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How To Destroy Angels: The Space in Between [1080p] – EP OUT NOW

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Official music video for “The space in Between,” from How To Destroy Angels’ self-titled EP, out NOW. Directed by Rupert Sanders.

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Three Planets Visible Tonight!

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Venus, Mars and Saturn all visible in the early evening sky.
The Moon will be right under to Venus on the 14th,
Right under Mars on the 15th and
Past Saturn on the 16th by which time it will be approaching the first quater.

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/

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Welcome to the Universe – III: The Size of Things

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Part III: The Size of Things

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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They Might Be Giants – How Many Planets?

Saturday, June 5th, 2010

Created by ColourMovie. From TMBGs new CD/DVD set Here Comes Science. Available at iTunes and Amazon now! http://bit.ly/AmazonScience

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Edgar Cayce & The Universe part 5/12

Monday, April 26th, 2010

16 January 2008
Astronomy writer James Mullaney discussed his book Edgar Cayce and the Cosmos, which examines the “Sleeping Prophet’s” readings about the universe. As a scientist, he was initially skeptical about
the Cayce material (which was delivered in a trance state), but upon study, he was won over by its accuracy and insights.

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.

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Coast to Coast AM – Mar 26 2010 – Consciousness & the Universe part 1/9

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

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Filling in for George Noory, Art Bell welcomed renegade thinker and scientist, Robert Lanza, who discussed how life and consciousness are essential to the existence of our universe — a
controversial theory called “biocentrism”. Numerous experiments show that everything we see out there, every single particle, depends on the presence of an observer, he said.

Citing the two-hole experiment, in which particles are beamed toward a barrier with double slits, Lanza pointed out that an observed particle acts as one would expect and goes through a single
hole. When unobserved, however, the particle behaves like a wave and passes through multiple slits at the same time. Lanza suggested that our observations effect the world around us as well, and
without conscious observers (in the form of biological life) there would be no universe at all.

space and time are not external objects and do not exist independent of an observer’s mind, he continued. Lanza likened time to a vinyl record on a turntable. All of the songs exist simultaneously
even if you only experience them one at a time. He further proposed that the choices we make in our present can effect the past, noting the conclusions of a recently published experiment in which
scientists retroactively changed a quantum event that had already happened.

This theory of time may dramatically alter our understanding of what we think are linear-based events, such the Big Bang. According to Lanza, without a consciousness there to observe it, the Big
Bang exists only as a probability state. As an example, he referenced the work of late physicist John Wheeler, who advanced the notion that light from distant quasars only existed when it was
observed.

Lanza also spoke briefly about human cloning and stem cell research.

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Our Solar System – Size Of Planets and Stars to Scale

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

music is from the movie “The Island”
composed by Steve Jablonsky

1. This Tongue Thing’s Amazing
2. The Island Awaits You

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Pluto Mercury Mars Venus Earth Neptune Uranus Jupiter Saturn Sun Sirius Vega Pollux Arcturus Aldebaran Rigel Deneb Pistol Star Betelgeuse Antares VV Cephei

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