Tribute to Richard Dawkins: We Are Going to Die
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Uploaded by saganesq on Aug 18, 2010
Richard Dawkins reads from his book 'Unweaving the Rainbow'
"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here."
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I would rather die with the animals in this world, than live with the ones in heaven.
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@spinolex it's Translation. RNA polymerase translates the RNA strand into sequences of amino acids the building blocks of proteins and Life. Don't worry high school biology does not go extremely in depth to actually to show how Translation functions.
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@spinolex DNA replication - the long and short chains are being generated in a different fashion because our 2 strands run anti-parallel to one another
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@FreeeeS Cantique de Jean Racine - ironically a strongly Christian piece
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You truly be a sad specimen. You have my feelings bro
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@JDvzs I dont know why I even try the hard way with you scumbags ... I hope your parents die in front of you ... also I want to dig up your father after that and fuck him then clone your little sister so I can hang her on her guts 1 more time while I am recording it so I can watch it an masturbate to it later .
Respond to me now , mother fucker , please !
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@beresford00 I just found out that its Replication. But thanks anyway. I found the original video: watch?v=bee6PWUgPo8&feature=re
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@spinolex pretty sure it's Transcription (producing DNA strand copies)
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Truly inspiring!! Wonderful!! =)
Can someone tell me what biochemical mechanism we see at about 0:32 ? Thank you in advance.
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caramorello 1 month ago 18
Who said that science lacks spirituality? This is rational and yet spiritual. Our connection with other organisms through this amazing path of evolution, our luckiness to be alive and conscious., with no fear of punishment by a highly improbable God. This little single life deserves to be enjoyed and make others to enjoy it too. Thanks Professor Dawkins. Your words are a candle in the dark.
jaumesisa100 1 month ago 6