Blowfish great post-fascinating stuff!
Puts me in mind of a quote from a British geologist,
"The universe is not only stranger than we imagine-it is stranger than we can imagine".




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It depends on the individual's ability to innovate and understand the world around them - if conventional science fails, then one must use another method.

Sometimes we are literally forced to simply accept things as they are, which can be said about the true existence of anything - we accept reality because it is reality, if we did not accept it that would technically make us "insane", at least if you believe the mainstream perspective on such a mentality.

In otherwords, it's impossible to predict what's going on outside Earth unless we have first-hand knowledge of it.

Great find

I liked this one in particular...

10 The Kuiper cliff

IF YOU travel out to the far edge of the solar system, into the frigid wastes beyond Pluto, you'll see something strange. Suddenly, after passing through the Kuiper belt, a region of space teeming with icy rocks, there's nothing.

Astronomers call this boundary the Kuiper cliff, because the density of space rocks drops off so steeply. What caused it? The only answer seems to be a 10th planet. We're not talking about Quaoar or Sedna: this is a massive object, as big as Earth or Mars, that has swept the area clean of debris.

The evidence for the existence of "Planet X" is compelling, says Alan Stern, an astronomer at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. But although calculations show that such a body could account for the Kuiper cliff (Icarus, vol 160, p 32), no one has ever seen this fabled 10th planet.

There's a good reason for that. The Kuiper belt is just too far away for us to get a decent view. We need to get out there and have a look before we can say anything about the region. And that won't be possible for another decade, at least. NASA's New Horizons probe, which will head out to Pluto and the Kuiper belt, is scheduled for launch in January 2006. It won't reach Pluto until 2015, so if you are looking for an explanation of the vast, empty gulf of the Kuiper cliff, watch this space.

Very interesting!

Yeah pretty incredible stuff!

the mind can affect the body's biochemistry.

So the power of positive thinking is proven.

Great stuff.