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This is easily the best lunar photograph of the 1800s. My 1962 edition of Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes still says it's in Bonn.

This is easily the best lunar photograph of the 1800s

You'd think someone would have mentioned it by then. The Reverend Thomas William Webb (1807 – 1885) was a British clergyman and dedicated amateur astronomer. He built small observatories on the grounds of the various parish houses in which he lived, and compiled his famous two-volume Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes as an observing guide for fellow amateurs with telescopes of size and quality typically in amateur use at the time. The blackboards in classroom porn — just how accurate are they? (SFW) They're accurate when I visit her, too.

The blackboards in classroom porn — just how accurate are they? (SFW)

Ba-dum-tish In retrospect, that sounds more like a "your mother" joke. I am a teacher and have never seen any of these...events...take place. Uncovering the hidden lake buried two miles beneath Antarctica. Global warming is redirecting ladybug evolution. I had a job painting insects once.

Global warming is redirecting ladybug evolution

It's not that easy, especially if they are wasps! ...or local organic farmers bought a few million ladybugs and dumped them all over the place, changing the population the "natural" way. The normal "dose" of bugs like that is in the "thousands per acre" range. It's a bit much to assume that a 0.5 C change in temperature would alter insect population dynamics so much, while ignoring things like "natural" agriculture which moves them around by the billions. In no other part of "science" do you get to publish papers with the words 'maybe' or 'could as prominant descriptors. I don't understand what you mean? Also this work focuses on genetics and heredity not climate research. The simplest proof mathematicians needed two tries at.

The Omega Nebula is a galactic Rorschach test. 19th Century astronomy illustrations are pre-photographic space porn. Does that mean someone has actually told you that before?

19th Century astronomy illustrations are pre-photographic space porn

Weird. It's such a bizarre position to take. I have a hard time imagining how someone could even hold that position, much less try at all to defend it. I have been in a couple of discussions about religion, and at the point when we reach the conclusion that there isn't much rational reason for religious believes some faithfull come to "OK, but think of all the Art. How the Quest for the Perfect Calendar Accidentally Created February 30. Ten gemstones that are rarer than diamond. Tantalum is the most important element you've never heard of.

Not talking about melting, but chemical attack.

Tantalum is the most important element you've never heard of

As an analogy, iron will rust at room temperature, but melt at 1500 degrees. Tantalum needs 150 degrees to show damage from aqua regia (nitric+hydrochloric acid). Though stronger acids (e.g. the HF in the article) will attack it at room temp. Having said that about the HF mentioned, I think the article may well have involved a bit of research from wikipedia, primarily, this paragraph: The metal is renowned for its resistance to corrosion by acids; in fact, at temperatures below 150 °C tantalum is almost completely immune to attack by the normally aggressive aqua regia.

It looks like the author read it wrong, thinking it needs HF at 150 to attack it. Developing Useless Superpowers 101: How to detect polarized light. When electronics cool themselves off. Organ Theft and the Insanity of Geniuses: A History of Mad Scientists in the Industrial Age. A brief introduction to infinity. What's so bad about sugar? Just be careful with your advice.

What's so bad about sugar?

You can put your body into starvation mode where it will consume less calories than you think. I believe it is around 1,100 calories or so. Talking in absolutes is a dangerous thing. I don't think this was your point, so I'm really trying to rag on you. I follow your advice (eat less, exercise more) and I have lost 30lbs to date and still losing.

Well you are correct of course. One number unites anything that flies or swims. Ostriches and their bloodless erections solve a centuries-old mystery. Can we explain Jupiter's Red Spot using solitons? The Massive Ultra-bright Street Lights that Could Never Be Turned Off. Why Helium was the Dark Matter of its Day. Does your brain really have the power to see the world upside-down? Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. Here's how we know that. Actually, if you want to get mathy and talk about the plane vs. the line, those infinities are exactly the same: Aleph-1.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. Here's how we know that.

The first cloned animals were cloned over a century ago. Clone really just means copy.

The first cloned animals were cloned over a century ago

When an organism has identical genes to the original. Gorgeous Victorian infographic shows Earth's mountains and rivers as we knew them over 150 years ago. SExpand The English are not to be trusted.

Gorgeous Victorian infographic shows Earth's mountains and rivers as we knew them over 150 years ago

EDIT: I took a trip to wikipedia and figured it out. 10 Science and Technology Breakthroughs That Caused Widespread Panic. Cardioversion does not restart a heart that has stopped beating.

10 Science and Technology Breakthroughs That Caused Widespread Panic

What cardioversion does do is "reset" a heart that has a faulty rhythm, be it too fast, too slow, or dangerously irregular. Once the heart has stopped beating, there is no way to restart it. There has to be an original electrical current left somewhere in the heart for an outside electrical source to have any effect at all. I really like the fact that Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans are imaging the gamma rays given off by matter-anti-matter explosions occurring inside your body.