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  • Does anyone know what the name of the song is?

  • who here thinks that when you look up at the sky, you say to your self thats a star,, ohh wait its a plane hahaha

  • truly awesome video! You will go down in history, weather you understand that or not. thanks t

  • 1:30 What the Fuc*k. Is it me or the video...

  • @mikkeljan most random thing of all time lol 1:30 numa numa

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  • @Ragman205

    You've now been reported. I'll take it higher than youtube if necessary. I just wanted you to know what you've got yourself into.

  • @Ragman205

    I have reported your continuing hate speech. Every hateful thing you post is added to the case against you. I intend at the very least to ensure that your account is closed, so please feel free to provide more ammunition.

  • Whats up with that fat loser ?

  • Why is there a guy singing numa numa at 1:30?

  • The song at 2:00 is Celtic Panpipes - ride on thumb up so ppl can see

  • But where does it all end? How can something just go on forever and never end?

  • @Kookies40

    A three dimensional hollow tube standing on its edge is in two dimensions a ring or circle. You could run your finger round and round and round that circle "forever" (well for as long as you are physically able) without ever finding an end.

  • @BigEnos01 Thank you for taking the time to explain. Yes, that makes sense...but what is beyond the edge of the tube/circle? If you drew everything you could possibly ever see in the universe on a piece of paper, what would be beyond the edge of that piece of paper? It really fascinates me. I just think our brains are too undeveloped to understand all this. But I still cannot imagine, or comprehend, that something can NEVER end.

  • @Kookies40

    The hollow tube/circle demonstrates the limitations an exclusively 2d entity would have interpreting a tube. To us with our native 3d experience, we easily understand depth. If however the universe, and thus the tube, have more than three spatial dimensions as physicists speculate, we and our 2d friends are experiencing a tube aspect and a circle aspect of some other higher dimensional object and our concepts of "edges" and "ends" are limited by 2d and 3d thinking.

  • @Kookies40

    Sorry, I posted that without finishing it. Like the two dimensional tube/ring, we can't conceive of boundaries to the universe in the three spatial dimensions we are accustomed to, but if there are more than three spatial dimensions (as the forefront of physics proposes), then we aren't able to 'see' the entire tube/universe and are naturally only experiencing part of it's geometry.

    I quite like the phrase "finite and boundless" that I think came from Professor Hawking.

  • Well I'm sure if the governments around the world came out to the public about ETs I'm sure there would be a majority if not all that would want to really look into all of this an how it all really makes sense.

  • One thing I never hear brought up and it doesn't matter if you believe God created the Universe or if you don't, is the fact that somewhere THE FIRST life was created. Someone/thing was THE FIRST...........

  • @FuzzFaceFaction

    Do you have anything particular in mind when you use the words "created" and "Someone"? On one hand we can envision some event by which a compound of non-living organic molecules undergoes some catalytic process (electrical perhaps), resulting in a new type of molecular interaction, maybe giving rise to a chain of further interrelated reactions and accumulated processes in an increasingly complex sequence. On the other hand some believe...well, you know. What do you think?

  • If they know exactly how big the universe is, what is outside of it? Do you suddenly hit an invisible wall at the edge?

  • @Punk1984Rock

    There's no easy answer in terms of the three spatial dimensions of our everyday experience. From that perspective the best answer is that there is no outside. Imagine if you could communicate with a two dimensional being that has only ever experienced backwards and forwards and left and right. Imagine trying to describe up and down to that being. If as physicists suspect, there are more than three spatial dimensions (+ time), we only 'see' a facet or slice of the universe.

  • @Punk1984Rock

    If you search youtube for 'Cosmos episode 10', Carl Sagan very elegantly talks about dimensions. It is of course just over 30 years old, but much of his groundbreaking series is just as relevant today as when first broadcast. Also, his poetic script and boundless enthusiasm never gets old. You can see why Brain Cox cites him as such a major influence. You can actually watch the entire series here in full hour long episodes. I can remember watching them as a 6-7 year old in '81.

