has a twin brother, Mark, who flew as an astronaut during the space shuttle program. So while Scott flew on the International Space Station, investigators collected data from him and from Mark, who remained on the ground. [Twins In Space: Astronauts Mark and Scott Kelly in Photos]
“The perfect nature versus nurture study was born,” NASA officials said in a statement.
Preparing for Mars
A year in space is a long time by today’s standards, but investigators are preparing for future flights to Mars. That journey would likely take an astronaut close to three years. Seeing how Scott’s body reacted will provide one data point, but more information on the long-term health effects of space is needed before the journey


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There’s nothing more romantic than gazing up at the stars with the one you love. But what if you could give your loved one their very own star? Now with our help, you can! At Buy A Star, we offer the unique and special service of naming a real star after your loved one. Just select the type of star you would like to purchase, enter the name, and checkout. We will then send you an official certificate of registration complete with coordinates so you can find your star in the night sky. It’s easy, affordable, and truly out of this world! So show your loved one how much they mean to you and buy a star today!


We’re GO for launch as 2020 marks the 35th year of Cosmosphere Camps! Featuring brand NEW (only one of its kind) Astralis capsule-based simulator, NEW hands-on activities and NEW exciting missions!
Cosmosphere Camps gets the space-party started with our Young Explorer’s Camps—where elementary-aged explorers will learn about space science through fun and educational hands-on learning.
Once in 7th grade, Cosmosphere Campers will begin training for the Ad Astra Program. This program is designed to inspire campers to pursue their career dreams while focusing on building necessary life skills, like overcoming challenges and working within a team setting. The Ad Astra Program progresses “Astro Recruits” through a series of space-oriented missions, building on STEAM principles and life-skills honed during earlier camp experiences. From learning how to program robots, to planning for life on another planet and training in Cosmosphere Camp simulators like the 4-G centrifuge and the NEW Astralis capsule-based simulator—Cosmosphere Camps promise to propel eager Astro Recruits into their futures.
And don’t forget about our Travel Experiences! These experiences in Texas and California aren’t camps, they’re super fun, behind-the-scenes adventures that only the Cosmosphere can provide!
Ignite curiosity, train like an astronaut and launch into STEAM learning–ALL at the Cosmosphere!
The Cosmosphere International Science Education Center & Space Museum is a Smithsonian-affiliated museum in Hutchinson, KS. Its collection includes the largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian space artifacts in the world, thus allowing the Cosmosphere to tell the story of the Space Race better than any other museum.
Camp experiences and educational opportunities offered at the Cosmosphere fully immerse participants in aerospace centered learning which meets Next Generation Science and Common Core curriculum standards and focuses on future career pathways, introducing students to the power of wondering—asking the critical questions that lead to discovery.
The Cosmosphere also features the Carey Digital Dome Theater offering documentary showings daily and recently-released feature films on weekends. Other attractions include a state-of-the-art Planetarium, allowing visitors to fly among the stars and a totally renovated Dr. Goddard’s Lab, where participants can experience live science demonstrations daily. Coming March 2020, the NEW CosmoKids interactive area bringing STEAM experiences to even the youngest Cosmosphere visitor.
“With the Cosmosphere’s legacy of applied science education
and now even more emphasis on STE(A)M,
it is my hope that some youth will become tomorrow’s inspired leaders.”
– Fred Haise, Apollo 13 Astronaut
Visit www.cosmo.org for more information or to see a schedule of upcoming events.


An environment light that uses a simple physical model for terrestrial daylight under clear or hazy skies. The sky model is based on A Practical Analytic Model for Daylight by A.J. Preetham, Peter Shirley, and Brian Smits. The solar disk model is adapted from H.C. Hottel's A Simple Model for Estimating the Transmittance of Direct Solar Radiation Through Clear Atmospheres, with parameters curve fitted for turbidity from physical data and a simple limb darkening model.
Specifies the exposure of the area light as a power of 2. Increasing the exposure by 1 will double the energy emitted by the light source. A value of 0 produces an intensity of 1 at the source, -1 produces 0.5.
The apparent direction towards the center of the sun. The zenith is at +Z (for noon light) and the horizon is in the XY plane (for sunrise/sunset). Note that the Z component must non-negative. Ignored if a month is given. In some DCC applications, like Maya for example, you can manually alter the Sun direction using a manipulator in the viewport.
The turbidity of the sky. The lower limit of the model is 1.7 for an exceptionally clear sky, and 10, for an inversion, is the upper limit.
Tweak the sky's contribution and color. The default, white, gives results based on measured physical values.
Tweak the sun's contribution and color. The default, white, gives results based on measured physical values.
Scale the apparent size of the sun in the sky. Leave at 1 for a realistic sun size with an 0.55 degree angular diameter.
Month of the year, 1 through 12. The default, 0, means to use the explicitly given sun direction instead of automatically computing it.
Day of the month, 1 through 31.
Four digit year.
Hours since midnight, local standard time. May be fractional to include minutes and seconds. If daylight saving time is in effect, subtract 1 to correct to standard time.
Standard time zone offset from GMT/UTC in hours. Positive for east, negative for west. For example, this would be -8 for Pacific time.
Latitude in degrees. Positive for north, negative for south. Ranges from -90 to +90 degrees.
Longitude in degrees. Positive for east, negative for west. Ranges from -180 to 180 degrees.
Amount of specular light that is emitted. This is a non-physical control.
Amount of diffuse light that is emitted. This is a non-physical control.
Note: All shadow parameters will be ignored if the light's bidirectional is enabled.
Enable raytraced shadows.
The color of the shadows cast by emitted light. This is a non-physical control.
.0 0.0 0.0
The maximum distance of the shadow starting from the position of the point being shaded. -1.0 is unset which will use the distance between the point being shaded and the point on the light.
The distance from the light at which shadow falloff begins. -1.0 turns off shadow falloff.
Shadow Falloff Gamma
The gamma of the shadow strength in the falloff zone.
Set of geometry to consider for traced shadow intersection. If this is not specified, all geometry are considered for traced shadow intersection.
Don't Trace Subset
Set of geometry to ignore for traced shadow intersection. If this is not specified, no geometry is ignored for traced shadow intersection.
Trace Light Paths
Enable light and photon tracing from this light.
Enable thin shadow (fake colored shadows for transparent objects) and disable refraction caustics for this light. This parameter will be ignored if Trace Light Paths is enabled.
