On November 4, 2013, astronomers reported, based on Kepler space mission data, that there could be as many as 40 billion Earth-sized planets orbiting in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars and red dwarf stars within the Milky Way galaxy. 11 billion of these estimated planets may be orbiting Sun-like stars.
...And how many galaxies are there again?
From the complexity of microscopic fungi to an infinite amount of world's out there, the universe really is amazing.
There were more galaxies than grains of sand on our beaches. Yes, past tense because what we see now is in many cases the situation as it was thousands or even millions of years ago (it takes light very long time to reach us ... and that is why inter planetary travel will probably be limited to our solar system).
Bai e.. fcn baie.
Lol Moz!
Was reading about tidally locked planets orbiting red dwarf stars.
They need to be so close to the star to be within the Goldilocks zone and have water in liquid form that they are tidally locked by the gravity of their star, with the same side of the planet always facing the sun. Like our moon.
The constant warming of the front side causes air to raise and travel back towards the dark side where it cools and then makes its way back to the light side.
A constant cold wind blowing from the dark side of the planet. One could write an entire thesis on how such an extreme constant might affect cultural ideas.
On earth, God is associated.with the sun and light. Satan with darkness.
The most habitable zone...is the zone that is between the light and dark side of the planet. It experiences a never ending sunset. Is their God the cocktail king?
What we see on earth, is that societies from harsher climates, specifically cold ones, seem to out do those in the tropics, it's interesting to consider how on a planet such as the one above, societies would evolve over time.
Translucent skinned brutes with giant pupils and hearts that run at 20bpm. The harsher the climate the more teamwork is required. So one could imagine such a group to operate almost as a hive mind.
I need to limit my sci-fi intake
Read a synopsis of it Moz.
Seems pretty out there. Takes inspiration from Plato's cave somewhat by the looks of things.
You're one for one since I enjoyed The Big Short, so I'll check it out.
The heavenly firmament has been a place of wonder since forever ... producing an assortment of gods to worship ... including Allah the Moon god, who by the way is one of many names for Lucifer.
Space is mysterious and will hold on to it's secrets for an eternity.
All we can do is look up and wonder ... ask a thousand unanswerable questions ... and think of what could be ... it's enough to drive us all insane.
CC, im sure as someone that games, you have a good idea of software engines.
The amount of time and work it take to create just one engine that operates within a small and finate space, allowing for only one avenue of variable. Normally bug rudden and and flawed too.
Sitting back and looking at the the world around, how nuts is the engine our reality runs on?
From tiny stuf to vast and unimaginably big expanses and and bodies. And the rules change depending on the scale as well, yet everything fits and works.
I'm constantly in awe.
Well, Plum ... it's impossible not to be ... someone put it all in place and the thought of that enhances one's wonder.
To think that everything was a deliberate action and not just some random cosmic explosion is as mysterious as the creation itself.
No ... I know you don't believe in a creator and I'm not pushing to debate it ... it's just that some of us do ... so when we look into the heavens and see all it's splendor .. we're left a little more amazed than those who don't.
Ever gone for a horse ride on a farm ... alone? Ever find yourself in the middle of nowhere ... a body of water in front of you ... where the silence is deafening ... makes one think.
This could spark an interesting debate....I reckon.
I want to know how a theist thinks he knows that they are more amazed at the universe than us Atheists.
Surely we are more amazed as we think its all random chance and not designed, according to you lot that is more unlikely than someone designing all this let alone created it out of nothing.
So I will state we are much more amazed than those who do.
CC
I have no issues with creationism. For me it's a perfectly valid possibility. But i separate it from religion in that i dont beleive a creator necessarily needs to be a god. God might be the creator, or not. Just a personal choice really.
The argument that goes along the lines of everything being so finely tuned that it must have been planned also holds a ton of water. The best counter i have heard to it is something like this...
Touch your nose with one finger. Now i measure the exact moment that you touched your nose. Not in seconds or in nanoseconds but in billionths of a nanosecond. There is a preceise instant at which your finger and nose made contact.
Now, why didnt it happen a moment before or a moment after but at the very precise moment that it did? Surely you must have planned it for it to be so precise and so measurable down to the tinest fraction of time. Surely for you to act so act so precisely much planning and calculation must have occured.
The longwinded point there is that very precise consequence is possible without any real intention.
Saderfan, i disagree. Religious people add a God or group of gods to their contemplations. Kinda apples and oranges but both groups have a human brain in common and nobody is ever gonna break the universe or god down into small enough pieces of information for us to understand it all. The result in both cases, when one steps back and looks at the world, is amazement.
I was gonna have lunch. Oh well.
Sader, it's not a competition.
Perhaps the most wondrously absurd thing one could ever hear is the atheists argument about a Universe creating itself out of nothing like these hatter atheists truly think. Hahahahhahahaha these clowns leave me in stitches so often!
How wonderfully Science has now proven God. No excuse left for even the dumbest atheist "fool"
These buffoons had better wise up.
But i digress "the heavens declare the glory of God" so ponder the magnificence of the Universe you atheists and maybe the penny will drop.
Science has proven god? Bwahahahaha
Care to post a link to the ground breaking proven scientific data that does this?