  • @BigEnos01 Thanks for your reply, I appreciate it

  • @Punk1984Rock

    @BigEnos01

    Freudian slip there, calling Brian Cox "Brain Cox". I sometimes do that with Brian Eno too...

  • this is not important

  • Call me stupid, but how can we view 78 billion light years if our universe is only 13 billion years old? Someone help me out here. Did It expand fast er than the speed of light, if so, how are we viewing this far is the light (technically) hasn't reached us yet?

  • @PocaWolfenstein7 I'm wondering the same exact thing and i'm pretty sure astrologists are still figuring this out.

  • @Brock1812 *Astronomers. Astrologists find meaning in the stars's alignments and other quasi-meaningless stuff. Astronomers study the stars them selves.

  • @PocaWolfenstein7 my bad...astronomers it is then

  • @PocaWolfenstein7

    You are thinking quite correctly in terms of special relativity imposing a theoretical speed limit, but that specifically concerns the velocity of objects relative to each other within spacetime. The theory however doesn't impose the same limit on the expansion of spacetime itself. Having said that, many physicists suspect that special relativity may not be inviolable in all cases, hence the recent excitement that CERN may have detected neutrinos travelling faster than light.

  • @BigEnos01 Ok so basically, space can expand faster than light travels, thus pushing the matter faster than the speed of light; but relative to the space around it, the matter is traveling at a speed slower than light? Am I getting it?

  • @PocaWolfenstein7 Everything expands away from everything else. Even the space between the atoms in your body. Its just at large distances it really makes a difference. Its likely that those galaxies in this picture is right now expanding away from our galaxy faster than the speed of light. So (eventually) we will not see them (in x billions of years from now).

  • @PocaWolfenstein7

    Yes, that's the basic idea, but I'd recommend that you do some background research into universal expansion for yourself, it's always best not to rely on just one source. I can obviously say that I am honestly answering you to the best of my knowledge, but there's as much disinformation as information floating around youtube so it's prudent to always independently verify comments on such issues. There's loads of independent info on the internet to compare and contrast.

  • @BigEnos01 Its very unlikely that the CERN stuff is correct, due to the fact that they earlier observed a supernova explosion, and detected the massive burst of neutrinos exacly at the same time they saw the visible light from the supernova. Which means that over thousands of light years, both the light and neutrinos travelled at the speed of light. While the distance from CERN to Italy is extremely short, making this very likely a measurement problem and nothing wrong with relativity

  • @deffan84

    Well apparently they repeated a refined version of the experiment and returned the same result. That would need independent verification but the investigation continues, so we'll have to see. Maybe it is a systemic error.

    It's worth remembering that until Einstein intervened, observational error was the most plausible explanation for experimental data that seemed to suggest that the speed of light was constant.

  • Shame about the music, jesus fucking christ.

  • This video inspired me when I was 15 to stop wasting time and study this beautiful universe we inhabit. Simply amazing.

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  • you are all a bunch of noobs if you're only JUST watching this or realising shit like this

  • @Ragman205

    What an enormous generalisation that was.

  • @BigEnos01 What an enormous nubbin you are

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  • @Ragman205

    And just when I was already valuing your judgement so highly.

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  • @Ragman205

    No because that's not what you said.

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  • @Ragman205

    And that's your qualified opinion? And do you have any particular justification for that opinion or is it just ignorant adolescent namecalling?

    Just so I know, are you planning unfounded impotent attempts at insults as a response to anything I 'say' to you? Has something offended you or are you just getting infantile kicks out of trolling? If you want to converse, then please say something insightful. Otherwise, you are only wasting your time and making yourself look a "nubbin".

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  • @Ragman205

    It will be fairly clear to anyone that reads your comment that you like to make sick jokes at the expense of minors that really are sexually abused by adults. If you had any sense, you'd be ashamed.

