Tag Archives: Universe

Neil deGrasse Tyson on God

Posted on January 2, 2022 by Fernando

For those of you who don’t know who Neil deGrasse Tyson is, he’s a world-renowned astrophysicist, and obviously a brilliant man. In this brief video, he logically and artfully explains why he doesn’t believe in God. Video: YouTube

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Pentagon whistleblower warns of UFO intelligence failure; Tucker reacts

Posted on May 1, 2021 by Fernando

If these objects in fact come from other worlds, which based on what little we hear is highly plausible, we (the human race) might be f*cked.  Just think about the level of technology required to travel to another planet, who … Continue reading →

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Tucker reacts to video of UFO confirmed by Pentagon

Posted on April 17, 2021 by Fernando

Obviously, I have no clue what these UFOs are or where they came from. According to this video, they are much more advanced than anything the U.S. military possesses, which assumes these aircrafts don’t belong to China or Russia, since … Continue reading →

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Everything in the Universe Will Die One Day w/Brian Greene | Joe Rogan

Posted on February 24, 2020 by Fernando

More fascinating “stuff” from Brian Greene. TGO Video: YouTube  

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What Was Happening Before the Big Bang? w/Brian Greene | Joe Rogan

Posted on February 23, 2020 by Fernando

I find this stuff fascinating!!! TGO Video: YouTube

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Feast your eyes on this spectacular Hubble photo of a spiral galaxy

Posted on May 5, 2019 by The Great One

30 million light-years away, think about that! Light travels at 186,282 miles per second, so… 186,282 x 60 (seconds) x 60 (minutes) x 24 (hours) x 365 (days) x 30,000,000 (years) – that is quite a distance!  The universe truly … Continue reading →

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Are We The Only Intelligent Life in the Universe?? | Joe Rogan & Brian Cox

Posted on January 30, 2019 by The Great One

In my opinion, there is absolutely no way that we are the only “intelligent” life form in our galaxy, much less the universe. As physicist Brian Cox explains, there are a trillion galaxies in the universe and over 13 billion … Continue reading →

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Newly found galaxy cluster could become most massive structure in universe

Posted on April 26, 2018 by The Great One

The vastness and complexity of the universe is almost incomprehensible. TGO Refer to story below. Source: Yahoo News April 25, 2018 About 12.4 billion light-years from Earth lies a collection of galaxies that could end up as the most massive … Continue reading →

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Is Dark Matter Made Up of Mini Black Holes from the Big Bang?

Posted on April 9, 2018 by The Great One

Interesting stuff. TGO Refer to story below. Source: Live Science By Meredith Fore, Live Science Contributor | April 9, 2018  Dark matter, the mysterious extra mass in the universe that emits no light yet exerts a gravitational pull, may actually … Continue reading →

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Hubble spots Einstein ring surrounding galaxy cluster

Posted on April 7, 2018 by The Great One

The scale of the universe is beyond comprehension. The fact that there are millions upon millions of galaxies is mind-boggling. TGO Refer to story below. Source: UPI By Brooks Hays  |  April 6, 2018 April 6 (UPI) — A new image from … Continue reading →

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Iconic Physicist Stephen Hawking Dies At 76

Posted on March 14, 2018 by The Great One

The world has lost a great mind and a great man. It truly is remarkable that Stephen Hawking has achieved such greatness considering his extremely debilitating disease. He is a testament to the fighting spirit of our species. TGO Refer … Continue reading →

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Stephen Hawking Says He Knows What Happened Before the Big Bang

Posted on March 4, 2018 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… The fact that Stephen Hawking is still alive and can continue to communicate his theories to other scientists and lay-people at large is amazing, given his condition. TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com/Live Science By Brandon Specktor, … Continue reading →

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Was Einstein Right? Single Star Will Let Astronomers Test Theory of Relativity

Posted on March 2, 2018 by The Great One

Einstein’s theory of relativity has stood the test of time; over 100 years and counting. My guess is it will once again be proven right. TGO Refer to story below. Source: Newsweek Meghan Bartels, Newsweek Later this year, a special … Continue reading →

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Colossal distant black hole holds surprises about early universe

Posted on December 7, 2017 by The Great One

Interesting stuff. One regret of mine, and I have many, is not studying astronomy, theoretical physics, etc. I find it more fascinating and relevant than most other fields of study. It would be interesting to spend a week among people … Continue reading →

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Time Travel Is Possible Through Wormholes—but You Can Only Ever Go Backward

Posted on November 19, 2017 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… Refer to story below. Source: Newsweek Hannah Osborne, Newsweek Time travel through a wormhole is technically feasible under the rules of theoretical physics—the only catch is that we can only ever go backward. In a blog post for … Continue reading →

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Scientists found a new Earth-sized planet nearby… and it might be habitable

Posted on November 15, 2017 by The Great One

Just eleven light years away, a short saunter in terms of the scale of the universe. Unfortunately for us, there is currently no technology that allows us to travel at 186, 282 miles per second; equivalent to 299,792,458 meters per second! … Continue reading →