Specifies an override of the number of light samples to be taken for this light source. If set to something other than zero, it will override the sampling performed by the integrator. You might find need for this if you have unsolvable noise from this light and need mroe samples.
Specify the light group name used for light group LPEs. This is useful to generate per-light AOVs for later adjustment in compositing.
RenderMan for Maya includes useful presets for specific times of day.


According to NASA, our space is riddled with more than 27,000 pieces of orbital debris, or “space junk,” as tracked by the Department of Defense’s global Space Surveillance Network (SSN) sensors. Albeit the junk is too small for tracking sensors, they are large enough to threaten human spaceflight and robotic missions. Moreover, since both the debris and spacecraft are traveling at extremely high speeds (approximately 15,700 mph in low Earth orbit), an encounter with a tiny piece of space debris can destroy missions.
Space Debris Toxicity
When we think of space junk, we look at metal bodies of disintegrating spaceships and other machinery. Space debris is non-biodegradable that may stay in space forever until such time it falls back on earth and burns up. According to the United Nations Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization), “there is a risk of a “sudden, possibly, irreversible deteriorating of the orbital environment” owing to a number of factors, not least, space debris, as well as the use of that domain for military purposes.”
The ESA Clean Space Initiative
Now, The European Space Agency or ESA is trying to address the above challenges to space health. ESA is invested in developing an eco-friendly approach to space exploration. ESA intends to adopt policies and processes to address the negative effects of industrial materials, processes, and technologies on the environment and set an example for other global space agencies to consider for their missions. In this regard, ESA set up its Clean Space initiative encompassing the whole life cycle of space missions with EcoDesign, Space Debris Mitigation, and In-orbit servicing/Active Debris Removal.
WISA Woodsat Finnish First
In line with ESA’s focus on green technology to reduce environmental toxicity, Arctic Astronautics, a Finnish company, tested WISA Woodsat on a stratospheric flight to figure out how a plywood cubesat withstands the space environment. The flight took off at 3:25 EEST and lasted for 2 hours and 54 minutes. Then, at an altitude of 31.2 km over the city of Mäntsälä, the balloon carrying the set-up exploded as planned. WISA Woodsat, a nanosatellite, measures four by four inches and weighs about one kilogram. The green part is the birch plywood (called WISA) coating of the surface panels. Powered by nine solar cells, WISA Woodsat on a “selfie-stick,” documented the reciprocity of WISA wood in the space environment.
WISA Woodsat Hits the Spruce
Birch-made WISA Woodsat fell on a large spruce tree, and from there, it was taken to Heureka for data extraction and backup. “Everything went just right,” said Samuli Nyman, WISA Woodsat’s engineer mastermind. “From the telemetry data we see nicely how the satellite was behaving and now we can see if any changes to our systems are needed. It seems we don’t have any major issues.” As planned and endeavored, the after study noted no recognizable damage to the WISA plywood surface in the space-like conditions of the stratosphere.
From Stratosphere to Space with ESA
According to Arctic Astronautics, Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket will launch the actual satellite to an orbit of over 500 km altitude by the end of June 2021. Now that WISA Woodsat completed its stratospheric flight, the focus is on constructing the flight model and its spare. The new spare will be transported in early July to ESTEC, the technical center of The European Space Agency, in Noordwijk, Netherlands. After that, a space condition simulator will test the satellite will go through a shaking test, which simulates the vibrations and shaking caused by a rocket ride. After these tests, the team will go on with the final preparations of the satellite for the space flight.
The Close Proximation
The question is, biodegradation can only happen on earth as the subject can return to the soil. Such is not the case with a biodegradable subject in the space. That way, humankind can develop wooden spaceships, wooden space stations, or wooden satellites. Still, it cannot biodegrade any of them in space, and hence the complete removal of space debris is an impossible pursuit. Progress, in this case, is proximity to the ideal, and hence launching WISA Woodsat is a grand feat soon after Jeff Bezos takes off on Blue Origin. Kudos to Arctic Astronautics for finishing it before Japan boasting to launch its first satellite made out of wood in 2023.
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They act 1st and think later, and have little to no individual anxiety about their security or capacity to do unsafe factors. They will be each and every other’s plus-ones to all events and dance for hours with each and every other. Not only that, but they’ll motivate the other to be more active and to take a lot more risks in life. But what the partnership settles down into a routine, Aries may long for some of the excitement of the early stages.
In the second century BC the Greek astronomer Hipparchus set up the technique for measuring positions of stars and other fixed objects in the heavens. He established as his beginning point the place of a single of two places where the Sun crossed the “celestial equator,” an extension of Earth’s equator out into the sky. As a result, the vernal equinox, where the Sun stood at the beginning of spring, became the reckoning point for the heavens. The seat of her throne is comprised of four stars of the third magnitude. The star on her correct is on the equinoctial colure, lying on a straight line with the star in Andromeda’s cheek in the North Pole. It consists of a binary star, a triple star, a double star, a quadruple star, and extraordinary quantity of star clusters.
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30 Arietis – a 6th magnitude wide double for little scopes. With a separation of 38 arc seconds they are resolvable in any size scope. The main element is also a spectroscopic double itself and therefore this is a triple star method. Pi Arietis (π Ari) – is a many star technique about 800 light-years distant. The most important star is a magnitude +5.three blue giant star that is separated by three.3 arc seconds from its magnitude +8.5 companion.
Aries the Ram, is Ariete in Italy, Belier in France, and Widder in Germany — Bayer’s Wider in the Anglo-Saxon tongue it is Ramm, and in the Anglo-Norman of the 12th century, Multuns. The constellation is marked by the noticeable triangle to the west of the Pleiades, 6° north of the ecliptic, 20° north of the celestial equator, and 20° due south from gamma Andromedae . Ram is a common West Germanic word for ‘male sheep,’ now shared only by Dutch (though German has the derivative ramme, ‘rammer‘). It may be connected to Old Norse ramr, ‘strong.’ the allusion getting to the ram’s strength in butting.
For Aries, almost all of the stars are of second or third magnitude. It is shaped as a curved line, which makes it difficult to come across. Hence we suggest hunting at places with a darker sky to see all the stars.
The Greeks thought this group of stars created the shape of a ram’s head. The mythology behind Aries comes from a story about Jason and the Argonauts. Jason went on a quest in search of Aries the Ram’s Golden Fleece.