    You only behave in an infantile manner but that is no indication that you are actually an infant. You have not stated your age and could just as easily be an adult as not.

    Your "noob" nonsense is utterly erroneous. I know exactly how to report libelous conduct to youtube for example.

  • @Ragman205

    Your best course of action is to say no more and definitely not to continue any further down the mindlessly offensive road you have chosen. There is a legal precedent for the prosecution of scurrilous accusations on the internet. Look up the case of thunderfoot vs VenomFanX for example. If someone should report you, at the very least your youtube account could be closed and you may be forced to issue an apology. That's best case. Do yourself a favour and don't put it to the test.

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  • @Ragman205

    Anyway, where does this strange obsession with impotent namecalling come from? Try adult insults if that's what gets you off, at least they carry some degree of power. If I was so inclined for example, I might call you a tiny minded fucktwat or a festering cunt-wart or a piss drenched wankstain for example. But I woudn't dream of being so pointlessly aggressively anti-social. It would be highly undignified. Feel free to try those out on your playground friends..

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  • @Ragman205

    Now all of your comments here are either removed or automatically flagged for spam. That's a good start. I won't be satisfied until you are held properly accountable for your vile behaviour though you hateful disgraceful little specimen.

  • @Ragman205

    Please do keep posting exactly the same comment. It automatically gets marked as spam and I can now report you for spamming too. Cheers.

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  • Five hundred thousand million???

  • @LaserLips2 its the same 50billion i think

  • @TheWickerMan1995 No. It's 500,000,000,000(five hundred thousand million) or 500 billion, I don't know why he didn't just say 500 billion, guess he wanted the number to sound bigger.

  • Well done, thank you. Got a silly question for you though. I hope you do not mind. What is the song the starts at minute 1:30 ?

  • hubble should stare at one spot for like a year... we could see the begining of time maybe... or maybe im just wishing too hard...

  • Man dude, just imagine being able to go to a whole different galaxy, different planet. that'd be fucking amazing.

  • Noma, out of nomawhere.

  • quran says a day at god's = thousand years of ours . and it would take the angels one day to ascend to him and that day = fifty thousand years of ours . if you dont belive me read it for yourself , quran also stated 1400 years ago that the creation of the universe as we know it has not stopped and still expanding . modern since just found tis recently

    quran stated 1400 years ago that the sun and the moon swim ( that was the exact word used).

    in orbits .nobody knew then what the word orbit meant

  • @imfz4014

    "quran says a day at god's = thousand years of ours . and it would take the angels one day to ascend to him and that day = fifty thousand years of ours . if you dont belive me read it for yourself "

    I know Islamic scholars had significant astronomical insights, but can you rephrase that please? I wouldn't criticise your English if it isn't your first langauge, but it's genuinely quite difficult to follow what you're trying to say there and understand the point that you're making.

  • @BigEnos01

    lol no english is not my first language , i'm just trying to do my best ." The angels and the Spirit will ascend to Him during a Day the extent of which is fifty thousand years." . that's from a translation website. the other verse "And they urge you to hasten the punishment. But Allah will never fail in His promise. And indeed, a day with your Lord is like a thousand years of those which you count.

  • @imfz4014

    Sorry mate, maybe I'm being a bit dense, but I'm getting something about "a day" being both "fifty thousand years" and "like a thousand years". That was pretty much the discrepancy that I thought was getting a little lost in translation, but I m afraid I still don't understand why there is a conceptual discrepancy at all or what it has to do with anything in particular? Can't Allah decide how long his days are in human terms so that we can be expected to understand what he means?

  • @BigEnos01 yeah i understand what u mean . well, when i first red the verses i couldnt understand them too. i always understood that time is time does not change ..a day is a day 24 hours but after watching a series of videos like this one i know now that our brains are very limited ...1400 years ago when the prophit told his companions that the a day with the lord is like a thousand of those you count , nobody would belive him unless they have true faith in him ...

