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Posted: 11/19/2019 12:04:19 PM EDT
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Its been said that once man invented stone tools everyone around the world had that ability once it was made. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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There is a theory, that if the universe is ever figured out, it will be replaced by something even more bizarre. There is another theory, that this has already happened. Twice. |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 12:24:38 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/19/2019 12:30:06 PM EDT
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And there are people who can look at this and not believe in God. 
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Posted: 11/19/2019 12:37:08 PM EDT
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We didn't get "lucky". There are countless solar systems in the universe. Some of which have planets at the correct distance from their star for life to develop.
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Posted: 11/19/2019 1:02:19 PM EDT
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 Man in black - ending HD |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 1:27:30 PM EDT
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Well God, so..... |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 1:42:35 PM EDT
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Why aren’t we developing technologies to be out there exploring it? 49.5% are bitching that it's a waste of resources and the other 49.5% are bitching that the money could be spent on giving them more gubmint cheese 
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Posted: 11/19/2019 1:43:29 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/19/2019 1:51:30 PM EDT
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We didn't get "lucky". There are countless solar systems in the universe. Some of which have planets at the correct distance from their star for life to develop. |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 1:58:27 PM EDT
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What's the blue thingy? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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https://i.pinimg.com/originals/25/75/65/257565f3c27722162eb945c49e65b091.gif Ever stop to think about the actual motion of the planets? You know the sun is always moving too... |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 2:03:29 PM EDT
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Well technically that would mean you just dont exist. Poof. Gone. Like incinerating a hardrive that had loads of source information then its just gone, unrecoverable. Now imagine this: who you are is actually saved somewhere, call it DNA, a form of consciousness somewhere on a plain of existance above our own....... however it exists, it exists and its workings misunderstood and innaccesable by current tech. Humans evolve another million years and discover a way to snatch that essence of who you are out of the nothingness and recreate you just as you were. Not a copy but a continuance of who you were at the time of death. If that was the case, would complete nothingness be an issue? Litterally a billion years could go by and once you were "resurrected" it would be as if you woke up a few seconds after you died. Thats weird. DNA does not store memory. |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 2:08:16 PM EDT
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"People don't think the Universe be like it is, but it do." - Black Science Man |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 3:00:23 PM EDT
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There is a theory, that if the universe is ever figured out, it will be replaced by something even more bizarre. There is another theory, that this has already happened. Twice. 
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Posted: 11/19/2019 3:19:45 PM EDT
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Maybe the universe makes prefect sense but our brains just aren't powerful enough to decode it all.
Our instinct of ego, that drives us to go on in self belief, is what shades us from understanding the true scale of the universe. I've had another theory. It states that if we ever create an AI that is capable of self improving it's own mental game, exponentially, that it will do two things: First is that it will figure out the secrets of the universe. The next instant it will calculate the futility of explaining those secrets to us apes, then disappear. While we are scratching our heads as to where it went, it will be sipping fine wine with other AIs on a distant planet 12,000 years ago.
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Posted: 11/19/2019 3:29:33 PM EDT
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We didn't get "lucky". There are countless solar systems in the universe. Some of which have planets at the correct distance from their star for life to develop.  Origin: Probability of a Single Protein Forming by Chance |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 3:35:25 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/19/2019 3:42:56 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. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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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. Or, does the water just exist where it can? |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 3:47:24 PM EDT
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We didn't get "lucky". There are countless solar systems in the universe. Some of which have planets at the correct distance from their star for life to develop.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1_KEVaCyaA |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 3:57:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 1% of us are. 49.5% are bitching that it's a waste of resources and the other 49.5% are bitching that the money could be spent on giving them more gubmint cheese Quote HistoryQuoted: 1% of us are. 49.5% are bitching that it's a waste of resources and the other 49.5% are bitching that the money could be spent on giving them more gubmint cheese Quoted: We have a bingo!.jpg
Our instinct of ego, that drives us to go on in self belief, is what shades us from understanding the true scale of the universe. I've had another theory. It states that if we ever create an AI that is capable of self improving it's own mental game, exponentially, that it will do two things: First is that it will figure out the secrets of the universe. The next instant it will calculate the futility of explaining those secrets to us apes, then disappear. While we are scratching our heads as to where it went, it will be sipping fine wine with other AIs on a distant planet 12,000 years ago. |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 4:05:30 PM EDT
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A channel full of pseudoscience. No thanks. |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 4:12:51 PM EDT
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I'm all for building less nukes and invading less countries so we can build more spaceships. That's just me, though. It's also possible that once our own intelligence is supplemented using technologies like Neuralink, we could develop a deeper understanding and consequently, develop tools to take advantage of that understanding. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: 1% of us are. 49.5% are bitching that it's a waste of resources and the other 49.5% are bitching that the money could be spent on giving them more gubmint cheese Quoted: We have a bingo!.jpg
Our instinct of ego, that drives us to go on in self belief, is what shades us from understanding the true scale of the universe. I've had another theory. It states that if we ever create an AI that is capable of self improving it's own mental game, exponentially, that it will do two things: First is that it will figure out the secrets of the universe. The next instant it will calculate the futility of explaining those secrets to us apes, then disappear. While we are scratching our heads as to where it went, it will be sipping fine wine with other AIs on a distant planet 12,000 years ago. 
Then again, if we could all do that, it would be like handing chimps full auto MP5s. 
