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[View \| Download]	Earthlike Planet, Gliese 581 (Gliza) habitable zone? could life exist in Gliese 581? Show title: Journey to the Edge of the Universe \| National Geographic Channel narrated by Sean Pertwee Tags: 581, Earthlike, Epsilon, Eri, Eridani, Gliese, Gliza, Pertwee, Planet, Sean, by, constellation, galaxies, habitable, life, narrated, southern, stars, sun, universe, zone 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Samsung Galaxy S3 Rumours Video We take a look at the rumours surrounding the Samsung Galaxy S3 release date, the Samsung Galaxy S3 specs and its features Tags: android, galaxies, s3, samsung, samsunggalaxys3releasedate, samsunggalaxys3review, samsunggalaxys3specs, t3 2 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Pantheism - The Forever All This is an introduction video expressing some of the core ideas of my philosophical views. I believe the universe has always been here and always will be, and that all things in the universe are ultimately connected. I believe that the universe is infinite and indestructible. I believe it is balanced and conserved. The title of the music score used in this video is "Titans" by Vangelis, which was used in the motion picture "Alexander" (2004). Below I have provided all the text used in this video: In My Opinion . . . There is the All. The All is everything and every thing is of the All. The All was not created. It has always been here and always will be, like the mathematical construct 1 + 2 = 3 or the 3 sided triangle or the color wheel. These concepts truly have no beginning nor an end. The All is responsible for your existence. Aside from requiring the obvious, such as a brain, a heart, a digestive system, etc., you require all else beyond your apparent body. For instance, you require water to hydrate your body, an atmosphere to hold the water into liquid form, a strong gravitational force to compress gases into such an atmosphere, a planet to provide the gravity and to serve as a platform, a source of heat energy to warm things up. Atoms are needed to form these gases, planets and stars. Space is needed for these objects to occupy, and so on. In short, you require the All, an infinite system, in order to exist. The All is what makes any one thing possible. It constantly sustains you. Each thing, no matter how insignificant it may appear, plays its part in sustaining you. Therefore, since the All is required for you to exist, you should realize . . . You are the All. You are the All trying to perceive itself, trying to understand itself, and trying to know itself. You are the forever cosmic tree, whose branches never end. Yet you are not alone. You are actually in infinite company. I too am the All. So is your neighbor. And so is the smallest house fly. But you are the All from your own special position in time and space, which allows you to forever remain unique. But in a deeper sense, we are all the same. We all have our moments of fear, moments of jealousy, moments of embarrassment, moments of anger, and thankfully . . . moments of pure joy. The All is indestructible, which means you too are, ultimately, indestructible. Your mind will move from one life to the next, forever and ever. However, you will at times forget your true identity. But thankfully, you will at times be reminded by the All who and what you really are. That true version of you that goes far beyond what you may normally see as your local self, and that is The Forever All, An inescapable system of profound order, which will forever remain balanced and conserved; If you are a good student, learn the great lessons it has to teach. If you can read the pages of life, then try to enjoy the epic story it tells. When you truly understand it, you will be in awe of its magnificence. You will marvel at its complexity and perfection. It will be your greatest epiphany. You will truly know it is the ultimate kingdom, and that this kingdom is truly you! The All can never be fully understood, for it is ultimately unknowable. It's like trying to stare too deeply into the light of the Sun to see its core only to be blinded. Though enough evidence of the All is available for us to use our "mind's eye" so-to-speak to understand it well enough without being permanently blinded. At times you will need to glance away from the brilliant light of truth to give your eyes a rest. Instead of staring at it dead on, use the corner of your eyes. It is difficult to discuss the true nature of the All or to describe its true form, for we the perceivers have always experienced it only in part, from a limited point-of-view. It can all be greatly misunderstood, but I will do my best to describe my take on it in future videos. I will at times discuss the All as it is, in its true form, but I will also describe the All through the eyes of the perceiver. Hopefully, you will know one from the other, eventually, if not right away. Guyus Seralius Tags: All, Forever, God, Guyus, Seralius, The, The Forever All, You, You are the All, anger, are, atheism, atheist, balance, beginning, christianity, connected, conserved, cosmos, creation, creationist, embarrassment, end, ending, endless, eternal, eternity, exist, existence, fear, galaxies, infinite, inspirational, jealousy, joy, life, never, oneness, pantheism, pantheist, planets, pleasure, religion, religious, science, space, spiritual, spirituality, stars, theist, time, unified, universe 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Large-scale structure of the Universe If you're interested in space and the universe then check out my personal website - http://www.futuretimeline.net/beyond.