  • @imfz4014

    I know that there were some extraordinary medieval Muslim astronomers (which is why so many star names begin with 'Al'). I remember watching a fascinating BBC documentary about the Qur'an, I might have to find out more. Just out of interest, how would you say your comments on this topic are normally met by christians? Not well I'd guess. It's refreshing to hear from other faiths on youtube if only to remind them that it isn't just atheists that don't swallow christian claims.

  • @BigEnos01 denial . and to be honest to you i'm a bit surprised you're still talking to me lol . usually atheists have zero tolerance to arguing with others . but that leads me to a conclusion .that you are not 100% atheiest maybe 99% but still there is that 1% which is still fighting in you .

  • @imfz4014

    There's probably no such thing as 100% atheist. Only the most hardline gnostic atheist would claim to know there are no gods, the rest just don't have good enough reasons to believe and are agnostic atheists. Technically anyone that isn't a theist is atheist, whether they've considered the issue or not. Many don't believe but have never thought about why. Technically your non-belief in non-Islamic theist claims is a-theistic. You only accept those of Islam. I go just one further.

  • @BigEnos01 sorry i lost you .. u saying you are gnostic or agnostic atheist ? and please explain the diffenece i always thought agnostics and athesits are different

  • @imfz4014

    They are separate but inter-related considerations.

    Theism (and atheism) are obviously about belief (or lack of belief) in the existence of gods.

    Gnosticism (and agnosticism) however are about claiming (or not claiming) knowledge. The knowledge in question is normally in relation to gods of course, but can be about anything you may or may not claim knowledge of.

    If you believe in a god but don't claim it is 'knowable', you'd be an agnostic theist.

    I'm an agnostic atheist.

  • @BigEnos01 so as an agnostic atheist do u always try to find a scientific solution to any mystry you find ? do u try to link every thing to logic ? if u find anything unexplained do u leave it as it is ?

  • @imfz4014

    I'm inquisitive so I like us to solve mysteries, but I also don't expect us to be able to know everything today (or perhaps ever). I also accept that what we think we know today may change at any time and as long as we are prepared to acknowledge that and adapt accordingly I don't see that as an a problem. I actually see it as a strength, bending rather than breaking as that old adage goes.

    Not everyone has the same knowledge or agrees that the same things are mysterious of course.

  • @imfz4014

    There's always things "fighting in me", I'm always conflicted to some degree or other on most issues as I imagine everyone must be. I'm never entirely sure about anything, even if I sometimes appear to be. But that's okay because I see nothing inherently wrong with uncertainty. I'm reasonably confident in my views today but my entire view of everything could change tomorrow if I experienced something sufficient. Chances are it won't, but it's always possible. If so, so be it.

  • @BigEnos01 i know exactly how you feel ive had my own moments before . but when u listen to the voice of your mind it will tell you god exists . most atheist are very educated and sophisticated they refuse to belive what they dont see , but when u really think about life and the begining of life and how earth is suitable for us to live , and if u get sick you find the cure in a plant or in an animal everything arround you is very well calculated . i refuse to belive they are coencidences ..

  • @imfz4014

    If Earth wasn't suitable for us to live on (or for life to be here in general) then we wouldn't be here at all. It depends which way round you look at it. If we put aside all of the uninhabitable regions of Earth, is Earth suitable for us, as in was it prearranged for us to be here, or did we simply arise on Earth and so are naturally suitable for living on the planet that gave rise to us? Why wasn't the rest of the solar system (and the universe everywhere) made just as suitable?

  • @BigEnos01 well neither one of us knows that there would be other life somewhere else .

    what about prophycies that has been fulfilled are they coencidences too? MUHAMED (pbuh) has gave a very long list of things happened after his time and still happeneing . do you might think i'm in delusion and i try adapt everything arround me to make it in harmony with the prophycies but no . they are very specific . and when i say very specific i mean very clear to determine

  • @imfz4014

    You're absolutely right that we don't know how much life is elsewhere, but no obvious signs in the rest of the solar system seems wasteful for a creator interested in life. I'm 37, so I do hope that we find at least one example of extraterrestrial life in my lifetime (I'm a big sci-fi fan). We've only really just started looking though, so we'll have to see what happens.

