Venus is the second planet from the Sun and is the sixth largest. It is the brightest object in the night sky except for the Moon. Venus orbits the Sun once every 224.7 Earth days and gets as close to the Sun as 107.476 million kilometers and as far away from the Sun as 108.942 million kilometers…
Human Artifacts Found in Fossil Beds
Posted by on October 17th, 2007 in Science · 0 CommentsSome years ago I read of the well documented archaeological find of a hammer head and part of a shaft found embedded in Cretaceous sandstone near London Texas. It was found in stone not clay or soil…
Soft Tissue Discovered in Dinosaur Bones
Posted by on October 16th, 2007 in Science · 0 CommentsMost of us are familiar with the occasional reports in newspapers and over the Internet that tell of blood remnants and soft tissue being found in dinosaur bones…
Outlining Mechanical Engineering
Posted by on October 16th, 2007 in Science · 0 CommentsAlthough maybe not one of the most "glamorous" of trades, mechanical engineering is definitely one of the most important, and also frequently used, though you may not realize just how frequent and common…
Origins of The Solar System
Posted by on October 12th, 2007 in Science · 0 CommentsWe live in a universe of almost unimaginable size. To give you an idea of the scale, we can only use optical and radio methods to observe objects out to about 13,000 million light years away and nobody knows what lies beyond that. Closer to us we can see clusters of galaxies at distances out to about 750 million light years…
The First Planet
Posted by on October 12th, 2007 in Science · 0 CommentsThe planet Mercury is the closest to the Sun and is now the smallest planet in our Solar System. The temperatures on Mercury range from 700 degrees Kelvin on the sunlight side to 90 degrees Kelvin on the night side. Mercury orbits the Sun once every 88 days and rotates on its axis once every 58 days…
The Star We Call The Sun
Posted by on October 12th, 2007 in Science · 0 CommentsThe Sun is called Sol in Latin and that is where the term Solar System comes from. It is a typical main-sequence star and is by far the largest and most massive object in our Solar System. The Sun contains 99.8 percent of all the matter in the Solar System with the planet Jupiter taking up most of the rest…
Is the Celestron NexStar SE Telescope for You?
Posted by on September 6th, 2007 in Science · 0 CommentsThe Bible says the heavens declare the glory of God, the skies proclaim the work of His hands (Psalms 19:1). You don’t have to be religious for the night sky to grab your attention and wonder. Many of us settle for simply looking into the night sky, unaided by the superb technology available to us. That’s a shame…
Texas Braces For More Protestors: The Creation of Artificial Life Expected In Three To Ten Years
Posted by on September 4th, 2007 in Science · 0 CommentsIn three to ten years, expect the major announcement this country has been waiting for — that artificial life has been officially created…
The Man Who Discovered How Blood Circulates
Posted by on August 30th, 2007 in Science · 0 CommentsFor years the scientific community didn’t know “how blood circulates within the body.” I will attempt to reconstruct the scientific method steps that were used to establish blood circulation.
First we need a hypothesis…