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    Anybody who has ever looked up in the night sky and see that there are hundred and thousand stars, but what about other galaxies? Learning about what lies beyond the star is something many astronomers have been doing hundreds of years. Early astronomers used to tie telescopes to huge balloon to see more of what lies beyond, then later they would use Lear jets and rockets and attached small telescopes discover infrared sources. Soon scientist realized that if they really want study space they

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    Death Is Nothing At All

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    often thinks of the end of a life and the darkness beyond. Poet Henry Scott Holland, in his poem “Death is Nothing At All,” disagrees with the secular and common notion of death and counters with his own views on death. “Death is nothing at all. / I have only slipped away to the next room. / I am I and you are you. / Whatever we were to each other, / That, we still are” (Holland 1-5). This reassuring sentiment that death is merely a step into another life beyond life on Earth about mirrors my own. Death

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    Newton's law of universal gravitation extends gravity beyond earth. The law of the universal gravitation is about the universality of gravity. Newton's law of universal gravitation states that every particle is attached with each other particle in the universe. Newton’s law of the universal gravitation states that, “Any two bodies in the universe attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between

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    the Earth was its own self-regulating, independent system. This complex system is made up of biotic and abiotic factors that interact, and evolve together to form a single organism. Although many environmentalists do agree with Lovelock's ideas, there are also scientists who do not accept his ideas. Many scientists disagree with him due to their belief in the contradiction of natural selection. Lovelock first formulated this hypothesis while working with NASA to detect whether there is life on Mars

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    John Locke Greed Essay

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    argues that God gave mankind the Earth to enjoy, but man's inherent greed is responsible for destroying the Earth. John Locke recognizes the inherent greediness of mankind, and establishes a definitive line between enjoying and abusing God’s gift to man: “Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy.” Throughout this passage, greed is defined as allowing one’s property to become spoiled or destroyed. Whereas enjoyment is defined as the ability to enjoy the life of one’s property before it is

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    The Existence of God has been a theory that has plagued the earth for centuries; a belief that not even the wisest can prove or deny. Many people argue that there may or may not be a God, or different Gods. As humans how do we know what exists beyond our eyesight? If we can’t see it, why should we believe in it? People who believe in God don’t even know why they believe in God. Atheists who tend to have a wider knowledge than those who are Believers. Atheists depends on facts and data, to prove everything

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    Aliens and life beyond earth has been a mystery for a long time. Many people and scientist have been looking for life outside of Earth, or just floating in the sky trying to get video of it. For all of human history we have been looking for extraterrestrial life, and these are the major events of finding, debunking, and moving forward to life on earth There have been so many alien sightings in the past hundred years. Fox News states that “The alien expert reckons there have been nearly 105,000

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    concept. Additionally, as climate change worsens on Earth and the human population continues to grow, the idea of moving out of Earth and beginning fresh becomes more and more appealing. However, Earth is the only planet known to sustain life, and whether life can be sustained elsewhere is a question that still needs to be answered. Space colonization presents a variety of new problems that need to be solved and dangers that need to be accounted for. Beyond the most obvious

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    are positioned into a total of six orbits. The GPS satellites circle the Earth at an altitude of about 20,000 km (13,000 miles) and complete two full orbits every day in which the satellites broadcast radio waves towards the receiver. As technology advances, we began to further our understanding of the outer space by the use of rockets. These rockets are traveling miles beyond earth to study other planet life and compare earth to these outer planets. During this experience with rockets I learned

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    The temporal life is the one we live before the second coming of Christ . It is vastly different from the Eternal life we are promised if we live by the word of God. In the temporal life Satan still plays an active role in this world .As a result, , suffering, heart ache and sin don't just exist they are rampant and a common part of life. "His influence is not just seen in human beings by the earth itself"(Rice,1997,pp.344). Everything decays and dies eventually before the second coming of Christ

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