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Researchers Blame YouTube For Flat Earth Theorists
YouTube To Blame For Flat Earth Theorists Before I continue, just in case you haven’t come across the Flat Earth theory to date, let me give you a brief rundown as to what it is. Put simply, some people appear to be entirely convinced that despite all evidence to the…
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Video Shows Slow Motion Capture of Space Junk Harpoon
Harpoon Clears up Space Junk For around 70 years now, the human race has been sending a lot of things up into orbit. While this has given us a lot of benefits such as satellites and exploration, it has also caused a pretty significant problem. Namely, that there’s a hell…
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NASA Model Suggests That The Moon Was Once Part Of Earth
NASA Research Suggests The Moon Came From Earth One of the biggest points of speculation surrounding the Moon is exactly how it came to be there. Moons are, of course, not uncommon and we’re certainly more than a little familiar with the one orbiting our planet. In a report via…
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Good News! – Asteroid Said To Hit Earth Is Going To Miss!
Asteroid Said To Hit Earth Is Going To Miss! It seems that once or twice a year, we are greeted with the news that something is on the way to destroy planet earth. Most often taking the form of an asteroid (of increasingly hyperbolic sizes) and occasionally aliens, it seems that…
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NASA InSight Successfully Lands On Mars!
NASA InSight Successfully Lands On Mars! Yesterday, at almost exactly 8 pm (GMT) the NASA InSight prove began its descent towards Mars. Having travelled for around 6 months to reach its destination, it was this final approach that was the most critical. Would it successfully get through the atmosphere and,…
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SpaceX Moon Passenger Revealed As Japanese Billionaire
SpaceX Moon Passenger Revealed As Japanese Billionaire It’s no secret that the SpaceX project, backed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has plans to launch commercial flights into space. It is, actually, quite remarkable as they are certainly not the only company looking to do this, but despite being one of…
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Curiosity Rover Sends Picture From Mars
Curiosity Rover Sends Picture From Mars Back in November 2011, the Curiosity Rover was launched with a mission to get to Mars and explore the surface. Having successfully made the trip, it’s fairly safe to say that so far things have been going really well. Since arriving it has sent…
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Japan Conduct First Test For Space Elevator Technology
Japan Conduct First Test For Space Elevator Technology For many years there have been discussions surrounding the potential for the development of ‘space elevator’ technology. This would essentially put an orbiting ‘station’ in the air and from it, a direct cable (or line) would go to the earth’s surface. If…
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NASA Prepare Launch Of Probe Which Will ‘Touch The Sun’
NASA Parker Solar Probe Despite the Sun being the biggest and most important factor in our solar system, we don’t actually know a great deal about it. For example, why it’s outer corona is 300 times hotter than its centre. Then again, it is, after all, so very far away…
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NASA Says Life On Mars Is Currently Impossible
NASA Says Life On Mars Is Currently Impossible Despite the fact that we haven’t been back to the moon in over 45 years some people already have their eyes set on something much bigger. Namely, Mars. Our neighbouring red planet is clearly an object of interest for many. Particularly since…
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Blood Moon To Appear In The Skies Tonight!
Blood Moon To Appear In The Skies Tonight! Tonight will mark one of the more spectacular occasions in terms of astronomy. In the night’s sky, we will be treated to the longest ‘blood moon‘ we have seen so far in the 21st century. That is, of course, assuming you have…
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Scientists Find Quadrillion Tonnes Of Diamonds
Scientists Find Quadrillion Tonnes Of Diamonds In monetary terms, diamonds are one of the most valuable substances on the planet. Well, technically in terms of quantity to cost printer ink also falls into a similar category. Getting back to diamonds though, with them being exceptionally pretty in jewellery and also…
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Jeff Bezos Says Industry Will Have To Move To Other Planets
Jeff Bezos Predicts That Industry Will Have To Be Taken off Planet Earth Usually the leading figures in the technology and industrial scene predict that killer robots will kill us all. I’m fairly sure that Jezz Bezos might have made that prediction himself. It seems, however, that he now has…
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Scientists Discuss Sun Lifespan and What Happens After
Scientists Believe They Know When the Sun will Die and What will Happen After Experts have always roughly been in agreement that in terms of size, our Sun will finally die (or explode) in around 10 billion years. That is quite clearly a long time. As such, in terms of…
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UK’s First Flat Earth Convention Held In Birmingham Ends
UK’s First Flat Earth Conference Ends There are a select number of people who, despite all the best information available to them, believe that the Earth is actually flat. Usually, that theory doesn’t extend to 4 elephants on top of a turtle, but it’s something I’ve always struggled to come…
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