Naiad was discovered in August 1989 by Voyager 2. This satellite orbits Neptune every seven hours, close to the equator. Further, Naiad’s orbit lacks eccentricity. This satellite is the innermost […]
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Category: Blog, Commentary and Articles
A section containing all blog entries, articles and commentaries. Many of these entries were imported from my earlier Blogspot, MovableType and WordPress blogs. In addition, political commentary, articles and essays written for publication and coursework can be found here. Much of the commentary in this section was published in The Multiracial Activist, The Abolitionist Examiner, The Good Men Project and Interracial Voice. Many essays in this section were written for coursework at the American Military University.
Rhea: Mother of the Gods
Saturn’s second largest moon is Rhea, named for the mother of Zeus in Greek mythology. The satellite has albedo features, no atmosphere, and visible ice deposits. This moon has a […]
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Harpalyke
Harpalyke, previously known as S/2000 J5, is one of Jupiter’s 60+ natural satellites. This moon was discovered in 2000 by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, Yan Fernandez and Gene […]
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Seeding the Solar System?
An interesting scientific theory regarding the origins of life on Earth involves asteroid and asteroid fragment impacts. The theory is that meteorites containing polyhydroxylated sugar compounds impacted Earth acting as […]
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Wonders
While researching for some course work in Introduction to Astronomy for AMU, my six year old little boy was looking over my shoulder. So, I figured I'd explain to him […]
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Numbers Game
Dr. Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at the Independent Institute, on Body Count Redux: During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military released […]
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Watching You
Clay Reddick of The Daily Texan on Undercover officers at anti-war meetings: APD officers were secretly present at protest plannings: Documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas […]
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Apartheid Thugs In Iraq
APARTHEID ENFORCERS GUARD IRAQ FOR THE U.S. Marc Perelman, Forward, 2/18/04 In its effort to relieve overstretched U.S. troops in Iraq, the Bush administration has hired a private security company […]
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Quote of the Day
Julian Sanchez on Stan Kurtz: Sometimes, Stan, you don't get "refuted" because your opponents don't have arguments. But sometimes you don't get refuted because clowns are to laugh at, not […]
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Kreutz Sun-grazers
On June 1 and 2, 1998, two comets entered and burned up in Sol’s atmosphere. Interestingly, a coronal mass ejection of gas and magnetic energy occurred on June 2, 1998 […]
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