On the morning of the third day Fíli woke slowly, his mind unwilling to leave his dreams behind. It had been good dream he mused, closing his eyes into the pillow as he sleepily trying to recall what it had been that made him wake with a smile. But attempting to remember the dream was like trying to cup water in his hands; each second it trickled through his fingers until he had to acknowledge that he was awake and his dream had ended. Reluctantly Fili threw back the blankets and furs, standing slowly
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Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-biggest planetary range and fourth-biggest planetary mass in the Solar System. Uranus is comparative in piece to Neptune, and both have distinctive mass synthetic creation from that of the bigger gas titans Jupiter and Saturn. Hence, researchers regularly characterize Uranus and Neptune as "ice monsters" to recognize them from the gas goliaths. Uranus' climate, albeit like Jupiter's and Saturn's in its essential creation of hydrogen and
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Introduction: Our challenge was to create a water bottle rocket, using 2-liter soda bottles, that will fly on demand to at least an altitude of 100 feet (30 meters) and land safely so that the raw egg aboard remains unbroken. Some specifications that our rocket needed to meet were to have a nose cone, 3-4 fins, and a crash proof container. Our rocket was required to be completely finished by the launch date, which caused us to rush through some parts of the construction process. One constraint that
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Asteroids are airless and rocky bodies that revolve around the Sun but are too small to be classified as planets. Within the inner Solar System, there are more than 150 million asteroids whose diameters are longer than 100 metres. But the number is much larger if smaller ones are counted. In fact, thanks to the advanced telescopes, around 5000 new asteroids are discovered by astronomers per month. Asteroids come in various compositions, shapes and sizes. Some are solid, some are complex mixtures
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Why did Columbus travel west? Why did Marco Polo head east? Because it is that pull, that unknown, that unknown pull of adventure that urges humans to seek new frontiers to explore. 67% of people say that we should hold a manned mission to Mars. If we do have a manned mission I think that it will help economically because when the space race was going on between Russia and the U.S it provided many jobs to people and bettered the economy. I think that the U.S should hold a manned mission to Mars.
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things out with positve things. So if you are working negatively you should always make up for it by doing very positive things and remember it will come back to you. the moon rises one hour to several hours behind the sun and can be seen following the sun during the day that when the sun goes down it shows brightly. The relationship between the waning gibbous and waning crescent phases of the moon are opposite to those of the waxing phase because as the moon approaches the darkest point, it's decreasing
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People have had an innate curiosity about the world since the beginning of time. Many observations and discoveries have been made over the last several thousand years. Such observations include that the Sun slowly travels east during the year relative to the zodiac constellations, the stars do not appear to shift their positions, and the planets exhibit retrograde motion. The Mesopotamians developed the idea that the Earth and the heavens were a spatial whole, making references to the circumference
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An air show team like the Canadian Forces Snowbirds has a lot in common with a major rock band when you think about it. Possibly the most common similarity is that neither concerts or air show perforomances would ever happen without an exceptional amount of behind the scenes work done by people who rarely share the limelight of the performances they make happen. Bands have an army of "roadies" that do all the work necessary to make sure their shows go on and the Snowbirds similarly have their own
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Summer hangs, and summer lulls. Lay in the park, smoke in the dark, as the song goes. Its lush grass and leaves and flowers and cushioning warmth brings with it particular sluggishness, a wading. The days are slower, the sun is hotter, and the air is thick and saccharine like molasses, slowing down the traffic of our thoughts and of our discourse. The season’s circular shoegaze marks for us a lens of the mind with which we are familiar; in our youth and not, between chores and shifts, our minds hang
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In the essay "Let There Be Dark" by Paul Bogard, Bogard uses evidence and reasoning in order to successfully persuade the audience that natural darkness should be preserved. Bogard begins with an anecdote, by telling a story from his childhood. He then provides evidence that darkness is beneficial to our health, and conversely, artificial light isn't. He then addresses the problem, which is that due to pollution and other artificial light sources, our nights are getting brighter. In the final paragraph
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