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Asymptotic Approaches

"We have a method, and that method helps us to reach not absolute truth, only asymptotic approaches to the truth — never there, just closer and closer, always finding vast new oceans of undiscovered possibilities." - Carl Sagan

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  • Monster Waves on the Sun are Real

    News Flash: Huge object in out solar system does everything extra huge.

    NASA:

    The scale of the thing was staggering. It rose up higher than Earth itself and rippled out from a central point in a circular pattern millions of kilometers in circumference. Skeptical observers suggested it might be a shadow of some kind—a trick of the eye—but surely not a real wave.

    “Now we know,” says Joe Gurman of the Solar Physics Lab at the Goddard Space Flight Center. “Solar tsunamis are real.”

    Makes tsunami’s on earth seem like pebble ripples. Not even. More like the ripples made by bugs as they walk on surface tension.

    Posted on November 29, 2009

    Source: science.nasa.gov

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