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Firlefanz
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Space is cool, it's just that simple.
Now, if only I had all that other stuff out of the way so that I could write my YA SciFi story.... with a fantastic twist, of course.
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Reading: "The Great Book of Amber" - Robert Zelazny
Writing: Short Story - "Inside Out"
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29/Nov/05, 14:40
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Firlefanz
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3°K - why, that's almost spring-like. 
Actually, I would have expected it to be closer to 0°K. What keeps it warmer than that? Just the bit of molecular movement?
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Reading: "The Great Book of Amber" - Robert Zelazny
Writing: Short Story - "Inside Out"
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Bondgirly
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you can buy it from the BBC if you cant find it. Its definately money well spent IMHO
http://www.bbcshop.com/invt/ebbcdvd1090&bklist=icat,5,,11,science,83
Link's been made clickable
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Alpha Centauri
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Even more impressive is the fact that this Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation had been theoretically predicted (by George Gamow in 1948, and by Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman in 1950) some 15 years(!) before it was actually (eventhough accidentally) discovered by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson...
This CMB radiation appears as an extremely steady, omni-directional humming noise when being received by the radio-telescopes... In fact, if we could see microwaves, the entire sky would glow with a brightness that would be astonishingly uniform in every direction.
And the funny thing is that (in 1978) the Nobel Prize was awarded NOT to those who worked on the theoretical establishment of the CMB radiation and predicted it based on the Big Bang theory, but to those who accidentally discovered it... By no means do I intent to demean Penzias' and Wilson's work and invaluable contribution to science and research (after all, the CMB radiation discovery is rightfully proclaimed the discovery of the century), but ...talk about committees...
 
PS: Should this topic be moved to the Astronomy section after all? I wonder... 
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Firlefanz
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Re: Of Bondgirly's reception and CMB receivers
Ah, I knew there was plenty of background radiation, but I never connected it to the "snow" static on the TV.
Thanks for that tidbit, Bondgirly. 
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Reading: "The Great Book of Amber" - Robert Zelazny
Writing: Several Short Stories
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