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Bill Nye: Creationism Is Just Wrong!
It's not that there is a 'war' on... it's that there are a bunch of non-scientists walking around saying they're 'creation scientists'.
You're absolutely correct, there is no research being done on 'young Universe'... but there is also no science being done to prove 'old Universe'. Science is done by taking small bits of knowledge that have little gaps, and filling those gaps in. We didn't figure out the half-life of Rubidium in order to prove the age of the earth, we figured out the half-life of Rubidium to figure out the half-life of Rubidium. Some other scientists had taken measurements of the natural occurrence of elements and their isotopes in various parts of the world. And then more scientists apply the knowledge acquired in both fields and try to find out what it tells us.
I agree, you absolutely should question scientists with an agenda, but I've NEVER heard a non-christian suggest that there is scientific evidence for the earth being younger than 4-5 billion years old. You want to cast doubt on scientists by saying that there are millions of dollars and reputations on the line, but this reasoning is more destructive if you aim it at the young-earthers: Their religion has made explicit claims as to time-spans that occurred 'in the beginning'... their religious leaders have made explicit claims as to the literalness of the Bible. And most church leaders have been explicit that other denominations of Christians may not be allowed into heaven... So you have a large group of individuals who are not only risking their reputation, but what they believe is their eternal soul, on something that they didn't discover, but have worked backward to find evidence to prove that their book is correct.
Young-earthers each, individually, have much more to lose than scientists. And let's be clear... religions have enough money to staff up scientific R&D labs and fund their own research if they wanted. In fact, the Vatican DOES have it's own, world-renowned observatory. So, how old does this Priest thing the Universe is?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OwWqrXGtrRs#!
So, to be clear, it's not Scientists vs. Christians. It's Scientists AND Christians vs. People Who Don't Trust Science.
And I expect this. Christians have long fought against persecution, and it thrived while it was being persecuted. Now that it's the dominant religion, many of the teachings have lost their luster. Members who believe that the Bible has something personal to say to them will pick up on the persecution aspect, which was intended to help those in the year 200AD... not 2012. So they make up bogey-men and pick a fight with anyone who says something that isn't explicitly allowed in the Bible (and is convenient for them)... hence the anti-Gay-Marriage protests, but no anti-shellfish protests.
You're a product of your environment, shinyblurry... you're as predictable as Islam producing suicide bombers... and just as pathetic in your misunderstanding of the Universe.
I'm just going to reply in general here; I'll reply in specific later. A few people have asked, what is the conspiracy? Do you not know that the scientific community is in a state of war with creation scientists? They are very keenly aware of the fact that anything that even remotely points to a young Universe will be lept upon by creation scientists and thrown back in their faces. I am very certain there is a concerted effort to suppress or dismiss such evidence. I have seen the vitriol that scientists heap upon creation scientists and it isn't pretty. Anyone pursuing projects which would help their cause would have their funding revoked, and they would be ostracized from the scientific community. I guarantee you that there is *no* research being done on the possibility of a young Universe. They consider it a proven fact, and they have built their theories on the back of it (none of their theories about anything these days work without deep time). Millions and millions of dollars and many reputations are on the line for deep time. It has become conventional wisdom, which is no longer science but philosophy.
Here is a book that may interest some:
http://books.google.com/books/about/Exploding_a_Myth.html?id=k7UwShwkKg0C
Scientists Convicted of Manslaughter Sentenced to 6 years
"Let's burn down the observatory so this will never happen again!!!"
New Earth bound telescopes are closest to Outer Space!
But of course. Silly me. I knew that.... I was just excited.
And yeah, what is special is the altitude -- a dry place high up so not as much atmosphere between the antennae and what they are watching.
>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
>> ^bareboards2:
I love that they are approaching the idea of an observatory in a different way. Not one huge telescope but an array.
The idea of antennae array has been around for a long time, so I don't know what is so special about these exactly. I mean, remember contact, when she goes to the desert...and there were like dozens of antenna? That was a antennae array, and there are several space array systems in the world...and any radio telescopes can be linked up to form an array with some effort. The real step, I'm guessing, is in the most dry desert in the world. It is compared to a mars-scape.
