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Posted: 11/18/2019 9:56:02 PM EDT

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Monty python Universe Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq4uCWtQE24

Posted: 11/18/2019 9:56:44 PM EDT

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If that gives you anxiety just think about all the planet killer sized asteroids out there and how we have no clue where they're all at.

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Or that the atmosphere is relatively thin and just one puff of what, solar wind, could blow it away and we'd lay here gasping until dead.

But for millions of years the thin layer of gas still hangs on.

Posted: 11/18/2019 9:57:03 PM EDT

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We are a grain of sand compared to the universe.

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More like a single atom I'd wager.

Posted: 11/18/2019 9:57:53 PM EDT

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The thought of nothingness just scares the shit out of me. You die, then what happens? Your being is gone your just in a black void of infinite nothingness.

Posted: 11/18/2019 9:58:04 PM EDT

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Don't eat the brown acid!

Posted: 11/18/2019 9:58:10 PM EDT

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Time...Space...Matter...

Posted: 11/18/2019 9:58:50 PM EDT

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Ever stop to think about the actual motion of the planets? You know the sun is always moving too...

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:01:56 PM EDT

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Here's what always blew my mind as a kid (and still does); simple question: where is everything?

And the astronomers/physicists/whatever in the group will respond with well you see there's a solar system and it's in a galaxy and...

Yea, I got that, but where is everything???

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kind of like the big bang theory. Scientists will tell you the universe came from a super compact glob of matter the size of a pinhead that exploded.

Ok, I can fathom that, but where did the pinhead glob of matter come from?

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:03:06 PM EDT

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Here's what always blew my mind as a kid (and still does); simple question: where is everything?

And the astronomers/physicists/whatever in the group will respond with well you see there's a solar system and it's in a galaxy and...

Yea, I got that, but where is everything???

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It's all relative, my son.

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:03:14 PM EDT

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Something about turtles humping eachother?

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Sturgill Simpson - Turtles All The Way Down (Official 4K Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gBV-Nzq7Pg

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:03:15 PM EDT

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The thought of nothingness just scares the shit out of me. You die, then what happens? Your being is gone your just in a black void of infinite nothingness.

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If there was no after life, I've termed that as blinking out, there, then absolutely nothing.

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:03:53 PM EDT

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Ever stop to think about the actual motion of the planets? You know the sun is always moving too...

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Man this one is awesome

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:05:23 PM EDT

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Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot OFFICIAL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO5FwsblpT8

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:08:39 PM EDT

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The thought of nothingness just scares the shit out of me. You die, then what happens? Your being is gone your just in a black void of infinite nothingness.

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I look at it like this. After death will be the same as before you were born. Pretty simple actually.

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:11:11 PM EDT

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No point in thinking about it, leave that up to the egg heads because for the rest of us "it is what it is"

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:12:16 PM EDT

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Fascinating subject;

FSU EDU Gizmo @ link, cool stuff;

FSU EDU

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Thought for sure at the end it would say "and Jeffery Epstein didn't kill himself".

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:13:02 PM EDT

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No point in thinking about it, leave that up to the egg heads because for the rest of us "it is what it is"

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I don't think that much of it is what we think it is either.

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:13:39 PM EDT

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Milky Way 20170627 by FredMan, on Flickr

Moon-washed Milky Way by FredMan, on Flickr

400 Frame Star Trails by FredMan, on Flickr

Front Field Sun Moon Set_5-Minute by FredMan, on Flickr

Sun Moon Track 16mm 4 min by FredMan, on Flickr

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:15:49 PM EDT

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The thought of nothingness just scares the shit out of me. You die, then what happens? Your being is gone your just in a black void of infinite nothingness.

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Here's a good channel for stuff like this:

The Beginning of Everything -- The Big Bang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNDGgL73ihY

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:17:20 PM EDT

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Damn I came to post this. One of their greatest segments.

I love the Big Dispter

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:19:50 PM EDT

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Did you ever stop and think that maybe our Universe is but an exploding firecracker that God lit and tossed aside just for shits and giggles?

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:20:08 PM EDT

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haha

Then just think there 100-400 billion planets in our galaxy alone.
The distances in just our galaxy are mind blowing.
Hope we can find a way to break the speed limit without everyone being killed instantly.

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:21:37 PM EDT

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It’s not real.