Aries – as cardinal fire – is all about new beginnings. The constellation Taurus, the bull, can be noticed during the winter and the early spring in the northern hemisphere. It is visible at latitudes amongst 90 degrees and -65 degrees. It is a huge constellation covering an area of 797 square degrees. It ranks 17th in size amongst the 88 constellations in the night sky. It is bordered by Aries to the west, Gemini to the east, Perseus and Auriga to the north, Orion to the southeast, Eridanus to the south, and Cetus to the southwest.
If 14 days have gone by considering that your buy, sadly we can not supply you a refund or exchange. Highest grade metal in the market place and closest to strong without the value tag. Therefore it was that a single fine night about 15 years ago, a 9 year old from some youth group corralled me and asked me to show her Aries and to inform her about it. She was, I feel, fulfilling a scouting requirement to observe the constellations of the Zodiac.
Stars like the Sun normally have a lot more sedentary lifestyles and live longer, burning for about ten billion years. The zodiacal constellation of Aries includes many fascinating stars and deep-sky objects. Aries, the Ram, is a zodiacal constellation situated on the ecliptic among Pisces and Taurus. In Greek mythology, Aries represented the ram whose fleece became the Golden Fleece sought by Jason and the Argonauts. The constellation is comparatively dim with only Alpha Arietis and Beta Arietis getting as bright as second magnitude.
An alternative theory, proposed in the early 20th century, is that the name means ‘the forecaster’, soon after Nabu, the Assyrian and Babylonian god of wisdom and writing. In classical instances, Aries was the very first zodiac constellation to rise at dawn at the start off of the Spring season, marking the get started of the new year in ancient Greece. It subsequently became the initial sign of the contemporary astrological zodiac .


I've just completed Michael Hyatt's Five Days to Your Best Year Ever course for 2018, set my goals for the coming year, and now I just need to fill in the next action step for each goal.
One of my goals was not to become a more regular blogger, though there is a goal about writing more regularly and getting at least one of the books I've finished published.
But because I'm a writer and want to get back to writing more regularly than I have been, I wanted to start the new year with a blog entry--especially as I see it has been a long time since I published one.
I love the full moon, and check my calendar every month so that I don't miss it--and even wrote a poem on full moons recently. When my son and I were looking at the moon last night, I wanted to see when in January it will rise; I learned that it will appear today, and then again on the 31st. Tonight it will be categorized as a supermoon, though with the naked eye we will probably not be able to tell that it will appear larger and brighter than any other moon this year. Imagine it as a subtle New Year's light show, far less spectacular than the fireworks in London last night, but a scene which we have done nothing to prepare, and only have to enjoy, wherever we are in the world. And we can enjoy it twice in January, though then February will be even bleaker than usual, without a full moon at all!
Here is the poem:
LUNAR LANDSCAPE: JULY 9, 2017
Yearning to see the full moon rise
I could only glimpse its golden glow
through black branches of trees
crossed outside my window.
I couldn’t remember what our son
called it when he was little
—dazzled by its radiant roundness—
and you have gone
around the moon’s silent curve
tangled in charcoal-brittle
sketches, no breath of breeze,
no torn scrap of fondness
from six months of goodbyes
leaving me with no answers,
a distant, tattered lunar portrait
shading into a luminous vignette.
Perhaps the luminous vignette of the supermoon will be a harbinger of light rising in my life!


A firm, Olisa Agbakoba Legal (OAL), has proposed that Nigeria needs to articulate a new national space policy.
According to the firm, the current national space policy will elapse in 2025.
Addressing the media over the issue, Associate Partner and head, Public Sector Practice Group, OAL, Mr. Collins Okeke, explained that the current focus of the space programme involves the development of Earth observation and communication satellites.
He said: “Nigeria has since launched six satellites namely: NigeriaSat-1 (2003), NigComSat-1 (2007), NigeriaSat-2 (2011), Nigeriasat-X (2011), NigComSat-1R (2011) and NigeriaEduSat-1 (2017).
“The success of these programmes should signify that the Nigeria Space Policy has been successful; however, as the country moves closer to its 2025 policy deadline, there is more left undone.
“One of the cardinal objectives of the space policy was to establish a full-capacity rocket launch facility in Nigeria. What Nigeria has, despite having barely three years left of its policy’s lifestyle, is a rocket testing facility.
“While this is not just a Nigerian problem but an African endemic, Nigeria has as much potential as other top African space-faring nations and may miss out on the opportunity. Hinged on this is also the promise of launching Nigeria’s first astronaut by 2015. In 2016, Nigeria made a new commitment of sending an astronaut to space by 2030.”
Despite the promise of being a prime satellite manufacturer in Africa, Okeke noted, most of Nigeria’s satellites have been manufactured by non-Nigerian entities, with only a fraction of input from the Federal University of Technology, Akure.
This, he said, was one of the big promises and benchmarks for the space policy, which Nigeria is defaulting.
“The policy also promised to help reduce financial crimes and terrorism in Nigeria but is far behind in its promises. By now, Nigeria should have started working on the final stages of its economic plan, wherein government focuses extensively on regulatory and supervisory roles, allowing for a more vibrant space economy. Unfortunately, this is not the case,” he lamented.
To assist in articulating the issues, Okeke said the law firm would hold a webinar on Wednesday July 13, 2022 at 11 a.m via Zoom, which is designed to begin the process of formulating a new national space policy for Nigeria.
Themed: ‘Unlocking space opportunities in Nigeria’, the webinar, he said, is in furtherance of OAL’s memorandum of understanding with the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) to collaborate on legal, regulatory, and institutional frameworks for current and emerging challenges in the space sector.
He stated that the webinar would highlight existing gaps in Nigeria’s space policy and the emerging opportunities, look at the structure and harmonise all measures required for the development of outer space activities in Nigeria with emphasis on the place of public-private partnership.
“Explain how the country can take advantage of the characteristics of the country for outer space activities, if applicable – e.g. its geostrategic position); define and allocate responsibilities;
“Increase awareness on the importance of outer space activities and call all relevant stakeholders to participate in the space effort of the country; and position the country on the international stage as a country that recognises the importance of outer space,” he pointed out.
Keynote speakers include former senate President, Senator David Mark, Chairman, Senate Committee On Science, Technology And Innovation, Senator Uche Ekwunife; Director, Federal Ministry Of Science, Technology, And Innovation, Dr. Peter C. Ekweozoh; director-general, NASRDA, Dr. Halilu Ahmad Shaba and Senior Partner, OAL, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba SAN.


