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Bit of a long video this one but fascinating stuff if you’ve any interest in cosmology.

I do like the idea of “Science at the Theater”, there are loads of public lectures in London so I really should make an effort to see a few more.

Berkeley Lab’s Oct. 26 Science at the Theater event, “Dark Secrets: What Science Tells Us About the Hidden Universe,” was a smash hit: more than 600 people packed the Berkeley Repertory Theatre and over a hundred people had to be turned away.

No mystery is bigger than dark energy — the elusive force that makes up three-quarters of the Universe and is causing it to expand at an accelerating rate. Join a panel of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists who use phenomena such as exploding stars and gravitational lenses to explore the dark cosmos.

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CCTV footage of a meteor seen over South Africa on 21st November 2009.

I don’t think they’ve found where any of it landed yet and the Astronomical Society of South Africa has pointed out to any potential rock sellers that it is the property of the state not anyone who happens to have a new scenic crater in their garden.

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