Sub-Orbital Space Flights & Satellite Exploration
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: mysticism, aristotle, Curie, Atheism
International Year of Astronomy 2009, IAU and UNESCO Visual design: Martin Kornmesser & Luis Calçada Music and Sound Effects: MoveTwo (Axel Kornmesser & Markus Löffler) Footage and photos: Gemini Observatory (Kirk Puuohau-Pummill/Peter Michaud), CFHT (Jean-Charles Cuillandre), TWAN (Babak Tafreshi, Laurent Laveder), Martin Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble), NASA, NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESA/Mars Express, Kevin Govender, NASA/Spitzer Space Telescope, ESO/VLT/ALMA, & Akira Fujii Project lead: Lars Lindberg Christensen (ESA/Hubble) Note: This trailer may be shown in its entirety without limitation. The trailer must not be edited and or shown in anything but its entirety.
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“Of all the sciences cultivated by mankind, Astronomy is acknowledged to be, and undoubtedly is, the most sublime, the most interesting, and the most useful. For, by knowledge derived from this science, not only the bulk of the Earth is discovered …; but our very faculties are enlarged with the grandeur of the ideas it conveys, our minds exalted above [their] low contracted prejudices.” –James Ferguson, “Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newtons Principles, And Made Easy To Those Who Have Not Studied Mathematics” (1757) — Subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — The Cosmic Perspective Long before anyone knew that the universe had a beginning, before we knew that the nearest large galaxy lies two and a half million light-years from Earth, before we knew how stars work or whether atoms exist, James Ferguson’s enthusiastic introduction to his favorite science rang true. Yet his words, apart from their eighteenth-century flourish, could have been written yesterday. But who gets to think that way? Who gets to celebrate this cosmic view of life? Not the migrant farmworker. Not the sweatshop worker. Certainly not the homeless person rummaging through the trash for food. You need the luxury of time not spent on mere survival. You need to live in a nation whose government values the search to understand humanity’s place in the universe. You need a society in which intellectual pursuit can take you to the frontiers of discovery …
Tags: ESO, time, Tyson, Cast
Hail Science!! Celebrating 400 years since Galileo first peered into the milky dark with the 2009 International Year of Astronomy. With images from the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes. Find free space images at nasaimages.org The Chromatics’ “Shoulders of Giants” free download and lyrics available at: www.astrocappella.com Music and Lyrics by Padi Boyd © 2008, The Johannes Kepler Project It was a calm and cloudless night but it was all still a blur A shaking of our Universe was just about to occur It was Summertime… 1609 when Galileo used his telescope for the very first time and he saw mountains and craters on the moon and a Milky Way with thousands of stars and he saw Jupiter, with four tiny moons he was the only man on Earth that night who knew That Copernicus was right come outside with me tonight and I can show you wonders of the world to surprise and delight I’ve got my telescope with me just wait until you see that on the Shoulders of Giants…. … we’ll see beyond! The world turns round and round now around 400 years have flown since Galileo’s telescope first focused the unknown Now we use bigger glass to peer into the past And we’re discovering the Universe’s secrets at last And there are geysers on Saturn’s icy moon and planets circling hundreds of stars while all the Universe expands like a balloon from Galileo’s tiny scope we’ve come so far Galileo was right when he looked out in the night and he discovered wonders of the world to surprise and delight I …
Tags: Sagan, Earth, star, shoulders
The Comet’s Tale 2 of 6 – BBC Astronomy Documentary, recorded in 2009
Tags: Comet, Extraterrestial, runichannel1, TV
It’s that time again! Three Minute Philosophy returns with a rapid-fire lesson about the father of science, Galileo Galilei.
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This clip picks up where the one I’m responding to (“Gods retreat from cosmology”) leaves off — it is advisable that you watch that clip first. Both clips are from Neil deGrasse Tyson’s presentation titled “The Perimeter of Ignorance” at Beyond Belief 2006. Among other things, Tyson asserts that the religiosity of some of history’s greatest scientists and their willingness to invoke the philosophy of intelligent design limited the scope of their inquiry into the natural world, to the detriment of scientific progress in general.
Tags: Intelligent, Atheism, Design, church
Johannes Kepler And The Triumph Of Modern Science Over Medieval Superstition – Best Of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos (Part 18). — • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — BEST OF CARL SAGAN’S “COSMOS”: 1) 10 Years After: Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan Reflect: www.youtube.com 2) Lost Between Immensity And Eternity: www.youtube.com 3) The Realm Of The Galaxies: www.youtube.com 4) Our Galaxy, The Milky Way: www.youtube.com 5) Our Solar System: www.youtube.com 6) Eratosthenes And The Round Earth Model: www.youtube.com 7) The Library Of Alexandria: www.youtube.com 
A Short History Of The Universe: www.youtube.com 9) Artificial And Natural Selection: www.youtube.com 10) The Cosmic Year: www.youtube.com 11) Tree Of Life – 4 Billion Years Of Evolution: www.youtube.com 12) The Miracle Of Life: www.youtube.com 13) DNA – The Common Basis Of Life: www.youtube.com 14) Abiogenesis – The Origin Of Life: www.youtube.com 15) Astronomy vs Astrology: www.youtube.com 16) Pictures In The Sky: www.youtube.com 17) Ancient Astronomy: www.youtube.com 18) Triumph Of Modern Science Over Medieval Superstition: www.youtube.com 19) The Mysterious Tunguska Event: www.youtube.com 20) Life Beyond Earth – Origin Of Life In The Universe www.youtube.com Carl Edward Sagan, Ph.D. (1934-1996) was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra …
Discover here how the science of a comet and its appearance in 1680 and 1681 was what really made Isaac Newton discover gravity. Interesting video clip from BBC. Watch more Comet’s Tale clips with BBC Worldwide here: www.youtube.com
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just few thoughts triggered by a documentory films on time, space and the conquests of Jinjis khan
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