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- elijahyossie, on 07/08/2009, -1/+33Dugg for the amazing juxtaposition of "just" and "3 billion years".....
- mikeinto, on 07/09/2009, -1/+19All of those "billions and billions" would have made Carl Sagan smile.
- StuartGibson, on 07/09/2009, -3/+16"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" - Douglas Adams
- manu3l, on 07/09/2009, -1/+10But can it track torrents?
- Spire3660, on 07/09/2009, -3/+10How about 'the universe is so beautiful', and leave religious opinion out of it.
- novenator, on 07/09/2009, -2/+7This is super cool.
- nitsuj, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4Not strictly true.
The nearest star beyond the Sun is Proxima Centauri which is 4.218 light years away. From there, the further you go out the further back in time you're looking. That's why there's a drive in astronomy to look as far out as possible because you're looking as far back in time as possible. We're beginning to look far enough back to see how things were just after the big bang. - nullcodes, on 07/09/2009, -1/+5Someday (err, before our own Sun blows up that is), I hope mankind will be able to view these suckers detonate up close (through properly protected glass/or space age polymer) .. it must be a spectacular sight.
- RiotHeart, on 07/09/2009, -1/+3Suprnova :(
- inactive, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2how we miss you so.
- ayeroxor, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2Where did the matter that exploded in the big bang come from?
ANSWER ME! :'(((((((((((
Some things will never be known. Deal. At least stop sounding like a whiner. - inactive, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2It is all knowing.
- cor315, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1supernova cool
- IAMRaven, on 07/11/2009, -0/+11) If you admit you are guessing, then by definition, you are not atheist, you are agnostic. "hypothesis" is a synonym for "educated guess", I agree, but so what...?
2) Both atheism and agnosticism are non-religions. That is, they are not religions. They are statements of beliefs based on logic. Whereas religion is statement of belief that contradicts known logic. - DarthVolta, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1Pfft.
Older than the Milky Way. - IAMRaven, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1There are only a handful (like maybe 10) stars that are even within 50 light years away. yes I knew that. My point is that if you just look at any picture taken that includes thousands of stars and galaxies (as all these APOD, etc pictures do), all those pictures are from like millions of years ago. Sure you can pick out the 10 or so stars that are close to us if you look at an image, but that's not really representational of the entire image. I'm talking about "pictures" meaning sort of the "average" age of a star in any image. millions of years. yes, that is strictly true, now that I throw in the word average. lol.
- jamdogg, on 07/09/2009, -1/+2Your comment caused me to remember a scene in Battlestar Galactica where one of the Cylons (the one that plays the weird hologram dude in Quantum Leap) is complaining about having to observe a nearby supernova with the limitations of a human type body. Don't know why it just did.
- pr0ntz, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1amazing stuff
- ayeroxor, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1"outer layers are ejected is the extremely hot stellar core"
"The sun is not going to 'explode'."
You are a pedantic douche. - Spire3660, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1ayeroxor. You do have somewhat of a point. At least he seems to understand and accept the theory behind what causes supernova, instead of blindly shouting "the Earth is 6,000 years old". Apologies.
- ayeroxor, on 07/10/2009, -1/+2How is you telling him what he can say and think any different than the religious telling you what to say or think? How about you just let live and let live and stop hating people and burying them because they think/believe differently from you.
- nitsuj, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1There's a difference. You can take an educated/informed guess and acknowledge it as such. That happens in science all the time, it's what an hypothesis is.
Religions don't - they state that their guesses are hardcore truth.
Also, it's not so hard to make specific calls on whether you think specific claims of the supernatural are true. Can you totally rule out the possibility of some kind of prime energy you could label as 'god'? Probably not with any absolute scientific certainty although we've yet to find any evidence of such. Could you rule out the Abrahamic god? According to the credibility of the bible which is the sole evidence for that god, yes. Yes you could. - ftwb, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1Slowly walking down the hall/Faster than a cannonball
- IAMRaven, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1Hey everybody. Guess what? All those pictures you see from outer space are *all* from millions of years ago. Because that's how long it took the light to reach us. No one on earth has a clue what the universe *currently* looks like. It might all be gone. There might be millions of times more of it. And it might be all solid granite. No way to know. sucks to be mortal.
- IAMRaven, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1Being Atheist is just as arrogant and stupid as being a specific religion. Did you mean Agnostic? Unless you can prove there was not some *thing/being* that was responsible for Physics and Matter existing, then you are actually Agnostic. All scientists are Agnostic, unless they willing to "guess" and just hope they are correct, like all religions do.
- inactive, on 07/10/2009, -0/+0also, ***** you ayeroxor :D
- loganhuddleston, on 07/09/2009, -2/+2Thought this was about bit torrent for a second.
- TobiasParker, on 07/10/2009, -1/+1i.)"Following the red giant phase, intense thermal pulsations will cause the Sun to throw off its outer layers, forming a planetary nebula. The only object that will remain after the outer layers are ejected is the extremely hot stellar core, which will slowly cool and fade as a white dwarf over many billions of years. This stellar evolution scenario is typical of low- to medium-mass stars."
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Life_cycle
The sun is not going to "explode".
ii.)"I hope mankind will be able to view these suckers detonate *up close* (through properly protected glass/or space age polymer) "
No I am not. - ftwb, on 07/10/2009, -0/+0"Always has been, always will be." I chuckled heartily.
- CLAWC, on 07/09/2009, -1/+1Dugg for ka-BOOM!
- TobiasParker, on 07/09/2009, -2/+2The sun isn't going to be blown up and we would have to be literally light years away to view it even remotely safely.
- wdmax, on 07/10/2009, -2/+1"Big bang" is a theory, "black holes" still a theory - funny how we talk as if these theories are scientific fact. We continue to fall into the same trap concerning physical sciences as our first scientists did in the past. Hopefully we will all be able to laugh at the "big bang" and our immature notions concerning the universe as we continue to collect information and evolve (Atheist - by reason).
- DeaderThanElvis, on 07/09/2009, -2/+1Old supernova is old.
- inactive, on 07/10/2009, -1/+0I'm just bored.
- ayeroxor, on 07/10/2009, -3/+1a) wrong. it will at it's eol.
b) he was imagining something to allow us to be closer. Or, to paraphrase: Imagination. You're doing it wrong. - inactive, on 07/09/2009, -4/+2If by God you mean the Universe then yes. If by God you mean the personification of some mythical being that created everything then no. Also, who made God? ANSWER ME!
- Spire3660, on 07/09/2009, -2/+0Well played, sir.
- Presbyterian, on 07/09/2009, -5/+2Garden of Eden?.
- wukillabee, on 07/09/2009, -12/+7God's creations are so beautiful.
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