The Known Universe by AMNH

The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.

Data: Digital Universe, American Museum of Natural History
http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe/

Visualization Software: Uniview by SCISS

Director: Carter Emmart
Curator: Ben R. Oppenheimer
Producer: Michael Hoffman
Executive Producer: Ro Kinzler
Co-Executive Producer: Martin Brauen
Manager, Digital Universe Atlas: Brian Abbott

Music: Suke Cerulo

For more information visit http://www.amnh.org

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• space
• universe
• stars
• solar system
• ben oppenheimer
• Carter Emmart
• amnh
• natural history
• hayden planetarium
• known universe

[Tikiman03]

Can we please give more money to fund space exploration instead of using it for wars and political agendas? It is way more important than the election cycle.

[HerrKnitler]

@ZakouglaKou

You're forgetting about all the other thousands of religions with similar claims. There's christianity where you have to believe in Jesus. In Islam you have to live a righteous life. In hinduism you have to have good karma. In scientology you have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars

Etc etc. The only one belief that makes sense is atheism. Until you prove a creator I'd rather not follow any book of arbitrary rules - instead I'll trust my instincts and ethics.

[mhalyc]

shit. & I thought I was tall

[kiteekitten]

@TherezWaldo Pure animal instinct.

Look around. Sorry people... My mother, is Nature.

[TherezWaldo]

@HerrKnitler As soon as you brought ethics into the subject. Your statement collapsed on itself, what do atheist base their ethics on? If you accept that there is such a thing as ethics you must except that there is a moral code to distinguish "good" from "bad" and if there is a moral code then what or who placed that moral code into existence. Atheism cannot provide answers to life's most toughest questions.

[hawk77y]

@daniisux You are way too stupid and uneducated to have a normal disucssion. I am asking you for scientific proof and you come up with a text from a book writen by people that have no idea about science, believed that snakes can talk and that earth is flat. Really? I bring proven facts and you bring stories to the table? They did a very good job on brainwashing you mate. Use your brain and think for one minute: WHAT IF there is no god and we are just a spec of dust in this universe? 1 second!

[cybervigilante]

I had to post six times because the stupid software kept saying I'd posted a lot when this is my first post today, and kept making me fill out a captcha. They need to fix the stupid software.

[cybervigilante]

All I could think at the end was, "Geez, it's so good to be home." Too bad we're busy wrecking our only home.