Off Topic The Science Discovery Thread

This bloke's grasp reality is something else. The sad thing is that there are probably listeners out there who agree with him.

 

This is home.

 

Today's Russian Soyuz launch had to be terminated after a second stage failure. An emergency landing had to be undertaken. Reports are saying that both of the crew are fine, but it'll be a while before they can be reached. Good news for all concerned.

 

Space blasting along at a great rate.

 

Oh bloody hell, honestly don't know what to think about any of that. It was hardly fair to put this particular caller on, surely? He was a sitting duck for the Atheist Panel of Experts? A right stumbling old fogy, heck, even I might have done a better job than that!

Well, the sun argument commands a lot of respect, but it is not the answer to everything. One could argue that a Christian religious person (not me, I only class myself as agnostic, I just don't know) gets his or her batteries charged-up for a full week after morning service on a Sunday. Buddhists, after a chanting spree with the monks, Muslims after praying 5-times a day with their apparatus pointing towards Mecca, Hindus a good wash in the Ganges, or elsewhere, etc., etc.

The truth is, of course, no one knows, not even the learned and scientific atheists, they certainly don't convince me either. What to do? Answer, just carry on at the bookies; a not very satisfactory solution, but the occasional gambler is lucky in a way.

 

Strange that you should mention the bookies Swanny. I've been thinking of having my first bet in quite a while. I'm sort of warming to an animal called Viddora in the AU$13,000,000 The Everest. She's about 20-1 at the moment and I'm beginning to salivate.

I'll probably chicken out.

 

This Dawkins - Tyson clip has 2.4 million hits.

 

On the clip below, a viewer called Coyote Fur Trumpet commented. "When I watch Noam talk, a large portion of my body goes into a trance, my mind becomes the most active participant. That is a very rewarding unique experience. Thank you Noam Chomsky." I couldn't agree more.

 

WARNING. CRUDITY ENSUES.

I decided to put this under the Science banner because ..... well ..... it just seems to be helpful.

 

It's estimated that the observable diameter of the universe is about 93 billion light years. It's freakin' huge. It's said that it's not possible for a human being to get his - her head around the enormity of it all, but the vid below might help a little.

Every spot in the video is galaxy containing billions of stars. And of the 93 billion light years that we know of, the clip only depicts 2 million light years of them. Remember, every dot is a galaxy containing billions of stars.

 

Mind blowing. I can't get my head round something having no end/outside.



Similar sort of thing but these are microbes in the human body. There are about 40 trillion microbes in the human body (depending on size of the body). I wonder what they think their universe is

 

If you went back in time to the ancient Greek philosophers and presented them with a laptop and full access to all the knowledge on the internet today, what odds would you give me on Socrates holding the laptop above his head like it was mana from heaven, before setting it in front of him and typing T-I-T-S......ENTER?

 

NASA - North American Space Animations

Faking space for half a century

 

You don't believe in the moon landing?

 

no

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Why not?

 

Because its preposterous.

 

Sorry Eddie, I'm not taking the piss or anything, but that's hardly an answer mate.

 

They were hardly questions.

 

Of course they were questions. In reply to your not believing in a moon landing, I asked why you held that view.

Your answer. "Because its preposterous." Again I asked why.

These are two solid questions.