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A general rebuttal to the claim that the earth and the universe is young, plus a comment on how much humanity has achieved since its relatively recent emergence in the grand scale of things.

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Extracts from the following clips were used in the opening montage:

Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen (R) says Earth is 6,000 years old

Richard Dawkins on Q&A (1/6)

Re; Earth is 6,000 Years Old (1 of 5) (actually a response to John Pendleton by Dechha1981)

Kent Hovind vs Hugh Ross (part 1, disc 2 of 2)

References:
1. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1040618299000154
2. http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/2009/08/timeline_ice_memory_1.html
3. http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/antarctica/ideas/gondwana2.html
4. http://es.ucsc.edu/~rcoe/eart206/Patterson_AgeEarth_GeoCosmoActa56.pdf
5. http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0723/
6. http://news.discovery.com/space/the-universe-is-precisely-1375-billion-years-old.html

Clips: Light Fantastic, National Geographic: Born of Fire, National Geographic: In the Womb, National Geographic: Destructive Forces, The Cell, Planet Earth, Earth Shocks: Megavolcano, Walking with Cavemen, PBS Special: 400 Years of the Telescope, The Complete Cosmos, The Story of God, spacetelescope, ESA/NASA

Music: Maximum – Dreadzone
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Duration : 0:8:37

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Look to the West, shortly after sunset and you will firstly see Venus, the Saturn and Mars will appear somewhat fainter and apparently further from the Sun.

Over the next month or two, you can keep track of the ballet of these planets in the evening sky. Venus will rise up past Saturn and Mars, before all three planets sink into the twighlight glow. What is really happening of course is Venus is undertaking us on an inside orbit, while we are burning off both Saturn and Mars on the outside orbits.

Anyways its a great time to not only identify these planets but to get a feel for their movement too.

As for if you actually want to take a look at these things. 3in (~80mm) is probably the smallest scope you will want to consider. That will show you the rings of Saturn, and the phases of Venus over the next few months. Mars is v. small at the moment, and I couldnt really even resolve it as a disk, but at its closest it will show some detail on Mars. It will give spectacular views of the Moon, and will show the moons of Jupiter and detail on Jupiter.

The cheapest I could find a scope like this is the ‘Firstscope’. Celestron made them for the ‘2009 year of astronomy’ and I think there is a surplus, cos the are now selling them on amazon for about $35.

Bigger scopes will show you more, but to be honest you will need to learn how to use a scope first, and something like the Firstscope will give you this feel.

The software used to make this video is free, and is called Celestia.
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

Duration : 0:4:10

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Carter Emmart uses astronomy and computational modeling to create scientifically accurate, three-dimensional tours of our universe.

“My job is to translate the difficulty of science into understandable stories.” (Carter Emmart)

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For the last 12 years, Carter Emmart has been coordinating the efforts of scientists, artists and programmers to build a complete 3D visualization of our known universe. He demos this stunning tour and explains how it’s being shared with facilities around the world.

As the Director of Astrovisualization at the American Museum of Natural History, Carter Emmart directs their groundbreaking space shows and heads up development of an interactive 3D atlas called The Digital Universe. He coordinates scientists, programmers and artists to produce scientifically accurate yet visually stunning and immersive space experiences in the AMNH’s Hayden Planetarium. Over the last decade, he has directed four shows: “Passport to the Universe”, “The Search for Life: Are we Alone?”, “Cosmic Collisions” and “Journey to the Stars”.

Emmart’s interest in space began early, and at ten he was taking astronomy courses in the old Hayden. As a child born into a family of artists, he naturally combined his love of science with his tendency for visualization. His first work was in architectural modeling, soon moving on to do scientific visualization for NASA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, before joining the AMNH.

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The flat horizon that we’ve evolved with has been a metaphor for the infinite, unbounded resources and unlimited capacity for disposal of waste. It wasn’t until we really left Earth, got above the atmosphere and had seen the horizon bend back on itself that we could understand our planet as a limited condition. The Digital Universe Atlas has been built at the American Museum of Natural History over the past 12 years. We maintain that, put that together as a project to really chart the universe across all scales. What we see here are satellites around the Earth, and the Earth in proper registration against the universe, as we see. NASA supported this work 12 years ago as part of the rebuilding of the Hayden Planetarium so that we would share this with the world.

The Digital Universe is the basis of our space show productions that we do — our main space shows in the dome. But what you see here is the result of actually internships that we hosted with Linkoping University in Sweden. I’ve had 12 students work on this for their graduate work. And the result has been this software called Uniview and a company called SCISS in Sweden. This software allows interactive use. So this actual flight path and movie that we see here was actually flown live. I captured this live from my laptop in a cafe called Earth Matters on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where I live. And it was done as a collaborative project with the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art for an exhibit on comparative cosmology.

And so as we move out, we see continuously from our planet all the way out into the real of galaxies as we see here, light travel time, giving you a sense of how far away we are. As we move out, the light from these distant galaxies have taken so long, we’re essentially backing up into the past. We back so far up we’re finally seeing a containment around us — the afterglow of the Big Bang. This is the WMAP microwave background that we see. We’ll fly outside it here, just to see this sort of containment. If we were outside this, it would almost be meaningless, in the sense as before time. But this our containment of the visible universe. We know the universe is bigger than that which we can see.

And just in closing, I’d just like to say this beautiful world that we live on — Here we see a bit of the snow that some of you may have had to brave in coming out. So I’d like to just say that what the world needs now is a sense of being able to look at ourselves in this much larger condition now and a much larger sense of what home is. Because our home is the universe, and we are the universe, essentially. We carry that in us. And to be able to see our context in this larger sense at all scales helps us all in understanding where we are and who we are in the universe.

• http://www.ted.com/talks/carter_emmart_demos_a_3d_atlas_of_the_universe.html
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Duration : 0:7:31

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In this episode, we take a brief trip through the Solar System and beyond to see the size of the Universe.

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Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge6RjTgyLr0
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij5q8WVyNVI
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPDd3Umv06c
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Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ElbuzKrTkk
Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4rv9BqTWzI

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There’s something very odd going on in space, something that shouldn’t be possible. It is as though vast swathes of the universe are being hoovered up by a gigantic and invisible celestial vacuum cleaner.

Sasha Kaslinsky, the scientist who discovered the phenomenon, is understandably nervous: ‘It left us quite unsettled and jittery,’ he says, ‘because this is not something we planned to find.’ The accidental discovery of what is ominously being called ‘dark flow’ not only has implications for the destinies of large numbers of galaxies but threatens to overturn our current understanding of the birth and evolution of the universe.

Does dark flow herald a new era of cosmological understanding, or does it simply mean that everything we know about the universe is wrong?

Another brilliant documentary from the BBC’s ‘Horizon’ series.

Duration : 0:9:56

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Some highlights he presented from Cayce’s readings:

# Someone in antiquity had a telescope, but it was found rather than built by that person’s civilization.
# There is no life like ours in the solar system, but there are other beings/civilizations elsewhere in the universe.
# The stars and planets do not govern our future.
# In a sense, sunspots are caused by the turmoil of the human race.

Cayce, who died in 1945 and often spoke of past lives in his readings, may have reincarnated on another world, Mullaney suggested. Cayce’s entire 14,306 readings are available on a searchable
CD-ROM, which Mullaney said he used in his research.

Duration : 0:10:1

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