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    Water and Organic Compounds Found on a Second Asteroid | Dr. Kaku's Universe | Big Think

    bigthink.com

    Six months ago, in late April, Research teams at the NASA Infrared Telescope facility in Hawaii made an astonishing discovery. They found that both water ice and organic compounds exist on an asteroid named 24 Themis which circles the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

    :bingo:

    adding to asteroids brought the components for life to earth

    deity free

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    Americans United for Separation of Church and State ‎(AU Press Release)

    Appeals Court Should Strike Down the National Day of Prayer

    www.au.orgAmericans United for Separation of Church and State has asked a federal appeals court to find the congressionally mandated National Day of Prayer unconstitutional.

    In a friend-of-the-court brief filed with the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Americans United urged the panel of judges to affirm a lower court decision that held the National Day of Prayer statute unconstitutional.

    In April, U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb of the Western District of Wisconsin ruled that the federal law violates the constitutional separation of church and state. The Obama administration has appealed Crabb’s decision to the 7th Circuit.

    “Congress needs to get out of the prayer business,” said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Americans United executive director. “Prayer is an inherently religious practice, and our Constitution makes it clear that promoting it is not part of the government’s job.

    “Americans are free to pray whenever they want,” Lynn continued. “It's obvious this ‘holiday’ is not really about the freedom to worship, but rather another opportunity for certain religious groups to use government to push their narrow viewpoint on the rest of us.

    uh, no duh there should be no prayer day. our govt is supposed to step back and stay outta all that shit not dance in it and take it into session with them or encourage people to be religious. being free of an oppressive church is kinda one of the things ppl even colonized this continent for :look: . Keep yer religious to yerself and I'll keep mine to myself and we'll just live under a system of rational laws. founding principle of this country, freedom of religion also includes the freedom to not believe in anything or not actively participate in a name brand religion and just do your own thing, agnostic.

    boot it. it's gotta go. So does under God on money and in the pledge. Enough is enough of this rhetoric, stop cramming a belief system down peoples throats.

    the agnostic tangent

    It has its appeal because you can cherry pick not just 1 religion but all religions. You can still believe that there is a god or gods that love you and will (to borrow from Bill) party with your ghost forever.

    You can pull all the things out that are comforting and leave the rest from any religious brand you please.

    All the suffering and destruction of the religion you pulled it from isn't your problem because you don't subscribe to that brand.

    You have a permanent loving parental figure that you can talk to whenever you want even telepathically who is there just to support you. And if he's got minions you can call on them too.

    All the perks of religion none of the responsibility.

    When I realized what my agnosticism was I became a atheist/rationalist :slap:

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    this is the shit Citizens United has caused like I mutherfuckin knew it would

    Sign the petition

    Dear MoveOn member,

    An explosive new report just came out and it shows that foreign

    corporations are funding some of the $75 million the U.S. Chamber of

    Commerce is spending to defeat Democrats this election cycle.1

    Funneling money from foreign interests into American elections is a

    federal crime. And if we're going to have faith in our elections, we need

    to know that they weren't bought by foreign corporations.

    But most electoral investigations take a long time, which could leave the

    election of 2010 under a cloud for years. So we've filed a formal request

    to the Department of Justice to investigate, but we need to show broad

    public support for immediate action to stop the Chamber from using money

    that represents foreigners' interests to influence American elections.

    Click here to sign a petition asking for an immediate investigation to

    examine relevant records and stop the flow of illegal funds into American

    elections.

    http://pol.moveon.org/chamberinvestigation/o.pl?id=23885-11954441-6Q4clux&t=10

    The petition says: "American elections should not be for sale to foreign

    companies. The Department of Justice must launch an immediate

    investigation into the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's use of money from

    foreign corporations to influence our elections."

    The Chamber claims that it has internal systems to keep the money

    separate, but the report shows that the foreign corporations donate

    directly to the Chamber's general fund, which is where the funding for

    their political attacks comes from. This would represent a shocking

    disregard for longstanding American campaign finance laws, all to advance

    a corporate, right-wing agenda of outsourcing jobs and giving huge tax

    breaks to multi-national corporations.2

    According to the report the Chamber is allegedly raising money from firms

    in "China, India, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Russia, and many other

    places." Even Russian banks and state-owned oil companies in Abu Dhabi may

    have contributed.