    "what about prophycies that has been fulfilled"

    Well I'm not an Islamic scholar so you'd have to specify some.

  • @BigEnos012. The Romans have been defeated.

    3. In the nearer land (Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Palestine), and they, after their defeat, will be victorious.

    4. Within three to nine years. The decision of the matter, before and after (these events) is only with Allah, (before the defeat of Romans by the Persians, and after, i.e. the defeat of the Persians by the Romans). And on that Day, the believers (i.e. Muslims) will rejoice (at the victory given by Allah to the Romans against the Persians),

  • @imfz4014 MUHAMED specified minor and major signs to the end of days and they are happening now .

    here i found this for you it would save me all the typing

  • @imfz4014 i cant send a link in this box

  • @imfz4014 i tried to send u a link but it wont let me . anyways u can google it that way u can trust the internet more than me . lol ( minor and major signs )

  • @imfz4014

    I'll let you know.

  • @imfz4014 today i know that a clock on earth will not measure the same time a clock on the moon would . and the further u go the bigger the change is . that was all i was trying to say .. if u have faith in god this vedio will only strenghthen your faith .

  • @imfz4014

    Oh, you're getting at special relativity. Well if Allah is moving at a very high percentage of lightspeed, you could indeed spend 24 hrs travelling with him while on Earth a thousand years have passed. If you were travelling to a distant Allah at an even higher velocity, then in 24 hrs 50,000 years could pass on Earth. If he or any other gods existed. If wormholes or space warps are possible though, special relativity needn't be as big an issue and clocks could stay in closer sync.

  • @BigEnos01 what i meant by time is really distance ... like ( light year ) doesnt measure time it measures distance .. so the 50,000 years could give you an idea of how distant god is and how big the space is .... how did the illiterate MUHAMED (pbuh) know that the space is big enough to say something like that . and dont mix up the two verses . two different things .

  • @imfz4014

    Well 50,000 light years is peanuts compared to space (to paraphrase Douglas Adams). The nearest galaxy, (not counting our satellite galaxies) is 2.5 million light years away. As this video suggests, even that (and our entire local group) is miniscule compared to the distances we have looked back through time at. Ancient Hinduism had a surprisingly prescient idea of astronomical time (I'm not sure about distance). A 'day' and 'night' of Brahma is measured at 8.64 billion years. .

  • @BigEnos01 i'm not saying i know where god is and i didnt say he's at the very end of the universe and quran stated very clearly that the universe is still expanding ."47. With power did We construct the heaven. Verily, We are Able to extend the vastness of space thereof.""

  • @harvardlaw14

    I don't know and nobody else can convincingly claim to know either. Are you asking because you agree that you don't know, or because you think you already have an answer?

  • @BigEnos01 I ask because maybe someone has a scientifically based theory that they can share. it will obviously remain nothing more than a theory, and of course none of us will ever really know...

  • @harvardlaw14

    You'd be better off looking for that information on science websites and journals. Here on youtube you're just as likely to receive misinformation as information. Don't underestimate the practical value of scientific theories though. They are the principles without which the modern technological world wouldn't be possible.

  • And... BANG!!! there it was....

  • Shine on Mr. Sagan, and damn good video!

  • what I'm most scared of? When I watch videos like this, when I go out at night and look at the night sky - I KNOW life. I KNOW everything, I KNOW how unbelievable and crazy and mindblowingly breathtaking it is to be alive. The next day I find myself worrying. About the health of my father. About paying a bill, about all the wars and poverty. I keep forgetting the night sky, my visions, my dreams and the knowing outside the human mind. That's what scares me, to forget.

  • @zugarpies I know exactly that feeling.

