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  Star Killer Base discovered

  by Coded Logic in

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  dimming star remains mystery, but it's likely not caused by comets.

  remember that space anomaly of the dimming star that had everyone crying "aliens"?

  well, it's still as mysterious as ever.

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  Kepler telescope. Can't wait until the James Webb telescope gets put into space in the next two years. It's going to be 100 times more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope and can see into infrared.
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  Star Killer Base discovered

  by Coded Logic in

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  dimming star remains mystery, but it's likely not caused by comets.

  remember that space anomaly of the dimming star that had everyone crying "aliens"?

  well, it's still as mysterious as ever.

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  Dimming star remains mystery, but it's likely not caused by comets
  

  Remember that space anomaly of the dimming star that had everyone crying "aliens"? Well, it's still as mysterious as ever. Theories surrounding the star system KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby's Star, ranged from comets to an "alien megastructure" after the online astronomy crowdsourcing site Planet Hunter discovered an unusual light fluctuation in the star system a few years ago.

  A new analysis of KIC 8462852 shows that the star system, which lies about 1,500 light years away, has been gradually dimming for more than a century, and it's likely not caused by a cloud of orbiting comets.

  Bradley Schaefer, a physics and astronomy professor at Louisiana State University, examined data from a Harvard University archive of digitally scanned photographic plates of the sky dating back more than a century. He averaged the data and noticed that the star system also dimmed between 1890 and 1989.

  "This star's dimming is unique and inexplicable," Schaefer told CNN.

  Tabby's Star is an F-type main sequence star. This type of star does not dim by 20%, as Tabby's Star has shown, he explained. "Millions of these stars have been monitored for this sort of thing, and they don't fade," he said.

  The data from the photographic plates was also examined by Yale postdoctoral astronomy fellow Tabetha Boyajian, who is on Planet Hunters' advisory team. She and other colleagues published an academic paper in September that theorized the dimming light could be from comet fragments.

  But the probability of a comet family creating the erratic dip in brightness is highly unlikely, Schaefer said.

  "The century-long dimming trend requires an estimated 648,000 giant comets... all orchestrated to pass in front of the star within the last century," he writes in the research paper.

  "The trouble is that Tabby's Star, it's a perfectly ordinary star. The only thing that was unusual about the star was the dip seen by Kepler," he said.

  NASA's Kepler Telescope, which is on a mission to find Earthlike planets, documented KIC 8462852's abnormality after monitoring the star system from 2009 to 2013.

  Ordinarily, a star will dip in brightness as planets pass by them, but KIC 8462852 has displayed irregular fluctuations of light that sometimes decreasing by as much as 20% in brightness.

  The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) started monitoring Tabby's star after NASA's Kepler team vetted the data showing the unusual light patten.

  In November, SETI's senior astronomer Seth Shostak told CNN they hadn't picked up any radio signals from the star system. But that doesn't rule out intelligent life in KIC 8462852.

  "There is estimated to be in our galaxy alone a trillion planets. And we can see 100 billion galaxies," Shostak said. "It's believed that one in 10 stars may have a habitable world capable of supporting life."

  
  

  The comet-family theory as well as other explanations for Tabby's star dimming have all been refuted, Schaefer said. But there might be two other possible solutions.

  "Either nature has found a hidden loophole, or hey, maybe there is a totally new idea," Schaefer said.

  So what about the possibility of aliens? That explanation doesn't rank high on Schaefer's list. "I too, like everyone else, would be astounded if those ideas could be proven true. But we're going for the facts."

  For now astronomers still cannot explain what's going on with KIC 8462852.

  "It's a normal star behaving weirdly," Schaefer said. "We've got ourselves a classic mystery."

  http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/16/us/space-anomaly-remains-mystery/index.html

  
  
  
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  New WT pdf tells children to report. Irony?

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  pdf.

  why won't watchtower tell abusers "i'm going to tell on you!

  " and follow through with the proper authorities?

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  I swear, every single time I think to myself "The writers at Brooklyn have really reached rock bottom this time" and yet they STILL manage to do worse!

  This is genuinely absurd!!!

  The problem isn't that children are remaining silent. It's that their parents and the elders are!

  
  
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  YOU MIGHT BE A J.W.

  by brandnew in

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  if getting ready means putting on a suit........ you might be a j.w.. if going out to the field has nothing to do with grass, baseball diamonds, or football ......... you might be a j.w.. please continue my friends.......i know ya got some.....; ).

