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The Moon’s Phase

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Whats The Moon’s Phase?


More often than not it’s a big pain in the ass to try and find out the moons phase, or when a particular phase may take place. This great website easily shows you the moon’s phase, along with its % lit, and how “old” the current cycle is.

http://www.die.net/moon/

Moon’s Phase/How old the cycle is.

Now, if you’re trying to figure out exactly where the moon is at a particular time you can check out this website here. Essentially it calculates how high in the sky from the horizon the moon, or sun is at a given time which is very helpful if you don’t want to get up and do it yourself.

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/AltAz.php

The Moon’s Altitude, and Position.



Unit Converter

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Unit Converter

Anyone who enjoy science has had to deal with the tedious problem of unit conversions. This website is EXTREMELY helpful. You can convert nearly any unit and it’s quick.

http://www.unitsconverter.net/

Unit Converter



Are you Ready for the Next 15-20 Years?

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This Day Is Ours

It’s amazing to think of how far we have come as a species. Just to think that a few thousand years ago we were still living as uncivilized beasts and today, well I’m sure you can see where I’m going with this. The fact is we live in an amazing time, a time of great exploration, a time where literally anything and everything is possible. Just think, in the last hundred years we have seen more and advancement in technology than we have had in the past thousand, that’s exponential growth at it’s most simple form and it’s something we can all see and understand.

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Amazing New Hubble Photos

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Hubble is Back in Action

The Hubble telescope has been an incredible tool for scientists of all kinds. It has been through Hubble’s amazing lens that we have discovered and confirmed many theory which were thought to be complete nonsense only 50 years ago. As many of you know this telescope was recently repaired, as well as given a new array of ways to view the sky. The end result of these repairs is truly amazing.

This is an amazing video of the progress that the newly outfitted Hubble Telescope has made over the past few months.

This a Youtube video by the Youtube user FfreeThinker. Enjoy!



Amazing Future

Get Ready

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I recently watched a show on the History Channel that described how in the NEAR future we will be able to shape our genetic destiny.

This is all going to be accomplished with a revolutionary science called Gene Therapy. Human beings are literally created by a blueprint that our genetic code determines. However until recently the Human Genome was unknown. Now that the Human Genome is known and documented we can begin to classify the genes that are associated with certain diseases, mental defects and even things like skin color, and hair thickness.

This might seem outrageous but a future of disease free humans is coming. Our life expectancy will double, or even triple that of today’s, and not only that but we may even be able to reduce or even CANCEL the agents of aging.

This is truly an amazing time to be alive and I for one am extremely excited to see what the future holds for us all.

What do you think we will be able to accomplish with gene therapy, and other human-heal related sciences? TELL ME! (You can comment) I’m always eager to hear the ideas of others especially in this field.



Law of What?!

Law of attraction, Resonance

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I’m sure most of you have heard about the Law of Attraction. If you know what I’m talking about you must me thinking to yourself, shit here we go again, another nut job going off about his crazy life changing experiences! Worry not! I don’t endorse this philosophy completely just yet as I have yet to seen any of it’s magic at work. Not only that but more than half of the people who endorse this theory speak as though they haven’t graduated high school (scary I know).

Okay to get on with this, the Law of Attraction essentially states that what you predominantly think about will manifest itself into your life. I’m not speaking metaphorically either. The concept is literally that if you think about a red sports car hard enough you will get one. The sports car will literally appear in some way or another into your life. The law is fundamentally saying that your thoughts if worked and manipulated correctly can produce a monetary equivalent through manifestation of your thoughts into reality. I’m not making this up, and they do seem to have some sort of backing or evidence through quantum physics in the sense that your mind creates reality through the double slit experiment which requires an observer, which also requires that you’re creating reality. It’s difficult to really get a grasp on but I can see where they’re coming from.

Why Not?

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I don’t however think that this is completely possible for one specific reason, and that is resonate frequencies. My idea is that because every molecule has a specific resonating frequency then it has to be possible that the way the electrical signals in our brain can influence reality in a more substantial way than I previously believed. It may also be true that we can stimulate our brains through specific resonating frequencies that simulate the part of our brains which can produce feelings of love, enjoyment, and happiness all together.

One problem I have just thought of with this idea is that our brains are essentially made of the same material, molecules that form the cells of our brain, or neurons. However the problem with finding a specific resonating frequency for a particular part of the brain is that a resonating frequency would stimulate ALL of the molecules in our brains because essentially it’s all the same molecules.

I’m not saying I completely agree with this theory, nor am I saying that it is completely impossible. There are both pretty solid cases for both but there needs to be more documented scientific research done which can without even the smallest doubt prove to the scientific community and the world that this isn’t a joke. When that material comes out I will be ecstatic and will fully accept this idea but until then I’m not going to call it fact.



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