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Posted on 12/20/2005 7:17:35 PM PST by KevinDavis
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To: brytlea
how they can discern these things Spectroscopy. It is similar to methods used in chemistry lab.
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posted on
12/21/2005 11:00:46 AM PST
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RightWhale
(pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
To: brytlea
This was basically homemade, and he turned spectrograph into a spectroscope. Like another here said, a spectroscope is just an instrument for revealing and observing spectra. Doing this can help determine what things are made of. It takes light and splits it up into component colors. Different elements show up as different colors.
To: KevinDavis
These articles are always tremendously misleading. They're talking about simple hydrocarbons (formaldehydes, alcohols). It's like saying that quartz, silicon, aluminum and copper are the basic building blocks of a laptop computer. Technically true, practically meaningless.
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posted on
12/21/2005 11:34:18 AM PST
by
frgoff
To: Jigsaw John; RightWhale
THank you both for your answers!
susie
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posted on
12/22/2005 2:21:30 PM PST
by
brytlea
(I'm not a conspiracy theorist....really.)
To: brytlea
You're welcome.
And nice dogs!
To: Jigsaw John
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posted on
12/22/2005 3:55:46 PM PST
by
brytlea
(I'm not a conspiracy theorist....really.)
To: brytlea
Nice lizard too. I like lizards. Out west here, I feed fence lizards, (blue bellys). Got them trained. I buy meal worms at the local store, and they come a runnin, and eat right out of my hand. Takes some time to train them. It's fun.
To: Jigsaw John
I like most reptiles. We have more lizards here than we can shake a stick at, but many are not native. I like em anyway.
susie
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posted on
12/24/2005 4:10:12 PM PST
by
brytlea
(I'm not a conspiracy theorist....really.)
To: brytlea
To: brytlea
Can someone explain to me how they can discern these things from this far away?
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posted on
12/24/2005 7:12:07 PM PST
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Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: Revolting cat!
ROFL! I have one of those, I'm going to start seeing if I can discover something on a distant world!! :)
susie
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12/26/2005 7:25:39 AM PST
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brytlea
(I'm not a conspiracy theorist....really.)
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