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NASA Discovers A Ring Around The Solar System
NPR ^
| October 18, 2009
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Posted on 10/18/2009 9:05:17 PM PDT by Defiant
NASA scientists have discovered a mysterious ribbon around our solar system —- a stripe made of hydrogen —- that defies all current expectations about what the edge of the solar system might look like.
Richard Fisher, the director of NASA's Heliophysics Division, tells NPR's Guy Raz that this discovery is a big moment for the scientific community. "We thought we knew everything about everything, and it turned out that there were unknown unknowns."
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; moons; nasa; planets; rings; solarsystem; space; xplanets
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It turns out we live in a gated community. Note also that now it's ok to quote Rumsfeld.
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posted on
10/18/2009 9:05:19 PM PDT
by
Defiant
To: Defiant
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posted on
10/18/2009 9:06:48 PM PDT
by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: Defiant
New stuff discovered. More proof that all science is unreliable and wrong!!!!!
/s
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posted on
10/18/2009 9:10:07 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(This tagline excerpted. To read more, click on MyOverratedBlog.com)
To: Defiant
*snicker*
Rummy made sense to me the first time...
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posted on
10/18/2009 9:10:33 PM PDT
by
Crim
To: Defiant
It’s like a ring in a bath tub... from all the liberal scum here on earth.
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posted on
10/18/2009 9:11:39 PM PDT
by
Bob Eimiller
(appeasement "it's the idea that if you feed the alligator he will eat you last." Winston Churchill)
To: Defiant
Besides the Oort cloud?
/johnny
To: Defiant
"We thought we knew everything about everything..."Here's the problem right here!!
Why so arrogant?
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posted on
10/18/2009 9:16:30 PM PDT
by
Only1choice____Freedom
(FDR had the New Deal. President 0bama has the Raw Deal.)
To: Defiant
"We thought we knew everything about everything" The arrogance is stupefying!!!
To: Captain Beyond
I hear there is a ring around Uranus.
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posted on
10/18/2009 9:20:18 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(As a matter of fact, yes I DO care if Jimmy cracks corn !)
To: Crim
"There are things we know we know, and that's helpful to know you know something. There are things we know we don't know. And that's really important to know, and not think you know them, when you don't. But the tricky ones are the ones - the unknown unknowns - the things we don't know we don't know. They're the ones that can get you in a bucket of trouble." ------- Donald Rumsfeld
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posted on
10/18/2009 9:20:34 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: Defiant
"We thought we knew everything about everything, and it turned out that there were unknown unknowns."That first clause is the biggest problem I have with what passes itself off as "science" today.
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posted on
10/18/2009 9:21:25 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Defiant
I thought there was some newly discovered ring around Saturn. Waiting for the ring around Uranus.
Sorry....
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posted on
10/18/2009 9:21:56 PM PDT
by
Hi Heels
(Now here at the Rock we have two rules. Rule #1 obey all rules. Rule #2 no writing on the walls...)
To: Defiant
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posted on
10/18/2009 9:22:32 PM PDT
by
bogusname
(Banish All Lliberals)
To: llevrok
Great, yet crass, minds...
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posted on
10/18/2009 9:22:55 PM PDT
by
Hi Heels
(Now here at the Rock we have two rules. Rule #1 obey all rules. Rule #2 no writing on the walls...)
To: Defiant
Very interesting, thanks.
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posted on
10/18/2009 9:26:52 PM PDT
by
blam
To: llevrok
I hear there is a ring around Uranus. That's where the black hole is.
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posted on
10/18/2009 9:27:17 PM PDT
by
Defiant
(The absence of bias appears to be bias to those who are biased.)
To: Defiant
"Ribbon of darkness over me...."
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posted on
10/18/2009 9:27:29 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Defiant
Hopefully The Federation is not giving out green cards to the aliens.
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posted on
10/18/2009 9:29:06 PM PDT
by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: Defiant
Quite interesting. I’ll have to admit to taking many scientific discoveries and theories with a grain of salt though. The original theories on many subjects have morphed with time. So these things are interesting, but so will be the next revelation on this issue, and how it alters what we are sure we know now.
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posted on
10/18/2009 9:29:09 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Deficit spending, trade deficits, unsecure mortages, worthless paper... ... not a problem. Oh yeah?)
To: Defiant
I’ve heard that NPR floats. NASA still hasn’t discovered that toilet bowl ring around NPR.
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