[video=youtube;r6w2M50_Xdk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6w2M50_Xdk[/video]
The video is from 2010, but after an extensive search I have concluded that it hasn't been posted here before.
This youtube video changed my life, unimaginably.
[sub][sub]It saved my life[/sub][/sub]
It's been posted before. But it was a year or more ago I think.
Good video, check out his other videos (specifically the latest one, "Dust That Sings") they're great. He has a knack for turning what is usually approached with cynicism/realism into a beautiful work of art.
I remember this video, it's the video that made my parents start to stray away from god and look towards science.
[QUOTE=Bradyns;40070675]This youtube video changed my life, unimaginably.
[sub][sub]It saved my life[/sub][/sub][/QUOTE]
why? most of it has been obvious to me for some time now.. not to sound pretentious or anything, but it makes it easier to comprehend the entirety of Cosmos when most of it is undeniably dead, open space.
but the ending of the video was cool, the little rewinding of our history there with funny music.
maybe humanity is just another (fucked up at a times) civilization to be compared with the collected history of other civilized species elsewhere within our Universe.
so let's keep the recorder on, day by day. Some day we might get some interesting results.
How dark does the surrounding area have to be for you to see those white strands of the milky way?
[QUOTE=credesniper;40073965]How dark does the surrounding area have to be for you to see those white strands of the milky way?[/QUOTE]
Pretty dark.
i think religion and science are two completely different topic.
i used to really be into science, physics and outer space, i've studied it all.
faith is something different imo, person could be religious or not and still find space interesting.
[QUOTE=credesniper;40073965]How dark does the surrounding area have to be for you to see those white strands of the milky way?[/QUOTE]
I haven't seen "strands" but after a while you sorta realize that like, third of the sky has a band of "mist" over it. It's pretty amazing.
It [i]was[/i] posted one or two years back actually, i still remember it, great video.
[editline]28th March 2013[/editline]
and i just managed to not read the very first line of the first post
[QUOTE=Scoooooby;40074865]i think religion and science are two completely different topic.
i used to really be into science, physics and outer space, i've studied it all.
faith is something different imo, person could be religious or not and still find space interesting.[/QUOTE]
I never felt discord between my scientific interests and religious beliefs, personally.
"Thirty billion years? Are you fucking kidding me?"
Words to live by my friends. Humanity as we know it, and everything that makes us what we are today has been a great time, but we have so much more ahead of us.
Everything we know and ever have in modern time frame has spanned a mere 12 thousand years, and some people are distraught that we have 30 billion left?
We should cherish our time here, because so little of it can be so grand.
This video just made me feel... nice. I just feel good right now.
I just watched a bunch of videos from that guy. Needless to say it was an amazing trip.
Amazing how you find the most peace without religion. Without a god.
Somewhat similar
[video=youtube;MOY-jJeOeBk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOY-jJeOeBk[/video]
[QUOTE=Scoooooby;40074865]i think religion and science are two completely different topic.
i used to really be into science, physics and outer space, i've studied it all.
faith is something different imo, person could be religious or not and still find space interesting.[/QUOTE]
If he was religious that moment he had would be more of "wow God is really powerful and amazing" less of "the universe is mind blowing. The sizes, the numbers, the complexity is amazing. And even though all those numbers are so massive, everything is connected and in harmony. And even though I'm just one of trillions of organisms living on one of 300 millions of grains of sand I'm a part of it. My body used to be a stars."
I'd take the second one any day.
Great post, I really enjoyed it :D
Religion also saved lives of other people in the past, but now we don't really need it.
This video is great but he only mentioned the bad things of religion.
[QUOTE=Ghost656;40081762]Religion also saved lives of other people in the past, but now we don't really need it.
This video is great but he only mentioned the bad things of religion.[/QUOTE]
We never needed it. It was created as a means to control people.
The reason they tell us we don't need it today is because there are newer ways to control people.
[QUOTE=credesniper;40073965]How dark does the surrounding area have to be for you to see those white strands of the milky way?[/QUOTE]
We're talking rural here. Like rural Montana. No light pollution.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;40083503]I really think it depends on how you "handle" God. If you're a deist or the like, chances are you won't feel disconnected from science (maybe on morale standpoints and so on, but that's a different discussion), but if you're a "traditional" Christian, I think it's a bit harder to cope with some of stuff we figure out. I'm not religious in either way, but that's my 2 cents.[/QUOTE]
I was taught all my life that most of the Bible is metaphorical- mostly those have qualms with science who still take the Old Testament at face value, thinking it to be a history book, which it isn't.
I got interested at 1 Gpc/h, but then the video just ended and left me cold.
[QUOTE=Salm1z;40089794]I got interested at 1 Gpc/h, but then the video just ended and left me cold.[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://htwins.net/scale2/"]Here you go.[/URL]
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;40083503]I really think it depends on how you "handle" God. If you're a deist or the like, chances are you won't feel disconnected from science (maybe on morale standpoints and so on, but that's a different discussion), but if you're a "traditional" Christian, I think it's a bit harder to cope with some of stuff we figure out. I'm not religious in either way, but that's my 2 cents.[/QUOTE]
Being roman catholic (It doesn't get much more traditional), I have no problem with science or the scientific method and welcome it.
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
If science doesn't shake your religious beliefs than you are really good at compartmentalizing things in your brain.
[QUOTE=Mechanical43;40090291]If science doesn't shake your religious beliefs than you are really good at compartmentalizing things in your brain.[/QUOTE]
There's a quote from MLK that I always show to people that think that science and religion are mutually exclusive.
[quote]“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values.
The two are not rivals. They are complementary.
Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.” [/quote]
[QUOTE=Hidole555;40090081][URL="http://htwins.net/scale2/"]Here you go.[/URL][/QUOTE]
I already know all of this. I was hoping for a simulation that goes way beyond the observable universe.
Thanks anyways.
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