Amazing Minecraft interactive map of Earth.
A cool minecraft map of the Earth. Seems like it would be fun.
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Install Google Earth easily and browse the planet.
Install the Google Earth viewer easily on Ubuntu. This allows viewing any place on the Earth you wish to see. As well as street view and 360 photos. Download Google Earth from this link. https://dl.google.com/dl/earth/client/current/google-earth-pro-stable_current_amd64.deb. Then easily install it on Ubuntu. 4.4 Fri Jun 19 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ sudo dpkg…
Read MoreNew Chinese movie set in the future where Earth is turned into a spaceship.
The new Chinese film “Wandering Earth” concerns the death of the Sun and it turning into a red Giant early. And the massive project to propel the Earth out of the solar system and to Alpha Centauri in 2500 years. This would require a speed of 1.074×10^6 mph (miles per…
Read MoreAstronomers discover furthest galaxy from the Earth. 13.3 billion light-years away from us.
Astronomers have found the furthest galaxy from the Earth, this one is 13.3 billion light-years from Earth; meaning that the light from this galaxy has been traveling for just about the entire history of our known universe. Of course this galaxy would no longer exist now; the stars within would…
Read MoreHow to install Google Earth on Ubuntu GNU/Linux.
Firstly, install the prerequisites for the Google Earth installation. jason$ sudo apt-get install lsb-corejason$ sudo apt-get install lsb-core Then we need to download the Debian apt package of Google Earth. jason$ wget -O google-earth64.deb http://dl.google.com/dl/earth/client/current/google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb –2016-10-19 16:05:07– http://dl.google.com/dl/earth/client/current/google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb Resolving dl.google.com (dl.google.com)… 172.217.25.46, 2404:6800:4006:802::200e Connecting to dl.google.com (dl.google.com)|172.217.25.46|:80… connected. HTTP request…
Read MoreNew exoplanet discovered 500 light years from Earth.
A new planet 500 light-years from Earth has been discovered. This is an Earth-like planet that is slightly larger than our planet with a dimmer sun. This planet could harbor life on its surface, but the massive distance from Earth to this planet means that we will never see the…
Read MoreNew exoplanet HD 97658 discovered. Nearly eight times the mass of Earth.
A new exoplanet has been measured, HD 97658. This planet is hardly larger than the planet Earth, but this is nearly eight times the mass of our planet. This means that the gravitational pull would be much higher than Earth. Possibly 6-7 times the gravity of Earth and also it…
Read MoreHow to install Google Earth on Linux Mint 14 Nadia with the Google deb package.
I was trying to install the Google Earth 64bit *.deb package on Linux Mint 14 and I had some dependency errors. john@adeptus-mechanicus ~/Downloads $ sudo dpkg -i google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb [sudo] password for john: Selecting previously unselected package google-earth-stable. (Reading database … 282027 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking google-earth-stable (from google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb)…
Read MoreTotal Recall Gravity Train through the Earth; The physics are BS in the extreme.
This is the train through the core of the Earth that the movie Total Recall (2012), features. How is this supposed to work, the pressure at the core of the Earth is many, many times that at the surface and the temperature is 5430 °C, the temperature of the photo-sphere of the…
Read MoreQuick Linux primer, some useful commands to get started with Linux Mint 13.
If you are just getting started with Linux, then this will be helpful. If you are moving from an Ubuntu installation to a Linux Mint one, then you will need to download an ISO image from here: http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php/ then burn it to a DVD. The command below will use the…
Read MoreAlien origin of mankind? What is Prometheus teaching us about our history?
The Ridley Scott movie that has just been released, that is a prequel to the first Alien film is a movie that introduces the moviegoer to the Space Jockeys and the Engineers that supposedly created life on this planet. In the novelization of the Alien move the alien race that…
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