Uninformed Masses Believed Earth Was Flat

once uninformed masses
believed the earth was flat
during medieval dark ages

yet esteemed ancient Greeks
knew earth was really a sphere
calculated degree of horizons

now sol is a singular star believe masses
yet over 80% of all solar systems
according to NASA have multiple suns

bright stellar fires of smaller suns
some not much bigger than Jupiter
most common suns brown dwarfs

12 to 80 times Jupiter’s size brown dwarfs
found floating freely in interstellar space
also proliferate as binary star companions

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.

quote by Walter Lang
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Solar System

What do the planets mean? and have you ever seen
Sunrise in the morn? it shined when you were born.
Saturn has rings all around it
I searched the sky and I found it
Solar system
Brings us wisdom
Then theres the milky way, thats where the angels play
Youve seen the lovers moon, looks good in the month of june
Neptune is God of the sea-ea-ea
Pluto is too far to see-ee-ee
Solar system
Brings us wisdom
The constellations are stars that form animals
Leo and capricorn, too
Star bright, star light
Make this wish come true tonight
If mars had life on it I might find my wife on it
Venus the goddess of love can thank all the stars above
Mercurys close to the sun
Youll see it when day is done

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song performed by Beach Boys
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Secret Long Elliptical Orbit

Recent discoveries really
point to revealed existence
of an old brown dwarf

an unborn twin of Sol.
Unlike known familiar
near-circular orbits

of known planets
in our solar system
this unborn twin

has secret long elliptical
orbit that seldom brings
it through core heart system

brings it through
core of our solar
system but once

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

quote by Dan Quayle
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Big space telescope
tuned fine on solar system
looks for small angels.

haiku by Gert Strydom
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Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.

quote by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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Black Matter Destination

It is not a problem, of course, the Milky Way is
still attracted by a heavy object in defiance
of the general Hubble expansion

It is a change of names and a location behind
the Great Attractor, the movement is the same
I am delighted that contrariness

Still marks the direction in which the Solar
System is taken while orbiting around the
Centre of the Solar System

Sitting tight in the Sagittarius arm, we are pulled
towards the Shapley Supercluster, a mysterious
Black Matter destination…

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Notes from my Diary

Sunday 19 August 2012

No Hope for Me

Sitting in the sun - sitting in the car,
nice and warm, my daughter's music
vibrating in my ears, here at the car-
wash, she's paying for the privilege
to drive the sturdy Suzuki

I showed her my notebook covered
with lined paper in violet, purple, pink
and green, she ungraciously remarked
she was better at it, she had learnt at
school as I made a mess of Desifix

She coolly informed me there was no
hope for me when she saw my purple
plastic bag which I carried to strengthen
my purple aura tapering off to violet

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Binary Star Brown Dwarf

“wisdom dictates
classified files
ultra death seals

are not played
out in public arena”

trump disclosure

is brown dwarf
Marduk course
is magnetic pole

migration
poles shift
symptoms

associated
brown dwarf
sun binary star

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.

quote by George Wald
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

quote by Kalpana Chawla
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It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.

quote by Johannes Stark
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Ego Of Immense Proportions

An ego
of stellar
proportions

has little
consideration
for a small

ice moon
orbiting
upon

the edge
of a far flung
solar system.

poem by Terence George Craddock
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Solar System Sunset

Our solar system – our Sun-King and his planetary minions
happily enthroned in Orion, looking out towards Sagittarius
prancing like a horse, gyrating up and down
while orbiting around the Milky Way centre
part of a star-supercluster speeding towards
an unknown destination attracted by invisible power -
has already completed the course
twenty-one times
dipping and rising like a horse on a merry-go-round

Leaving us with this question:

Will the solar system one day
disentangle itself and ride off
into a celestial sunset
free from its spiralling orbit
around the Milky Way centre?

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I am a star because of you so far

I am a star
Larger than the moon
Size cannot be seen
I’m because of so far

My brightness and light
More powerful than the sun
It doesn’t feel
As the moon is so close

I am an outsider
And also an exoplanet*
To the solar system
And far away from light years

I ‘m also a moon
But not a parasite
And but more sensitive
To the dark and to the moon
But a star to you

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Pisces To Aquarius

Earth’s solar system enters photon belt
Event that comes ‘round every 26,000 years
Pisces to Aquarius foretold by ancient Celts
Humankind about to probe some new frontiers

ROTMS

poem by Ray Lucero
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We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.

quote by Larry Niven
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The Oldest Poet in the World

kitchen
toilet
the saloon of a supply-and demand cave
tree
mountains
water
wind
fir e
earth
solar system
syllables
reciter
masks
mouth
ear
eye
fish
colours
how old do you think is the old poet?

poem by Nyein Way
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You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.

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