Bet you will post links to cretard wack job sites full of psuedo science waffle with no corroborating evidence. Only the feeble minded believe young earth creation bull shit.
The earth is 6,000 years old, man was made from dust (or dirt cant remember which) and females are made from a rib hahahahaha. what a load of utter nonsense.
And one other thing beeno, you always say we are stupid for believing that everything came from nothing (we dont) but where did god get all the "stuff" to make everything if it was all created?
He must have made it from nothing right because he created everything. You do realise you have been mocking your own beliefs right hahahahahaha what a moron.
I see the standard response from the looney christians when asked to put up some facts to prove what they say, either nothing (beeno) or throw insults to try and divert attention away (snowflake).
Whoosh
1998 was right up there but also 1999,2000, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 20017, 20018 all hold fond memories.
Which one of those is your favorite snowflake?
Whoosh yet again
You must be a midget snowflake because EVERYTHING goes over your head doesn't it hahahahahah
Crusader Fan I posted Prof Lennoxes talk about the Genisis account which shows very clearly the Earth is not saying the earth is 6000 years.
So why are you lying again doofus.
You are as thick as a plank and ought to confine yourself to rugby scoreboard analysis.
Yes I have made many posts showing the evidence that science has provided that Proves the existence God.
Bet your bigotry never allowed you to look at the evidence. Just like you sucked up the Russian collusion delusion as evidence means zip to a profoundly bigoted nutjob like you.
Man this clown can be bracketed with that arch buffoon rooijackass the Red
If in fact what you say is true why does science state otherwise you doofus
I can give you many more names of scientists that state the complete opposite but your bigotry and stupidity do not let you look at the evidence you profundly retarded buffoon
Plum ... THAT ... is a very interesting thought. A god ... but not necessarily a creator.
What would qualify Him as a God then? According to my understanding, a God is a super being ... a ruler ... powerful ... someone worthy of worship because of what He's capable of ... because of what He's achieved ... a creator of life ... and a ruler over death.
The only non creating gods that I know of are usually man made ... like dead inanimate objects made of stone or wood ... or false gods that desire worship ... like Lucifer, the Moon god Allah, Buddha ... and so forth ...
By saying "a god" you are actually implying that there's more than one of these deities ... like Odin and Thor ... or Athena ... Zeus!!
We are all subject to time ... well, at least all that I see around me is subject to it. Even the stars burn out at some time or another. They aren't eternal. It rules over us all. We measure everything by it. How long it took to boil an egg ... how much time we have left to live in this form ... the distance we travel in a light year ... a set appointment at a specific time when we'll gather for an important meeting ... how much time it took Bolt to run the 200m ... so much so that we all wear a time piece on our wrist. It dominates our day. Every day.
Time is the most valuable thing we know of ... highly sought after ... unattainable ... something that we cannot buy. It is totally beyond us.
What if there's a being that's not subject to time. What if that being exists outside time? What if this being ruled over time ... what if He used it as a means to bring all things under His control ... even death is subject to time?
Would that qualify Him as a god? Would that make Him worthy of worship? Would we be able to measure him at all ... even in a billionth of a nanosecond?
It is human nature to assign God a place among us. We often refer to Him as "the man upstairs" ... or even picture Him as having a human form with a great white beard ... as though he were just a hyped version of us.
What if He isn't anything like us. What if He didn't look like us at all ... what if He didn't think like us.
My point is that everything that is, was deliberately put in place by a being that we cannot measure ... that we cannot fathom and it's all there precisely as He wants it, as He planned it ...The Earth is not 6000 years old.
Haaaaaaaaahahahahahaaa!!!
Anyone who believes that probably also believes that the earth is flat, and has an edge we can fall off of.
Nope more silly billy lies from ou rooitwit and cohorts. Have always said, many times, i have no idea how old the earth is. The bible doesn't tell me and science has conflicting claims so Beeno being the astute person he is takes a very reasonable stance.
Those claiming 13.5 billion years should' if they have any intellectual integrity which of course they mostly don't, consider evidence for a younger earth. Hence my posting some evidence that the earth could be younger than 13.5 billion years.
The Chumps of course ignore the issue of the Universe creating itself out of nothing and how the human male and female evolved.
Of course these closed minded bigots wont have listened to what Prof Lennox has to say. Hence their amazing level of ignorance!
Are you getting a glimmer C humps!
Beenz. ATM the scientific consensus seems to be that the universe is about 13.772 billion years old (with an uncertainty of 59 million years} and the Earth only about 4.543 billion years old.
Evolution of man is well known in fact it is so well known it is a scientific theory (look uip the mean of a Scientific theory ), what is not known is how life started in the first place.
And since we dont know that doesnt mean you get to make shit up just because your a fuckin idiot.
Your statements above beeno show that you have not looked at both sides of the discussion as you keep repeating all the same errors that the cretards continue to spew out
Theory is not fact.
It's a set of ideas that some confused dude put together in an attempt to explain his thoughts ... maybe even after too many beers.
Evolution is a theory ... a fabrication ... based on nothing other than thumb sucking.
Someone wanted to make sense of it all and so came up with this nonsense ... and now the world calls it fact.
It's not.
It's a lot closer to utter rubbish than it is to actual fact.