Observations of rotating events in our period point to their particular origin, but what are their particular causes? There are plenty of possible details, nevertheless we are left with a limited volume of plausible ones. However , we could identify many recurring features in the observed events and develop a knowledge of their origins. These features include the existence of permanent magnet fields, the presence https://northcentralrotary.org/2019/10/13/an-international-organization/ of subsolar space objects, and the chance of multi-messenger diagnosis. This article will describe some of the prevalent features of rotating events within our time.
For instance , the planet Mercury rotates when and a half times in its orbit around the sun. That means that particular Mercury day time is equivalent to 176 Earth times. Larger exoplanets, on the other hand, move much more quickly. Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto each complete a war every fifteen hours, even though the Earth requires 365 days for making one full circle. Each one of these planets revolve around the sun, plus they each consider 365 days to complete one.


Life beyond earth
[00:00:45] Jai Guru Deva. Welcome to my podcast, The Vedic Worldview. I’m Thom Knoles.
SEETI – The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
[00:00:54] Today, I want to talk to you a little bit about life beyond earth, and the fascination that we humans have with such a topic, and the fascination we have with related topics.
[00:01:10] The search for extraterrestrial intelligence, S-E-E-T-I, Seeti, is in fact, a major program that has been quite well funded in the United States, at least for many years, and has attracted a tremendous amount of international attention, and also fanciful attention of the movie-making world, and the television-series-making world.
[00:01:39] Why are we so fascinated with life elsewhere? Now, this is a particular interesting question. Since it is considered by most biologists—a biologist is somebody who studies bios, studies life—it’s considered by most biologists that we hardly know anything about the already existing life forms that are extant on this little blue ball that we call the Earth.
[00:02:09] We’re just so fascinated by the possibility of anything living anywhere else other than the Earth, so fascinated that we don’t even want to pay attention to the infinite number of life forms that are already extant right here, or the ways in which our behaviors, by robbing various biological phenomena, creatures, of their habitats, both in the plant world and in the animal world, and bringing about an early extinction for a variety of species.
Our Fascination With People from Outer Space
[00:02:51] And then we have the whole question about the way in which all of these different species interact with each other. Their interactions with each other, the ways in which the biosphere, that’s the world of bios, the world of living things are already in existing interaction and communication.
[00:03:15] New things are being discovered every day, particularly about the relationship between a variety of trees and other plants and the way they commune or communicate with each other in our biosphere.
[00:03:34] So, then why are we so suddenly fascinated with people from outer space? And when I say sudden, this has been something which has grown in fascination since about the mid 1800’s. The first very interesting concepts that were put forward, that there could be others who have come from other places and may visit here or may not, or just exist out there, or the possibility that there are other planets out there that have people living on them and so on.
[00:04:10] This is something that’s a relatively new fascination that humans have had, and accompanying it, the very early and juvenile stages of space exploration that have occurred, starting in the 1950s and sixties, the push to land human beings on the nearest orbiting satellite, the thing called the Moon, and the machinations to push further than that and land somebody on the next rock that could have some interesting prospects to it, on Mars, seems to have captured the public fascination.
Is Our Universe Bio-friendly?
[00:04:56] Beyond that, the sending out of physical materials in spacecraft, the Voyager programs, sending things out into space with the thought that maybe someday, somebody will capture one of these. If they have enough intelligence, and sophistication as a civilization, they might be able to play recordings that we’ve sent.
[00:05:22] Another thing is sending out radio signals randomly into the universe, or pointing them at very specific star groups, and all of this fascination, to what end? Ultimately, we do have a fundamental fascination with whether or not the universe in which we live is bio-friendly.
[00:05:49] I’m using the word bio-friendly and borrowing that term from one of my favorite science writers, and I’m not saying science fiction, is a science writer by the name of Paul Davies. Professor Davies has, for many years, been at the forefront of the examination of the implications of some of the most magnificent discoveries of modern science for human consciousness.
There is Only One Thing
[00:06:18] What does it mean that we can demonstrate in lab science that there are not as many as two things? What does that mean, two things? That there could be a thing, and another thing has been debunked as a concept in modern science.
[00:06:39] What has been demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt is that there is only one thing in the universe. One indivisible, whole Unified Field, one indivisible, whole Unified Field. Let’s look at those words singularly.
[00:06:59] One, that means one. It doesn’t mean two. It doesn’t mean many. There is one thing. It is indivisible. You can’t divide it up, and it is whole. That means it doesn’t have seams in it. It is seamless.
Unified Field and Quantum Mechanics
[00:07:17] Unified Field, there is one thing out of which all of these things are appearing. One ocean, as it were, out of which all of the waves are undulating. The undulations of the ocean, the waves of the ocean in no way are non-ocean. You could have little waves, you could have tsunamis, or you can have very high-crested wind-driven waves.
[00:07:54] And all of these waves, whether they are broad and large magnitude, like a tsunami, or whether they are seismic, or whether they are wind-driven, or whether they’re little ripples, or little bits of chop, every single wave actually is nothing but an undulation of the underlying field through which it propagates. And that underlying field is the ocean.
[00:08:22] There’s no wave that is anything but the ocean, the ocean undulating. Like that, the Unified Field appearing to be many actually is only one thing. This we know from the best and highest, and most successful theory of modern science, quantum mechanics.
[00:08:51] Quantum mechanics is that set of physics theories that describes the movement from Unified Field into that which is apparently particulate. Particles, everybody’s heard about molecules. Molecules are made of atoms. Atoms are made of their nuclei with electrons zooming around them. The nuclei are made of protons, and neutrons. Thus the nucleus of the atom, the protons and neutrons are made of quarks. The quarks are made of leptons or leptoquarks.
Consciousness is a Property of the One Thing
[00:09:25] And as we keep going smaller, smaller, smaller, smaller, we’re now millions and millions of times smaller than the point of the sharpest needle that you can conceptualize. Millions of times smaller than that.
[00:09:42] And then we arrive at the fundamental basis. What is all of this coming out of? Where’s all this come from? It comes from one indivisible, whole Unified Field. And we can also demonstrate using just logic that this one indivisible, whole Unified Field also is conscious. It is conscious because consciousness exists, and there’s only one thing.
[00:10:12] If there’s only one thing, all things that exist, all forms, all phenomena are a property of that one thing because there are not two things. There are not things that are not conscious and things that are conscious. We’ve demonstrated in lab, there’s only one thing.