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- Large-scale structure of the Universe: a 3-D simulation. Full resolution versions available to download here: http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/millennium/ You may need the DivX plugin which can be downloaded here: http://www.divx.com/ See this link for an explanation of the size of the Universe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#Size.2C_age.2C_contents.2C_structure.2C_and_laws Tags: 3d, astronomy, cluster, clusters, galaxies, galaxy, hubble, large, scale, space, stars, structure, superclusters, universe 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	When Will Time End? It now seems that our entire universe is living on borrowed time. How long it can survive depends on whether Stephen Hawking's theory checks out. Special thanks to Ivan Bridgewater for use of footage. Time is flying by on this busy, crowded planet... as life changes and evolves from second to second. And yet the arc of human lifespan is getting longer: 65 years is the global average ... way up from just 20 in the Stone Age. Modern science, however, provides a humbling perspective. Our lives... indeed the life span of the human species... is just a blip compared to the age of the universe, at 13.7 billion years and counting. It now seems that our entire universe is living on borrowed time... And that even it may be just a blip within the grand sweep of deep time. Scholars debate whether time is a property of the universe... or a human invention. What's certain is that we use the ticking of all kinds of clocks... from the decay of radioactive elements to the oscillation of light beams... to chart and measure a changing universe... to understand how it works and what drives it. Our own major reference for the passage of time is the 24-hour day... the time it takes the Earth to rotate once. Well, it's actually 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.1 seconds... approximately... if you're judging by the stars, not the sun. Earth acquired its spin during its birth, from the bombardment of rocks and dust that formed it. But it's gradually losing that rotation to drag from the moon's gravity. That's why, in the time of the dinosaurs, a year was 370 days... and why we have to add a leap second to our clocks about every 18 months. In a few hundred million years, we'll gain a whole hour. The day-night cycle is so reliable that it has come to regulate our internal chemistry. The fading rays of the sun, picked up by the retinas in our eyes, set our so-called "circadian rhythms" in motion. That's when our brains begin to secrete melatonin, a hormone that tells our bodies to get ready for sleep. Long ago, this may have been an adaptation to keep us quiet and clear of night-time predators. Finally, in the light of morning, the flow of melatonin stops. Our blood pressure spikes... body temperature and heart rate rise as we move out into the world. Over the days ... and years... we march to the beat of our biology. But with our minds, we have learned to follow time's trail out to longer and longer intervals. Philosophers have wondered... does time move like an arrow... with all the phenomena in nature pushing toward an inevitable end? Or perhaps, it moves in cycles that endlessly repeat... and even perhaps restore what is there? We know from precise measurements that the Earth goes around the sun once every 365.256366 days. As the Earth orbits, with each hemisphere tilting toward and away from its parent star, the seasons bring on cycles of life... birth and reproduction... decay and death. Only about one billionth of the Sun's energy actually hits the Earth. And much of that gets absorbed by dust and water vapor in the upper atmosphere. What does make it down to the surface sets many planetary processes in motion. You can see it in the annual melting and refreezing of ice at the poles... the ebb and flow of heat in the tropical oceans... The seasonal cycles of chlorophyll production in plants on land and at sea... and in the biosphere at large. These cycles are embedded in still longer Earth cycles. Ocean currents, for example, are thought to make complete cycles ranging from four to around sixteen centuries. Moving out in time, as the Earth rotates on its axis, it completes a series of interlocking wobbles called Milankovic cycles every 23 to 41,000 years. They have been blamed for the onset of ice ages about every one hundred thousand years. Then there's the carbon cycle. It begins with rainfall over the oceans and coastal waves that pull carbon dioxide into the sea. Tags: 2012, adam, aliens, asteroids, bible, black holes, comets, computers, cosmic, cosmos, creation, doomsday, earth, eve, galaxies, greeks, hawking, hubble, mars, maya, mayan, moon, nasa, nature, nobel, outdoors, planets, religion, science, solar, space, stars, sun, supernova, system, ufo, universe 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	How Large is the Universe? The mind-blowing answer comes from a theory describing the birth of the universe in the first instant of time. The universe has long captivated us with its immense scales of distance and time. How far does it stretch? Where does it