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Some other (quasi-random) stuff I'm interested in

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  Words (and music) from the late great Duane Allman. 'nuff said.
  
  
• "The wonderful thing about science is that eventually nature tells you when you are fooling yourself. Real objects can be measured again and measured by somebody else -- false signals will eventually be weeded out." -- Robert Kirshner, The Extravagant Universe.
  
  
• Flight, try SCE to AUX -- John Aaron, Apollo 12 mission control, to Alan Bean, Apollo 12 lunar module pilot
  
  Complexity and the Internet
  
  The Route Views Project
  
  
• Favorite Messier Objects
  
  
  • Spiral Galaxy M106 (aka NGC 4258), type Sbp, in Canes Venatici
    
    
    
    
    
    • M106 was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781.
      
      
    • This bright spiral galaxy is on the order of 21 to 25 million light years distant. It is receding at 537 km/sec. Sandage suspects it may be a member of the Ursa Major cloud, a loose agglomeration of galaxies which probably also homes M108 and M109, while Tully lists it in the Coma-Sculptor cloud. While M106 is usually classified as peculiar "normal" spiral of type Sb (or Sbp), Tully classifies it as SABbc, i.e., intermediate between Sb and Sc, and intermediate between normal and barred spirals. (see http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m106.html)
    
    
    
  • Hubble Image of m104 (the Sombrero Galaxy)
    
    



• Hey, let's take care of our oceans too
  
  

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