Because a lot happens on this pale blue dot
I sat down and looked at all the scientific evidence available. I came to the conclusion that, without a doubt, evolution has the most solid evidence backing it up, and believed that that any other theory was the not correct due to lack of solid evidence.
But, that was before I saw this video. They make make a tough point here. How can you argue when you’re going against evidence like this.
Continue reading ‘Evolution Proven False: Proof Using Peanut Butter’
Check out this breathtaking photo taken from Space Shuttle Endeavour of the Earth and the International Space Station.
I can’t even imagine the feeling of being in space and being able to see these types of images first hand. As beautiful as all these pictures are, actually seeing it live with your own two eyes must be such an overwhelming and rewarding experience that nothing else could ever even come close to measuring up to it.
S118-E-09467 (19 Aug. 2007) — Backdropped by Earth’s horizon and the blackness of space, the International Space Station appears to be very small as it moves away from Space Shuttle Endeavour. Earlier the STS-118 and Expedition 15 crews concluded nearly nine days of cooperative work onboard the shuttle and station. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 6:56 a.m. (CDT) on Aug. 19, 2007. The lower portion of Italy is visible at left.
If you’d like to see the original picture (I resized this some to fit in the viewer my blog uses), you can get it here.
Cats have a long history with humans. Surprisingly, cats have been associated with humans for an estimated 9,500 years. The carefully buried remains of a human and a cat were found with polished stones, seashells, and other decorative artifacts in a grave believed to be roughly 9,500 years old. The grave site was located on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. This find predates early Egyptian art depicting cats by 4,000 years or more. This find smashed the long held belief that cats were domesticated by the Egyptians. However, cats are not native to Cyprus, an island 43 miles south of mainland Turkey. This leads researchers to believe that humans introduced cats to the island.
Four massive galaxies are colliding in the largest galactic merger ever seen. This merger will possibility reveal how the larger galaxies in the universe are created and why many of them stopped producing stars billions of years ago. (Click on the image to expand)
Kenneth Rines of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge found this largest major merger ever recorded. The four galaxies are known as CL0958+4702 which are at a staggering distance of about 5 billion light years from Earth. Three of the merging galaxies are the size of the Milky Way, while the other is about three times as large.
Also discovered is fan-shaped ‘plume’ of old, red stars trailing about 360,000 light years from the merger. Scientists believe that these were thrown out of the merging galaxies as they spiraled towards each other. The gravitational pull of these merging galaxies will eventually pull back about half of those stars back into the merging galaxies. The rest will remain on the outskirts of the galaxy. This could suggest that free-floating stars found within other galaxy clusters were also ejected from their birth galaxies.
The completion of the merger is estimated to happen in about 100 million years.
The second place prize goes to the Antenna Galaxies. The two galaxies that merged to form this one were about the size of our Milky Way galaxy. (Click on the image to expand)
A user named Kasranov registered on my blog awhile ago and included a link to his blog in his profile. Always interested in who is registered on my blog, I went to check out his. I’m glad I did.
the audio from Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ and put it into this awesome 40 minute documentary. I can only imagine the amount of time taken to make this.
So do yourself a favor and take 40 minutes out of your busy day, lean back in your chair and watch the video on his blog.
If you’re like me you’ve probably sat in your fair share of traffic jams. I make a daily commute and experience a varying degree of traffic patterns. On random days I can zip right home without any hitting any traffic or I’ll hit a wall of traffic causing me to be late getting home. Usually these are caused by someone getting pulled over or in some sort of accident
Today I want to focus focus on a common traffic jam caused by phantom accidents. You’ve probably experienced many of these without even realizing it. Let me explain to you what I mean.
On February 14th, 1990 the Voyager I spacecraft turned around and took the now famous “Pale Blue Dot” picture. The spacecraft, at the time, was about 4 billion millions away when it it took the picture. This was the first time man ever saw our Earth from this vantage point.
The Voyager spacecrafts (both I and II) also carry a “golden record”. This record contains images and sounds that were selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. Space being so vast, I will take about 40,000 years to come near another star. I do however think it is interesting that a part of us is floating out in space.
07/25/07: Updated the coccyx entry to be clearer on why I feel it really isn’t needed. Fixed a few grammatical errors.
I’ve always been fascinated with human evolution. To me, the most fascinating part of human evolution is learning about what was “left behind” on our bodies from our ancestors. Also are left overs from prenatal development.The list is actually much longer than one would think. Here is a list I’ve compiled from some simple Google research.
Ever hear of this stuff? It is a gas that is heavier than air. Check out this video I ran across on Digg.com.
Recently, I started watching ‘From the Earth to the Moon’ and I have to say that it is really good. I know I’m about 9 years behind (was originally released in 1998) but I recently came across Apollo 13 on TV a few weeks ago which led me to read about it on Wikipedia, which lead me to the mini-series.
Both Tom Hanks and Ron Howard were part of the production team. The series is about the Apollo space program in the 60’s and 70’s. It mixes both historical footage with scripted footage. It really gives you a great breakdown of NASA at the time and the race to beat the communists to the Moon.
It is a 13 part series, with the first episode quickly going through all the events leading up to the start of the Apollo program. It can be hard to follow at times because of all the people involved with the program. Sometimes you forget who’s an astronaut and who is working within NASA as administrators, but that is just a minor detail.
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