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... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Site Info . ... This page is basically a list of links to websites that either support or refute the claim that NASA never sent men to the Moon. I have my own detailed rebuttal of the Fox television program ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land On The Moon?'' in my Bad TV section . ... I plan on having a thorough debunking of this on this site eventually. ... Below are listed pages by both the conspiracy theorists and the debunkers. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Bigbang Forum Message . Forums: . ... Discussion Forums | ... Post . ... Might Be No Real Forces . ... Post Message | ... They may act like they are forces in our perspective, but they may be more like aspects or manifestations of gravitons, in both postive and negative space. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Szyzyg, yep that's my internet alter ego, I use this name on any systems outside of where I work, Bulletin Boards, Muds, anything where I need a username. ... How do I pronounce Szyzyg? ... Hey I've just seen an episode of the X-Files called Szyzyg! ... Are the descriptions of Szyzyg accurate descriptions of yourself? ... Just click on Back at the bottom of this page and find out about Scott Manley. ... Sigue-Sigue Sputnik - I've never actually been called this but I've always loved the name. ...

Mercury Fall 2007 Table of Contents . ... Bellatrix. ... Say these words to an astronomer, and you will likely trigger the memory of a bright star list, quite possibly with spectral types and apparent magnitudes thrown in for good measure. ... You're not up on your Harry Potter? ... If you enjoyed this excerpt from a feature article and would like to receive our quarterly Mercury magazine, we invite you to join the ASP and receive 4 issues a year. 390 Ashton Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94112 . ...

... Re : Need easy way to download whole KHG . ... For now, you can use web mirroring packages to create your own local mirror and read from there. Several such packages are available, and since I don't use any of them, I don't have details like names: can someone else who knows please post details? For the future, it would be nice if someone is interested enough in mirroring to write scripts for the KHG that allow you to read it off-line, but also allow you to respond. ...

I'm a reseearch fellow studying pulsar astrophysics jointly appointed at CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) . and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR). ... Pulsars and gravitational waves: Pulsars are really good clocks. ... As a result, pulsars can be used to perform the best tests of gravitational . ... The radio emission of the pulsars is refracted off of the electrons in the ISM. ... pulsar emission, the evidence for any debris around pulsars is circumstantial. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Alien Life . ... Space Flight . ... NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Expedition 40/41 flight engineer, participates in an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit fit check at NASA?s Johnson Space Center. Image credit: NASA) . Step up the next astronaut who really took on the task of showing us earthlings the wonders of being an astronaut on the International Space Station (ISS) Reid Wiseman . ...

Frank and Moon Zappa "Valley girl" Barking Pumpkin Records 7" single 1982 WS9-02972 Also on the album "Ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch" Valley Girl Valley Girl She's a Valley Girl Valley Girl She's a Valley Girl Okay, fine Fer sure, fer sure She's a Valley Girl In a clothing store Okay, fine.. ... I'm sure! ... Valley Girl) I am a VAL, I know But I live in like in a really good part of Encino so it's okay (Valley Girl) So like, I don't know I'm like freaking out totally Oh my God! ...

... M82: Starburst Galaxy with a Superwind . ... Also known as the Cigar Galaxy for its elongated visual appearance, M82 is a starburst galaxy with a superwind. In fact, through ensuing supernova explosions and powerful winds from massive stars, the burst of star formation in M82 is driving a prodigious outflow of material. ... Circling a Black Hole at its Photon Sphere . ... What would it look like to go right up to a black hole? ... Orbiting a Black Hole . ... M31: The Andromeda Galaxy . ...

... Answer: Stars live different lengths of time, depending on how massive they are. ... All stars age at different rates, depending on how massive they are at the start their lives. The stars in this photograph are part of an open star cluster called NGC 3293, containing around 50 stars that were all born around the same time. ... Each star in this cluster is much more massive than our own. ... This is a gigantic Red Giant star, around six and a half times larger than the Sun! ...

... A group of children sang Russian folk songs. The songs were different: one was about the celebration of "Masleniza", another one was about our Motherland. Our guests really liked a young boy who played "balalaika". ... It helped British girls to learn more about our country, our traditions and culture. ... We also saw Russian Ballet. A nice beautiful girl was dancing for our guests. ... Last year when another group of British teenagers came to our school she also danced for them. ...

September, 2008 The root of the problem is that people are morons, more particularly, developers are morons, very particularly, xterm developers are morons. ... In fairness, it's not really the xterm that's incompatible, it's the xterm descriptions that ship with modern operating systems that are incompatible with older xterms. ... The developers had to know that people would actually USE the cool new features they put into xterms. ... A modern xterm! ... Line 'em up along with the xterm developers. ...

... Missions . HST . ... Research . ... The key questions I would like addressed in my section include: 1) What are the remaining plausible models that explain the faint blue counts in both the field and cluster and are dwarfs necessary in these models? How much evolution is actually needed? ... 2) Showing some Keck redshift and kinematic data of very faint blue galaxies, as well as complementary HST structure and morphology that address the issue of faint blue galaxies being dwarfs. ...

... Editor's choices for the most educational Astronomy Pictures of the Day about Comet Halley: . APOD: 1996 December 10 - Comet Halley's Nucleus . ... During Comet Halley 's most recent pass through the inner Solar System in 1986, however, spacecraft Giotto was able to go right up to the comet and photograph its nucleus. ... APOD: 1997 October 3 - Comet Halley and the Milky Way . ... Comet Halley is the most famous comet in history, and returns to the inner Solar System every 76 years. ... Index | ...

... The processor can only execute one instruction at a time, but Linux systems appear to be running lots of things simultaneously. ... Most of the configuration of the kernel is done when you build it, using make menuconfig , or make xconfig in /usr/src/linux/ (or wherever your Linux kernel source is). ... If you are building a system from source, you can make life a lot simpler by creating a ``monolithic'' kernel. ... source code, see Building a Minimal Linux System from Source Code for urls . ...

... We have been upgrading the software front-end to WASP (Wideband Autocorrelating SPectrometer, operating from 800 to 4000 MHz) from Lynx-OS to Real-Time Linux and will discuss Real-Time software aspects. We are using a standard parallel ``PIO'' card to receive data from the spectrometer and standard GPIB interfaces that drive a frequency synthesizer for bandpass calibration. WASP and its front-end computer are fully mobile and can be taken to any suitable radio telescope. ...

. XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ssclib (ssclib-3.29.3) [xmmsas_20070708_1801-7.1.0] . Meta Index / Home Page / General-purpose array-processing utilities . Subsections . 1-D interpolation . Trapezoid-rule, 1-D, numerical integral . Median . Value at histogram fraction . XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2007-07-08

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