end... and what lies beyond its star fields... and streams of galaxies extending as far as telescopes can see? These questions are beginning to yield to a series of extraordinary new lines of investigation... and technologies that are letting us to peer into the most distant realms of the cosmos... But also at the behavior of matter and energy on the smallest of scales. Remarkably, our growing understanding of this kingdom of the ultra-tiny, inside the nuclei of atoms, permits us to glimpse the largest vistas of space and time. In ancient times, most observers saw the stars as a sphere surrounding the earth, often the home of deities. The Greeks were the first to see celestial events as phenomena, subject to human investigation... rather than the fickle whims of the Gods. One sky-watcher, for example, suggested that meteors are made of materials found on Earth... and might have even come from the Earth. Those early astronomers built the foundations of modern science. But they would be shocked to see the discoveries made by their counterparts today. The stars and planets that once harbored the gods are now seen as infinitesimal parts of a vast scaffolding of matter and energy extending far out into space. Just how far... began to emerge in the 1920s. Working at the huge new 100-inch Hooker Telescope on California's Mt. Wilson, astronomer Edwin Hubble, along with his assistant named Milt Humason, analyzed the light of fuzzy patches of sky... known then as nebulae. They showed that these were actually distant galaxies far beyond our own. Hubble and Humason discovered that most of them are moving away from us. The farther out they looked, the faster they were receding. This fact, now known as Hubble's law, suggests that there must have been a time when the matter in all these galaxies was together in one place. That time... when our universe sprung forth... has come to be called the Big Bang. How large the cosmos has gotten since then depends on how long its been growing... and its expansion rate. Recent precision measurements gathered by the Hubble space telescope and other instruments have brought a consensus... That the universe dates back 13.7 billion years. Its radius, then, is the distance a beam of light would have traveled in that time ... 13.7 billion light years. That works out to about 1.3 quadrillion kilometers. In fact, it's even bigger.... Much bigger. How it got so large, so fast, was until recently a deep mystery. That the universe could expand had been predicted back in 1917 by Albert Einstein, except that Einstein himself didn't believe it... until he saw Hubble and Humason's evidence. Einstein's general theory of relativity suggested that galaxies could be moving apart because space itself is expanding. So when a photon gets blasted out from a distant star, it moves through a cosmic landscape that is getting larger and larger, increasing the distance it must travel to reach us. In 1995, the orbiting telescope named for Edwin Hubble began to take the measure of the universe... by looking for the most distant galaxies it could see. Taking the expansion of the universe into account, the space telescope found galaxies that are now almost 46 billion light years away from us in each direction... and almost 92 billion light years from each other. And that would be the whole universe... according to a straightforward model of the big bang. But remarkably, that might be a mere speck within the universe as a whole, according to a dramatic new theory that describes the origins of the cosmos. It's based on the discovery that energy is constantly welling up from the vacuum of space in the form of particles of opposite charge... matter and anti-matter. Tags: alan, asteroids, black holes, cern, cobe, comets, commentary, conspiracy, cosmic, cosmos, documentary, earth, environment, galaxies, guth, hubble, inflationary, lhc, mars, moon, nasa, nature, planets, science, solar, space, spirituality, stars, sun, supernova, system, theory, ufo, universe, wmap 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	The Asteroid that Flattened Mars Just about every two years, the planet Mars makes its closest approach to Earth... around 36 million miles. That's when we pack our robotic emissaries off to the Red Planet, timing their launches to spend the least effort to get there. Some fly around it... snapping pictures... Others land ... to sample its surface.... ...a few to crawl around its canyons and craters. These probes may pave the way for human explorers... and, perhaps permanent settlers... who'll dig deeper still... in search of answers to our most pressing question: Did Mars develop far enough -- and stay that way long enough -- for life to arise? And, if so, does anything live now within Mars' dusty plains... beneath its ice caps... or maybe somewhere underground? Mars does not give up its secrets easily ... it's almost as if the little planet is embarrassed. Over a century ago, a few observers thought they saw clues that Mars is alive. In 1877, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli noted markings... which he saw as a latticework of lines. He called them "canali" in Italian... meaning nothing more than "shallow channels" in English. American astronomer, Percival Lowell, found the lure of these features irresistible. He saw Schiaparelli's channels as artificial canals. He speculated that they carried melting snow from the poles to the dry interior. After all, on