Science
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Where is everyone? The Fermi Paradox
Originally posted on Rationalising The Universe: Part I: The Question The most simple questions that we can ask often turn out to be the biggest. Physicist Enrico Fermi is testament to this with his big ask ‘where is everyone?’ Where is everyone in the vast universe, why do we hear nothing but silence when we…
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Don’t get snared by the logic trap
Originally posted on Rationalising The Universe: Today we go on a journey to ancient Greece, and before us stands the hero of the Trojan war Achilles. Taking a break from his usual activities of slaying Trojans, Achilles has been enticed into a running race by a rather loud mouthed tortoise. Now clearly the tortoise is…
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the Tunguska Event
Sometimes, we sit at home and trouble finds us there. A long time ago, an extra-terrestrial body flew into Earth, gracing the Russian territory with its glory and light showers. The asteroid event, later known as the Tunguska Event made a record of being the loudest explosion recorded by Man in recent times. This record…
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The TIME Machine
H.G. Well‘s masterpiece of Science Fiction, The Time Machine is a great Book. Not only did he thrill the reader on the journey far into the future, to the year 802,701 A.D., but his prediction of how Civilization would look like after the course of many hundreds of thousands of years from now is incredible;…
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Water is Life.
So, I thoroughly searched the Internet looking for this particular Penguin. And the cute little Baby says: Life could exist anywhere there is Water, even when the Temperature is some yards below 0°C Its amazing how much Life we could find wherever there is some form of water. On the Surface of the Earth where…
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France 1846, and the Electric Girl.
Here is another story from the Paranormal series. When the unexplained phenomena meets science, the result(s) often turn out to be inconclusive. (January 1846) A fourteen-year old peasant girl from La Perriere in the Normandy region of France began distressing her friends with her strange powers. Angelique Cottin became known as the “Electric Girl” for…
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Can we call Magic a Science?
What is Magic.. An Unexplained Phenomena? Or does it require a Special kind of Understanding. Sincerely, this is a Big Question that has crossed the Mind of Many who are really curious about their World and the Awareness hanging around. I’ve come to ask myself the same question over and over without arriving at any…
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Uniting Science and Religion
I intercepted this Photo from an account i was following on Twitter. In this modern day, and as it were; not too long ago, Scientists see Religion as a belief system that doesn’t work. just because it is based primarily on Faith and Belief in concepts without thoroughly investigating their veracity. But, does Science have…
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The Cost of Scientific Knowledge
Science is laden with traps that will surely lure you out of the Normal. Maybe it’s not only Science that’s capable of this; anything that can steal your attention and hold it for probably a long time can too. But it’s very evident in scientists and wannabe scientists. In our society today, there are two…
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the Arecibo Message
Talk about If we are the Only Life forms that is to be found in the Universe, this coded radio message was transmitted in 1974 by the SETI (Search for Extra-Terresterial Intelligence) at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. sent to the Hercules Constellation, to arrive in year 26000.. If there were to be any civilization there, they…
Eupheus (to Know) 