Bigger than God?

[dr_mabeuse]

A brief tour of the universe that helps put everything in perspective.

 

[Handley_Page]

A brief tour of the universe that helps put everything in perspective.

Damned clever, that.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Bigger than God?

That's what she said

Seriously thoguh, that was interesting. Moreso than the video that shows the scale of the planets in our system versus our sun, and other suns, and the largest stars known to us.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Naw, you just need to expand your concept of God, that's all.

 

[driphoney]

We used the paid-for version of this in my astrobiology course last summer. This one is free, and no, you don't have to be a kid to enjoy it:

Starry Night​

 

[3113]

Isn't it awesome that we can know all this? Almost as wow as seeing it.

 

[al_Ussa]

This is if you assume "God" even vaguely resembles human beings or is even knowable at all!

 

[Pure]

this does kinda put in perspective the significance of a person's receiving a "1" for a story he 'published' at literotica, whether it be vandalous or just supercritical.

 

[TE999]

"Warp factor Eight, Scotty. It's still following us."

"Aye, Cap'n. I dinna think th' engines canna take much more."

Cool vid, thanks Doc.

 

[THROBBS]

very cool!
Reminds me of this oldie but goodie..
the Power of Ten

I 1st saw this back at the Toronto Science Center when I was in Junior High..... ummm. in the early 70's.

 

[driphoney]

this does kinda put in perspective the significance of a person's receiving a "1" for a story he 'published' at literotica, whether it be vandalous or just supercritical.

For a moment. But then the mind narrows back to that immediate world that surrounds us, to the people and things that effect our everyday life.

The universe is not my wake-up call, I have to say. Remembering that children are starving do that for me.

I don't agree, necessarily, with all that site promotes, or even know if it's completely legit, but I figure it doesn't hurt to click. If anyone knows more, I'd love to be informed.

ETA: Sorry. Sociology class is already effecting me and I've just had one class!

 

[al_Ussa]

http://blog.erdener.org/archives/images/20070328-cthulhu-sitting-down.jpg

 

[jomar]

That never gets old.

 

[OnlyByMoonlight]

Very cool vid. Thanks for sharing.

 

[trysail]

Orders of magnitude in the universe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-01-12

Our insignificance is surpassing. We are not even a mote of dust.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Orders of magnitude in the universe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-01-12

Our insignificance is surpassing. We are not even a mote of dust.

What is NOT God? We are. Dust is. It all is. There is nothing insignificant and nothing is "more" important than any other...

 

[Handley_Page]

We used the paid-for version of this in my astrobiology course last summer. This one is free, and no, you don't have to be a kid to enjoy it:

Starry Night​

"550 No such directory"

Probably lost in the Clouds of Magellan.

 

[DeeZire]

This brings up an interesting set of questions:

Does each planet have its own God? If so, what does a God do if His particular planet hosts no life? Does he play World of Warcraft on the internet with the other Gods?

If, on the other hand, one God rules over the entire universe, how big is His staff, since there's no way in hell He could handle the work load by Himself. And where is His staff located? In a call center in India? And do they receive healthcare benefits, or is God a stingy Republican who doesn't believe in helping those stricken by illness or genetic defects? (Genetic defects that would have been His fault, BTW.)

In spite of the fact that my head is now about to explode, I'd like to thank you, Doc, for posting the link. Even though my bathroom needs cleaning and I can't afford my cleaning lady this month, this urgent dilemma seems much less significant now. (If God wanted men to clean bathrooms, why didn't He give us knee pads?)

 

[TE999]

http://blog.erdener.org/archives/images/20070328-cthulhu-sitting-down.jpg

Cthulhu fhtagn! Cthulhu fhtagn!

 

[driphoney]

"550 No such directory"

Probably lost in the Clouds of Magellan.

The link doesn't work for you? Well, maybe the free-ware isn't isn't allowed in the UK. Just google Starry Night and, maybe, solar system to keep from getting Don McLain or Van Gogh. It's an interactive solar system learning thingamabob.

 

[rgraham666]

Our insignificance is surpassing. We are not even a mote of dust.

From Watchmen.

Thermo-dynamic miracles... events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing.
And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter... Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold... that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermo-dynamic miracle.

We're all miracles, rarer than diamonds.

 

[Esperanza_Hidalgo]

God? Hmm, a wonderful vid, but hardly God, at least not the one that man believes is supreme. Are we talking about the God who suddenly appeared one fine Sunday morning when a man looked in the sky and saw a star? Not that one, surely.

Man thought it was food, so he reached for it, only to figure out he couldn't reach it. Then he made it a God, and felt all better. That is until . . . sin, and he needed his misery, so he became miserable and prayed to God to sate his misery, which only made him more miserable.

Now, if we speak of the God within all things, the God of atoms, quarks, black matter, neutrons and protons, then yes, this be God!

May your day and life be peaceful, and, forgive my silly musings,

Esperanza

 

[OLDERNWISER]

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[amicus]

From Watchmen.

From Watchmen.


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Thermo-dynamic miracles... events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing.
And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter... Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold... that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermo-dynamic miracle.

We're all miracles, rarer than diamonds.

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Thank you Mab, for the link. I was about to introduce my thoughts concerning the oft quoted, 'insignificance of man', in the scheme of things, but from the most unlikely of sources, the above quote rather sums up my perceptions and conclusions concerning the efficacy of intelligent life in the Universe.

The Carl Sagan like presentation gave but the bare bones of man's knowledge of nature and the Universe and leaves much unsaid.

My youngest daughter, touring the ruins of Troy, in Turkey, wrote, "how insignificant I feel before the ruins of a people so long ago..." I emailed her back with a cryptic note that I had a pill for feeling insignificant and that I would send her a bottle.

The ruins of Troy or any other ruins anywhere in the world in any time frame, are but rocks, essentially, as the motivating factor in all cases, was and is the mind of the individual man who conceived the arch and built it.

Most recently I watched a program explaining how the Heliosphere, the extent of our sun's influence outside the limits of the solar system, actually diverted cosmic rays, gamma rays, from entering our solar system and destroying life.

It acts like the Earth's Magnetosphere which shields life from the lethal effects of solar radiation.

And yes, to one who said it is amazing that these things exist, but more so that the mind of man has comprehended them by choice, through focus and intent.

There is the true miracle in nature as stated above.

Amicus

 

[voluptuary_manque]

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Thank you Mab, for the link. I was about to introduce my thoughts concerning the oft quoted, 'insignificance of man', in the scheme of things, but from the most unlikely of sources, the above quote rather sums up my perceptions and conclusions concerning the efficacy of intelligent life in the Universe.

The Carl Sagan like presentation gave but the bare bones of man's knowledge of nature and the Universe and leaves much unsaid.

My youngest daughter, touring the ruins of Troy, in Turkey, wrote, "how insignificant I feel before the ruins of a people so long ago..." I emailed her back with a cryptic note that I had a pill for feeling insignificant and that I would send her a bottle.

The ruins of Troy or any other ruins anywhere in the world in any time frame, are but rocks, essentially, as the motivating factor in all cases, was and is the mind of the individual man who conceived the arch and built it.

Most recently I watched a program explaining how the Heliosphere, the extent of our sun's influence outside the limits of the solar system, actually diverted cosmic rays, gamma rays, from entering our solar system and destroying life.

It acts like the Earth's Magnetosphere which shields life from the lethal effects of solar radiation.

And yes, to one who said it is amazing that these things exist, but more so that the mind of man has comprehended them by choice, through focus and intent.

There is the true miracle in nature as stated above.

Amicus

Of course, that can be used as evidence in favor of the Anthropic theory of the Universe. Just sayin' . . .