Would you believe there's a telescope on the floor of the Mediterranean (2,500 meters undder water)?
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I believe you are referring to ANTARES which is not so much a telescope in the usual sense as it does not look for light, but for neutrinos (memories of my dissertation arise).\n\nIt would probably startle you more to discover that the detectors are in fact point DOWNWARDS, towards the centre of the earth, rather than into the sky.  This is because neutrinos will pass through pretty much everything, so the earth's mass makes a great filter from every other space emissions.\n\nIn case you were wondering, the water is an integral part of the equipment, which is why it is under the Mediterranean.\n\nThere is another, similar experiment being set up at the South Pole called IceCUBE which uses a cubic-kilometre of ice.
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thats a deep question today.\n\nTicker tape to the moon is a clue ;) to a  wide part of it
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Up in the sky somewhere, at a guess.
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I see it right now, just below the Centaurus next to Alpha Centauri. Try visiting Astronomy.com and click on star dome
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An international team of astronomers from France, Italy, the UK and Australia has found a previously unknown galaxy colliding with our own Milky Way. This newly-discovered galaxy takes the record for the nearest galaxy to the centre of the Milky Way. Called the Canis Major dwarf galaxy after the constellation in which it lies, it is about 25000 light years away from thesolar system and 42000 light years from the centre of the Milky Way. This i closer than the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, discovered in 1994, which is also colliding with the Milky Way. The discovery shows that the Milky Way is building up its own disk by absorbing small satellite galaxies. The research is to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society within the next few weeks.\n\nThe discovery of the Canis Major dwarf was made possible by a recent survey of the sky in infrared light (the Two-Micron All Sky Survey or "2MASS"), which has allowed astronomers to look beyond the clouds of dust in the disk of the Milky Way. Until now, the dwarf galaxy lay undetected behind the dense disk. "It's like putting on infrared night-vision goggles," says team-member Dr Rodrigo Ibata of Strasbourg Observatory. "We are now able to study a part of the Milky Way that has been previously out of sight".\n\nThe new dwarf galaxy was detected by its M-giant stars =AD cool, red stars that shine especially brightly in infrared light. "We have used these rare M-giant stars as beacons to trace out the shape and location of the new galaxy because its numerous other stars are too faint for us to see," explains Nicolas Martin, also of Strasbourg Observatory. "They are particularly useful stars as we can measure their distances, and so map out the three-dimensional structure of distant regions of the Milky Way disk." In this way, the astronomers found the main dismembered corpse of the dwarf galaxy in Canis Major and long trails of stars leading back to it. It seems that streams of stars pulled out of the cannibalised Canis Major galaxy not only contribute to the outer reaches of the Milky Way's disk, but may also pass close to the Sun.\n\nAstronomers currently believe that large galaxies like the Milky Way grew to their present majestic proportions by consuming their smaller galactic neighbours. They have found that cannibalised galaxies add stars to the vast haloes around large galaxies. However, until now, they did not appreciate that even the disks of galaxies can grow in this fashion. Computer simulations show that the Milky Way has been taking stars from the Canis Major dwarf and adding them to its own disk - and will continue to do so.\n\n"On galactic scales, the Canis Major dwarf galaxy is a lightweight of about only one billion Suns," said Dr. Michele Bellazzini of Bologna Observatory. "This small galaxy is unlikely to hold together much longer. It is being pushed and pulled by the colossal gravity of our Milky Way, which has been progressively stealing its stars and pulling it apart." Some remnants of the Canis Major dwarf form a ring around the disk of the Milky Way.\n\n"The Canis Major dwarf galaxy may have added up to 1% more mass to our Galaxy," said Dr Geraint Lewis of the University of Sydney. "This is also an important discovery because it highlights that the Milky Way is not in its middle age - it is still forming." "Past interactions of the sort we are seeing here could be responsible for some of the exquisite detail we see today in the structure of the Galaxy," says Dr Michael Irwin of the University of Cambridge.
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Imagine how hard it is to try to teach High Schoolers anything about the planets when one of them has a name like this! But anyway, go to NASA's website. There is a place there where you can find anything worth seeing at any location. It will even tell you when stuff like the Space Station will fly overhead. And most telescopes come with locating software if you ever get that involved. I hope you will. It seems like we never learn much about space, but it has taken a long time to get as far as we are now.
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There's no (liquid) water on Mars, and it looks round... so I'd assume the answer would be yes.
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I mean this, too....where are the Arc of the Covenant and the Holy Grail?  Some say they are hidden in secretive places by the Jews, some say they're hidden beneath the Vatican.  Some say Atlantis sank into the sea near present day Greece and some say it sank off the coast of northern Africa.  Some say...some say...until these things are found or proved true they will remain just that....some say!