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Massive Galaxy That Formed Just After Big Bang Is Second Oldest Cosmic Object Ever Discovered

Posted on November 7, 2017 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Newsweek Meghan Bartels,Newsweek Astronomers announced today they’ve spotted the second-oldest object in the universe to date, a star-forming galaxy located 12.8 billion light-years away. Because astronomical observations act as a sort of … Continue reading →

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Half the universe’s missing matter has just been finally found

Posted on October 9, 2017 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: NewScientist Andrey Kravtsov (The University of Chicago) and Anatoly Klypin (New Mexico State University). Visualisation by Andrey Kravtsov   By Leah Crane The missing links between galaxies have finally been found. This … Continue reading →

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‘Mystery’ signal from space is solved. It’s not aliens

Posted on July 22, 2017 by The Great One

I’ve always felt that the day we find intelligent life somewhere in the universe, and that day will come, we (the public, the masses) will never know it. The science and political communities will keep it hidden to avoid mass … Continue reading →

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Astronomers have detected ‘strange signals’ that may come from a star 11 light-years away

Posted on July 18, 2017 by The Great One

Is there intelligent life somewhere in the universe? With the endless numbers of galaxies containing planets, there has to be. The numbers the number of celestial bodies is just too large for life to be limited to planet earth. TGO Refer … Continue reading →

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NASA has a plan for preventing asteroid strikes, and it’s going to test it

Posted on July 5, 2017 by The Great One

As people of a certain faith (which shall remain nameless) continue stoning people to death, cutting off women’s clitorises, blowing themselves up, etc., decent, educated people of science work to improve the human condition. Hopefully, science will someday do away … Continue reading →

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A massive asteroid is going to zip past Earth later this month

Posted on April 9, 2017 by The Great One

If one of these rocks collides with Earth, that would more than like be the end of our species. This is how random life is. All of the wars over territory, power, money and of course, all of the religious … Continue reading →

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Signs of alien life? Mysterious star stirs controversy

Posted on October 20, 2015 by The Great One

Skeptics will always disagree, especially the religious fanatics among us who believe that God created us and only us and that we are somehow special, but the universe is too vast to not contain countless other living creatures. And yes, … Continue reading →

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Universe ‘resting on sofa’ as it slowly dies

Posted on August 11, 2015 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press August 10, 2015 Sydney (AFP) – The Universe is experiencing a slow death, like a person resting on the sofa awaiting eternal sleep, according to astronomers from a project which … Continue reading →

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Vatican skeptical about close encounters of the third kind

Posted on August 2, 2015 by The Great One

I almost hate to say this, being that the Catholic Church is not exactly one of my favorite institutions, but I agree with them on this one. I don’t believe that we will meet intelligent life out there in the … Continue reading →

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Earth 2.0: Bad News for God

Posted on July 27, 2015 by The Great One

This is a great article, if for no other reason because it is absolutely true. Nothing, no level of knowledge, will do away with religious doctrine. Nor will all the knowledge in the world keep the masses from believing and worshipping … Continue reading →

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CERN scientists claim discovery of new particles

Posted on July 15, 2015 by The Great One

Science is awesome! Where would we be without it? TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press By FRANK JORDANS BERLIN (AP) — A new kind of subatomic particle called the pentaquark has been detected for the first time, the … Continue reading →

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A nearby black hole just erupted for the first time in 26 years and scientists are ecstatic

Posted on June 30, 2015 by The Great One

The universe is such an intriguing place. One has to wonder if we, the human race, will ever know how it all came to be; whether there is one universe or multiple universes, what are all of the natural forces … Continue reading →

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Methane in Mars Meteorites Suggests Possibility of Life

Posted on June 17, 2015 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Charles Q. Choi Methane, a potential sign of primitive life, has been found in meteorites from Mars, adding weight to the idea that life could live off methane on the … Continue reading →

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What Was Here Before the Solar System?

Posted on May 28, 2015 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Universe Today by Fraser Cainon May 28, 2015 The Solar System is 4.5 billion years old, but the Universe is much older. What was here before our Solar System formed? The Solar … Continue reading →

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Brightest Galaxy in the Universe Found

Posted on May 24, 2015 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Mike Wall May 22, 2015 A newfound galaxy 12.5 billion light-years from Earth is the most luminous one known in the universe, blazing more brightly than 300 trillion suns, a … Continue reading →

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Proto Star Cluster a Cosmic ‘Dinosaur Egg’ Ready to Hatch

Posted on May 16, 2015 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Nola Taylor Redd May 15, 2015 The youngest example of one of the oldest objects in the universe may have been discovered by astronomers, who say it appears ready to … Continue reading →

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Graveyard of Stars May Surround Milky Way’s Monster Black Hole

Posted on April 29, 2015 by The Great One

Black holes, one of the many mysteries of space… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Charles Q. Choi The remains of thousands of stars might exist in a vast graveyard near the giant black hole at the heart … Continue reading →

