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have any of you ever looked up at the stars ?

How many ta'ers are space geeks ? i just watched interstellar the other day , and wow what a movie, it was really inspiring and made me want to be an amateur astronomer.

we cant be all alone, i keep hearing about these planets in the news that are earth like , and it just makes me wonder how long before we ever come in contact with those that might be inhabiting those places.

I live in/grew up in a rural area, and we constantly did star gazing when I was a kid. It was an annual rite of passage to kick it in lawn chairs and watch the Perseid meteor shower.

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Originally posted by LoveHate we cant be all alone, i keep hearing about these planets in the news that are earth like , and it just makes me wonder how long before we ever come in contact with those that might be inhabiting those places.

Quite possibly never. One of the great mysteries of the origins of life on Earth is that it arrived hundreds of billions of years ahead of schedule, and nobody knows why. There is some mechanism that lead to the first spark of life on this planet, but without knowing what it was there is no way to know how replicable it is. It could have happened on thousands of other planets or it could only ever have happened here. The notion that all you need is an "Earth-like" planet and life will inevitably spring forth is a massive assumption.

Furthermore, there's every chance that even if we did encounter extraterrestrial life we wouldn't even recognise it in front of us. Certainly it's extremely unlikely there would be any "contact". An alien intelligence would most likely be completely incomprehensible.

I remember going camping a few years ago in the countryside and we went to the pub in the evening and got pissed. Walking back to the tent in the dark we fell over in this big field and just laid there staring at the night sky for several hours. It was exceptionally clear that night and we saw more shooting stars in a couple of hours than in the rest of my life combined.

The universe might not be full of intelligent life but it's still an incredible place.

Fuck Interstellar.

Get some Neil Degrasse Tyson in your life; he's the man.

Huge space nerd. I can tell you all about quantum mechanics, cosmology & theoretical physics. It�ll all be wrong of course, but I can still tell you all about it.

And to echo what jack said above, the universe is so stupidly big the chances of us ever being able to contact anyone is remote indeed.

I went to wish upon a star one night. I then realized I had billions and billions to choose from, each providing more wishes than I could ever exploit in my lifetime. So I went back inside and turned on all the lights.

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Originally posted by OrangestO Fuck Interstellar. Get some Neil Degrasse Tyson in your life; he's the man.

Neil degrasse Tyson is an Uncle Tom. He'll do a lil jig and shine your shoes if you flip him a quarter

Eric I hadn't seen you in so long I started to think you got sent to the box.

Nothing makes me hate something that I love than listening to a bunch of fagot nerds emote over it.

Interstellar was shite

Once, when I took acid, the stars were falling down. Siiiiiiiiiiick

Lovehate you look like Murph from interstellar!

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Originally posted by Jon_Snow Eric I hadn't seen you in so long I started to think you got sent to the box. Nothing makes me hate something that I love than listening to a bunch of fagot nerds emote over it.

I'm back now go home and get your fuckin shine box

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an entertaining guy to listen to but recently he's been putting his foot in his mouth quite frequently. Hard to take him seriously anymore. He's hurt his credibility.

A black man can't catch a break, with or without a PhD in Astrophysics.

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Originally posted by OrangestO Fuck Interstellar. Get some Neil Degrasse Tyson in your life; he's the man.

Neil Degrasse Tyson is a pop-science trashbag.

Also, the first time I become interested in space was when I look at the night sky through my night vision goggles.

He's famous for his ability to deliver information that would otherwise be either too complex or not interesting enough to people who wouldn't otherwise seek it out. At a time when most people don't give a fuck about space, including our government, I think it's refreshing to at least have a public figure like him talking about the cosmos in a fun and fascinating way.

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Originally posted by OrangestO He's famous for his ability to deliver information that would otherwise be either too complex or not interesting enough to people who wouldn't otherwise seek it out. At a time when most people don't give a fuck about space, including our government, I think it's refreshing to at least have a public figure like him talking about the cosmos in a fun and fascinating way.

Right and I applaud him for that. But he tarnished his integrity when he started inventing facts for the show Cosmos. Google it. He did the same on numerous social media outlets to express his views on environmental issues. If he is such a great scientist, he would not be fabricating informatiom.

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Originally posted by OrangestO At a time when most people don't give a fuck about space

Really? It seems like in the modern Age Of Geekery, more people bang on about space than ever before. It's always amazing to me how many will claim to be obsessed with the subject but then don't seem to know things that I thought were fairly common knowledge.

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Originally posted by OrangestO He's famous for his ability to deliver information that would otherwise be either too complex or not interesting enough to people who wouldn't otherwise seek it out. At a time when most people don't give a fuck about space, including our government, I think it's refreshing to at least have a public figure like him talking about the cosmos in a fun and fascinating way.

If dumbing down science for idiots floats your boat... I bet you loved when the media dubbed the Higgs Boson as the "God particle"

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Really? It seems like in the modern Age Of Geekery, more people bang on about space than ever before. It's always amazing to me how many will claim to be obsessed with the subject but then don't seem to know things that I thought were fairly common knowledge.

Yeah when I was at uni I had a group of friends who were studying philosophy that would drone on about quantum mechanics for hours if left unchecked.

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Originally posted by Jon_Snow If dumbing down science for idiots floats your boat... I bet you loved when the media dubbed the Higgs Boson as the "God particle"

Dont think it is fair to label non-science people as idiots.

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Originally posted by Jon_Snow "God particle"

I thought that was Special K?

if you have ever wondered about those news stories of scientist finding earth like planets 100s of lightyears away and thought to yourself or felt any uncertainty about it , this is the video to watch.

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Originally posted by Jon_Snow If dumbing down science for idiots floats your boat...

You call it dumbing down science; I call it appealing to a new audience - young people who hadn't otherwise been curious about cosmology.

A show about astronomy on network TV? That's not a bad thing..

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