  • spaceeeeeeeee lwl

  • so how fast does the universe expand at? according to this it most be at least an average of 3 times the speed of light?

  • @messi996 I thought Einstein theorized the speed limit of the universe was the speed of light.

  • @WhatYouWantInSpadez

    Special relativity applies to the velocity of 'objects' within spacetime relative to other objects but does not concern the expansion of spacetime itself. As a very rough partial analogy, think of it like how ground vehicles must ultimately have a theoretical speed limit relative to the earth's surface, due to friction and other factors. The same factors however don't impose the same speed limit on the earth's surface as it revolves on it's axis and orbits the sun etc.

  • whats that song during the video, the acoustic one, i remember hearing it when i was younger.

  • @messi996 Pink Floyd I think

  • @px4286 cheers

  • I'm sitting here, looking out at the dark sky and don't know where I'm going in life. It feels like I can be anything and nothing at the same time. I don't feel like I belong. This video took me out of my mind. The moon, Venus, the galaxies far away, the potential alien contact I can have, astronomy, writing a book about thoughts, all of earths philosophers... I live a LIFE. I wish to hold on to this speechless emotion tomorrow too, and remember why we are here. Hello to all!

  • Think of all the BILLIONS of galaxies out there... I bet there is some civilization out there thinking the same thing we are when we see their little speck that is a galaxy.

  • 78 Billion WAS the size of the universe, its always growing.

  • Mind blowing. Makes you realize how small you really are.

  • Can someone please remove the nonsense added at 1.30 and reload it in original condition?

  • @Mehfooz1968

    It was put there by the author of the video intentionally to illustrate a particular point in his narration. It is in its "original condition" although I think there is also a 'redux' version that he uploaded due to many apparently missing the point of it.

  • OH MY GOD where can I find this video without the bloated, white trash pig ? what a shame. fuck. lol why the hell is this moron poisoning such a tremendous video (sigh)

  • @Ripptyde64

    youtube downloader -> download it

    windows movie maker -> edit it the way you want.

  • @Ripptyde64 its called mute

  • To anyone with interest, youtube has Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' in its entirety. Unsplit one hour episodes. Just search Cosmos episode 1 etc. I haven't seen it since I was a young child in 1980 and although of course it inevitably isn't quite up to date, its historical and philosophical breadth and depth remains quite stunning (it's also surprising how well many of the cg sequences stand up). Then of course there's Sagan's poetic script. If you've never seen it, its highly recommended. 

  • 4,307,633 new doubters in religion.

  • @dewpoint88 And 1077 people who refuse to accept reality.

  • @SmackontheWeb

    Oh and you presume to know what that is? Please explain God.

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  • @WhatYouWantInSpadez Myths aren't explained, they are stories told.

  • @SmackontheWeb - Name one myth that is not REal.

  • @BeatleEDs Just one? Ok, how about Helios' sun taking the old man's chariot (the one he used to carry the sun across the sky) out for a spin, losing control and burning up the earth. There's your myth. What's your point?

    Now, if you are trying to get all semantic about it and come with with something like the existance of myths are real, I would agree and again ask, what's your point?

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  • @BeatleEDs Why did you send your reply to me via private message? You say your point was that (and I quote) "you do not know what is NOT real."

    Explain to everyone how me reciting a myth proves anything you are claiming.

  • You know one of those moments when something just clicks in your head, when something profound happens in your being? Holy hell, was this one of those moments.

  • this is humbling: we are tiny.. this video just mind fucked me

  • We will miss u Pluto

  • That is some intense staring.

  • Numa numa

  • I do not know why you are not doing tv shows about the universe instead of Morgan Freeman, not to diss him at all he is one of my favorite actors but dude the voice you have pulls people in to pay attention and is a gift....

  • My God, we do have infinite number of civilizations out there, like us if not better!!

  • @chamstehri better than US noway lol

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  • So you want to know how it feels to be microscopic? The breadth of the mystery we find ourselves in is unfathomably wondrous........so proud to be alive.

