{"id":2734,"date":"2010-01-08T06:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2010-01-08T06:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T11:38:00","slug":"repost-50-things-we-know-now-that-we-didnt-know-this-time-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/08\/repost-50-things-we-know-now-that-we-didnt-know-this-time-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:: 50 Things we know now that we didn't know this time last year"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a nice list of factoids. Read it at the linked site!!!!<\/p>\n

\nIf there was an award for best quote of the year, our money would be on Richard Fisher, the director<\/a> of NASA<\/a>‘s Heliophysics Division.
\nFisher was interviewed in October by National Public Radio<\/a> after NASA scientists discovered a mysterious ribbon of hydrogen<\/a> around our solar system<\/a>.
\nThe layer, a sort of protective barrier called the heliosphere<\/a>, shields us from harmful cosmic radiation<\/a>. Its existence defies all expectations about what the edge of the solar system might look like.
\nFisher’s response: “We thought we knew everything about everything, and it turned out that there were unknown unknowns<\/a>.”
\nIn other words: We don’t know what we don’t know until we know that we don’t know it.
\nLife is funny that way. You think you’ve got the world wrapped up in string, only to watch some bit of news come along to unravel your comprehension of how things work.
\nOne thing we did expect: that 2009 would be full of strange and wonderful revelations.
\nvia AT&T – 50 Things we know now that we didn’t know this time last year<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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