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Originally posted by wally View PostMy understanding is that Kolob is, well, like a giant crystal or someting. Sounds really boring.
Boring is Utah in the winter, below 4,000 feet.
When poet puts pen to paper imagination breathes life, finding hearth and home.
-Mid Summer's Night Dream
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New Era:
https://www.lds.org/new-era/1971/04/...orlds?lang=eng
People on Other Worlds
Since Neal Armstrong stepped from the ladder of Intrepid II and placed his foot on the moon’s powdery surface, the human mind has turned with increasing interest and fascination to thoughts of outer space. Science fiction writers have suddenly become respectable.
Age-old questions again come to the surface: Is our earth the only world in all of space that has intelligent inhabitants? Or is there life on other worlds—perhaps intelligent beings like ourselves or maybe even more intelligent than ourselves? Might they visit us?
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Ensign:
https://www.lds.org/ensign/1973/01/w...space?lang=eng
Warnings from Outer Space
PRESIDENT N. ELDON TANNER
It is a privilege indeed, but a heavy responsibility, to address this vast audience in this historic Tabernacle and those who are listening in; and I humbly pray that the spirit and blessings of the Lord will attend us this lovely Sabbath morning.
Conditions in the world today have caused me to ponder over an editorial which I read recently. It states:
“A German astronomer believes that ‘the earth’s young civilization is now approaching its first great crisis because of its newly found powers of self-destruction,’ and ‘man’s best hope of avoiding disaster is to listen hard for radioed advice coming from far out in starry space.’
“Out there, somewhere, this scientist believes, is a wise old civilization that has survived many crises and is trying to warn the callow earth against the mistakes of its own youth.
[…]"If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
"I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
"Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
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Since Neal Armstrong stepped from the ladder of Intrepid II and placed his foot on the moon’s powdery surface,
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Originally posted by mtnbiker View PostIntrepid II????? That's pathetic. And that was written only 2 years after the event? "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
The USS Intrepid II (registry NCC-1730 or NCC-1708) was a Constitution-class Federation starship in service in the late 23rd century.
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"If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
"I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
"Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
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Are you guys laughing at Mormonism or are you being serious?
If you're being serious about Kolob and so on, I want you to know that I think you are batty.That which may be asserted without evidence may be dismissed without evidence. -C. Hitchens
http://twitter.com/SoonerCoug
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Originally posted by SoonerCoug View PostAre you guys laughing at Mormonism or are you being serious?
If you're being serious about Kolob and so on, I want you to know that I think you are batty.Fitter. Happier. More Productive.
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Originally posted by Color Me Badd Fan View PostBTW, how much does someone need to spend on decent telescope that will allow them to get a pretty good views of Mars, Jupiter, nebulas and galaxies? I live in a place where I could probably get some pretty clear views (clean air, dark nights).
http://www.telescope.com/catalog/pro...ion%2Bjunction
You spend starting off about $2k, and can add focal reducers and barlow lenses, for field of view and magnifications adjustments. You won't see anything like what the Hubble produces, but smudges for galaxies and star clusters, but for planetary observation you can see quite a bit. Btw, what did you end up buying?"Guitar groups are on their way out, Mr Epstein."
Upon rejecting the Beatles, Dick Rowe told Brian Epstein of the January 1, 1962 audition for Decca, which signed Brian Poole and the Tremeloes instead.
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Originally posted by wally View PostMy understanding is that Kolob is, well, like a giant crystal or someting. Sounds really boring.
A crystal planet has got to have the best DL speeds in the universe. I'm betting a trillion gigabytes.
Did I just quote wally twice 3 years apart?Last edited by clackamascoug; 04-23-2014, 07:31 PM.
When poet puts pen to paper imagination breathes life, finding hearth and home.
-Mid Summer's Night Dream
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Originally posted by clackamascoug View PostUnder the better late than never heading...
A crystal planet has got to have the best DL speeds in the universe. I'm betting a trillion gigabytes."Guitar groups are on their way out, Mr Epstein."
Upon rejecting the Beatles, Dick Rowe told Brian Epstein of the January 1, 1962 audition for Decca, which signed Brian Poole and the Tremeloes instead.
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Originally posted by Topper View PostI think you would be happy with the following.
http://www.telescope.com/catalog/pro...ion%2Bjunction
You spend starting off about $2k, and can add focal reducers and barlow lenses, for field of view and magnifications adjustments. You won't see anything like what the Hubble produces, but smudges for galaxies and star clusters, but for planetary observation you can see quite a bit. Btw, what did you end up buying?
Now if you want to see planets orbiting other suns you would have to build something like this… and then put it in space:
https://www.ted.com/talks/jeremy_kas...h_like_planets
Astronomers believe that every star in the galaxy has a planet, one fifth of which might harbor life. Only we haven't seen any of them — yet. Jeremy Kasdin and his team are looking to change that with the design and engineering of an extraordinary piece of equipment: a flower petal-shaped "starshade" positioned 50,000 km from a telescope to enable imaging of planets about distant stars. It is, he says, the "coolest possible science.""If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
"I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
"Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
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Originally posted by Uncle Ted View PostNow if you want to see planets orbiting other suns you would have to build something like this… and then put it in space:
https://www.ted.com/talks/jeremy_kas...h_like_planets
Plus I want one of these. Some are almost affordable.
http://www.privateislandsonline.com/"Guitar groups are on their way out, Mr Epstein."
Upon rejecting the Beatles, Dick Rowe told Brian Epstein of the January 1, 1962 audition for Decca, which signed Brian Poole and the Tremeloes instead.
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https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6964
The Super-Earth that Came Home for Dinner
"It might be lingering bashfully on the icy outer edges of our solar system, hiding in the dark, but subtly pulling strings behind the scenes: stretching out the orbits of distant bodies, perhaps even tilting the entire solar system to one side ... Breadcrumb number three: Computer simulations of the solar system with Planet Nine included show there should be more objects tilted with respect to the solar plane. In fact, the tilt would be on the order of 90 degrees, as if the plane of the solar system and these objects formed an "X" when viewed edge-on. Sure enough, Brown realized that five such objects already known to astronomers fill the bill."
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