An Astronomer's Fantasy - Planets in the Lab
If astronomers could somehow pull planets out of the sky and analyze them in the laboratory, it might look something like this artistically altered image illustrating new research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The...
Word of the Day
turtling
- The act or method of catching turtles; the business of a turtler.
- Any slow progression or build-up.
- in gaming, a defensive strategy of avoiding conflict, usually in a fixed position.
'Turtle' may be an alteration of 'tortoise,' which may come from the Late Latin 'tartaruchus,' of the underworld.
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Science has 'explained' nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. 
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
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