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Finely tuned Earth - designed for life by CMIcreationstationFinely tuned Earth - designed for life by CMIcreationstation
📺 Finely tuned Earth - designed for life
CMIcreationstation 📤 4 years ago 2014-03-07
If you were able to choose the planet you lived on, which one would it be? Well, I would definitely choose earth, because it is so well suited for life. Whether you're considering the Earth's distance from the sun, or its gravity, axial tilt or magnetic field, one conclusion is inescapable. Earth is finely tuned for life.
Many see this as evidence for a designer but others don't. If earth wasn't finely tuned, they say, we wouldn't even exist so it doesn't indicate a designer. But is that a satisfactory answer? Imagined you were dragged before a trained firing squad and they all fired and all missed. If I asked you why you're not dead and you answered, "Well if I did die I wouldn't be here to tell you," you think I'd be satisfied with that explanation?
In the same way, atheists cannot give a satisfactory answer for earth being so finely tuned for life.

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Why is our universe fine-tuned for life? | Brian GreeneWhy is our universe fine-tuned for life? | Brian Greene
📺 Why is our universe fine-tuned for life? | Brian Greene
TED 📤 5 years ago 2012-04-23
http://ted.com At the heart of modern cosmology is a mystery: Why does our universe appear so exquisitely tuned to create the conditions necessary for life? In this tour de force tour of some of science's biggest new discoveries, Brian Greene shows how the mind-boggling idea of a multiverse may hold the answer to the riddle.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://ted.com/translate

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A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned CosmosA Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos
📺 A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos
Luke Barnes 📤 1 year ago 2016-09-26
A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos

Geraint F. Lewis and Luke A. Barnes

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Over the last forty years, scientists have uncovered evidence that if the Universe had been forged with even slightly different properties, life as we know it - and life as we can imagine it - would be impossible. Join us on a journey through how we understand the Universe, from its most basic particles and forces, to planets, stars and galaxies, and back through cosmic history to the birth of the cosmos. Conflicting notions about our place in the Universe are defined, defended and critiqued from scientific, philosophical and religious viewpoints. The authors' engaging and witty style addresses what fine-tuning might mean for the future of physics and the search for the ultimate laws of nature. Tackling difficult questions and providing thought-provoking answers, this volumes challenges us to consider our place in the cosmos, regardless of our initial convictions.

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Our Special Earth: TOO MANY FACTORS - David RivesOur Special Earth: TOO MANY FACTORS - David Rives
📺 Our Special Earth: TOO MANY FACTORS - David Rives
David Rives Ministries 📤 6 years ago 2011-05-23
Our Special Earth: TOO MANY FACTORS

While many scientists today claim that the earth was formed from cosmic dust billions of years ago, a close look at our planet reveals that it was carefully designed.

Earth's position in the solar system is such that the large outer planets, known as "gas giants" circle and protect earth as they rotate farther out in space. We find that dangerous cosmic debris is pulled in by the massive gravity of the outer planets such as Jupiter, instead of crashing into earth.

A perfect example of this was in 1994, when comet Shoemaker-Levy broke apart into 21 fragments, and the tremendous gravity of Jupiter pulled those fragments in.

The comet was traveling around 133,000 MPH, as it approached. At that speed, you and I could travel from New York to LA in less than a minute and a half. The fragments collided with the strength of 1 million hydrogen bombs, and sent a mushroom shaped cloud of gas 1,000 miles high.

As we see, the large outer planets do indeed protect the earth.

Our moon is one quarter the size of the earth, and is the largest moon proportionally of all the other planets. The moons' gravity helps stabilize the earth's axis, and creates tides to circulate the warm and cold waters of the ocean. Compared to the other moons in the solar system, ours is quite unique.

Our atmosphere is also unique. Only the earth's atmosphere is transparent and only earth has the correct combination of gasses for life to exist. These conditions haven't been found anywhere else in the universe.

A terrestrial planet is also necessary for human life to exist. Many planets are composed of gas. Not only that but the size and mass of our planet is perfect for moderated gravity. If we lived on Jupiter, anything larger than the size of a marble would be instantly crushed because the gravity is so great.

