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If it does I hope people will look to the stars more and reflect on their beautiful place in the universe. I can hardly envision a more navel gazing species than humans, and we need more people with telescopes and wide views.
Do any other species even have navels?
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If it does I hope people will look to the stars more and reflect on their beautiful place in the universe. I can hardly envision a more navel gazing species than humans, and we need more people with telescopes and wide views.
Do any other species even have navels?
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> Betelgeuse is anticipated to explode as a supernova in the next 10,000 to 100,000 years. I would like Theguardian to expose a standard deviation for this kind of data (because I have read from other sources that nobody has the data, it easily may be tomorrow).
> it easily may be tomorrow Tomorrow is in the next 10,000 to 100,000 years.
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Prosecute the astronomers for inaccuracy in their warnings. "Italian scientists convicted for not warning about deadly 2009 quake" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/italian-scientists-convicted-fo...
How did that turn out? Were they acquitted? I've noticed in other cases that Italian prosecutors seem have an unusual amount of latitude, or is that normal?
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What!?
The pyramids at Giza are really, really old . Cleopatra was part of the Macedonian/Greek dynasty in Egypt, which comes basically at the tail end of what one might consider "ancient Egypt". The time span we lump together as "ancient Egypt" (specifically, dynastic ancient Egypt—"pre-dynastic" stretches back many centuries before that) is so long that stuff from the first third or so of it is farther, time-wise, from Cl…