[00:10:32] If there’s only one thing and consciousness exists, then consciousness is a property of the one thing. I am conscious. Presumably, you are conscious. A sunflower using phototropism to follow the sunshine across the sky, as the earth turns, is demonstrating a repertoire of having a response to a stimulus. This is also a form of consciousness. Consciousness exists. If there’s only one thing, then whatever exists is part of the one thing.
[00:11:11] So, now we can say Unified Field, one invisible, whole conscious field. Now, if there’s one indivisible, whole conscious field, and we’re not gonna say if anymore, since there is one invisible, whole conscious field, then we are here, living beings on a little tiny blue dot…
This Makes the Mind Boggle
[00:11:38] The Earth, however big it seems to you, you try to fly all around it, you try to get to know all the different countries in it, all the different cultures on it, and all of that. There seems to be infinite decimal detail into which you could go.
[00:11:51] But however big all of that seems to you, the fact is, it’s a tiny little blue dot going around a relatively small yellow sun that exists and is moving through space within one of the spiral arms of a moderately-sized galaxy that has somewhere between a hundred billion and a trillion stars in it, nobody’s really done in a very official count.
[00:12:18] The stars of our galaxy, which we’ve named The Milky Way, and then there are other galaxies around us, many of which are much larger than the one in which we find ourselves, galaxies with thousands of billions of stars.
[00:12:34] And then, when we look deeper into space with our telescopes, we see billions and billions of galaxies, and we know for certain that there are more galaxies identifiable through our telescopes. More galaxies, each with somewhere between a billion to a trillion stars in it, than there are stars in our own galaxy.
[00:13:02] How many planets must be out there? How many? This makes the mind boggle. And here is the fundamental problem.
The Laws of Physics
[00:13:12] If we want to send anything, a probe or anything else, or we want to send people anywhere, then we’re limited by certain laws of physics. The laws of physics are these.
[00:13:30] First of all, there is no thing, nothing that has mass. What does mass mean? A particle that has a certain amount of density to it that therefore also has its own gravity. Absolutely, everything that exists that has mass has gravity. Earth has a relatively large amount of gravity compared with a rock that you could hold in your hand. But Earth, compared with Jupiter, is not very massive.
[00:14:01] Massive is a word that we’ve colloquially turned into something that means big, but mass does not necessarily mean big; mass could be small but very, very dense and have a lot of gravitation. An extremely dense thing has a lot of dense mass in it, and it’s going to produce a gravitational field around it.
[00:14:25] So we have this little blue dot going around a yellow sun that’s in the spiral alarm of a galaxy. And these galaxies that we see all in space are all in orbit around black holes, which are the most dense thing that there is in our known universe, the most gravitational thing. And we have one indivisible, whole conscious field causing all of this to come into being, everything coming out of that Unified Field of consciousness.
Speed of Light
[00:14:59] Do we live in a universe that is bio-friendly or not? Bio-friendly means, is it just an amazing fluke that life, bios, happens to exist on this one little blue dot in a tremendous amount of variety? Or could there be other little dots around in the universe that also have life on them?
[00:15:30] And we come up again against our obstacle that’s presented to us by the laws of physics. Light is able to travel through space, using statute miles, at 186,000 miles per second.
[00:15:46] Light means photons. Photons have no mass, they’re just pure energy, and they’re able to travel through space, and they do travel through space at an absolute speed, 186,000 miles per second. If we do that in kilometers, it is 300,000 kilometers per second. Light travels at that speed.
[00:16:16] Let’s think of that as The Absolute, it’s the absolute speed at which anything can move, but only light can do it. Light doesn’t really know space or time. And we can go into that in quite a little bit more detail, but light has no mass to it.
Infinite Mass in a Speck of Dust
[00:16:40] If you take a thing, and this is one of the fundamental discoveries that is a product of all of Albert Einstein’s work, you take a thing, whatever it might be. Let’s say a pen with which you write that’s sitting on the table next to you. Or even a tiny, tiny, tiny particle, something the size of a sub-nuclear particle, doesn’t matter how big or small the thing is.
[00:17:06] If you begin moving it through space, as you start to approach the speed of light, you’ll begin to notice that the thing develops weight, mass. It starts to become more massive, not larger, but its gravitational impact grows and grows as a direct percentage of the speed of light. When you move something through space, the speed of light is going to represent the point at which that thing develops infinite mass.
[00:17:45] According to Einstein’s theories, which have been demonstrated again and again and again, and are beyond any reasonable doubt, anything, even a tiny, tiny thing, a speck of dust moving through space, as it moves to 50% of the speed of light, 150,000 kilometers per second, it will now be 50% of the mass of the universe. Infinite mass, 50% of infinite mass. If it were to attain the speed of light, then that speck of dust would now be the entire mass of the universe, infinite mass.
Ancient Light Visible in the Present
[00:18:28] How do you move or propel something through space that has infinite mass? So there is something fundamental built into the laws of Nature that prevent anything from moving at the speed of light.
[00:18:47] When we look out at galaxies, we’re looking at light that has departed from a place in space-time, in many cases, 20, 30 million years ago, or all the way up to a billion years ago, depending on how far out in space we’re looking, that thing that we’re looking at isn’t there anymore in that spot and space.
[00:19:16] So, supposing you could use a super-sensitive telescope to identify a planet orbiting around a sun in a distant part of our own galaxy, which is about as far as we can see with any degree of definition, to say nothing of other galaxies that are on the other side of intergalactic space.
[00:19:40] And that little planet that you’re looking at is, let’s say, 50 million light-years away. That means the light that shone from the sun reflecting on that planet was there in spacetime, 50 million years ago, and that light took 50 million years to get to your telescope.
[00:20:03] Where is it now? We don’t know. We can make predictions using mathematical models, but it’s not in the place that we’re looking at anymore. Because the light that brought information of it here to our eye is already 50 million years old.
Challenging the Assumption of Modern Science
[00:20:22] And so then we have this idea, “Well, do we live in a universe that is bio-friendly? Has it produced life anywhere else? Seems likely that it may have. If so, what does that mean about the nature of our universe? What does it mean about the nature of all things, the one invisible, whole consciousness field? Is it bio-friendly only here on the earth? Or is there a kind of bio-friendly trend in the universe that manifests in other places?”
