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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8563 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.7
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December 23, 1947, John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley demonstrated the first operational transistor.
The world experienced arguably the most significant event in modern human history. Lance Geiger, the History Guy on YouTube, did a nice remembrance.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8563 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.7
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30 years ago, February 14, 1990, Voyager 1 turned its camera back along its path and captured this image.
Edited by AZPaul3, : better video Edited by AZPaul3, : embeddedEschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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Tangle Member Posts: 9514 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8
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Bloody hell, that camera had one heck of a lens on it...
Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8563 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.7
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Getting Carl to sit still for the 5 1/2 hours it took to snap the photo from that distance was a bit of a challenge. That's why he's not in sharper focus. Still, not bad for a 1970's technology.
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Phat Member Posts: 18348 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.0 |
That speech was transformative. Here it is again, for reference:
quote: As a believer, I imagine that if Jesus, among our many"supreme leaders, confidant ideologies and religions the unique cosmic visitor---actually was (and is) here, we are still left to deal with the fact that every apologist, every reformer, every Biblical teacher that ever lived lived out their lives here--- and so will we. Covid-19 underscores the necessity of global human cooperation, and yet I fear that as competition for resources increases and quality of life becomes challenging for each nation, we may well have yet one more attempt at securing our spot...to our eventual demise. Which all boils down to one or both extremes:
Edited by Phat, : No reason given.The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.Calvin Coolidge "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.-RC Sproul, Essential Truths of the Christian Faith - You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. Anne Lamott Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.~Andre Gide
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Tangle Member Posts: 9514 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8 |
Phat writes: There is no fantasy option. The fantasy option is that there's some skydaddy going to help out with stuff here. (Especially as if there is a skydaddy, he put the bloody disease here to start with). Edited by Tangle, : No reason given.Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1473 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
You do have a very interesting way of confusing me with Phat. What you attribute to me is something Phat said.
However perhaps I'll add here that when I first heard Carl Sagan's immortal words about how the universe is all there is and all there ever will be I wrote him off as an arrogant imbecile.
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Hyroglyphx Inactive Member
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Carl Sagan's immortal words about how the universe is all there is and all there ever will be I wrote him off as an arrogant imbecile. If that was your take-away from his message then perhaps you are the arrogant imbecile. He is reminding us about perspective and that by reevaluating our imagined significance that we might learn something about humility and simply live in awe about the majesty of the universe. You could just as easily attribute it to the majesty of God, Faith, if that suits your fancy. I have watched this video many times over the years and still to this day get emotional over it almost every time I watch it. The point is that all of our enmity and strife is so often self-induced... and perhaps if we were able to see our place in this world from a more humbled perspective that we might have a more harmonious coexistence. "Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" -- Thomas Paine
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Tangle Member Posts: 9514 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8
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quote: Of course you did. Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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ringo Member (Idle past 441 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined:
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Faith writes:
It's easily done. Phat is becoming you. You can sleep easy knowing that your stand-in is waiting in the wings. You do have a very interesting way of confusing me with Phat. What you attribute to me is something Phat said."I'm Fallen and I can't get up!"
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1473 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
I haven't seen the video but I don't get all choked up over anything to do with the earth or the universe. It's huge but hugeness doesn't inspire humility. God does however.
ABE: Well I sort of have to take that back a little, because lately I've been wondering how on earth anyone who is adapted to this physical world can possibly adapt to the spiritual world we are to inherit. I've been pretty depressed lately and was thinking what would stop me from being depressed in heaven which is going to be so foreign to us. I guess I just have to leave all that to God. AbE Second thought. The next stage is to be the Millennium which will be played out on this planet. Perhaps I should think of that as God's kind provision to help us adapt to our changed circumstances. Raptured believers will be in our new glorified bodies which are going to be hard enough to adapt to. Nevertheless I look on this planet as a wreckage left over from the Flood, and the human world is so shot through with sin due to our fallenness my attachment to it is more from habit than love any more. But maybe the Millennium will transition me. Edited by Faith, : No reason given. Edited by Faith, : No reason given. Edited by Faith, : No reason given. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.
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