Up until recently I had been a believer, but never a true christian. I got baptized at about 12 years old but never read the bible, I just believed in god and didn’t want to hell. The church I went too is located in Franklinton, North Carolina. Don’t bother looking for it on the map because you probably wont find it. Anyways it was a black baptist christian church, but they was always shouting and acting a fool and all that shit. I think I seen somebody's head to a 360 turn like on the…

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well, here we are again. and in September now! thanks as always for dropping in to see what i've collected for you!

 

but first!..........

 

if you haven't already, do make sure to get entered for our latest contest! 5 TA members will win a signed copy of Janet Reitman's…

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When my mother and her twin sister were children, they used to pretend that they had telepathy. 

I don't have to pretend. 

I have unlimited text messaging. 

 

The evolution of travel has been amazing, just in the course of a very few lifetimes. 

Across-Ocean travel has gone from an anomaly to a rarity to occasional to daily. 

The time it takes has been reduced significantly with each step along the way. 

(Adaptation and evolution. It always…

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With days like these, it makes you wonder how many atheists will "repent" or once again believe.  They may have these feelings just because fear has been bestowed upon them since times are supposedly ending. Just a random thought. This whole end of times situation is full of inconsistency. Again, just my thoughts. Thanks.

It's that time of year again. It's time to vote the top 100 more influential people in the world. Guess who made it to the list this year for the first time? ...none other than Christopher Hitchens. How exciting! There are 204 candidates so that gives him at least a 50/50 shot of making it onto the list. With everyone's help, we may just be able to get him closer to the top.

 

There are few others on the list. Kim Kardashian, Kanya West, and "Snookie" made the…

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ESO VLT Space Opera.



Starring: Helix Nebula, Gliese 667, stellar cluster NGC 2467, R Coronae Austrinae, protostar HH34 (Orion), Chamaeleon I complex, Eagle Nebula, Lagoon Nebula, southern Milky Way band, Trifid Nebula, the first image of an exoplanet (2M1207 system).





The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is made up of four separate optical telescopes (the Antu telescope, the Kueyen telescope, the Melipal telescope, and the Yepun telescope)… Continue

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, formerly GLAST, will open this high-energy world to exploration and help us to answer these questions. With Fermi, astronomers will at long last have a superior tool to study how black holes, notorious for pulling matter in, can accelerate jets of gas outward at fantastic speeds.



Physicists will be able to study subatomic particles at energies far greater than those seen in ground-based particle accelerators. And… Continue