[00:20:56] If it turns out that the Unified Field, that is The Universe, is itself bio-friendly, this challenges a major assumption of modern science, which is all of this life thing that happened here on Earth happened at random. We don’t need any fundamental intelligence in order for life to have appeared on the Earth.
[00:21:22] But if we see life cropping up in a vast variety of places, either life in very simple forms like viruses, or life in complex forms, like beings that can communicate with each other, and maybe even with us, it might mean something fundamental about the nature of everything. And this is why we’re fascinated by it.
Why Can We See It All?
[00:21:47] Now, we have to ask the question, well, supposing we live in a bio-friendly universe, I, for one, am a subscriber to such an idea, and we can see potential for life, but it’s so far away, there’s no way that any spaceship or any craft could ever get to that place in any conceivable amount of time, millions of years, why is it that we can see it all?
[00:22:14] What’s the purpose behind our being able to look out into space and wonder about all the things we see out there, which basically are, as I’ve said already, ancient history? The light emitting from events that occurred millions of years ago that arrives in our telescopes, and we look at it, and we say, “Wow, that’s there. Or it was there millions of years ago. I don’t know what’s there now.” But aren’t we fascinated by the idea of getting out there and seeing what it is?
[00:22:49] And yet we’re limited by the laws of physics about how fast we can move. A tiny fraction of the speed of light is our limitation. We can’t move any faster than a tiny fraction of the speed of light. And any place that we could go in that amount of time would be so negligibly nearby that it’s unlikely we could even move to the nearest star in anything like multiples of one human lifetime.
The Objective Means of Gaining Knowledge
[00:23:22] So why are we able to see it all? The Veda has an answer, as you might have suspected, this being a podcast on the Vedic worldview, not necessarily just the astrophysics worldview.
[00:23:38] There are two ways of gaining knowledge. The objective means of gaining knowledge. That means, you go out, and you gather things that are interpretable data. They’re interpretable by your senses, your taste, your touch, your smell, your sight, your sound, and then you crunch all that information up with your intellect, use logic and use other kinds of formulae to come up with theories, which then you test and they turn out to be correct, and you discover what your current limitations are of your knowledge base.
[00:24:13] Getting knowledge from other people. Albert Einstein thought of, and other researchers tested these theories about the speed of light and the effect that it has on mass and on time and all of that. And then we get to test all of that and see that it’s true for ourselves. This is the objective means of gaining knowledge.
[00:24:34] You go out to the object world, including other people, find out what they’ve thought about already, read that in books, or hear about it in podcasts or on YouTube or whatever, and then you ingest that knowledge and start figuring out things for yourself. This is the objective means of gaining knowledge.
How Do I Find Out if I’m Living in a Bio-friendly Universe?
[00:24:53] You look through a telescope, and you see vast galaxies, vast numbers of vast galaxies, and you start to arrive at the conclusion that there probably are many Earth-like phenomena out there where the body is close enough to a sun that it’s warm enough, but not too far that it’s freezing because water needs to be liquid in order for there to be life, and water’s band of bandwidth a little bit too hot, and it boils and turns into vapor.
[00:25:27] A little bit too cold, and it freezes, and it’s solid, and it needs to be liquid in order for life to occur. And liquid water is a very narrow band.
[00:25:35] And so, we look in our telescopes, and we see all these things and see all these potential places, and we think, how do we get out there? How do we find out anything? How do we get a message to that place? How do I find out if I’m living in a bio-friendly universe, which is going to change my whole idea about things?
Inner Space – The Subjective Means of Gaining Knowledge
[00:25:54] The Veda says there’s another way, the subjective means of gaining knowledge. Instead of taking your body or an extension of your body, like a probe into outer space, you go into inner space. We’ve already described how science has demonstrated that there’s, in fact, only one indivisible, whole conscious thing, the Unified Field.
[00:26:22] That Unified Field is accessible to human consciousness through technique of transcending. You step beyond space-time every time you go beyond thought. The Unified Field doesn’t have to go anywhere. It already is everywhere. All forms, all phenomena, all space, all time issues forth from the Unified Field. You have access to the Unified Field.
[00:26:57] That means you have access to that, which already is everywhere. Since you have access to that, which already is everywhere, it should be possible for you to go into inner space deep within your own consciousness, step beyond individuality, experience Unified Field consciousness, be one with the Knower of all things; that’s the Unified Field itself. And from there, be able to get an answer to any question. What is it anywhere that exists? And how does it work? And what is it like? And all of that.
The One Caveat – Gaining Knowledge has to be Relevant
[00:27:50] The only one caveat that the Vedic Unified Field theory says is that the gaining of that knowledge has to be, and here we have a really big word, relevant. It’s big, not as a word in size, but it’s big in terms of its pivotal nature.
[00:28:14] You can know anything that it is relevant for you to know through the subjective means of gaining knowledge by transcending your local boundaries of your body, of your individual mind, and letting your mind become one with the Unified Field itself. Anything that is relevant to evolution for you to know can be known by you.
[00:28:42] This is not space travel because space travel means moving through space. This is becoming one with that which is already everywhere. There’s no travel involved. If you have to travel, then you’re limited. You’re an object that has to move through space and you’re limited by the laws of physics that say you can’t go very fast.
Pure Knowingness on the Level of Being
[00:29:11] But on the level of Being, you can have pure knowingness. You can know from the level of that by which all things are known, Unified Field consciousness.
[00:29:25] And so our inspiration that comes from looking through telescopes, or, hey, just walking outside at nighttime and on a clear night, looking up into the sky and seeing all the stars everywhere and naturally wondering there is the stimulus. How do you do anything about it?
[00:29:45] Instead of trying to create all kinds of highly technological trampolines, whereby we can bounce ourselves out of the gravitational field of the earth, travel through airless space for eons, and arrive at someplace in order to find out one tiny bit of information, was it worth it or was it not worth it? We can cut across all of that and learn how to dive deep within ourselves and explore all that is from the place that’s already there, the Unified Field.
[00:30:20] This is the fundamental idea that Unified Field consciousness is able to deliver. The ability to know all about anything, so long as the inquiry for knowledge satisfies the one criterion of it being relevant with regard to the evolution of our species. If it’s relevant, you can know it. You can know what the answer is.
Just Like Einstein
[00:30:54] I believe, from my readings of professor Einstein’s own remarks about his cognitive processes, that he was using his own inner consciousness to come up with his understanding, which was tested many, many times after he came up with it and demonstrated to be beyond reasonable doubt, to be demonstrated with meeting the level of massive scientific scrutiny.