  • This video went viral on Ashgabat

  • @redshark618 me too

  • @3:22 . he says "our star is in a glaxy, one of 500 thousand million in the milkyway". But now it looks like theres roughly about 200 billion to 400 billion stars in our galaxy

  • Sometimes, I watch this video when I'm feeling down, blue, or just plain small.

  • this guys voice fucks my brain

  • @sentrygunner You must be an easy fuck =)

  • @TheAaahck if your im not gay bro sorry to dissapoint lol

  • This video is the best I've ever seen. Penetrates all the way to my soul =(

  • And I thought I was a midget before, now I feel like a quark! Btw quarks are the very center of atoms, THAT'S SMALL!!!!

  • anyone have any idea what the name of the first picture/painting of this video is? would love to find a jpg of this

  • This is just simply amazing!! just imagine what its like in another galaxy or planet, that's the farthest we've ever seen, yet, the universe is never ending!! GOD is just magical!!

  • @MrToxicheyna7

    "yet, the universe is never ending!!"

    If the predictions about heat death (maximum entropy/thermal equilibrium) turn out to be eventually true, your claim might also be practically true (well as close as makes no difference).

    However "GOD is just magical!!"

    Well I'm sure a 'god' by any definition we can dream up is inherently "magical" or we wouldn't term it a 'god', but does your "GOD" actually exist? How would you propose to construct a compelling case for that hypothesis?

  • @BigEnos01 It's my belief and I'm not going to argue with you because if you don't believe in GOD, than that's yours. All I know is that space is just fucking amazing haha.

    Merry Christmas =]

  • @MrToxicheyna7

    Fair enough, I wasn't looking for an argument. I was merely enquiring about a supernatural comment that you decided to make in relation to a video that exists as a celebration of humanity's scientific and engineering prowess, and wouldn't exist at all if supernatural belief was all we had to rely on.

    Also, the non-practicing of "GOD" beliefs is in itself no more a belief than not playing golf is a sport or being bald is a hair colour.

    No offense intended. Merry xmas to you.

  • @BigEnos01 I understand, =]

  • @BigEnos01 Well, I don't know about God. But one thing is sure - even though I was never a big supporter of the extraterrestrial hypothesis on the UFO phenomena, I wouldn't be quite surprised if it was. The sheer mindboggling numbers of probable, advanced life forms is just something to consider.And we've only just begun poking the universe. Important to keep an open mind is all im saying. Who the hell knows what exists out there.

  • @jerseyirish - "Who the hell knows what exists out there." - This is true. Who the hell knows what exist in there...

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  • @jerseyirish

    Some think themselves "open minded" in proposing simple, soft, cozy answers to really difficult questions, and accusing skeptics of being "closed minded", even though they can't demonstrate any compelling reasons why those answers should be accepted.

    It seems "open minded" to accept that we can't yet answer all of our questions but be willing to assess claims on their merits rather than accept unquestioningly. For many, pretending to know is more uncomfortable than not knowing.

  • @BigEnos01 - "For many, pretending to know is more uncomfortable than not knowing." - Life is not pretending but experiencing. Knowing anything is pretending. Pretending is a state of consciousnesses,

  • @BeatleEDs

    I know from experience you pretend that pretending and knowing are the same thing because you pretend to know that everything is the same thing. In your depths you know that you are pretending to know while on the surface you pretend to know.that you don't know that you are pretending that knowing and pretending are the same thing.

    "Oh yes I'm the great pretender (ooh ooh)

    Adrift in a world of my own (ooh ooh)

    I play the game but to my real shame

    You've left me to dream all alone"

  • @BeatleEDs

    For some, pretending to experience and experiencing pretending is more comfortable than recognising a distinction in their own experience. The distinction between pretending to know and knowing they're pretending to know. A distinction that might dissolve the fuzzy warm blurring of the uncomfortably sharp edges of their existence.