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Mind Blowing Flight Through The Universe

Take a flight through a sliver of the known Universe in the most intricate 3D animation of space and time mankind has ever seen. Video credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory www.youtube.com Music by Kevin MacLeod, “Comfortable Mystery” incompetech.com Join the conversation on Facebook www.facebook.com Add TDC to your circles on Google+ plus.google.com Follow The Daily [...]

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An Intergalactic Collision

This simulation shows two galaxies in a billion year tango of epic proportions. From NASA: This simulation, which represents a few billion years of evolution, shows two disk galaxies interacting in a graceful gravitational dance. The color represents the temperature of the gas in the galaxies. The simulation shows how gravity can rearrange the gas [...]

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Earth From Space Flyover Compilation

The International Space Station (ISS) captured these incredible videos of the Earth from low orbit. Join the conversation on Facebook www.facebook.com Add TDC to your circles on Google+ plus.google.com Follow The Daily Conversation on Twitter www.twitter.com Check out more ISS videos from NASA, here: eol.jsc.nasa.gov Keywords: TDC TheDailyConversation The Daily Conversation

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Flying Through Space

Take a flight through a sliver of the known Universe in the most intricate 3D animation of space and time mankind has ever seen. Video credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory www.youtube.com Music by Kevin MacLeod, “Comfortable Mystery” incompetech.com Join the conversation on Facebook www.facebook.com Add TDC to your circles on Google+ plus.google.com Follow The Daily [...]

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Earth Flyover Compilation

The International Space Station (ISS) captured these incredible videos of the Earth from low orbit. Join the conversation on Facebook www.facebook.com Add TDC to your circles on Google+ plus.google.com Follow The Daily Conversation on Twitter www.twitter.com Check out more ISS videos from NASA, here: eol.jsc.nasa.gov Keywords: TDC TheDailyConversation The Daily Conversation

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Curiosity and the Legacy of the Mars Rover Program

William J. Clancey, Chief Scientist of Human-Centered Computing at the Intelligent Systems Division of the NASA Ames Center, discusses the lessons learned from the Mars Exploration Rovers “Spirit” and “Opportunity”, and offers predictions for their latest rover, “Curiosity”. Complete video available for purchase at fora.tv

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Curiosity Has Landed: Mars Rover Touches Down On Red Planet

Relive the nail-biting terror and joy as NASA’s Curiosity rover successfully lands on Mars. Join the conversation on Facebook www.facebook.com Add TDC to your circles on Google+ plus.google.com Follow The Daily Conversation on Twitter www.twitter.com The Curiosity rover is car-sized Mars rover examining a deep crater near the Mars’ equator. The rover is the largest [...]

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HOPEful: Hackers seek ways to open govt secrets to public

The hackers’ conference that once inspired Julian Assange to create WikiLeaks is underway in New York. Though the whistleblower may be waiting in limbo at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, his cause is alive and kicking across the Atlantic. Years before WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, there was HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth). This community’s ninth [...]

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A Homeless Polar Bear in London – Ft. Jude Law and Radiohead

www.savethearctic.org – Our leaders won’t listen to her, but they’ll listen to you. What do you have to say to those who want to destroy the Arctic? Tell us in a comment! Greenpeace, Jude Law, Radiohead and hundreds of thousands of people around the world are coming together to demand we save the Arctic from [...]

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Vicious Circle – narrated by John Hurt

www.SaveTheArctic.org Today the Arctic is rising. The campaign was launched today because the Arctic Circle is defined as the area of the globe where on the summer solstice – June 21st – the sun doesn’t set for a whole day. Shell is due to begin exploratory drilling at two offshore sites in the Alaskan Arctic [...]

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Climate Change Denier KO’ed!

The Heartland Institute – one of the main groups fighting progress on climate change – is failing: its annual conference drew just 300 attendees this year and it is having trouble raising enough money to meet payroll. Read the full story here: www.rawstory.com 62 percent of Americans now believe in Global Warming (climate change): www.rawstory.com [...]

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We’ve Lost 30% of Our Wildlife Since 1970

A new report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) found that in the past few decades, wildlife populations have declined by about 30 percent. Read the full story here: grist.org Check out the study here: www.worldwildlife.org Add TDC to your circles on Google+ plus.google.com Join the conversation on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow The Daily Conversation on [...]

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