Earth, the Suez Canal had recently opened to ship traffic. The Panama Canal was beginning to be dug. The Martian canals, Lowell said, were built by a sophisticated society confronting an environmental catastrophe on the grandest of scales. Those Martians, he thought, must face urgent choice: move water across vast arid regions, or perish on an increasingly dry planet. As the 19th Century gave way to the 20th, Lowell took his case to the public, in a series of three best-selling books. And the public responded with... questions. Who were these Martians, who had the means to remake an entire planet? Some offered schemes for making contact. Giant mirrors would flash greetings... Light beams... Mental telepathy. Many astronomers grew deeply skeptical... but Lowell's vision of a harsh, yet Earth-like planet endured in the public's imagination.. That vision was dealt harsh blow in 1964. The Mariner Four spacecraft ventured in for a closer look... And what it saw looked like the Moon. Three more Mariners followed. They found huge dormant volcanoes... the deepest and longest canyon in the solar system...but not a trace of life, present or past. In the mid-1970's, two lander-orbiter robot teams, named Viking, took up residence at Mars. Maybe the Martians were just hiding, so theVikings tested the soil for signs of life. But all the evidence from Viking told us... Mars is not only barren... but in fact hostile to life. It's no wonder. Martian air temperatures range from --20 degrees Fahrenheit to down below --200. It's also very, very dry. The Sahara Desert on Earth is a rainforest, by comparison. If all of the water vapor in Mars' thin atmosphere fell as snow, it would make a layer of frost not thicker than your fingernail. On Earth, impact craters erode over time from wind and water... and even volcanic activity. On Mars, they can linger for billions of years. But so can the imprint of riverbeds, lake bottoms and ocean shorelines... And the Viking orbiters saw a lot of them. It's not hard to believe that a great deal of water once flowed here. But where did all the water go? To find out, scientists needed to do real field-geology on Mars. They needed rovers... travelling robots with tools and instruments. Tags: NASA, alien, aliens, animation art, asteroid, astronomy, black hole, comet, craters, earth, editing, flying, galaxies, geographic, graphics software, hubble, impact, jpl, jupiter, mars, mercury, moon, nebula, philosophy, phobos, photography, planet, red, religion, rovers, saturn, science, solar, space, spirituality, stars, sun, supernova, system, techno, telescope, television channel, ufo, universe, venus 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
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[View \| Download]	Earthlike Planet, Gliese 581 (Gliza) habitable zone? could life exist in Gliese 581? Show title: Journey to the Edge of the Universe \| National Geographic Channel narrated by Sean Pertwee Tags: 581, Earthlike, Epsilon, Eri, Eridani, Gliese, Gliza, Pertwee, Planet, Sean, by, constellation, galaxies, habitable, life, narrated, southern, stars, sun, universe, zone 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Samsung Galaxy S3 Rumours Video We take a look at the rumours surrounding the Samsung Galaxy S3 release date, the Samsung Galaxy S3 specs and its features Tags: android, galaxies, s3, samsung, samsunggalaxys3releasedate, samsunggalaxys3review, samsunggalaxys3specs, t3 2 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Pantheism - The Forever All This is an introduction video expressing some of the core ideas of my philosophical views. I believe the universe has always been here and always will be, and that all things in the universe are ultimately connected. I believe that the universe is infinite and indestructible. I believe it is balanced and conserved. The title of the music score used in this video is "Titans" by Vangelis, which was used in the motion picture "Alexander" (2004). Below I have provided all the text used in this video: In My Opinion . . . There is the All. The All is everything and every thing is of the All. The All was not created. It has always been here and always will be, like the mathematical construct 1 + 2 = 3 or the 3 sided triangle or the color wheel. These concepts truly have no beginning nor an end. The All is responsible for your existence. Aside from requiring the obvious, such as a brain, a heart, a digestive system, etc., you require all else beyond your apparent body. For instance, you require water to hydrate your body, an atmosphere to hold the water into liquid form, a strong gravitational force to compress gases into such an atmosphere, a planet to provide the gravity and to serve as a platform, a source of heat energy to warm things up. Atoms are needed to form these gases, planets and stars. Space is needed for these objects to occupy, and so on. In short, you require the All, an infinite system, in order to exist. The All is what makes any one thing possible. It constantly sustains you. Each thing, no matter how insignificant it may appear, plays its part in sustaining you. Therefore, since the All is required for you to exist, you should realize . . . You are the All. You are the All trying to perceive itself, trying to understand itself, and trying to know itself. You are the forever cosmic tree, whose branches never end. Yet you are not alone. You are actually in infinite company. I