We are just ones and zeroes is a computer simulation.

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:23:12 PM EDT

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There's so much we don't know about the universe, but one thing we can be sure of it's that it's nothing at all like a bowl; more like a leaf.

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:23:34 PM EDT

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I'll never be able to wrap my head around how things work. How we are far enough away from the sun to not fry but at the same time have a sustainable life. How it took 500 million years for the sun to simmer down to the point it's at now. What was there before the universe? And what was there even before that? I get anxiety just thinking about this shit.

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Goldilocks Zone

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:24:29 PM EDT

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Allow me to spice things up a bit.

Photosynthesis uses quantum entanglement.

Birds use quantum entanglement to navigate.

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Proofs? Links?

Really, and thanks.

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:26:35 PM EDT

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TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:28:45 PM EDT

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More like a single atom I'd wager.

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We are a grain of sand compared to the universe.

More like a single atom I'd wager.

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Posted: 11/18/2019 10:29:14 PM EDT

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How did it take 2 pages before this was posted?

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Posted: 11/18/2019 10:31:35 PM EDT

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And it all happened just perfectly by accident, some would say. Imagine the odds, that'll boggle your mind even more.

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I'll never be able to wrap my head around how things work. How we are far enough away from the sun to not fry but at the same time have a sustainable life. How it took 500 million years for the sun to simmer down to the point it's at now. What was there before the universe? And what was there even before that? I get anxiety just thinking about this shit.

And it all happened just perfectly by accident, some would say. Imagine the odds, that'll boggle your mind even more.

The odds are 1:1. All we can say is that there was a 100% chance of it working, because it worked. To say that the odds were any worse would require knowledge of other universes that failed to start under the same circumstances.

Same thing for the development of life on Earth. Until we find other Earth-analogous planets that are devoid of life, we can assume that there is a 100% chance of life developing on planets like ours. There is no evidence to the contrary.

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:32:10 PM EDT

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Star Size Comparison 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoW8Tf7hTGA

It's kinda hard to fathom how small we are....

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:33:10 PM EDT

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Ever stop to think about the actual motion of the planets? You know the sun is always moving too...

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It's very complex, depending on your point of reference. The earth is rotating around the sun, the solar system is moving within an arm of our spinning Milky Way galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy is moving wrt other galaxies, and our local complex of galaxies is moving wrt other galaxy complexes.

Mind blowing.

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:34:14 PM EDT

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It’s not real.

We are just ones and zeroes is a computer simulation.

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Posted: 11/18/2019 10:34:43 PM EDT

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You high.

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He's definitely smoking his wife's house plants.

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:35:21 PM EDT

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It's very complex, depending on your point of reference. The earth is rotating around the sun, the solar system is moving within an arm of our spinning Milky Way galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy is moving wrt other galaxies, and our local complex of galaxies is moving wrt other galaxy complexes.

Mind blowing.

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Isn't it amazing how it all just works? One little hiccup and we are all dead.

Whose to say the sun will be there when we wake up in the morning?

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:37:15 PM EDT

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The thought of nothingness just scares the shit out of me. You die, then what happens? Your being is gone your just in a black void of infinite nothingness.

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Well, you can take solace in the fact that there is no such thing as nothing.

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:44:42 PM EDT

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The odds are 1:1. All we can say is that there was a 100% chance of it working, because it worked. To say that the odds were any worse would require knowledge of other universes that failed to start under the same circumstances.

Same thing for the development of life on Earth. Until we find other Earth-analogous planets that are devoid of life, we can assume that there is a 100% chance of life developing on planets like ours. There is no evidence to the contrary.

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Statistics (odds) don't work that way. For most distributions, both absolute 0 and 100 percent probabilities are infinitesimally small, making them the closest thing to impossible that statistics can describe.

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:53:44 PM EDT

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Isn't it amazing how it all just works? One little hiccup and we are all dead.

Whose to say the sun will be there when we wake up in the morning?

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It's very complex, depending on your point of reference. The earth is rotating around the sun, the solar system is moving within an arm of our spinning Milky Way galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy is moving wrt other galaxies, and our local complex of galaxies is moving wrt other galaxy complexes.

Mind blowing.

Isn't it amazing how it all just works? One little hiccup and we are all dead.

Whose to say the sun will be there when we wake up in the morning?

