 | Last login: 14 hours agoKyle is a 19 year old single guy from The Moon, NSW, Australia. I enjoy many things; I especially have a keen interest in anything that will give me knowledge - as such, I enjoy everything from philosophy to science, culture/history to politics. Art is also one of the many things I enjoy with intensity - from traditional to digital, writing to photography. I am also always pondering the depths of the universe. These are just a few things about myself. |
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 Jan 19, 7:27am  (1 review) astronomy, astrophotography http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0209/ven...- A splendidly majestic and mysterious view of Venus.
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- Brown Dwarfs -New Link between Stars &Planets Discovered | The Daily Galaxy...
- Apr 13, 2008 5:22am (3 reviews) astronomy http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/200...
- Quite interesting, I always wondered if gas planets could either be failed stars, or the result of a cooled star. This seems to validate that thought.
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- APOD: 2004 January 11 - NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf
- Nov 22, 2007 9:05pm (1 review) astronomy, science http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap04011...
NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf
Credit:
H. Bond (STScI),
R. Ciardullo (PSU),
WFPC2,
HST,
NASA
Explanation:
Like a butterfly, a white dwarf star begins its life
by casting off a cocoon that enclosed its former self.
In this analogy, however, the Sun would be a caterpillar and the ejected shell of gas
would become the prettiest of all!
The above cocoon, the planetary nebula designated NGC 2440,
contains one of the hottest
white dwarf stars known.
The white dwarf can be seen as the bright dot near the
photo's center.
Our Sun will eventually become a "white dwarf butterfly",
but not for another 5 billion years.
The above false color image was post-processed by Forrest Hamilton.
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- [0711.0770] An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
- Nov 16, 2007 2:16am
 (13 reviews) physics http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0770 - From the page: "All fields of the standard model and gravity are unified as an E8 principal bundle connection. A non-compact real form of the E8 Lie algebra has G2 and F4 subalgebras which break down to strong su(3), electroweak su(2) x u(1), gravitational so(3,1), the frame-Higgs, and three generations of fermions related by triality. The interactions and dynamics of these 1-form and Grassmann valued parts of an E8 superconnection are described by the curvature and action over a four dimensional base manifold."
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- False vacuum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Nov 14, 2007 4:15am (1 review) physics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuu...
- "The possibility that we are living in a false vacuum has never been a cheering one to contemplate. Vacuum decay is the ultimate ecological catastrophe; in the new vacuum there are new constants of nature; after vacuum decay, not only is life as we know it impossible, so is chemistry as we know it. However, one could always draw stoic comfort from the possibility that perhaps in the course of time the new vacuum would sustain, if not life as we know it, at least some structures capable of knowing joy. This possibility has now been eliminated.[2]"
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- SFOS: EMAP Photo Gallery
- Nov 6, 2007 5:51am (1 review) marine-biology http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/emap/
- Some newly discovered marine life...
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- BBC NEWS | Americas | Scores ill in Peru meteor crash
- Oct 28, 2007 1:04am (8 reviews) bizarre http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7001...
- Tiberium!
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- Did the Jedi Have It Coming?
- Oct 12, 2007 11:12am (56 reviews) science-fiction http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/movi...
- Human rights watch on the Jedi council.
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- http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf
- Aug 25, 2007 7:19am (118 reviews) stats http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf
- US Divorces is quite useless on a World Clock tool, but generally, this is a nice little clock.
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- Hindu cosmology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Aug 25, 2007 6:34am (1 review) philosophy, hinduism, cosmology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_cosmo...
- "Indian cosmologists, the first to estimate the age of the earth at more than 4 billion years. They came closest to modern ideas of atomism, quantum physics, and other current theories. India developed very early, enduring atomist theories of matter. Possibly Greek atomistic thought was influenced by India, via the Persian civilization."
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