too am the All. So is your neighbor. And so is the smallest house fly. But you are the All from your own special position in time and space, which allows you to forever remain unique. But in a deeper sense, we are all the same. We all have our moments of fear, moments of jealousy, moments of embarrassment, moments of anger, and thankfully . . . moments of pure joy. The All is indestructible, which means you too are, ultimately, indestructible. Your mind will move from one life to the next, forever and ever. However, you will at times forget your true identity. But thankfully, you will at times be reminded by the All who and what you really are. That true version of you that goes far beyond what you may normally see as your local self, and that is The Forever All, An inescapable system of profound order, which will forever remain balanced and conserved; If you are a good student, learn the great lessons it has to teach. If you can read the pages of life, then try to enjoy the epic story it tells. When you truly understand it, you will be in awe of its magnificence. You will marvel at its complexity and perfection. It will be your greatest epiphany. You will truly know it is the ultimate kingdom, and that this kingdom is truly you! The All can never be fully understood, for it is ultimately unknowable. It's like trying to stare too deeply into the light of the Sun to see its core only to be blinded. Though enough evidence of the All is available for us to use our "mind's eye" so-to-speak to understand it well enough without being permanently blinded. At times you will need to glance away from the brilliant light of truth to give your eyes a rest. Instead of staring at it dead on, use the corner of your eyes. It is difficult to discuss the true nature of the All or to describe its true form, for we the perceivers have always experienced it only in part, from a limited point-of-view. It can all be greatly misunderstood, but I will do my best to describe my take on it in future videos. I will at times discuss the All as it is, in its true form, but I will also describe the All through the eyes of the perceiver. Hopefully, you will know one from the other, eventually, if not right away. Guyus Seralius Tags: All, Forever, God, Guyus, Seralius, The, The Forever All, You, You are the All, anger, are, atheism, atheist, balance, beginning, christianity, connected, conserved, cosmos, creation, creationist, embarrassment, end, ending, endless, eternal, eternity, exist, existence, fear, galaxies, infinite, inspirational, jealousy, joy, life, never, oneness, pantheism, pantheist, planets, pleasure, religion, religious, science, space, spiritual, spirituality, stars, theist, time, unified, universe 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Large-scale structure of the Universe If you're interested in space and the universe then check out my personal website - http://www.futuretimeline.net/beyond.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- Large-scale structure of the Universe: a 3-D simulation. Full resolution versions available to download here: http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/millennium/ You may need the DivX plugin which can be downloaded here: http://www.divx.com/ See this link for an explanation of the size of the Universe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#Size.2C_age.2C_contents.2C_structure.2C_and_laws Tags: 3d, astronomy, cluster, clusters, galaxies, galaxy, hubble, large, scale, space, stars, structure, superclusters, universe 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	When Will Time End? It now seems that our entire universe is living on borrowed time. How long it can survive depends on whether Stephen Hawking's theory checks out. Special thanks to Ivan Bridgewater for use of footage. Time is flying by on this busy, crowded planet... as life changes and evolves from second to second. And yet the arc of human lifespan is getting longer: 65 years is the global average ... way up from just 20 in the Stone Age. Modern science, however, provides a humbling perspective. Our lives... indeed the life span of the human species... is just a blip compared to the age of the universe, at 13.7 billion years and counting. It now seems that our entire universe is living on borrowed time... And that even it may be just a blip within the grand sweep of deep time. Scholars debate whether time is a property of the universe... or a human invention. What's certain is that we use the ticking of all kinds of clocks... from the decay of radioactive elements to the oscillation of light beams... to chart and measure a changing universe... to understand how it works and what drives it. Our own major reference for the passage of time is the 24-hour day... the time it takes the Earth to rotate once. Well, it's actually 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.1 seconds... approximately... if you're judging by the stars, not the sun. Earth acquired its spin during its birth, from the bombardment of rocks and dust that formed it. But it's gradually losing that rotation to drag from the moon's gravity. That's why, in the time of the dinosaurs, a year was 370 days... and why we have to add a leap second to our clocks about every 18 months. In a few hundred million years, we'll gain a whole hour. The day-night cycle is so reliable that it has come to regulate our internal chemistry. The fading rays of the sun, picked up by