Edit: Grammar...sometimes I think I need a lobotomy
New Earth bound telescopes are closest to Outer Space!
>> ^bareboards2:
I love that they are approaching the idea of an observatory in a different way. Not one huge telescope but an array.
The idea of antennae array has been around for a long time, so I don't know what is so special about these exactly. I mean, remember contact, when she goes to the desert...and there were like dozens of antenna? That was a antennae array, and there are several space array systems in the world...and any radio telescopes can be linked up to form an array with some effort. The real step, I'm guessing, is in the most dry desert in the world. It is compared to a mars-scape.
Edit: Grammar...sometimes I think I need a lobotomy
New Earth bound telescopes are closest to Outer Space!
I love that they are approaching the idea of an observatory in a different way. Not one huge telescope but an array.
Things Every Person Should Know About Astronomy #1
Fact 1: An estimated (the number may be higher) 1.6 planets per star in our galaxy
http://www.space.com/14200-160-billion-alien-planets-milky-galaxy.html
Fact 2: 100 billion galaxies:
We know there are that many, because we've seen them. The hubble space telescope was pointed at a tiny , random black spot in the sky (where no stars from our own galaxy was blocking the field of view) and found 10000 galaxies in that tiny spot about 1/12millionth of the sky. Extrapolating that out, we get that there are atleast 100 billion galaxies, and each of them contains hundreds of millions of stars.
Fact 3:The moon has its own gravity.
Well duh...
Fact 4: 8 Planets in our solar system.
This is of course very well documented. You can see several of them on any given night. One of them , Venus will infact pass directly in front of the sun in a few days, on the 6th of June! That also happened in 2004, but the next one wont be for another 105 years! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus
Fact 5: There were galaxies in the early universe. These have been seen by the Hubble telescope and other observatories:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_formation_and_evolution
Fact 6:The earths tilted axis causes seasons: http://www.khanacademy.org/science/cosmology-and-astronomy/v/how-earth-s-tilt-causes-seasons
More later..
What is a Neutrino?
Those are the dudes...
>> ^vaire2ube:
tumbleweeds
anyways...
http://science.slashdot.o
rg/story/11/12/20/2337213/undersea-neutrino-observatory-to-be-second-largest-human-structure
What is a Neutrino?
*tumbleweeds*
anyways...
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/20/2337213/undersea-neutrino-observatory-to-be-second-largest-human-structure
Got the most ridiculous email forward today. (Blog Entry by MarineGunrock)
Seems similar to one I got a few years ago:
NASA captures a comet hitting the Sun
"SOHO watched as a fairly bright comet dove towards the Sun in a white streak and was not seen again after its close encounter (May 10-11, 2011). The comet, probably part of the Kreutz family of comets, was discovered by amateur astronomer Sergey Shurpakov. In this coronagraph the Sun (represented by a white circle) is blocked by the red occulting disk so that the faint structures in the Sun's corona can be discerned. Interestingly, a coronal mass ejection blasted out to the right just as the comet is approaching the Sun.
Scientists, however, have yet to find a convincing physical connection between sun-grazing comets and coronal mass ejections. In fact, analysis of this CME using images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows that the CME erupted before the comet came close enough to the solar surface to interact with strong magnetic fields."
Absolutely STUNNING nature timelapses
From the artist:
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run an observatory in your backyard with it
What Does an Underwater Oil Spill Look Like?
After this video was released, scientists at Purdue University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and UC Berkeley working independently came up with estimates between 50,000 and 100,000 barrels per day, 10-20 times BP's official estimate of 5,000 barrels per day. A spokesman for BP responded "We've said all along that there's no way to estimate the flow coming out of the pipe accurately".
If those scientists were right, it would mean that the amount of oil released exceeded the Exxon Valdez spill in the first week. We're now about a month in.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126809525
The first Sun images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory
>> ^mxxcon:
>> ^rgroom1:
is there a time frame for how long that solar event took?
i think that's realtime, not timelapse
No way that's real time. Just think about the scale of that eruption...
There are some videos of similar events on YouTube with timers.
This one lasts around 10 hours: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSM7wtfSWXk
( More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_prominence )
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