http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/index.php

Earth is constantly changing. Some changes are a natural part of the climate system, such as the seasonal expansion and contraction of the Arctic sea ice pack. The responsibility for other changes, such as the Antarctic ozone hole, falls squarely on humanity’s shoulders. NASA’s World of Change series documents how our planet’s land, oceans, atmosphere, and Sun are changing over time.

Mt. St. Helens
The devastation of the May 18, 1980, eruption of Mt. St. Helens and the gradual recovery of the surrounding landscape is documented in this series of satellite images from 1979–2009.

Aral Sea
A massive irrigation project in the Kyzylkum Desert of central Asia has devastated the Aral Sea over the past 50 years. These images show the continued decline of the Southern Aral Sea in the past decade, as well as the first steps of recovery in the Northern Aral Sea in recent years.

Dubai
To expand the possibilities for beachfront tourist development, Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates, undertook a massive engineering project to create hundreds of artificial islands along its Persian Gulf coastline.

Yellowstone
In 1988, wildfires raced through Yellowstone National Park, consuming hundreds of thousands of acres. This series of Landsat images tracks the landscape’s slow recovery through 2008.

Southeast Australia
Drought has taken a severe toll on croplands in Southeast Australia during many years this decade.

Colorado River
Combined with human demands, a multi-year drought in the Upper Colorado River Basin caused a dramatic drop in the Colorado River’s Lake Powell in the early part of the 2000 decade. The lake began to recover in the latter part of the decade, but as of May 2010, it was still less than 60 percent of capacity.

Antarctica
In the early 1980s, scientists began to realize that CFCs were creating a thin spot—a hole—in the ozone layer over Antarctica every spring. This series of satellite images shows the ozone hole on the day of its maximum depth each year from 1979 through 2008.

Amazon
The state of Rondônia in western Brazil is one of the most deforested parts of the Amazon. This series shows deforestation on the frontier in the northwestern part of the state between 2000 and 2008.

Larsen B Ice Shelf
In early 2002, scientists monitoring daily satellite images of the Antarctic Peninsula watched in amazement as almost the entire Larsen B Ice Shelf splintered and collapsed in just over one month. They had never witnessed such a large area disintegrate so rapidly.

West Virginia
Based on data from NASA’s Landsat 5 satellite, these natural-color (photo-like) images document the growth of the Hobet mine in Boone County, West Virginia, as it expands from ridge to ridge between 1984 to 2009.

Iraq
In the years following the Second Gulf War, Iraqi residents began reclaiming the country’s nearly decimated Mesopotamian marshes. This series of images documents the transformation of the fabled landscape between 2000 and 2009.

Yellow River Delta
Once free to wander up and down the coast of the North China Plain, the Yellow River Delta has been shaped by levees, canals, and jetties in recent decades.

Duration : 0:3:16

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Duration : 0:3:31

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Why do I spend time debunking these absurd creationist arguments? My goal is to produce a series of videos that attacks the problem of ignorance from two angles: 1) Tell people what science actually says, how science works, what we know and are still figuring out; 2) Tell people why each of the creationist arguments are wrong, thereby not ignoring their claims and seeming to hide from them. Also, its so easy, its fun.

Heres how the calculation was done. Total volume = volume of the Milkyway galaxy (radius = Milkyway to Andromeda galaxy / 2) so the volume = 6.88e66 cubic meters. The volume of the habitable space on earth (-2000m to +8000m) = 5e18 cubic meters. Assume 1e11 habitable worlds per volume like the Milkyway. Total habitable volume (5e29 cubic meters) per unit volume (6.88e66 cubic meters) gives 7.3e-38 universe is habitable.

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And remember to always, Think about it.

Duration : 0:8:40

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And if it is would it be possible for us to see them?

Surprisingly the answer to both questions is a resounding YES.

How is that possible? How can something travel faster than the speed of light?

Today we will try and paint an accurate picture of the universe based on the Lambda-Cold-Dark-Matter model, which is the best cosmological model today.

Once we have painted that picture, the answers to our questions will be straightforward.

Duration : 0:12:55

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Duration : 0:1:58

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Timelapse ice flows over the Arctic, billowing storm clouds over the Caribbean and beautiful blooming algae off the west coast of Southern Africa.

BDH’s meticulous work involved stitching many high resolution photographs from NASA, to create these real images within our computers. Other work involved the planning and steadying of many timelapse sequences and the sensitive matching of atmospheric effects.
Planet Earth is an 11 part series and the world’s first television series produced nearly entirely on HD. BDH worked in collaboration with the production team for over 4 years on these breathtaking hi-resolution images.

http://www.bdh.net

http://www.myspace.com/burrelldurranthifle

Duration : 0:6:57

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It shows:
Mercury Mars Venus Earth Neptune Saturn Jupiter Sun Sirius Pollux Arcturus Rigel Betelgeuse Antares MY Cephei W Cephei

Duration : 0:1:25

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Home to millions of species,[11] including humans, Earth is the only place in the Universe where life is known to exist. The planet formed 4.54 billion years ago,[12] and life appeared on its surface within a billion years. Since then, Earth’s biosphere has significantly altered the atmosphere and other abiotic conditions on the planet, enabling the proliferation of aerobic organisms as well as the formation of the ozone layer which, together with Earth’s magnetic field, blocks harmful radiation, permitting life on land.[13] The physical properties of the Earth, as well as its geological history and orbit, have allowed life to persist during this period. The world is expected to continue supporting life for another 1.5 billion years, after which the rising luminosity of the Sun will eliminate the biosphere.[14]

Earth’s outer surface is divided into several rigid segments, or tectonic plates, that gradually migrate across the surface over periods of many millions of years. About 71% of the surface is covered with salt-water oceans, the remainder consisting of continents and islands; liquid water, necessary for all known life, is not known to exist on any other planet’s surface.[note 5][note 6] Earth’s interior remains active, with a thick layer of relatively solid mantle, a liquid outer core that generates a magnetic field, and a solid iron inner core.

Earth interacts with other objects in outer space, including the Sun and the Moon. At present, Earth orbits the Sun once for every roughly 366.26 times it rotates about its axis. This is a sidereal year, which is equal to 365.26 solar days.[note 7] The Earth’s axis of rotation is tilted 23.4° away from the perpendicular to its orbital plane,[15] producing seasonal variations on the planet’s surface with a period of one tropical year (365.24 solar days). Earth’s only known natural satellite, the Moon, which began orbiting it about 4.53 billion years ago, provides ocean tides, stabilizes the axial tilt and gradually slows the planet’s rotation. Between approximately 4.1 and 3.8 billion years ago, asteroid impacts during the Late Heavy Bombardment caused significant changes to the surface environment.

Both the mineral resources of the planet, as well as the products of the biosphere, contribute resources that are used to support a global human population. The inhabitants are grouped into about 200 independent sovereign states, which interact through diplomacy, travel, trade and military action. Human cultures have developed many views of the planet, including personification as a deity, a belief in a flat Earth or in Earth as the center of the universe, and a modern perspective of the world as an integrated environment that requires stewardship.

Duration : 0:6:31

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Duration : 0:20:13

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(moon)

Images showing the size of the planets compared to the Sun, and the Sun compared with other stars.

Music: Title Music from A Clockwork Orange, Wendy Carlos. (Original version: Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, by Henry Purcell).

Duration : 0:2:22

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