the retinas in our eyes, set our so-called "circadian rhythms" in motion. That's when our brains begin to secrete melatonin, a hormone that tells our bodies to get ready for sleep. Long ago, this may have been an adaptation to keep us quiet and clear of night-time predators. Finally, in the light of morning, the flow of melatonin stops. Our blood pressure spikes... body temperature and heart rate rise as we move out into the world. Over the days ... and years... we march to the beat of our biology. But with our minds, we have learned to follow time's trail out to longer and longer intervals. Philosophers have wondered... does time move like an arrow... with all the phenomena in nature pushing toward an inevitable end? Or perhaps, it moves in cycles that endlessly repeat... and even perhaps restore what is there? We know from precise measurements that the Earth goes around the sun once every 365.256366 days. As the Earth orbits, with each hemisphere tilting toward and away from its parent star, the seasons bring on cycles of life... birth and reproduction... decay and death. Only about one billionth of the Sun's energy actually hits the Earth. And much of that gets absorbed by dust and water vapor in the upper atmosphere. What does make it down to the surface sets many planetary processes in motion. You can see it in the annual melting and refreezing of ice at the poles... the ebb and flow of heat in the tropical oceans... The seasonal cycles of chlorophyll production in plants on land and at sea... and in the biosphere at large. These cycles are embedded in still longer Earth cycles. Ocean currents, for example, are thought to make complete cycles ranging from four to around sixteen centuries. Moving out in time, as the Earth rotates on its axis, it completes a series of interlocking wobbles called Milankovic cycles every 23 to 41,000 years. They have been blamed for the onset of ice ages about every one hundred thousand years. Then there's the carbon cycle. It begins with rainfall over the oceans and coastal waves that pull carbon dioxide into the sea. Tags: 2012, adam, aliens, asteroids, bible, black holes, comets, computers, cosmic, cosmos, creation, doomsday, earth, eve, galaxies, greeks, hawking, hubble, mars, maya, mayan, moon, nasa, nature, nobel, outdoors, planets, religion, science, solar, space, stars, sun, supernova, system, ufo, universe 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	How Large is the Universe? The mind-blowing answer comes from a theory describing the birth of the universe in the first instant of time. The universe has long captivated us with its immense scales of distance and time. How far does it stretch? Where does it end... and what lies beyond its star fields... and streams of galaxies extending as far as telescopes can see? These questions are beginning to yield to a series of extraordinary new lines of investigation... and technologies that are letting us to peer into the most distant realms of the cosmos... But also at the behavior of matter and energy on the smallest of scales. Remarkably, our growing understanding of this kingdom of the ultra-tiny, inside the nuclei of atoms, permits us to glimpse the largest vistas of space and time. In ancient times, most observers saw the stars as a sphere surrounding the earth, often the home of deities. The Greeks were the first to see celestial events as phenomena, subject to human investigation... rather than the fickle whims of the Gods. One sky-watcher, for example, suggested that meteors are made of materials found on Earth... and might have even come from the Earth. Those early astronomers built the foundations of modern science. But they would be shocked to see the discoveries made by their counterparts today. The stars and planets that once harbored the gods are now seen as infinitesimal parts of a vast scaffolding of matter and energy extending far out into space. Just how far... began to emerge in the 1920s. Working at the huge new 100-inch Hooker Telescope on California's Mt. Wilson, astronomer Edwin Hubble, along with his assistant named Milt Humason, analyzed the light of fuzzy patches of sky... known then as nebulae. They showed that these were actually distant galaxies far beyond our own. Hubble and Humason discovered that most of them are moving away from us. The farther out they looked, the faster they were receding. This fact, now known as Hubble's law, suggests that there must have been a time when the matter in all these galaxies was together in one place. That time... when our universe sprung forth... has come to be called the Big Bang. How large the cosmos has gotten since then depends on how long its been growing... and its expansion rate. Recent precision measurements gathered by the Hubble space telescope and other instruments have brought a consensus... That the universe dates back 13.7 billion years. Its radius, then, is the distance a beam of light would have traveled in that time ... 