Another consideration is the fact that we have liquid water, which is essential for life. Not only is it necessary for human survival, but it helps transport nutrients through the earth, and absorbs heat from the sun to regulate temperatures.

All of these unique factors, and if even one was slightly off, life would not be possible.

Our Special Earth - carefully designed with a purpose by a loving Creator. "Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool..." Isaiah 66:1

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`Earth` The Only Planet Supports Life | A Short Documentary On Earth`Earth` The Only Planet Supports Life | A Short Documentary On Earth
📺 "Earth" The Only Planet Supports Life | A Short Documentary On Earth
Best of The World 📤 2 years ago 2015-06-09
Documentary about: How life are on the blue marble - Planet "Earth". Space scientists share their thoughts about how life can exist on other planets than Earth.
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The Fermi Paradox 10: Rare Earth- or not. A Select Sun?The Fermi Paradox 10: Rare Earth- or not. A Select Sun?
📺 The Fermi Paradox 10: Rare Earth- or not. A Select Sun?
Parallaxicality 📤 1 year ago 2016-05-09
An investigation into one of the most profound questions ever asked, and our ongoing attempts to answer it.

Part 10 explores another aspect of the Rare Earth hypothesis: that our Sun is just right for life.

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THE PRIVILEGED PLANET - The Earth's significance ClipTHE PRIVILEGED PLANET - The Earth's significance Clip
📺 THE PRIVILEGED PLANET - The Earth's significance Clip
Illustra Media 📤 7 years ago 2010-06-10
This segment from the documentary film THE PRIVILEGED PLANET explores the significance of this planet we call home -- Earth. Many scientists and philosophers have claimed that Earth is an ordinary speck of dust adrift, without purpose or significance, in a vast cosmic sea. Yet current astronomical evidence seems to suggest just the opposite. We now know that a rare and finely-tuned array of factors makes Earth suitable for complex life.
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Surface of the Sun as You've Never Seen itSurface of the Sun as You've Never Seen it
📺 Surface of the Sun as You've Never Seen it
SpaceRip 📤 4 years ago 2013-12-16
Our sun is an incredible fusion engine. From the surface of earth, we see it as a mere ball of light, but through amazing high-res imaging capabilities, we can observe real solar activities thanks to NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
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Why Is Earth Special?Why Is Earth Special?
📺 Why Is Earth Special?
Team TNE 📤 1 year ago 2016-05-29
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Earth's Tilt 1: The Reason for the SeasonsEarth's Tilt 1: The Reason for the Seasons
📺 Earth's Tilt 1: The Reason for the Seasons
MITK12Videos 📤 5 years ago 2012-11-14
How can it be summer in North America and winter in Australia at the same time?!

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Is The Earth Rare?Is The Earth Rare?
📺 Is The Earth Rare?
NYUAD Institute 📤 2 years ago 2015-07-07
Is The Earth Rare?
April 23, 2015

Do habitable planets exist around other stars, and are any of them actually inhabited? Observations from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope confirm that at least 10-20 percent of stars have rocky planets within their (liquid water) habitable zones. Future space telescopes should be able to find such planets around nearby stars, and study their atmospheres spectroscopically. This talk examines what conditions make a planet habitable, and how scientists search for life on other worlds.

James Kasting
Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University

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Is the Universe Fine Tuned for Life?Is the Universe Fine Tuned for Life?
📺 Is the Universe Fine Tuned for Life?
cdk007 📤 8 years ago 2009-11-10
In short, NO. Do we need to invoke an intelligent designer to explain why the natural forces are the way they are? NO. Science is still researching how the laws of physics are determined, but everything that we know today tells us its not the universe that is fine-tuned for life, but life, through evolution, that has fine-tuned itself for the universe.