It will be there in the morning, but one day it won't, well it will, we won't

https://www.sciencealert.com/what-will-happen-after-the-sun-dies-planetary-nebula-solar-system

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:57:24 PM EDT

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Proofs? Links?

Really, and thanks.

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Allow me to spice things up a bit.

Photosynthesis uses quantum entanglement.

Birds use quantum entanglement to navigate.

Proofs? Links?

Really, and thanks.

Sure. Start here. Also google European Robin Quantum Entanglement Experiment. There is a lot of info out there and the experiments have produced extremely compelling results.

Jim Al-Khalili and the Quantum Robin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jepgOQEvWT0

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:58:48 PM EDT

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Posted: 11/18/2019 11:08:42 PM EDT

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The galaxy is on Orion's belt

Posted: 11/18/2019 11:17:42 PM EDT

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Statistics (odds) don't work that way. For most distributions, both absolute 0 and 100 percent probabilities are infinitesimally small, making them the closest thing to impossible that statistics can describe.

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But statistics fail at the possibility of creation and intelligent design. There are two basic possibilities: the universe is controlled entirely by chance, or the universe was created by...something. If the former, standard distributions may apply. If the latter, standard distributions fail because the creator decides the distribution: none, 1, or an infinite number.

Posted: 11/18/2019 11:57:44 PM EDT

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I was taking a Science for Elementary Teachers class when I was introduced to the statement that,"The universe is finite but unbounded." Then, to go look at the diagrams showing the vast array of galaxies in their groups over vast distances and to know, that the universe as we know it, sits in this huge, unbounded volume of nothing. That's mind blowing.

Posted: 11/19/2019 12:22:12 AM EDT

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We are a grain of sand compared to the universe.

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We are a grain of sand compared to the universe.

And speaking of which...

There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on the earth.

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The thought of nothingness just scares the shit out of me. You die, then what happens? Your being is gone your just in a black void of infinite nothingness.

If time is indeed an illusion, there is no "then". There is no "before" or "after" - only an ever-present "now".

Posted: 11/19/2019 4:07:04 AM EDT

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If thinking about the scale of the universe bothers you then try not to think about the fact that one day it will all be dark. Eventually there will be insufficient matter in nebulas to form new stars and all existing stars will slowly die leaving the universe in total, eternal darkness.

If it keeps expanding as if has been from the start all of those cold, dark celestial bodies will end up separated by mind boggling distances.

Posted: 11/19/2019 4:33:13 AM EDT

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If the Universe is constantly expanding in every direction at all times, what is it consuming?

Posted: 11/19/2019 4:52:13 AM EDT

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The thought of nothingness just scares the shit out of me. You die, then what happens? Your being is gone your just in a black void of infinite nothingness.

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A black void of infinite nothingness would be a scary experience.

The thing is, you're dead, so you're not experiencing anymore. If you find an afterlife it won't be nothing, by definition.

The universe is patterned, tesselated by the forces of nature interacting with one another, neither entirely random nor designed.

I don't believe our feeble conceptions of divinity are capable of approaching the magnificence of the truth. Every time our information horizon has expanded so has that magnificence, even with the astonishing vision science and technology have provided us, I believe that's still true, and we only see the horizon, not it's limit.

The tiniest sliver of the natural world is just as mind-blowing IMO, the life web surrounding a common weed, or the beauty and complexity of another person, and our monkey brains are better suited to such things really.

Try and enjoy the ride.

Posted: 11/19/2019 4:53:56 AM EDT

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It's a sim. Be the glitch.

Posted: 11/19/2019 4:57:58 AM EDT

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Our solar system is in a relatively empty part of the milky way, in the dark space between the spirals. Imagine living on a planet near the core, there would be no such thing as night time. Even facing away from your star, the night sky would be filled with so many stars that your flesh and eyes would need some kind of protection from the extra cosmic radiation/light.

Posted: 11/19/2019 5:09:49 AM EDT

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Here's what always blew my mind as a kid (and still does); simple question: where is everything?

And the astronomers/physicists/whatever in the group will respond with well you see there's a solar system and it's in a galaxy and...

Yea, I got that, but where is everything???

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We're still figuring that out actually. Most of the calculable mass in the universe (dark matter and energy) is hidden from our sight and we are still not completely sure of the size and shape of the universe.

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