Tag: planets
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: this ain’t cabin fever :
There’s no cabin involved. It’s just me and I’ve been trapped in hundreds of pounds of clothes since October. That’s a long time to be squatted inside, virtually immobilized, and living like Jabba the Hutt. This entire season, which barrels along as I type, has been wall-to wall gloom with bitter wind and brutal, punishing […]
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: you’ve never been mooned like this :
After the election results last week, you probably think nothing could surprise you, but the supermoon might. In a good way, this time. The occurrence is being touted by many, including NASA, as a grand, eye-popping spectacle. Others, meh, not so much. All agree, though, tomorrow’s full moon will loom larger and brighter than any you’ve seen […]
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: so much for the mayans :
The New Agers and pop culturalists were wrong; Mayan calendars do not predict the end of the world in 2012. And archaeologists can prove it. They’ve recently unearthed deep-time calendars in Guatemala counting thousands of years into the past and future. The Mayans, a storied star-gazing people, calculated the paths of the planets with their […]
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