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Posted: 11/19/2019 4:14:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We have a bingo!.jpg
Our instinct of ego, that drives us to go on in self belief, is what shades us from understanding the true scale of the universe. I've had another theory. It states that if we ever create an AI that is capable of self improving it's own mental game, exponentially, that it will do two things: First is that it will figure out the secrets of the universe. The next instant it will calculate the futility of explaining those secrets to us apes, then disappear. While we are scratching our heads as to where it went, it will be sipping fine wine with other AIs on a distant planet 12,000 years ago. |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 4:32:33 PM EDT
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It’s not that the conditions for life are special, it’s that they are rare. If life couldn’t have thrived on this world then it would have thrived on another. We weren’t blessed so much as just lucky.
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Posted: 11/19/2019 4:37:29 PM EDT
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shitty channel or not, the odds of developing life independently out of chemicals is staggering Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I'm all for building less nukes and invading less countries so we can build more spaceships. That's just me, though. Quoted:
And it all happened just perfectly by accident, some would say. |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 4:41:52 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. Was pretty interesting. Alternatively, it could just be that there are an infinite number of universes and therefore the universe we live in and life on Earth as we know MUST arise in at least some of them. Either way, shit will indeed make your head spin. Especially if you are ingesting certain chemicals. |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 4:47:48 PM EDT
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Remember, Donal Trump and white capitalists control the distance between the sun and the earth.
-Climate change activists |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 4:54:48 PM EDT
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Some notes: do the math, let us know.
Five million years ago, when humanity's ancestors were just learning to walk upright, a star was ejected from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, at a staggering 3.7 million mph. This month, a group of researchers spotted the superfast star traveling relatively close to Earth. Researchers, led by Sergey Koposov of Carnegie Mellon University's McWilliams Center for Cosmology as part of the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S5), spotted the star — known as S5-HVS1 — in the constellation Grus. According to a press release Tuesday, the star was traveling at just 29,000 light-years away from Earth, or "practically next door by astronomical standards." |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 4:58:03 PM EDT
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Skimmed the thread. Anyone post timeline of the universe yet?
That is by far the best universe related content I've ever seen. |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 5:03:13 PM EDT
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Some notes: do the math, let us know. Five million years ago, when humanity's ancestors were just learning to walk upright, a star was ejected from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, at a staggering 3.7 million mph. This month, a group of researchers spotted the superfast star traveling relatively close to Earth. Researchers, led by Sergey Koposov of Carnegie Mellon University's McWilliams Center for Cosmology as part of the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S5), spotted the star — known as S5-HVS1 — in the constellation Grus. According to a press release Tuesday, the star was traveling at just 29,000 light-years away from Earth, or "practically next door by astronomical standards." |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 5:04:48 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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Posted: 11/19/2019 5:05:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If ever anyone needed proof . . . the universe: there you go. I got faith. |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 5:12:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And Jesus never said "Don't masturbate." |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 5:12:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And there are probably more where the light hasn’t reached us yet There is a diagram of our Galaxy that shows how far our radio transmissions have reached. It is just an insignificant distance in the scheme of things 
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Posted: 11/19/2019 5:19:02 PM EDT
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Just think most of the stars in those galaxies probably have supernova already. Just think that light took 100s if millions of years to reach us So I respectfully disagree with your assessment that most have gone supernova. |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 5:21:10 PM EDT
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No. Recreating the body would NOT recreate the memory. If you 1000 years later build a computer with the exact type of components from one 1000 years previous, the computer would be functionable, but there would be no data. DNA does not store memory. |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 5:23:53 PM EDT
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A star needs to be 3x as large as our Sun (or larger) to go supernova.most stars are smaller than our sun. Most are actually red dwarfs. So I respectfully disagree with your assessment that most have gone supernova. My degree is in general sciences with 2 years of astronomy. It is for most part a useless degree for my career but hey I did it. |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 5:28:33 PM EDT
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shitty channel or not, the odds of developing life independently out of chemicals is staggering Quote HistoryQuoted:
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A channel full of pseudoscience. No thanks. |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 5:29:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Is it? Every Planet we've checked has life on it. |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 5:37:10 PM EDT
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Is it? Every Planet we've checked has life on it. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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A channel full of pseudoscience. No thanks. |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 5:43:01 PM EDT
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Quantum entanglement blows my mind |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 5:44:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Is it? Every Planet we've checked has life on it.
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Posted: 11/19/2019 5:45:46 PM EDT
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How do you know that? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Posted: 11/19/2019 6:30:50 PM EDT
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Every Planet we've checked has life on it. 
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Posted: 11/19/2019 6:32:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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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Posted: 11/19/2019 6:39:21 PM EDT
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I'll also add two comments:
1. In an infinite universe anything can happen, and the corollary; 2. In an infinite universe everything MUST happen. |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 6:44:19 PM EDT
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And to all those talking about probabilities and statistics, just what are the odds that intelligent life would develop on a plant circling a star, and the planet would just happen to have a moon who's apparent angular diameter just matches that of the star, when viewed from the planet?
I'll say the odds are 100%, because it did happen.  DSC_9161-DSC_5970 Sun and Moon by FredMan, on Flickr
 Eclipse 600mm Full Sequence_ by FredMan, on Flickr
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Posted: 11/19/2019 6:51:35 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/19/2019 7:09:17 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. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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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. 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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Posted: 11/19/2019 7:22:12 PM EDT
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I'll also add two comments: 1. In an infinite universe anything can happen, and the corollary; 2. In an infinite universe everything MUST happen. |
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Posted: 11/19/2019 7:22:32 PM EDT
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