I love Sean Carroll! I was just at one of Skeptic Magazine's CalTech lectures with Sean in January. It was great! His book "From Eternity to Here: The Quest of the Ultimate Theory of Time" is pretty damn good. It uses a lot of diagrams to help illustrate some of the complexities of the subject and I highly recommend it, BUT, I don't recommend the audiobook because you loose all of the diagrams and the narrator is very dry.

His wife, Jennifer Ouellette, authored "The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Loose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse" which I also highly recommend.

He and his wife are really cool!

I really like this video! Didn't even know they made it either.

No wait... It reminds me of Half-Life -AND- Myst (not necessarily the first one)

For some reason, this reminds me of Half-Life. I wonder how many people die on this trail a year.

He's a very nice and reasonable preacher. I pretty much hate religion but religion would be a better thing if there were more preachers that thought like him (or at least think like he's pretending to think)

I just found out that was the end of that segment, the host moved on (like a pansy).

WOW!

Damn it! This is the second time I've watched a clip from this interview that got cut off just when it was getting interest!

I would, and with haste, sign up for a 1-way trip to Mars to help research and colonize, without a doubt and with all things considered.

+1 on the double mancrush.

NASA, Fuck Yeah! Coming again to save the mother fucking day yeah! NASA, Fuck yeah! Science is the only way yeah! Religion, your game is through cause now you have to answer toooOO, NASA, fuck yeah so lick my butt and suck on my balls! NASA fuck yeah! It's the dream that we all share. It's the hope for tomorrow! Fuck yeah! Rockets! Fuck yeah! Planets! Fuck yeah! The Moon! Fuck yeah! Technology! Fuck yeah! Carl Sagan! Fuck yeah! The Internet! Fuck Yeah! Books! Fuck Yeah!

Nice Don't care for the show but the end of his speech was great!

Very few things warm my heart as much as a story like this. A machine loved dearly, passed down and restored to greatness from Father to Son.

Haha, I wish this would happen more often with those retards. Do a burnout at the track to warm up your tires before a run or during a burnout competition, don't be the fuckass who does it in a parking lot and ruins a meet-up for everyone.

>> ^Drax:

In my view an athiest is a person who doesn't believe in God, but will also tell anyone who does, "I'm sorry, but you're wrong.". An agnostic may not believe in god at all, but if someone else does they're willing to concede that anything's possible (there's other varients of agnostics, but to me this is what being agnostic means.. having a belief but accepting that they have no way of proving they're right over anyone else (no matter how crazy another belief seems)).
Tomorrow when I wake up there's not going to be a helicopter outside waiting to take me to work every day for the rest of my life.. but it -could- happen in an 1 in infinity minus one chance sort of way... So in my mind, an athiest will "push his or her belief" just as much so as a religous person will theirs. Therefor, I too somewhat disagree with some of what's said in this video... though, perhaps some athiests are open minded in the way I discribed but still consider themselves athiests. Not sure if that's the case.
I did like his mention of being good people, as I find that's one thing religous people hold over others. If you don't learn the word of God, how can you be moral? Though religion does tend to teach good practices, anyone has the capability of becoming a good person.
I personally believe we are limited to our physical senses in what we can detect in the universe, but is there a judging God out there that has this list of rules we have to follow with various places to attend after we're gone? No.. that just sounds way too man-made up for me to accept.


Mostly this part "So in my mind, an athiest will "push his or her belief" just as much so as a religous person will theirs."

In holding this belief you will always have confirmation bias against the types of people who don't fit your model and you will likely ignore or not be aware of the opposite when that opposite is standing in front of you.

And if you continue to hold that model, even in the face of evidence, then it is you sir, who are like the religious who maintain their doctrine in the face of contradictory facts.

Just keep in mind that someone can be both an atheist and an agnostic, they are not mutually exclusive. Considering yourself an atheist doesn't require you to make the claim that there are no gods, it doesn't require any claims at all.

Do yourself a favor and make it through the second video (the one about bulletproof fashion) and watch the report on recycled computers in ghana, it's pretty crazy what they're doing with cybercrime.