[00:31:27] He was not really a researcher. He did research into consciousness as a field of all possibilities. It’s my belief that Albert Einstein was using some natural innate method of diving deep into his consciousness in order to experience what his Unified Field layer was informing him of. And it was that, that gave him an advantage, which most scientists agree, he was at least 200 years ahead of his time in his ability to conceptualize how the laws of Nature interact and the relevance of those laws of Nature to humanity.
[00:32:11] So, there we have it. Do we live in a bio-friendly universe or not? And, if you think we do, there are ways that you can verify and validate that within your own consciousness. And you can verify and validate it as well by looking at the fact of biology existing in one sphere, which is the geosphere, the sphere of earth itself, the biosphere on the geosphere, biology living on one planet.
The Product of a Bio-Friendly Trend in the Universe
[00:32:40] How did we get here? What are the possibilities of all this happening simply at random? The position of the Moon, the size of the Moon, the angle of the Moon, the facts of the timing of the Earth cooling down at a certain time, the fact of a meteorite impact that eliminated the reptilian dominance on the Earth and allowed certain, very small, at that time insignificant species, which were our ancestors, to evolve and turn into upright neurocentric anthropods that talk to each other and text each other on iPhones and get all insulted by minor claims to offensive thinking and all of that.
[00:33:19] And we all get to be here doing all this stuff like everybody, terribly worried about who’s offending whom and communicating largely about that. How did we get to be here?
[00:33:32] For all of this to have happened simply through a series of random events requires a far more imaginative mind than I possess. For it to be a product of a bio-friendly trend in the universe is a far more plausible, scientific explanation.
[00:33:50] But let me emphasize that we don’t have to travel through massive areas of space in order to arrive at our conclusions. We can experience complete satisfaction by diving into and becoming space-faring, space-faring humans by going into inner space rather than having to power things through space at a fraction of the maximum speed.
[00:34:22] Jai Guru Deva.


India’s Milestone Lunar Mission:
In the realm of space exploration, India’s ambitious lunar program has once again captured the world’s attention as it embarks on its most daring mission yet – Chandrayaan-3. The climax of this mission looms near as the lander module, Vikram, courageously embarks on its final descent to the Moon’s enigmatic south pole. Brimming with scientific curiosity and technological prowess, this venture not only marks a pivotal moment in India’s space capabilities but also carries the potential to unlock the Moon’s hidden treasures.
Unveiling Chandrayaan-3’s Historic Descent
As anticipation builds, all eyes are on Vikram, the lander module of Chandrayaan-3, which carries the ingeniously crafted rover named Pragyaan. Scheduled to gracefully touch down on the lunar surface on a precise date, Wednesday, at 18:04 India time (12:34 GMT), this achievement holds the promise of placing India among an elite group of nations that have performed a controlled “soft landing.” The honor roll includes the United States, the former Soviet Union, and China.
The Enigma of the Moon’s South Pole
What makes Chandrayaan-3’s destination all the more intriguing is its chosen landing site – the Moon’s south pole. A region of unparalleled scientific significance, it’s believed to hold the key to unraveling the mysteries of frozen water and other invaluable resources. The pristine landscape of this lunar frontier offers a unique opportunity for Chandrayaan-3 to delve into uncharted territories, expanding our understanding of the Moon’s composition and its potential to support future explorations.
A Glimpse into Vikram’s Preceding Preparations
The journey towards a successful lunar landing has been paved with meticulous preparations. Vikram has employed its “hazard detection and avoidance” camera to meticulously survey the landing area. This technology has enabled the spacecraft to identify a safe touchdown spot, free from boulders or treacherous trenches that might jeopardize the mission’s success. Armed with cutting-edge artificial intelligence and intricate computer logic, Vikram will navigate itself to the lunar surface – a feat that can only be observed with bated breath from Earth by the diligent ISRO scientists.
Building on a Legacy: Chandrayaan-3 in Context
Chandrayaan-3 stands as the third chapter in India’s lunar exploration odyssey, following in the illustrious footsteps of Chandrayaan-1 (2008) and Chandrayaan-2 (2019). The legacy of Chandrayaan-1 lies in its remarkable discovery of water molecules on the parched lunar expanse, as well as its groundbreaking revelation of the Moon’s atmospheric presence during daytime. Meanwhile, Chandrayaan-2’s orbiter continues its vigil, tirelessly circling the Moon to gather valuable insights. Yet, it was the ill-fated lander-rover endeavor that brought the world to a standstill with its heartbreaking crash during touchdown.
Triumph Over Tribulations: Chandrayaan-3’s Resilient Spirit
Learning from past tribulations, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) under the guidance of its chief, Sreedhara Panicker Somanath, has risen above challenges. Drawing insights from the data meticulously collected from the Chandrayaan-2 setback, ISRO undertook exhaustive simulation exercises to pinpoint and rectify the anomalies. The result is Chandrayaan-3, a robust mission that carries with it a weight of 3,900 kilograms and a financial commitment of 6.1 billion rupees ($75 million; £58 million). This mission not only symbolizes India’s unyielding determination but also its aspiration to expand its space capabilities and showcase its technological prowess to the global stage.
Embarking on a New Frontier: India’s Lunar Odyssey Continues
As Chandrayaan-3 embarks on its historic journey, the world watches with bated breath. This remarkable mission embodies India’s spirit of innovation, resilience, and unwavering commitment to exploring the cosmic unknown. The potential rewards of this mission extend far beyond the lunar landscape, opening avenues for scientific discovery, resource exploration, and future interplanetary endeavors.
In the grand tapestry of space exploration, Chandrayaan-3’s impending achievement marks a significant chapter in India’s remarkable journey towards scientific excellence. From the calculated descent of Vikram to the potential discoveries waiting to be unlocked on the Moon’s south pole, this mission is a testament to India’s dedication to expanding the boundaries of human knowledge. The world waits with anticipation, eager to witness the successful culmination of Chandrayaan-3 and the bright future it heralds for India’s space endeavors.


Enkutatash or Ethiopian New Year is celebrated on September 11th. Ethiopiafollows the Orthodox Julian calendar which consists of 12 months of 30 days and a 13th month, Pagume, of five or six days, depending on whether or not it is a leap year.
There is a seven years and eight months difference between the Ethiopian and the Gregorian calendar, so 11 September 2013 is 1 Meskerem 2006 in Ethiopia. This is because the Ethiopian Orthodox Church believes that Ethiopia has been counting the years starting right after the birth of Christ.