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  You might be a JW -

  If you're a woman who's been an "ordained minister" for 20 years but you've never given a sermon in your entire life.
  

  If you're NOT a member of the census bureau but you regularly drive down unused overgrown dirt roads to make sure there's no one living at the end.

  If you're a Christian but you vehemently object when anyone calls your spiritual place of worship a "church".

  If you think the story of Jephthah sacrificing his daughter to make God happy belongs in a children's book.

  
  
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  Who resurrected Jesus?

  by lumberjack in

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  ideas?

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  Aliens. Definitely aliens.
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  Who is your favourite thinker?

  by The Rebel in

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  having recently read orwells 1984, i was impressed with how he understood that both politicians and people abuse language.

  this further confirmed to me how the w.t had deceived me by using words to distort reality.

  the book 1984, also contains many other great thoughts of george orwell.. of course there have been many other great thinkers, buddah, darwin, freud, einstein and marx come to mind.

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  Christopher Hitchens was a great orator, polemic and knew his history nearly as well as he knew how to captivate an audience. One of my favorite quotes from him sums him up his career pretty well - when asked why he became a journalist he said, "Because I didn't want to have to rely on the media for my information."

  He was (perhaps still is) the only journalist to have traveled to Iran, Iraq (before and after the war), and North Korea. He also traveled to Palestine, Israel, and moved back and forth between the opposing sides of Crete. I don't think there was ever alive a person as well versed, educated, and internationally experienced as the man.

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  But I think my all time favorite is the neuroscientist Sam Harris. His musings on morality and free will have been absolutely mind opening to me and have truly informed how I perceive world as a moral landscape. If ever there was a jedi master of meta-ethics, surely it is this man.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMFnSTPsbFg

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  The new service meeting

  by John Aquila in

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  2. experiences

  i wanted to relate an experience that happened this morning.

  it is regarding the new format for the meeting on thursdays in my area.

  its not word for word but im summarizing what i heard, the best i can remember.

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  The good ol' BS meter is ringing loud and true with this one. As I was reading I couldn't help but think to myself that it reminded me of another post where someone said a large group of witnesses (aged 65+) meet every few months to discuss the problems with the WT. And what do you know, it's the same poster http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5646617008930816/something-interesting

  While I don't think OP is anything other than a good yarn - I wouldn't be surprised if many of the older ones feel this way - even if they do keep quiet about it.
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  Warwick -How much will it cost to build?

  by TakeOffTheCrown in

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  there are some good minds on this forum.

  how much will it cost, in your estimation, to build warwick?

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  It's a considerable project. One has to factor in the cost of the land, the permits, the materials, equipment purchases/rentals, feeding/housing volunteers, and paying contractors. I think ROs ballpark of 200-300 million is a pretty good guess for a project of this size.

  But when I hear of all the little wacky things they're doing like having a switch that can drain the entire lake and putting in electric heating into all the ground level floors - I wonder how much all that extra stuff might add up to. And what other crazy things are they spending money on that we haven't heard about yet?
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  Where does the money come from to operate the Hospital Information network?

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  the recent buzz that has hit the online communities concerning the watchtower society and their evil offspring - the jw org - revolves around their apparent financial difficulties.

  many factors have been discussed - the real estate flips (and flops), the changes in meetings and field service, the need for donations to cover expenses, the push for donations.

  where does the money come from to operate the hospital information network?

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  I'm really confused as to what exactly what you think costs so much. When you say "extensive" medical library do you mean a collection of medical papers published on the topic of blood? And when you say "copious amounts of promotional propaganda" are you talking about the Watchtower and Awake?

  If so, I don't see any extensive costs here. A subscription to a network of peer reviewed medical papers only costs a few hundred dollars a year. And the WT and Awake are existing avenues of propaganda.

  Or, are you talking about something else? Are you saying that the WT funds research into bloodless treatments? And that it pays to have that research sent to medical institutes and hospitals?

  Can you be a little more specific in what the HIS does?
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  Warwick Photo Gallery 4 (May Through August 2015)

  by wifibandit in

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  2. beliefs

  full set: http://imgur.com/a/djhfe.

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  Using a paint roller on a steel tube for that whole bridge? WTF? Can they not afford to spend a whopping $50 on a paint sprayer?

  
  

  Are they going to give the bros a pair of scissors next to mow the lawn? Just how much "busy work" do they have going on there?