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If the Sun Was the Size of a Golf Ball...

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by don grahamleone, Sep 24, 2019.

  1. don grahamleone

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    This is just my opinion:

    Neil DeGrasse Tyson is like a celebrity chef. He knows how to cook, but he's better at understanding what the recipe is and can describe it in a way that's easy to follow. Should you trust him? Yes. Is he always on the forefront of new science? Yes. Does he make new discoveries and find new mathematical equations to describe the universe? No.

    I think of him as one of the best managers within the business of science.

    Dr Phil doesn't have a degree in therapy but my wife who's got her masters says the man knows the practice. He ain't doing anything cutting edge, but he's legit at the same time.

    You don't always need a piece of paper to make a difference. Neil has one, he's just the face of astronomy for the lay-folk.
     
  2. Jontro

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    noted. when i google dr phil i get all these results on how dangerous he is and how much of a phony he is. but i guess your wife knows better tho.

    and basically neil degrasse tyson is like a super great teacher that can break down complex theories so simple brehs like me can sort of understand.
     
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    "If the sun was the size of a golf ball we'd all be pretty damn cold."

    --Thought of the Day
     
  4. likestohypeguy

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    You are here. On a speck of dust, three tiny rocks from the source. At the edge of something much larger, in the middle of something else, at the beginning of the end. It's a lot to wrap your head around, so take it one gulp at a time. Life is uncertain... Super Cluster is a Citra-Hopped Mega Ale of Intergalactic Proportions. Everything we've learned about making hop-forward beer: Pale, cold, ̶s̶l̶i̶g̶h̶t̶l̶y̶ alcoholic, and bitter. Call us sometime! 707.769.4495 Beer speaks. People Mumble
     
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  5. Two Sandwiches

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    Amen.


    Once again, kind of what I was trying to say this morning, while half asleep, just written in a much better way.
     
  6. PhiSlammaJamma

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    There are 8.7 million species in the universe. Science has proven they all live here. Grapple with that you awful waste of space theorists.
     
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  7. don grahamleone

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    Observing all the known species on Earth by Earthlings doesn't prove that this is the limit of life. The building blocks for life and therefore species exists throughout the universe. The likelihood that no planet in the known universe would at least have simple life on their planets is unbelievably tiny. Who knows about intelligent life, but a simple single cell creature not existing anywhere other than Earth? That just hubris and nothing but hubris.

    There's a popular theory that one of jupiter's moon's contains life. How could it even be possible that we're alone when there's billions of stars in every galaxy like our own star and there are billions of galaxies? Interstellar travel would likely fix this belief that there's only lifeless existence elsewhere.
     
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  8. Jontro

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    i hope scientists would stop trying to find life outside of earth. haven't we learned anything from tom cruise movies?
     
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  9. PhiSlammaJamma

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    We can look 13 billion light years away, and not even one sign of life. How much more evidence do you need.
     
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    This thread is messing with my “Logic”!!

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  11. Sajan

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    I wonder what these science people will prove first...there is a God or there is life elsewhere.
     
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    Both before why O’Brien sucks at clock management
     
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  13. don grahamleone

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    Ha!

     
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    No.
    From my understanding the problem isn't that the telescope isn't powerful enough, the problem is that it is a telescope.
    Dark matter is impossible to observe or even detect with our tools, we can only surmise that it exists for the physics to make sense. There exists 85% of matter around us, that we can't see. These dark spaces in the universe, and the space all around us is full of invisible matter we cant just interact with. What we see, wherever our eyes can lay is only the 15% of existence.
     
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    The very concept of astrobiology is extremely flawed and short sighted.
    The so called living blocks of life, are only based from a speck of dust, earth.
    Even here on earth, under a lake in antartika we recently found a microbe that has different block of life than what the scientists are looking for. It is a true alien right here on our planet.
    I think it's also hybris to believe that life across the universe can only be based on the same materials as life on earth.
     
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    Two Words:

    Dark Forest
     
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    I love this channel and I love all the implications of the Fermi Paradox.
     
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