13.7 billion light years. That works out to about 1.3 quadrillion kilometers. In fact, it's even bigger.... Much bigger. How it got so large, so fast, was until recently a deep mystery. That the universe could expand had been predicted back in 1917 by Albert Einstein, except that Einstein himself didn't believe it... until he saw Hubble and Humason's evidence. Einstein's general theory of relativity suggested that galaxies could be moving apart because space itself is expanding. So when a photon gets blasted out from a distant star, it moves through a cosmic landscape that is getting larger and larger, increasing the distance it must travel to reach us. In 1995, the orbiting telescope named for Edwin Hubble began to take the measure of the universe... by looking for the most distant galaxies it could see. Taking the expansion of the universe into account, the space telescope found galaxies that are now almost 46 billion light years away from us in each direction... and almost 92 billion light years from each other. And that would be the whole universe... according to a straightforward model of the big bang. But remarkably, that might be a mere speck within the universe as a whole, according to a dramatic new theory that describes the origins of the cosmos. It's based on the discovery that energy is constantly welling up from the vacuum of space in the form of particles of opposite charge... matter and anti-matter. Tags: alan, asteroids, black holes, cern, cobe, comets, commentary, conspiracy, cosmic, cosmos, documentary, earth, environment, galaxies, guth, hubble, inflationary, lhc, mars, moon, nasa, nature, planets, science, solar, space, spirituality, stars, sun, supernova, system, theory, ufo, universe, wmap 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	The Asteroid that Flattened Mars Just about every two years, the planet Mars makes its closest approach to Earth... around 36 million miles. That's when we pack our robotic emissaries off to the Red Planet, timing their launches to spend the least effort to get there. Some fly around it... snapping pictures... Others land ... to sample its surface.... ...a few to crawl around its canyons and craters. These probes may pave the way for human explorers... and, perhaps permanent settlers... who'll dig deeper still... in search of answers to our most pressing question: Did Mars develop far enough -- and stay that way long enough -- for life to arise? And, if so, does anything live now within Mars' dusty plains... beneath its ice caps... or maybe somewhere underground? Mars does not give up its secrets easily ... it's almost as if the little planet is embarrassed. Over a century ago, a few observers thought they saw clues that Mars is alive. In 1877, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli noted markings... which he saw as a latticework of lines. He called them "canali" in Italian... meaning nothing more than "shallow channels" in English. American astronomer, Percival Lowell, found the lure of these features irresistible. He saw Schiaparelli's channels as artificial canals. He speculated that they carried melting snow from the poles to the dry interior. After all, on Earth, the Suez Canal had recently opened to ship traffic. The Panama Canal was beginning to be dug. The Martian canals, Lowell said, were built by a sophisticated society confronting an environmental catastrophe on the grandest of scales. Those Martians, he thought, must face urgent choice: move water across vast arid regions, or perish on an increasingly dry planet. As the 19th Century gave way to the 20th, Lowell took his case to the public, in a series of three best-selling books. And the public responded with... questions. Who were these Martians, who had the means to remake an entire planet? Some offered schemes for making contact. Giant mirrors would flash greetings... Light beams... Mental telepathy. Many astronomers grew deeply skeptical... but Lowell's vision of a harsh, yet Earth-like planet endured in the public's imagination.. That vision was dealt harsh blow in 1964. The Mariner Four spacecraft ventured in for a closer look... And what it saw looked like the Moon. Three more Mariners followed. They found huge dormant volcanoes... the deepest and longest canyon in the solar system...but not a trace of life, present or past. In the mid-1970's, two lander-orbiter robot teams, named Viking, took up residence at Mars. Maybe the Martians were just hiding, so theVikings tested the soil for signs of life. But all the evidence from Viking told us... Mars is not only barren... but in fact hostile to life. It's no wonder. Martian air temperatures range from --20 degrees Fahrenheit to down below --200. It's also very, very dry. The Sahara Desert on Earth is a rainforest, by comparison. If all of the water vapor in Mars' thin atmosphere fell as snow, it would make a layer of frost not thicker than your fingernail. On Earth, impact craters erode over time from wind and water... and even volcanic activity. On Mars, they can linger for billions of years. But so can the imprint of riverbeds, lake bottoms and ocean shorelines... And the Viking orbiters saw a lot of them. It's not hard to believe that a great deal of water once flowed here. But where did all the water go? To find out, scientists needed to do real field-geology on Mars. They needed rovers... travelling robots with tools and instruments. Tags: NASA, alien, aliens, animation art, asteroid, astronomy, black hole, comet, craters, earth, editing, flying, galaxies, geographic, graphics software, hubble, impact, jpl, jupiter, mars, mercury, moon, nebula, philosophy, phobos, photography, planet, red, religion, rovers, saturn, science, solar, space, spirituality, stars, sun, supernova, system, techno, telescope, television channel, ufo, universe, venus 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
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