    The Chamber is spending more than any other group to back right-wing

    Republicans and attack progressives in the election. We've filed a formal

    complaint to the Department of Justice, but we need them to move

    immediately, or it'll soon be too late.

    Please, click here to add your name to the petition:

    http://pol.moveon.org/chamberinvestigation/o.pl?id=23885-11954441-6Q4clux&t=11

    Thanks for all you do.

    --Justin, Robin, Nita, Lenore, and the rest of the team

    pass this shit around too

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    email Tues

    Dear Friends,

    Just in time to give this weekend's Global Work Party [ http://www.350.org/101010 ] a White House-sized boost, the Obama administration announced this morning [ http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iMUnrmqM-z3tMC3a3JZRFIqrJKHQD9ILFH9G1?docId=D9ILFH9G1 ] that they are going to put solar panels on the First Family's living quarters, returning to a tradition begun by president Jimmy Carter and abandoned by Ronald Reagan.

    It's a great win for your efforts over the last months--everyone who wrote letters, signed petitions for our "Put Solar On It" campaign [ http://www.putsolaron.it/whitehouse ], and turned out for the Solar Road Trip [ http://putsolaron.it/road-trip/ ] as we rolled down the east coast from Unity College towing one of the original Carter panels. We were disappointed that day that the White House wasn't prepared to go solar, but are now very happy and honored that they took our suggestion to look into the matter seriously.

    Solar panels on one house, even this house, won't save the climate, of course. But they're a powerful symbol to the whole nation about where the future lies. And President Obama will wake up every morning and make his toast by the power of the sun (do presidents make toast?), which will be a constant reminder to be pushing the U.S. Congress for the kind of comprehensive reform we need.

    And remember, President Obama's not alone: tomorrow, Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed and a crew from Sungevity will be putting solar panels on the Muliaa'ge, the "White House of the Maldives". It's a trend!

    Of course, both of these initiatives are perfectly timed to lead into this weekend's Global Work Party, when 6127 carbon-cutting events (and rising) will take place in 187 countries. If you haven't already gotten involved, now is most definitely the time to join an event near you [ http://www.350.org/map ]--or register your own. [ http://www.350.org/oct10 ]

    The first account of the news from the White House, from Associated Press [ http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iMUnrmqM-z3tMC3a3JZRFIqrJKHQD9ILFH9G1?docId=D9ILFH9G1 ] reporter Dina Cappiello, noted the efforts of 350.org to make this happen. In particular, I'd like to salute Jean Altomare, Amanda Nelson, and Jamie Nemecek, the three young women from Unity College who brought the Carter solar panels to Washington DC, and made such an impression on the White House.

    They remind all of us why we'll be working hard this weekend for the Global Work Party--and why, when the day is done, we'll be putting down our hammers and our shovels and picking up our cellphones to call our leaders.

    You never know what will happen when you ask for change.

    Onwards,

    Bill McKibben for the 350.org Team

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    Scientists have found a new planet called Gliese 581g and this made them all go crazy: why? Because it’s the first really truly Goldilocks planet. The Gliese 581g planet has an atmosphere, gravity, and the average temperature is -12 degrees Celsius. Yeah, it’s cold, but life is possible there.

    Wiki

    Gliese 581 g (pronounced /ˈɡliːzə/) or Gl 581 g,[2] is an extrasolar planet, orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 581, approximately 20.5 light-years[3] away from Earth in the constellation of Libra. It is the sixth planet discovered in the Gliese 581 planetary system and the fourth in order of increasing distance from the star. The planet was discovered by the Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey after more than a decade of observation. Despite the Gliese 581 system having a "somewhat checkered history of habitable planet claims,"[1] results from the study imply that the planet is located in the middle of the Goldilocks, or habitable zone of its parent star, where the existence of liquid water is considered a strong possibility.[4]

    The discovery of Gliese 581 g was announced in late September 2010,[1] and it is believed to be the first Goldilocks planet ever found, the most Earth-like planet, and the best exoplanet candidate with the potential for harboring life found to date.[5] The detection of Gliese 581 g in such a short period of time and at such a close proximity, leads astronomers to believe that the occurrence of habitable planets around other stars may be much higher than was once thought.

    Derrick Pitts of The Franklin Institute discusses.

    [ame]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/39449770#39449770[/ame]

    :glasses:

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