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1 posted on 08/24/2025 2:39:05 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 08/24/2025 2:39:25 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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The appearance of the supernova that created the Crab Nebula happened at the same time of the schism between Catholicism and Orthodoxy in mid-1054.

Strangely, nobody at the time seemed to link the two events.


6 posted on 08/24/2025 2:53:16 PM PDT by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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Some of these stars have the strongest magnetic fields in the universe. If Earth was in orbit around one at the distance of the Moon the magnetism alone would be lethal.


7 posted on 08/24/2025 2:57:15 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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The more we know, the more we realize how much we don’t know.
Some real weird stuff out there.


10 posted on 08/24/2025 4:56:00 PM PDT by The Sentient Sheep
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1,800 RPM is impressive.


12 posted on 08/24/2025 6:24:59 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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