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Krauss, Shermer, D’Souza, Hutchinson Debate God – Faith vs Reason

Posted on April 24, 2015 by The Great One

An interesting debate between believers and non-believers… Judge for yourselves which duo make the most sense. TGO Video: YouTube      

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New evidence that dark matter could be self-interacting

Posted on April 20, 2015 by The Great One

Interesting article regarding dark matter. TGO Refer to story below. Source: ars technica Colliding galaxies suggest dark matter interacts with forces other than gravity. by Xaq Rzetelny – Apr 19, 2015 9:00pm EDT A new study examined the galaxy cluster … Continue reading →

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Colossal Ancient Galaxies Die from the Inside Out

Posted on April 16, 2015 by The Great One

Astrophysics is such an amazing field. There is so much mystery; so much to speculate on and so much to discover. In this day and age, when so much is known about our world, it is so fascinating to have the … Continue reading →

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New clue sheds some light on mysterious ‘dark matter’

Posted on April 15, 2015 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press Paris (AFP) – Scientists on Tuesday said they had found tantalising evidence suggesting “dark matter” — the mysterious substance believed to comprise most of the Universe’s mass — may be … Continue reading →

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NASA’s chief scientist says we’ll find aliens by 2025 — here’s the most likely place they’re hiding

Posted on April 9, 2015 by The Great One

There is no question in my mind that there is other intelligent life, more than likely in many places in the universe. And by intelligent I’m not talking like humans, I mean really intelligent, which to me means having logic … Continue reading →

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Forget ISIS, Hackers and Money—The Universe Is About to Collapse

Posted on March 24, 2015 by The Great One

Maybe this (well, not this) but something similar, is what the human race needs to put things in perspective and have us come together as one; assuming that’s even possible. Maybe being attacked by an alien species would bring us … Continue reading →

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CERN’s revamped particle smasher ready to push physics into unknown

Posted on March 14, 2015 by The Great One

Where would we be as a species if it wasn’t for science? We would still be living in caves and hunting for food with primitive tools, much as our ancestors did tens of thousands of years ago. Yet here we are, trying … Continue reading →

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Big Bang, Deflated? Universe May Have Had No Beginning

Posted on February 28, 2015 by The Great One

Isn’t science great? It’s always seeking answers and never stops questioning. TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Tia Ghose If a new theory turns out to be true, the universe may not have started with a bang. In … Continue reading →

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New particle in physics may be found this year

Posted on February 17, 2015 by The Great One

Science continues to advance our knowledge and understanding of the universe. Meanwhile, religion has no answers; seeks no answers. Why should it, it started out with the “answers” millennia ago. TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press  February 15, … Continue reading →

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Oldest Stars in the Universe Actually Younger Than Previously Thought

Posted on February 7, 2015 by The Great One

Interesting… This is the beauty of science, it is always seeking the facts and in doing so often makes corrections to prior data/information. It doesn’t start out with answers and then fits those answers to our world; as religion does. It … Continue reading →

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Evolution Deniers Believe in ‘Smorgasbord’ of Science

Posted on January 30, 2015 by The Great One

The religiously indoctrinated will do anything to justify their beliefs, despite the fact that in reality they KNOW that their beliefs are bogus. Such is the mind once tarnished with superstition. This is why religious people cannot or simply refuse … Continue reading →

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Lawrence Krauss: How the Universe Became Something out of Nothing

Posted on December 27, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting, but then again, the speaker is a scientist, not a theologian. TGO Video: YouTube  

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Depth of Biggest Sea on Saturn’s Moon Titan Measured by NASA Probe

Posted on November 12, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Mike Wall  Kraken Mare, the biggest hydrocarbon sea on Saturn’s huge moon Titan, is at least 115 feet (35 meters) deep and perhaps much deeper, a new study suggests. Radar … Continue reading →

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The Science of ‘Interstellar’: Black Holes, Wormholes and Space Travel

Posted on November 11, 2014 by The Great One

Sounds like an interesting flick, if you’re into that sort of thing – you know, the universe, time travel, black holes, etc. TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Mike Wall  The sci-fi epic “Interstellar” is just a movie, … Continue reading →

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The Real History of Space Travel

Posted on November 10, 2014 by The Great One

Informative article for you space-junkies. TGO Refer to story below. Source: The Hollywood Reporter By Graeme McMillan November 8, 2014 4:08 PM As the promotion for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar puts it, “Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant … Continue reading →

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Some Galaxies Like Our Milky Way are Born in Colossal Crashes

Posted on September 19, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Elizabeth Howell, SPACE.com Contributor September 18, 2014  The history of the Milky Way has a new wrinkle. Scientists used radio telescopes like the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array — a vast … Continue reading →

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Tiny galaxy harbours black-hole surprise

Posted on September 19, 2014 by The Great One

Meanwhile… as religious imbeciles pray five times a day and decapitate innocent people in the name of God, science pushes forward. The contrast between science and religion has never been more evident. The more we advance as a species thanks … Continue reading →

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