Sub-Orbital Space Flights & Satellite Exploration
A reminder of the things mankind can accomplish when its intelligence, ingenuity, and determination are focused in the right direction, and our skills are used for the benefit of all mankind rather than for the greed and prosperity of a few. Footage includes space missions, advanced robotics, biological and medical advancement, particle physics and cosmology. Audio excerpts include JFK, Stephen Hawking, Teddy Kennedy and Carl Sagan. Music by Brian Eno
Tags: titan, Landing, missions, cosmos
At the Beyond Belief conference, astronomer Carolyn Porco describes the spirituality inherent in the scientific view of the Universe. To see what a science-based religion might look like in real life, take a look at yoism.org Go to http to see the rest of this three part series (you can also download this video there). And see www.yoism.org to understand what we mean by “saint” in Yoism and why we refer to Dr. Porco as “Saint Carolyn.”
Tags: Hubble, religion, Beyond, Saint
This montage was created to demonstrate that it is the scientific method alone that has elevated the standard of living of many populations to soaring heights and can do so for all the world’s people. Science is not an ideology, but a method. A method which can free us from the shackles of destructive, divisive, superstitious thinking and create a peaceful, sustainable world where the united human race harmonises with the laws of nature, rather than arrogantly ignores them. —————————— You as a human being have evolved to respond to the world around you on impulse. You will instinctively jump out of the way if, say, a bus comes careening towards you. You know it would have a fatal effect if you didn’t. Even if you had never seen such a thing happen to a person before, you can instinctively calculate the weight of the bus, its size, its speed, and you will know that your frail body does not stand a chance. You know this because your very perception is built to comprehend the world in which you live. Defy it, and you will perish. As soon as you realise that this is a certain fact of life, you can apply that mentality to everything that you do. As the old Stoic saying goes: ‘Virtue exists in a will which is in agreement with nature’. This means that if what you choose to do is done without resistance to what you cannot control, then you will not encounter suffering as much. It is a certainty that you cannot break the laws of nature. They are firmly stuck …
Tags: Darwin, Rationalism, religion, einstein
There are so many criticisms of atheism, coming from religious folk, so many of which are unfounded and false, I thought I would make this video addressing simply what atheism is, and what it is not. In the hope that religious people might understand it. Music from the TV series ‘Cosmos’ by Carl Sagan Images from the Hubble space telescope
Tags: Atheism, Carl, science, cosmos
This is a video podcast I made for the podcast I run, The Big Bang and Creationism (my homepage can be found at lucretius1.blogspot.com/) It goes over the history of our universe, with some nice visuals, mostly courtesy of Wikipedia and the Hubble Space Telescope gallery site. I had to split it into two parts. This is part 1. Part two can be found: www.youtube.com
Tags: Atheism, Bang, theism, science
Philosophy on truth and meaning. Dedicated to my lovely artistic friend Maya. 
(nutsinthecoco) mp3 download: www.mediafire.com The original video: www.youtube.com more of Gary’s videos: www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com Music: Set Adrift by montaramike Mike’s Channel: www.youtube.com Mike’s Website: hijosdelanoche.com Hi-Res image download links: 1: hubblesite.org 2: hubblesite.org 3: hubblesite.org 4: hubblesite.org 5: hubblesite.org 6: hubblesite.org 7: hubblesite.org 8: hubblesite.org 1st Image: Hubble’s Sharpest View of the Orion Nebula Credit: NASA,ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team 2nd Image: Hubble Photographs Grand Design Spiral Galaxy M81 Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) 3rd Image: HST-Spitzer Composite of Galactic Center (Full-field) Credit: NASA, ESA, QD Wang (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), and S. Stolovy (Caltech) 4th Image: The Carina Nebula: Star Birth in the Extreme Credit for Hubble Image: NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Credit for CTIO Image: N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley) and NOAO/AURA/NSF 5th Image: Hubble’s Largest Galaxy Portrait Offers a New High-Definition View Credit for Hubble Image: NASA, ESA, K. Kuntz (JHU), F. Bresolin (University of Hawaii), J. Trauger (Jet Propulsion Lab), J. Mould (NOAO), Y.-H. Chu (University of Illinois, Urbana …
In 2003, the Hubble Space Telescope took the image of a millenium, an image that shows our place in the universe. Anyone who understands what this image represents, is forever changed by it. Check out this Science store. Awesome stuff here for people who like science and technology. www.zazzle.com
Tags: size, picture, ever, cosmos
Question: How would you describe your own life stance today? How do you relate to God and religion? Swedish Astronaut Christer Fuglesang: “Well, from about the age of ten I’ve been convinced that there is no God, there is nothing we can’t explain with the physical laws.” — Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — Arne Christer Fuglesang (born March 18, 1957 in Stockholm) is a Swedish physicist and an ESA astronaut. He was first launched aboard the STS-116 Shuttle mission on December 10, 2006, at 01:47 GMT, making him the first Swedish citizen in space. Married with three children, he is a Fellow at CERN and taught mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology before being selected to join the Astronaut Corps of the European Space Agency in 1992. As of 29 August, 2009, he has participated on two Space Shuttle missions and five spacewalks, and is the first astronaut outside of the United States or Russian space programs to participate in more than three spacewalks. • en.wikipedia.org — Christer Fuglesang, ESA Astronaut PERSONAL DATA: Born 18 March 1957 in Stockholm, Sweden. Married to the former Elisabeth Walldie. They have three children. Christer enjoys sports, sailing, skiing, frisbee, games and reading. EDUCATION: Graduated from Bromma Gymnasium, Stockholm in 1975 and received a Master of Science in engineering physics from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, in 1981. He …
Tags: ESA, science, atheists, Mission
The Science of Inflation Theory by Dr. Michio KakuDear viewer, please read the description before placing a comment, thank you for all your support . If you are a creationist read the following instructions: 1st please get a real job, 2nd do some research, 3rd educate yourself, 4th read some books, 5th acquire some culture and knowledge, 6th then make a comment. Thank you. Some Christian, Islamic or other theistic extremists, mix, by pure ignorance, the big bang with evolution, wich are two completely different branches of science. THE BIG BANG The Big Bang is the cosmological model of the initial conditions and subsequent development of the Universe that is supported by the most comprehensive and accurate explanations from current scientific evidence and observation. As used by cosmologists, the term Big Bang generally refers to the idea that the Universe has expanded from a primordial hot and dense initial condition at some finite time in the past (best available measurements in 2009 suggest that the initial conditions occurred around 13.3 to 13.9 billion years ago), and continues to expand to this day. Extrapolation of the expansion of the Universe backwards in time using general relativity yields an infinite density and temperature at a finite time in the past. This singularity signals the breakdown of general relativity. How closely we can extrapolate towards the singularity is debated—certainly not earlier than the Planck epoch. The early hot, dense phase is itself …
Tags: Evolution, inflation, reason, Genesis
Sun, Nov. 23, 2006 From The Science Network Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses the apparent un-intelligent design of the cosmos. www.beyondbelief2006.org
Tags: Richard, science, astronomy, Beyond