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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NASA Live - Earth From Space (HDVR) ♥ ISS LIVE FEED #AstronomyDay2018 | Subscribe now!NASA Live - Earth From Space (HDVR) ♥ ISS LIVE FEED #AstronomyDay2018 | Subscribe now!
📺 NASA Live - Earth From Space (HDVR) ♥ ISS LIVE FEED #AstronomyDay2018 | Subscribe now!
SPACE & UNIVERSE (Official) 📤 1 year ago 2017-04-04
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Star Size Comparison HDStar Size Comparison HD
📺 Star Size Comparison HD
morn1415 📤 9 years ago 2009-02-09
There are several videos circulating showing a comparison of the largest stars. I like these kind of things, and I wanted to try one myself. Probably because I also watched "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan as a kid. Actually my first Youtube upload. Hope you like it...
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The Anthropic Cosmological Principles(Fine tuning for life) Grand design.The Anthropic Cosmological Principles(Fine tuning for life) Grand design.
📺 The Anthropic Cosmological Principles(Fine tuning for life) Grand design.
JesusLostChildren777 📤 7 years ago 2011-02-15
http://reasons.org/articles/design-and-the-anthropic-principle It is not just the universe that bears evidence for design. The earth itself reveals such evidence. Frank Drake, Carl Sagan, and Iosef Shklovsky were among the first astronomers to concede this point when they attempted to estimate the number planets in the universe with environments favorable for the support of life. In the early 1960's they recognized that only a certain kind of star with a planet just the right distance from that star would provide the necessary conditions for life.12On this basis they made some rather optimistic estimates for the probability of finding life elsewhere in the universe. Shklovsky and Sagan, for example, claimed that 0.001 percent of all stars could have a planet upon which advanced life resides.13

While their analysis was a step in the right direction, it overestimated the range of permissible star types and the range of permissible planetary distances. It also ignored many other significant factors. A sample of parameters sensitive for the support of life on a planet are listed in Table 1.

Table 1: Evidence for the design of the sun-earth-moon system14 - 31

The following parameters cannot exceed certain limits without disturbing the earth's capacity to support life. Some of these parameters are more narrowly confining than others. For example, the first parameter would eliminate only half the stars from candidacy for life-supporting Systems, whereas parameters five, seven, and eight would each eliminate more than ninety-nine in a hundred star-planet systems. Not only must the parameters for life support fall within a certain restrictive range, but they must remain relatively constant over time. And we know that several, such as parameters fourteen through nineteen, are subject to potentially catastrophic fluctuation. In addition to the parameters listed here, there are others, such as the eccentricity of a planet's orbit, that have an upper (or a lower) limit only.1. number of star companions
* if more than one: tidal interactions would disrupt planetary orbits
* if less than one: not enough heat produced for life
2. parent star birth date
* if more recent: star would not yet have reached stable burning phase
* if less recent: stellar system would not yet contain enough heavy elements
3. parent star age
if older: luminosity of star would not he sufficiently stable
* if younger: luminosity of star would not be sufficiently stable
4. parent star distance from center of galaxy
* if greater: not enough heavy elements to make rocky planets
* if less: stellar density and radiation would he too great
5. parent star mass
* if greater: luminosity output from the star would not besufficiently stable
* if less: range of distances appropriate for life would be too narrow; tidal forces would disrupt the rotational period for a planet of the right distance
6. parent star color
* if redder: insufficient photosynthetic response
* if bluer: insufficient photosynthetic response
7. surface gravity* if stronger: planet's atmosphere would retain huge amounts of ammonia and methane* if weaker: planet's atmosphere would lose too much water8. distance from parent star* if farther away: too cool for a stable water cycle* if closer: too warm for a stable water cycle
9. thickness of crust
* if thicker: too much oxygen would he transferred from the atmosphere to the crust * if thinner: volcanic and tectonic activity would be too great10. rotationperiod
* if longer: diurnal temperature differences would he too great
* if shorter: atmospheric wind velocities would he too great11. gravitational interaction with a moon * if greater: tidal effects on the oceans, atmosphere, and rotational period would he too severe * if less: earth's orbital obliquity would change too much causing climatic instabilities12. magnetic field
* if stronger: electromagnetic storms would be too severe
* if weaker: no protection from solar wind particles13. axial tilt
* if greater: surface temperature differences would be too great
* if less: surface temperature differences would he too great
14. albedo (ratio of reflected light to total amount falling on surface)
* if greater: runaway ice age would develop
* if less: runaway greenhouse effect would develop15. oxygen to nitrogen ratio in atmosphere* if larger: life functions would proceed too quickly
* if smaller: life functions would proceed too slowly
16. carbon dioxide and water vapor levels in atmosphere
* if greater: runaway greenhouse effect would develop
* if less: insufficient greenhouse effect
17. ozone level in atmosphere* if greater: surface temperatures would become too low* if less: surface temperatures would he too high; too much uv radiation at surffes18. atmospheric electric discharge rate
* if greater: too much fire destruction
* if less: too little nitrogen fixing in the soil
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25 Earth Facts That Might Surprise You25 Earth Facts That Might Surprise You
📺 25 Earth Facts That Might Surprise You
list25 📤 2 years ago 2015-06-11
Earth is the most unique planet in our galaxy (at least until we find another one which houses life). So unique in fact that it has taken us our whole existence to study it and we still don't fully understand everything about it. Nevertheless, what we do know about our home planet is still pleasantly surprising. From the absurd amount of lightning strikes in a day to its varying gravity force these are 25 Earth facts that might surprise you.

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The driest place on Earth would be Antarctica's Dry Valleys. It hasn't rained there for over 2 million years

Wind transports 40 million tonnes of dust from the Sahara to the Amazon every year

The temperature of the Earth's core is 5500 degrees Celsius (9900 degrees Fahrenheit). That is the same temperature as the surface of the sun

99% of the gold on Earth lies in its core

Earth is the only planet in the solar system with plate tectonics. Without them carbon would not be recycled and the Earth would overheat, something like Venus

90% of all volcanoes on Earth are underwater

One liter of saltwater contains 13 billionths of a gram of gold

97% of the water on Earth is saltwater

70% of that remaining 3% is wrapped up in the polar icecaps

Most of the rest is either soil moisture or deep underground in inaccessible aquifers

Of the minute fraction of fresh water that is actually found in lakes and rivers, nearly 1/5 is all packed into one place – Lake Baikal in Russia.

There are 8.6 million lightning strikes everyday

From a distance, Earth would be the brightest planet. This is because sunlight is reflected off the planet's water.

At 19 km (12 miles) high we encounter something known as the Armstrong Limit. This is where it becomes necessary to wear a spacesuit because due to the low pressure, water boils at body temperature.

There are 38,000 man made objects orbiting the Earth

22,000 of them are larger than 10 meters

Every day at least one of them comes crashing back to Earth

Technically there are not 24 hours in a day. The Earth only takes 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds to spin on its axis. This is called a sidereal day.

Contrary to popular belief, the Great Wall of China is not visible from space. The air pollution in China is though. And so is the Great Barrier Reef.

The farthest picture ever taken of Earth was from 3.7 billion miles and has been called The Pale Blue Dot

The ozone hole is actually shrinking and in 2012 it was smaller than it had ever been in the last decade

90% of garbage in the ocean is plastic

The Earth is not a perfect sphere, due to the force of its spin the Earth actually bulges out around the equator

Because of this abnormality certain regions experience more or less gravity than others. One such area is Hudson Bay of Canada. The difference is very small though, only 0.005%

We know more about our universe than we do about our oceans or our Earth's core. In fact, 95% of the world's oceanic territory has still not been explored

If you enjoyed these Earth Facts, you may also enjoy:

25 Biggest Man Made Environmental Disasters Of History - https://youtube.com/watch?v=xuAWa4JK0KI&index=13&list=PL3Ikn3SKdJHh3ydUUZpusjBVgt3PTPmeH

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25 Most Endangered Species On Earth - https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ptgu_15sdVc&list=PL3Ikn3SKdJHh3ydUUZpusjBVgt3PTPmeH&index=19
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Dr. Jason Lisle on the Finely Tuned UniverseDr. Jason Lisle on the Finely Tuned Universe
📺 Dr. Jason Lisle on the Finely Tuned Universe
Evidence Press 📤 4 years ago 2013-12-21
Dr. Jason Lisle is a cosmologist researcher and speaker for the Institute for Creation Research. This interview was conducted at the International Conference on Creationism in August 2013. The primary topic is the Anthropic Principle and the evidence for creation from the finely tuned universe. The interview includes a brief discussed about the Big Bang. In addition are some interesting comments about Stephen Hawking invoking a multiverse to help explain the finely tuned universe.

