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The Solar System has been a complicated wonder for the astronomers. This is a ##QUESTION_1## to which we may never have the exact answer. Man has wondered ##QUESTION_2## the age of the Earth ##QUESTION_3## ancient times. There were all kinds of ##QUESTION_4## that seemed to have the ##QUESTION_5##. But man could not begin to ##QUESTION_6## about the question scientifically until about 400 years ##QUESTION_7##, when it was proved that the ##QUESTION_8## revolved round the Sun and the Earth was a ##QUESTION_9## of our Solar System, then scientists knew where to ##QUESTION_10## .

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Almost every full moon night, the officials in Andaman and Nicobar Islands take part in a cautious ritual. The tribesmen watch from a safe distance as the officials ##QUESTION_1## the island in a boat ##QUESTION_2## gifts for them. The islanders come ##QUESTION_3## hesitantly only after the officials ##QUESTION_4## dumped the coconuts brought ##QUESTION_5## them onto the beach and begin ##QUESTION_6## away from their small island. On some nights the tribals even ##QUESTION_7## up enough courage to swim upto a few feet ##QUESTION_8## from the boat. The officials maintain that they do ##QUESTION_9## want to interfere with the way of life of the tribals. The islanders ##QUESTION_10## heavily on the mainland for most goods.

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Science means knowledge, but not all knowledge is science. I know from my own eyesight that our dog Chippy likes papaya; I know from a book that Akbar was the ##QUESTION_1## of Babar, and ##QUESTION_2## in 1605; and I know ##QUESTION_3## the radio that India did not do well in the ##QUESTION_4## Test matches. We can call these ##QUESTION_5## of knowledge, ##QUESTION_6##, but they are not science. Science ##QUESTION_7## with facts, but not with facts which have ##QUESTION_8## to do with each other, like the facts about our dog, cricket and the Moghul ruler; those facts are not related ##QUESTION_9## , and so have nothing ##QUESTION_10## with science. Science starts with observation.