10.7 Billion Year-Old Spiral Galaxy Stuns Astronomers
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Sorry to be a party-pooper, but I honestly doubt FTL will ever exist. We might be able to bend space-time to our will, making a shortcut, but actually moving faster than the speed of light will likely never happen. So much of our modern physics build upon the notion that the speed of light is the absolute speed barrier, and it has been "proven" in thousands of experiments.arc1991 said:
I'd say its worse here. You can't make any sort of religious statement or anything that may be interpreted as religious without a bunch of atheists coming down and calling you a bigoted asshole who refuses change.cerebus23 said:
Nothing wrong with suggesting religion is a fallacious product of its time, indelibly bias, provably wrong and best equipped to bring about its own destruction.NameIsRobertPaulson said:
Religion isn't sacred and it's okay to point out its floors. You should no more humor the schizophrenic man than the supposedly righteous. If we don't remind people how silly their beliefs are remind them of the thousands of faiths that have come and gone, dissolved by history and reason, we'll never be rid of ignorance.
EDIT: typo.
Generally do not read religious topics or obvious troll topics for it, i do watch a lot of national geo discovery stuff on youtube and rather annoyed frequently at the responses to something that i find amazing or beautiful only to have that stuff brought up.saintdane05 said:
Political blog sites are getting worse for it, nothing like people arguing politics then someone got to bring their god into it.
IMHO we have freedom of religion not freedom from religion, so i think people that want an out and out ban on god or gods are completely wrong.
But that said there is a few very important things, belief is a private matter, its someones belief, it should remain a private matter. Especially in the context of a discussion that has nothing to do at all with religion.
And having been raised catholic, and have read good chunks of the bible over the years, most people i see claim to be christian or catholic, really have no idea wth they are talking about. because the way they treat others is not the way jesus acted towards others or told people to act, thou shall not judge being chief among them.
Way too much i am better than you or you are ignorant and stuff along those line when people inject religion into a discussion.
Its just little white lies that keep the public interested in space. If we didn't do so we'd never get of this planet.Genuine Evil said:
Last time I checked religion operates to impose aged social values most of the time rather than lead anyone to a higher understanding.saintdane05 said:
Captcha: Face The Music; Wow the sentience program works and is very sarcastic.
You came across sounding like as much as an ass as Goddy did.NameIsRobertPaulson said:
On topic... I wonder if they will ever be able to make something that can get pictures of other galaxies as they are now. Not the billions of years delay.
Like, how? Teleporting photons and radiation here instantaniously? That'll probably take us a while to develop...Trippy Turtle said:
We can already look at nearby galaxies (especially satellite galaxies of the Milky Way) with a relatively short delay. The closest major galaxy is Andromeda at about 2.5 million lightyears, so the delay is, cosmologically speaking, pretty short, but it's still looking quite a while into the past of course.
Here's a cool list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_galaxies
I never knew the Milky Way had so many satellites.
Well I just pointed out yours!!!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLClearing the Eye said:
Anyway, religion isn't provably wrong, fundamentalism is. And as you state, religions have come and gone in the past, why not Christianity already? In an age as enlightened as ours don't you think it would be easier to rid ourselves of something so obviously wrong than something else several hundred years ago?
I don't really want to get into a religious discussion, I only raise points to quell generalisations, incorrect assumptions and general hypocricy on the topic of close-mindedness but it does grow tiresome, not because the person I'm arguing with is unintelligent in any way but because it becomes obvious that the issue is a more complex one than can be solved by two people arguing on the internet. But I'm a mathematician and logical fallacies can actually hurt so I do feel the urge to step in once and again, and with that I post this:
Mathematics: Proving itself right once and never having to return to the matter again.
All religion is in fact provably wrong. Christianity is one of the easier myths to debunk.Nyaliva said:
- God, we are told, made light three days before the sun (because the people writing the fiction--the Bible--didn't know it was stars that provided light).
God, being all knowing and infinitely powerful, would know the outcome of Earth before creating it.
In the same way, God would know who will and won't worship him before you're even made.
A being that created everything would have to then be responsible for all that is negative. Why, then, would such a being be angered when their creation, an exact mirror of Its will, behaves in a certain fashion?
God must have created Lucifer (and known he would fall from grace, having made him exactly as God wished) and all that he reportedly reviles. If God knows all, including who will and won't participate in the evils he made, why make them?
We are told the entire Earth flooded and every human died, with one man and his family of three others managing to find and save two of every species of animal on Earth, which is utterly absurd and impossible even with today's technology.
The Bible reports a plague and near genocidal tide of death in Egypt that never occurred.
Similarly, no reliable evidence exists that the Jews were ever enslaved at that time in that location.
Numerous supposed miracles are reported, none of which have any evidence at all for their happening.
Etc., etc., etc. The list is quite long.
Funnily enough, at the time of Jesus's life, there was something of a plague of messiahs; there were literally hundreds of people in every city claiming to be gods. One of the more famous was born on the 25th of December. His popularity was rival to that of Jesus at its height and it is for this reason that the early Christians (not yet known as such) adopted the date--in hopes of profiting off the popular day of celebration.
Also, you ask why Christianity still exists while the thousands of other faiths from ages passed have faded and been forgotten. This is because Christianity is very, very young, existing for considerably less than two thousand years. The religions of old--such as those practiced in Asia, Africa and Australia--lasted tens of thousands of years before being abandoned. For example, the Aboriginal peoples of Australia could have been following their complicated spiritualism known as Dreamtime, for some forty thousand years.
Not even halfway through a page and this became a science vs religion argument, over a comment I laughed at and didn't interpret to be anti-science/pro-religion in anyway whatsoever. Way to go guys.
OT: There are people out there discovering new galaxies and figuring out how this universe began, and here I am trying to will myself out of bed to do nothing all day. Really puts things in perspective. Regardless, this is a cool discovery. I don't know shit about the universe, but its always been interesting to me.
OT: There are people out there discovering new galaxies and figuring out how this universe began, and here I am trying to will myself out of bed to do nothing all day. Really puts things in perspective. Regardless, this is a cool discovery. I don't know shit about the universe, but its always been interesting to me.
If you're interested in the universe, then there's a ton of good books written a about the subject that you can read. "A brief history of time" comes to mind. It's written by Stephen Hawking, but in a way that anyone can understand it (I read it at the age of 12).Just_A_Glitch said:
"A Brief History of Time attempts to explain a range of subjects in cosmology, including the Big Bang, black holes and light cones, to the nonspecialist reader. Its main goal is to give an overview of the subject but, unusual for a popular science book, it also attempts to explain some complex mathematics."
It's a damn good book, to be honest.
Anarchy is just...amazing.
Oh, and the name can be quite elegant, you just have to pronounce it right.
Beyexfafartu
Oh, and the name can be quite elegant, you just have to pronounce it right.
Beyexfafartu
The attitude of a lot of scientists would have you believe otherwise. Theres this sort of annoying boastful pride prevalent amongst physicists whereby they look down on any other area of study, and many physicists will refuse to even give a moments thought that MAYBE, just maybe, their theories and formulas are incorrect or off.PotluckBrigand said:
Haha yeah that is actually not a bad point. I suppose I should say that's what *I* like about science. Like anything else (writing, art, office temping, oral sex, whatever) I suppose someone who would call themselves an expert would be hesitant to admit anyone knows their business better than they do.Syzygy23 said: