Space (Page 21)

The government may have inadvertently revealed a secret when the California director of a NASA center mentioned the "100 Year Starship," where astronauts leave the Earth to colonize another planet, but don’t return because the destination is so far away that it would take too long to make a round trip. So why don’t they just send robots instead? It would certainly be cheaper: Obama cancelled our projected trip to the moon when he was told it would cost $150 billion, but we could send robots there for less than $200 million.
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The rocky road – If space travel is in our future, we need to learn how to identify and avoid the “rocks” in the “road.” Somebody else seems to be doing it right now, so we should be able to as well. China is monitoring meteors as well.

New research from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope reveals that asteroids somewhat near Earth come in assorted colors and compositions. Some are dark and dull, others are shiny and bright. Physicist David Trilling says, “These rocks are teaching us about the places they come from. It’s like studying pebbles in a streambed to learn about the mountains they tumbled down.” And if we know where they came from, we can figure out where they’re GOING (that is, if they’re going to impact the Earth).
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Is the “many worlds” theory of parallel universes correct? Even cosmologist George Ellis, who came up with the theory, isn’t sure that HE agrees with it!

The theory forms one of the bedrocks of quantum physics, and it also helps explain Dark Matter, which is one of the main questions CERN is seeking to answer. But the problem with the theory is the theory that everything that CAN happen DOES happen (in some parallel universe).
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The sun pillar & cosmic dust – This week on Dreamland, we’re talking about strange earth phonomena and what may be causing so many storms and earthquakes, but a few weeks ago on Dreamland, Whitley mentioned seeing a strange “pillar of light” on a walk along the bluff near the ocean. To see an example of this, click here, and read NASA’s explanation below. Does it have anything to do with space mysteries such as “cosmic dust?”
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