The way Ethiopians measure time is also different from the West. The clock starts at 6am western time and runs until 6pm. Therefore 8o’clock in western time would be 2 o’clock Ethiopian time. Because Ethiopia is close to the Equator the sun rises at around 00:30 Ethiopian time and sets at around 12:45 in the evening (6:45 western equivalent) all year round. Ethiopia is 3 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). The years run in a four year cycle bearing the names of the Gospels with the year of John or Yohannes (Amharic) is being the leap year.


The Dark, Grey, and White Side of the Moon watches feature 44.25mm ceramic cases with luminescent Super-Luminova. Inside houses the OMEGA Co-Axial calibre 9300 with a tachymetric scale on the ceramic bezel and two platinum sub-dials.
As a tribute to the Apollo 8 astronauts being the first to see the dark side of the moon with their very eyes, the Dark Side of the Moon resembles the Speedmaster Professional chronographs worn by every Apollo astronaut.
The White Side of the Moon was inspired by the way we view the moon from Earth: white. After heating the case in a plasma furnace at 20,000 °C, it becomes the Grey Side of the Moon. The grey color is inspired by the words spoken by Jim Lovell during Apollo 8’s lunar orbit: “The Moon is essentially grey.”


On March 9th, 2020 there will be a Worm Moon. Apparently so-called by the native Americans as it’s the time that the worms come alive and indicates that Spring is on its way.
I love a full moon whatever it is called. It always casts a beautiful light over the land wherever you may be. I hope the sky stays clear this evening so that we get to see it in its full glory. However, if it should be cloudy, my picture shows how it could be. There are a howling wolf and an Owl on the prowl.


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I am talking with a ‘flat-earth’ believer on another board. He asks why a small movement in earth’s (supposed) rotation can increase the heat from the sun from morning / evening to mid-day. Forgive me if this has been asked before, I did search but did not have much success which is probably why my explanations of the above are not working.
stuthulhu: Point a flashlight at a wall. You know the flashlight is delivering ‘x’ energy to that circle. Tilt the flash light at an angle. Now the circle stretches out into a bigger oval right? But it’s still just delivering x energy, so there’s less energy per unit of ‘area.’ The sun hitting the earth impacts things the same way. A ~30 degree angle, iirc, effectively halves the amount of energy being delivered to a spot.
But I agree with the others, if this guy has the capability to believe in flat earth, you may as well bang your head against a wall as talk to him.
Concise_Pirate: Flat earth believers cannot be persuaded with reason. Don’t waste your time.
But the answer is partly that things take time to warm up once the Sun is on them, and partly that at noon the Sun is at a steeper angle, therefore filtering through less atmosphere before reaching the ground.
bazmonkey: Problem number one: you’re talking to a flat-earther. Just so you know, he’s probably not even serious. I have yet to meet someone that’s both sane, and earnestly believes that hypothesis. I hate those guys… my heart is beating a little faster in anxiety just thinking about them. I wish I could afford to round them all up, take them to the South Pole (past their stupid ice wall), just to make the point.
The heat of the day is primarily due to how long it takes things to heat up. Just before daybreak is usually the coldest part of the day because it’s had all night to cool. At noon, yes, the light is hitting more directly and the heat from it is most intense. It’s *getting warmer* most quickly at this time, however, despite that, it’s not the hottest part of the day. Rather, it’s usually mid-afternoon, before sundown, that a given area sees its highest temperature, because it’s been warming all day.
If you want, check out an hourly weather forecast for a sunny day (try 85251, Scottsdale). 3-4pm is when it finally reaches its hottest.
This is a photo of how the angle affects the distance– it’s a lot easier to see how the angle we are at relative to the sun could make the sun so bright during the afternoon and dark at night
jdfarbs: Ask him , “Why doesn’t the sun fall down?” And “What causes the sun to rotate around the North Pole?”
Once he denounces gravity, you can go ahead and tell him he’s full of shit, and you never want to talk about this shit again.
Justkiller91: Tell him to light a candle. Then tell him to stick his hand near the candle. He will find that its is hot. Now tell him to put an object infront of said candle at the same distance he placed his hand. Then tell him to put his hand infront of the object. He should find that the candle doesn’t feel as hot. This works just like the earth rotating. When in direct exposure to the sun it gets more energy therefore more heat. When its night the sun is blocked by the other side of the earth acting like the box in the above experiment. Also dont waste your time arguing with idiots. Your time is important and this person is not worth the effort. You cant fix ignorance sadly.
a1fredo33: Because if you throw a football a few degrees off you will hit a different part of the planet
slo1111: Small movements in the Earth’s rotation doesn’t make a large difference in temperature. Rotating 1 degree won’t make much of a change.
I’m not even certain how a flat earther would argue that means the Earth is flat.
kiwimac: Thanks. I’ll collate the answers and post that for the cove that I’m talking to. It is a real hassle especially those who add that extra dollop of ” But the Bible says it’s flat….”
mirayge: Heat is also an electromagnetic wave. If you can see outer space from where you are at night, the heat that was given from the sun is also radiating back into space. Cloud cover can be a warm fuzzy blanket keeping your area warm.
reinchelien: Because the angle of the Sun in relation to the point on ground where you are standing changes as the Earth rotates.
Our atmosphere scatters and absorbs sunlight. The more air the light from the Sun has to travel through, the less of it makes it to you on the ground. Less sun light, less energy, lower temperature. You can observe this scattering effect by noting that the color of the Sun’s light changes throughout the day from red to blue/white to red.
The same thing happens due to the Earth’s tilt in summer and winter. In summer the Sun’s light is more directly overhead than in winter. More atmosphere, less makes it to the ground.
Add to that, that for a fixed point on the ground the distance to the Sun changes as the Earth rotates/orbits the Sun. That also changes the amount of energy we get. You can observe this drop off of energy according to distance when driving at night. The headlights of an oncoming car get brighter as it approaches you.
Hope that helps. If your debate partner thinks that all cars adjust their headlights to be brighter as they approach your car, that the sun itself changes color, or that the atmosphere is doing something funky to allow someone in New York to see a red sunset while someone else simultaneously sees white sunlight in Los Angeles, then make them prove it.
harish_sahani: Even if you take 1 sec as a small time the earth moves about a 1000km in that time which is enough to cause temperature differential


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