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Posted by UnpublishedWriter on 03-09-2012 at 16:20:

Van Allen Belts

Now NASA is going there!

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/30aug_rbsp/

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Posted by jublke on 04-09-2012 at 04:37:

Thanks for sharing, UW. Maybe Ken's father will turn up again?

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Posted by Victoria on 04-09-2012 at 16:28:

Lol I laughed (and I'm not ashamed)

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Posted by gatchamarie on 04-09-2012 at 17:00:

Thanks for sharing this info, UW!

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Posted by Daniella T on 05-09-2012 at 09:24:

See? See? There WAS some scientific basis to what BoTP was all about! Elfgrin1

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Posted by RIgirl on 05-09-2012 at 19:20:

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Originally posted by jublke
Thanks for sharing, UW. Maybe Ken's father will turn up again?

Well, you know, it's hard to keep a good man down! And he does seem to be the proverbial bad penny ... *snerk*

And I agree, Daniella! They may have been wildy off at times, but it's nice to see that they got some things right!

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Posted by ElectricWhite on 06-09-2012 at 17:03:

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Originally posted by RIgirl
They may have been wildy off at times, but it's nice to see that they got some things right!

(Letting out a small groan, hating to admit this...) In all fairness, some of the science may be off by today's standards, but at the time, that was the current thought. For instance, my great-nephews were blown away when I told them that, when I was in grade school, the common belief was that the moon was a captured asteroid. Ordinary folks would have thought that the current belief -- that a rogue planet hit the earth in the early days of the solar system -- was waaaaay out there!

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Posted by RIgirl on 06-09-2012 at 20:54:

You're absolutely right, EW ... we don't know what we don't know.

That's probably why science is so fascinating ... at least, to me ... it's constantly changing and challenging us and forces us to sometimes look at things in ways we never thought to look at them before.

And, of course, now Pluto isn't even considered a planet anymore!

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