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**RollWithEm** · 11-09-2012, 11:37 AM

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How to turn a Barbie doll into a Weeping Angel from Doctor Who

**RollWithEm** · 11-21-2012, 01:24 PM

**RollWithEm** · 11-21-2012, 01:31 PM

Scientists finally think they know.

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If a planet is born in a system with two stars, the second star can cause it to spiral in and tilt. The second star might eventually migrate away, but the orbit of the planet stays the same. According to Batygin, that's what happened to Earth.

"I think somewhere in the Milky Way, there's a star that's responsible for tilting us," he said.

Batygin's theory seems sound, but it still has to be tested, and Batygin hopes to confirm it with measurements of a system that still has multiple stars: Alpha Centauri. By measuring the alignments of each of Alpha Centauri's three stars, Batygin hopes to confirm that neighboring stars can tilt each other's protoplanetary disks, which would in turn affect the orbits of any planets in the area.

So we had a second star that migrated away? Hmmm...

**RollWithEm** · 11-21-2012, 02:04 PM

**RollWithEm** · 11-21-2012, 02:27 PM

Astronomers just found a planet 13 times bigger than Jupiter.

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This "Super-Jupiter," designated "Kappa And b," was found orbiting the star known as Kappa Andromedae, located 170 light-years from Earth. Kappa Andromedae is itself 2.5 times bigger than our solar system's sun.

That's pretty big.

**RollWithEm** · 11-29-2012, 01:12 PM

The crazy U.S. plan to win the Cold War by blowing up the moon.

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According to a report by Asian News International, American leaders once seriously considered putting a bomb on the moon in hopes of intimidating the Reds into backing off their space and arms race.

The project, called "A Study of Lunar Research Flights" and nicknamed "Project A119," would have sent a missile carrying a small nuclear warhead 238,000 miles into space to crash into the lunar surface, where it would have detonated on impact. The resulting explosion would have hopefully been enough to rein in Soviet aggression and boost the confidence of Americans living in fear of Sputnik and future Soviet space projects.

The project got so far along that a young graduate student named Carl Sagan (yes, that Carl Sagan) was brought in to predict how the dust and debris from the blast might behave, but the launch never got off the ground.

Apparently military officials and scientists got together and decided there were just too many unknown factors to justify the launch, including how the resulting radiation could affect future American moon visits and what might happen if the nuke should miss its target.

So the moon was never nuked, and the Air Force still won't comment on the plan, but this information will forever serve as a reminder that America almost lived out the plot of a Michael Bay movie in the service of national security.

This would be too unbelievable to be a good movie. It has to be reality.

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