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Solar Essays and Term Papers
FusionFor centuries, humankind has looked at the stars, and for just as many years
humankind has tried to explain the existence of those very same stars. Were
they holes in an enormous canvas that covered the earth? Were they fire-flies
that could only be seen when the Apollo had parked his chariot ...
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International Space StationThe , a worldwide project, is the next goal in a quickly growing space frontier. The station will be the first and next step towards researching the vast unknown world of outer space. What will be learned by this station? NASA has only the highest hopes that with the newest advancements in ...
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Decorating The Walls Art, ReliThe decoration applied to the walls and ceilings of the royal tombs provided far more than a colourful patina, for the artists were in effect making an eternal world for the deceased king. The exigencies of tombs curtailed and hurried burials may have thwarted this goal on many occasions, but what ...
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Electromagnetic Waves and Observation The SunSolar telescopes make use of wavelength information in two ways. For one, certain instruments, known as spectrometers, observe many wavelengths of light simultaneously and can measure how much of each wavelength of light is present. This helps create a composite understanding of what temperature ...
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Neptuneis the outermost planet of the gas giants. It has an equatorial
diameter of 49,500 kilometers (30,760 miles) and is the eighth planet from the
sun. If were hollow, it could contain nearly 60 Earth's.
orbits the Sun every 165 years. It has eight moons, six of which were found by
Voyager 2. ...
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Mercury 2Mercury is the eighth largest planet in our solar system, equaling roughly one-third of Earth’s size. It is also the planet closest to the sun, and is often visible with binoculars, or even the naked eye. It’s difficult to see in the twilight sky. One of Mercury’s most ...
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Cannabis Hemp. . .Marijuana!Article copied work for work from April 1990 Issue of High Times Magazine
pages 37-41 and page 57.
"OUR CHALLENGE TO THE WORLD: TRY TO PROVE US WRONG--
If all fossil fuels and their derivatives (coal, oil, natural gas,
synthetic fibers and petrochemicals) as well as the deforestation of ...
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The Origin Of LifeA group of lab students hover over a badly crushed fossil of a human skull. A young woman kneels with her hands folded in front of her while at the alter. Many excited children marvel over a cute little creature named ET pointing to the sky and saying, "ET phone home." What does each of these ...
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Aurora BorealisNear the Earth's poles a magnificent spectacle of shimmering colored light can sometimes be seen --- the aurora. The aurora is called the (Northern lights) and the aurora austrails (Southern lights); it can appear as bright as a full moon. The aurora usually appears near the Earth's poles, and ...
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Early FlightMany people have flown in an airplane or are going to at some point in their lifetime, but most people do not know how the airplane came about or about aviation history at all. Samuel P. Langley played a very big part in the history of aviation. Although Langley was not always into aviation, he ...
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StarsMagnitudes
The magnitude scale was invented by an ancient Greek astronomer named Hipparchus
in about 150 BC He ranked the he could see in terms of their brightness,
with 1 representing the brightest down to 6 representing the faintest. Modern
astronomy has extended this system to stars brighter ...
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Geothermal EnergyPhysics 009
Professor Arns
The human population is currently using up its fossil fuel supplies at
staggering rates. Before long we will be forced to turn somewhere else for
energy. There are many possibilities such as hydroelectric energy, nuclear
energy, wind energy, solar energy and ...
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Life On Other Planets?1
Life in outer space? A figment of our wildest imagination or
reality? This age old question has been lingering in the heads of human
minds since the beginning of reasonable thinking. Today, these questions
still remain unanswered, although extensive research has been conducted by
scientists ...
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The Ozone LayerIn environmental science the green house effect is a common term for the
role water vapor; carbon dioxide and ozone play in keeping the earth’s surface
warmer than it would normally be. The atmosphere is primarily transparent to
infrared radiation from the sun, which is mostly absorbed by the ...
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Interstellar Travel: Sooner Or Later??
Though interstellar travel is theoretically possible, colonizing Alpha Centauri in the next millennium may be far-fetched. Modern Quantum physics gives many new openings into the world of plus-light-speed travel, but Einstein’s theory of relativity maintains the fact that light speed is an ...
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Saturnorbits the Sun at a mean distance of 1.427 billion km with a
period of 29.4577 tropical years. The orbit is inclined 2.49 degrees to
the ecliptic, or Earth orbital, plane and has an eccentricity of 0.0556.
At 's distance from the Sun, it receives only 0.01 of the unit solar
radiation flux that ...
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The Year 2000 BugAs the millennium approaches we come closer and closer to what some say could mean the end of civilization as we know it. What is this great event that would have such an impact on the world that it could end civilization? The problem is a simple computer bug refereed to as the Y2K bug but its ...
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Saturnis one of the largest and most beautiful planets in the star system. is the second largest planet in the solar system second to only Jupiter. 's many rings give the planet it's beauty along with its dark orange and red color. is much like Jupiter they are both gaseous planets with small rocky ...
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The Dead Sea ScrollsClearly and the schism that caused the Dead Sea sect to arise can only be understood in the context of Jewish history and the sectarianism of the Second Temple period in Judea. Across twenty centuries, the Scrolls speak to us of the pluralism that existed in ancient Judaism, each group competing ...
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Proposal For An Advanced Art ProjectFirst off, I need to propose my theme that will encompass the
majority of my art works in my stated media. Out of painting, print making
and sculpture, I am choosing to work with the latter for two main reasons.
One, I'm not that great at capturing visual ideas on the somewhat two-
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