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OK, you discovered that did you? The next step is for you to notice that the pyramids along the Nile are laid out to mimic the shape of the constellation Orion. I'll wait, go Google that to check. \n\nWhen you are convinced of that, then you must have two more bits of information. Your brain ready for this? \n\nLife on the Nile depended upon the annual flooding to bring life-giving water to the fields. No flooding, not much crops, starvation. Remember Pharaoh's dreams about the fat cows and the lean cows? Right. \n\nPriests need to be able to predict things for their people. It gives people reasons to support their priests. There really are not much as what you can call seasons so near the equator. One thing did show when the flood SHOULD be coming (in otherwords, when it would be raining down south in the mountains of the headwaters of the Nile) and that was when the constellation of Orion, or more properly, the brightest star in the sky (besides the sun) Sirius would rise just a few moments before the sun - the helical rising of Sirius.\n\nThere is a shaft, often called an "air shaft" that goes down the Great Pyramid at Giza, very strictly aligned. When astronomers were able to do computer modeling to take into consideration the procession of the equinoxes and the apparent wobble of the earth on its axis, they were astonished to find out that this air shaft aligned to when Sirius would rise with the Sun. \n\nSirius, as you probably have seen used as the logo for Sirius satellite radio, is called "The Dog Star." \n\nHow does that all go together? And why am I telling you this? One more thing and I will let you go look some more.\n\nLook up the Dogon people of Africa. Remember now that Egypt is on the African continent. They have a story of how they got here (earth). They claim they got here on ships with Gods from another place. That place is Sirius. The gods, they say, had fish tails - looks a lot like the great God Dagon over in the Middle East, Philistines worshipped Him - and at least one of the gods died on the journey. \n\nBut god and dog are English words. None of this is real. This is all just fancy word-play made up to confuse you. Nobody believes this. This is not a story my people tell; this is just something I tell you who read this right now. \n\nDrab as a fool, aloof as a bard!
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No.\nAlthough,I can't prove that it isn't possible...however,science has it's flaws-millions of years ago certainly does sound extremely distant!
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hard to say. i found lots of things in the desert. my husband is a geologist. if you mail me a picture, i will have him look at it.\nthere is lot of crystal stuff in egyptian deserts, most are worthless unless you enjoy it as decoration in your house. does it has a greenish tone in the bottom of the crystals? i have lots of them. it depends also where you found it. if it was near a roman settlement, it could be ancient glass, but if it scratch glass now, i doubt it. i found lots of this, but not this big of a piece, that would be uncommon. tell me more about it, maybe i can help you.\n\nsend me a picture...susuegypt@hotmail.com
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I'll be back after i look it up.\n\nOk, here's what I found below.  Also, what I found reminds me of journey to the center of the earth.  So I think that about covers it.
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It's not so much a myth as a phenomenon.  Planes and ships have been known to disappear in it.  One theory is that there is some kind of electromagnetic anomaly that screws up compasses.
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You would see it, unless it was to far away. Several are seen every year, but they are in other galaxies and are just too far away to see without a telescope. The supernova that left the crab nebula was seen and documented by Chinese astronomers in the 1054. It was visible in daylight for 23 days, and 653 days to the naked eye in the night sky. Another was seen in 1752, and was bright enough to be seen in daylight for about two weeks.\n\nBut as others have pointed out, if it is 1000 light years away, you will not see it until 1000 years after it explodes because light takes 1 year to travel 1 light year. Duh! So the supernova seen in 1054 AD actually exploded in 5246 BC, because it is 6,300 light years away.
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Maybe you could make use of a giant mirror orbiting directly above you geostationarily in space.\n\nSo you could see your house... from the sky. :)
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Regarding chambers beneath the Sphinx - yes, ground penetrating radar studies have revealed several anomalies, none very big, that are probably chambers. It is not clear how many of these reflect natural fissures in the limestone or how many are actual deliberate constructions. It is known that some of these chambers are of fairly recent date - the 1800s, made by explorers and/or in the course of restoration efforts. It is extraordinarily unlikely that there is either a "Chamber of Lost Records" as predicted by Edgar Cayce, nor a "machine" of Atlantean provenance associated with the Sphinx.\nIt is not entirely beyond possibility that there is an ancient chamber dating to the period of the carving/construction of the Sphinx or to later restoration efforts by Tutmose IV and later kings. Such a chamber(s) would likely be a foundation deposit - quite common for constructions of a religious nature in ancient Egypt.\n\n\nSee the following and links therein for a decent summary:\nhttp://www.catchpenny.org/chamber.html...
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No, I read an article and it said that you need a strong telescope and lots and lots of astronomy experience. I was hoping I'd be able to see it too, but I have neither!