Sorry all, for even using the P word in this group. But it's the silly season when politicians will say almost anything to get/retain their jobs - at our expense. This popped up.
"This should be a no-brainer at this point," ScienceDebate CEO Shawn Lawrence Otto said in a statement Thursday. "Candidates debate the economy even though they are not economists, foreign policy even though they're not diplomats or generals, and faith and values even though they are not priests or pastors. They should also be debating the big science questions that have equal or greater impact on voters' lives."
14 Science questions for our campaigners
http://www.sciencedebate.org/questions.html
Chris, if you don't feel this is relevant, as owner, stop this topic. No hard feelings. BP

And here's an article that should sound vaguely familiar
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/03/black-hole-massive_n_1735524.html

Oo-Oo Take the quiz at the end!
http://www.space.com/15906-black-hole-quiz-facts.html

Becha'r as smart as Einstein!

Great working with all of you! BP

A curriculum guide with activities from the Adler Planetarium Gr 5-8
http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/documents/curriculum-resources/gravity5-8.pdf

video Part 1 narrated by Liam Neeson, (subtitulado en espanol). Launch of the Swift telescope and an introduction to Black Holes (agujoros negros)(11:38 minutes) spacetime Einstein
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeOFW_GufIk&NR=1&feature=endscreen

An episode from the series of Cosmic Journey on SMBH's. The voice over (not Gary Sinise) is a bit smaltzy but you'll see some of the footage we saw in class about colliding galaxies. The same title is on youtube but the TV commercials are interspersed (where the dots are on the track bar). (~20 minutes) With script.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCADH3x56eE&NR=1&feature=endscreen
or here

http://spacerip.com/category/cosmic-journeys-2/page/4/

Spacerip.com has the other space programs in the series and other series as well.