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January 1st, 2010 | 
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It is getting to the point where planets are being found everywhere. Fifty here, fifty there, well maybe I am exaggerating a little, but there are a lot of planets out there. Now that we know for sure that planets exist outside our own solar system, maybe we should stop counting the ones that we find. Why do I say this? Our galaxy is only one of billions, or even more. It contains over 100,000,000,000 stars. If only one star in three has planets around it and lets say the average amount of planets is 4, we are looking at a heck of a lot of planets my friends. That is roughly 133,333,333,333 planets in only our own galaxy. If only one planet of these in 1,000 has life, we are looking at 13,333,333 planets containing life. If only 1 in 1,000 of these has intelligent life, we are look at 13,333 planets in our galaxy that contain intelligent life. Now you know why we are searching for signals from planets with intelligent life, it is because the numbers favor the chances of it being there. Our world can’t be that special that we are the only intelligent beings in the galaxy. It would be very closed minded of us to believe this. Even if we take the bible as a literal interpretation of God’s word, I don’t think there is anything in there that prohibits life in other places besides Earth. Maybe I will receive an argument on this, but this is what I believe.
Things are heating up and I’m not talking about global warming. Our solar system and galaxy are experiencing some weird changes. Have we entered an interstellar plasma field as some say? Is it a 2012 phenomena? A coming supernova, enhanced sun spots, or all of the above? In 1989, the sun unleashed a tempest that knocked out power to all of Quebec, Canada, and a remarkable 2003 rampage included 10 major solar flares over a two-week period, knocking out two Earth-orbiting satellites and crippling an instrument aboard a Mars orbiter. And?
A good way to teach your kids their first lesson about the eight or nine planets of the solar system is by combining factual lessons with visible sightings of the planets.
Moon as the Earliest Calendar give readers of the Holy Bible information recorded in ancient times. Lunar/solar calendars were common throughout the ancient world. Three calendar systems that help our study of Bible times are the Jewish, Mesoamerican and the Egyptian calendars. Changes in the appearance of the moon at night provide the seven-day week. Time steps in the lunar/solar calendar accumulate for longer time cycles.
The Moon has a prominent place in myth and folklore throughout human history.
Formation
Venus is the second world from the Sun and is the sixth prevalent. It is the brightest purpose in the night sky excluding for the Moon. Venus orbits the Sun once every 224.7 Earth time and gets as close to the Sun as 107.476 million kilometers and as far away from the Sun as 108.942 million kilometers. This makes the orbit of Venus less elliptical and more circular than any other planets. The temperature on the escalate of Venus can attain as high as 740 degrees Kelvin. This is due to a phenomenon called the greenhouse look whereby carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Venus traps the Suns heat inside. This makes Venus the newest planet in the Solar System. Venus is even hotter than Mercury although being past away from the Sun.
