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Duration : 0:4:8
The Hubble Telescope Gallery
Across The Universe Movie Viral Video Beatles Hubble Images
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Galaxy Song – Monty Python – The Meaning Of Life
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Check out the heavens to see how insignificant earthlings are…
Just remember that youre standing on a planet thats evolving. And revolving at 900 miles an hour
Ah, Monty Python and crew, God bless em. Never encountered a gang of comics who made me laugh longer or harder than those loopy Brits. The Dead Parrot Sketch. The Lumberjack Song. The Department of Silly Walks. Hells Grannies. And of course, The Galaxy Song.
Thats orbiting at 19 miles a second, so its reckoned. Round the sun, which is the source of all our power.
Canadas pioneering funnyman, Stephen Leacock, defined humour as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life. Leacock would have loved the Pythons. They deal in incongruities too. Incongruities like the fact that you and me and this newspaper and this country and this continent and this planet we call home.
Were moving at a million miles a day. In an outer spiral arm at 40 thousand miles an hour. Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.
The whole incongruity that the Galaxy Song addresses is the cosmic insignificance of self-important bipeds like thee and moi. But hold on! According to the latest scientific data, were not quite as insignificant as we thought. And that applies to the Milky Way as well. It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick.
But out by us its just 3,000 light-years wide.
Poppycock. Monty Python had it all wrong. According to data recently analyzed, our Milky Way is actually about one and a half times bigger than we thought it was. Mark Reid, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics dumbed it down for me: Its the equivalent of a five-foot-five, 140-pound astrophysicist suddenly bulking up to the size of a six-foot-three, 210-pound NFL linebacker. But before you let our newfound gi-normousness go to your head, think about our planet. Pretty hefty place. Twenty-five thousand miles around the belly. Near 200 million square miles in area Yeah, well. If our sun was a beach ball? The earth would be a chickpea. So, okay. Earth is a runt but our sun is an all-star heavyweight, right? Not right. Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
The Pythons had that right — but hundred billion is one of those phrases that trips off the tongue meaninglessly — as U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has so ably demonstrated of late. How big is a hundred billion? Put it this way. Imagine not the earth but our sun as a chickpea. Find yourself a bucket. Drop in the solar chickpeaNow add 999,999 similar chick peas. Better make it a real big bucket. Thats how many other suns there are in the Milky Way. Okay, so our planets dinky, our sun is a dime-a-dozen cosmic bauble, but at least our Milky Way is a galactic heavy-hitter, right? Dont see a galaxy like The Milky Way kicking around every day. Wrong again. We may not see them, but theyre out there. Hundreds. Of thousands. Of millions of them. The experts reckon (and its little better than an educated guess) that there may be as many as 125 billion galaxies in the universe. They think there may be more galaxies in the universe than there are stars in our Milky Way. Or as Monty Python put it in song:
our galaxy is only one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe.
So lets call a time-out to reconnoitre here. We live on a corner of one continent of one planet of one galaxy that contains a hundred billion other stars — some with orbiting planets, some without. Our galaxy swims in a void that contains at least a hundred billion galaxies more or less like ours. Still think it matters which deodorant you use?
I think the United Nations sent the right message when Voyager I was launched in 1977. The space capsule contained a message that read: We step out of our solar system into the universe seeking only peace and friendship, to teach if we are called upon, to be taught if we are fortunate. On second thought, Monty Pythons Galaxy Song probably said it better:
Pray that theres intelligent life somewhere up in space
Cause theres bugger all down here on planet earth.
Arthur Black is a columnist for more than 50 community newspapers across Canada. Basic Black columns from previous editions of Sault This Week are archived at saultthisweek.com. Look under the features menu.
Duration : 0:5:2
Seamless Planetary Landing Video
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Prototype video of seamless, planetary landing.
This video is one of the first demonstrations of the seamless, planetary procedural engine.
The camera starts in orbit around a space station. After a little while, the camera starts to descend seamlessly on a Gaian ( Earth-like ) planet, reavealing a gas giant with its ring in the atmosphere.
Note: this video has been accelerated a bit. The planet has a realistic scale, and the atmosphere is as thin as Earth is in reality ( which is surprising to a lot of people ). Planetary details, such as forests, are missing.
Duration : 0:3:5
Explosive Planet Io – Wonders of the Solar System – BBC Two
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rtg5k
http://www.bbc.co.uk/solarsystem
Professor Brian Cox explains the incredible volcanism on Jupiter’s moon Io.
Duration : 0:5:24
STARSNOVA – Finding Hubble in the WorldWide Telescope
ASTRONOMY AND SCIENCE FOR EVERYONEBehind the Scenes: When Galaxies Collide (Felicia Day, Sean Astin)
Felicia Day explains some of the science behind galactic “collisions,” including the upcoming collision between the galaxy Andromeda and our own galaxy, in this mock behind-the-scenes look at the making of a NASA educational video. Starring Felicia Day (”The Guild,” “Do You Wanna Date My Avatar”) and Sean Astin (”Lord of the Rings” Trilogy, “Special Agent Oso”).
To view more comedic (but educational!) NASA videos featuring Sean Astin, Mark Hamill, Linda Hamilton, Dean Stockwell, George Takei, Ed Wasser, Betty White and more, visit:
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NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope
Duration : 0:10:0
Brian Cox’s Favourite Wonder – Wonders of the Solar System – BBC Two
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Against the stunning backdrop of the glaciers of Alaska, Brian reveals his fourth Wonder. Saturn’s moon Titan is shrouded by a murky, thick atmosphere. He reveals that below the clouds lies a magical world. Titan is the only place beyond Earth where we’ve found liquid pooling on the surface in vast lakes, as big as the Caspian Sea, but the lakes of Titan are filled with a mysterious liquid, and are quite unlike anything on Earth.
Duration : 0:5:9
Wonders of the Solar System – Trailer – BBC Two
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In this spell-binding series, Professor Brian Cox visits some of the most stunning locations on Earth to describe how the laws of nature have carved natural wonders across the Solar System.
Duration : 0:2:30
Solar System
our planets and moons ,earth, sun ,venus, mars, merkur, jupiter, saturn. pluto , sedna ,galaxy, other wolrds
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