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The Sun, the Earth's starThe Sun, the Earth's star
📺 The Sun, the Earth's star
Gayfurry77777 📤 7 years ago 2010-05-24
The distance from the Earth to the Sun varies because the Earth's orbit about the Sun is elliptical.At it's closest, the distance is 91,402,000 miles and it's farthest distance it is 94,512,000 miles.This gives an average distance of 92,957,000 miles. Light travels at 186,282 miles per second. Dividing the average distance by the speed of light gives 499.01225 seconds which is 8.3168708 minutes.
Rounded off, let's say 8 minutes and 18 seconds.
The Sun is one out of billions of stars. The Sun is the closest star to Earth. The Sun rotates once every 27 days. The Sun is now a middle-aged star, meaning it is at about the middle of its life. The Sun formed over four and a half billion years ago. You may think the Sun will die soon, but it will keep shining for at least another five billion years.
The Suns surface is called the photosphere. The temperature of the photosphere is about 10,000° Fahrenheit. Its core is under its atmosphere. The temperature at the core, or very middle, of the Sun, is about 27 million° Fahrenheit. Thats pretty hot!
The Suns diameter is about 870,000 miles wide. The Sun is 109 times wider than Earth, and is 333,000 times heavier. That means if you put the Sun on a scale, you would need 333,000 objects that weigh as much as the Earth on the other side to make it balance.
The Sun is only one of over 100 billion stars. In ancient times, the people believed the Sun was a burning ball of fire created by the gods. Later, people thought it was a solid object, or a liquid ball. Over one million Earths could fit inside the Sun. Looking directly at the Sun can permanently damage your eyes because it is so bright. A star mostly gives off light and heat. The larger the star, the hotter its temperature. A supergiant star can get to be 400 times larger than our Sun, which is almost a million miles in diameter. The Sun is tilted.
Without the Sun, Earth could not support life. The Sun gives off heat and light that the Earth needs to support life (us). If you lived on the Sun, and you built a spacecraft, it would have to go over 618.2 kilometers per second to escape the Suns gravitational pull. The Sun is 695,000 kilometers at its equator. The Sun is the largest mass in our Solar System.
Sun loops are large loops caused by the Suns magma (molten rock) shooting off of the Suns surface. These loops can fly millions of miles into space. Our Sun is approximately 25,000 light-years from the galactic core of our galaxy (the Milky Way). It is like a really big star. It is a million times bigger than the biggest.
Did you know that the Sun is made out of 92% hydrogen, 7% helium and the rest is other low number gasses? The Suns core is the hottest part of its matter. It is 27 billion° Fahrenheit. The Sun does not rise or set. It just looks like it does because the Earth is moving. The Earth orbits the Sun every 365 space days. Can you believe that the Sun can burn over seven million tons of natural gas every second? A star can live for over three billion years. If the Sun was hollow, you could fit 333,000 Earths inside! The Sun rotates, too. It rotates every 25-36 days. It seems as if stars always stay in the same position night after night, year after year, but they actually do move over time. They helped scientists to develop a reference system for charting a planets movement.
The moon does not give off light of its own. It is the Sun that gives light to the Moon. The Moon reflects the Suns light. A star is the only body in space that emits its own light; everything else reflects light from the closest star. Can you believe that it is over 4.24 light-years to the nearest star? Did you know that about 65% of all stars are actually double stars? They are stars that look like one, but when viewed through a telescope, they are actually two stars. Stars vary in sizes. They can be as small as 7,000 miles in diameters, or as large as 900 billion miles in diameter. Some stars change in brightness over a period of time. They do this when the stars temperature dramatically drops. These stars are called Variable Stars.
A star has many different characteristics, such as their position, motion, size, mass, chemical ingredients and temperature. No two stars are exactly alike. The number of stars in the known Universe exceeds one billion.
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📺 THE CASE FOR A CREATOR - Evidence of Physics Clip
Illustra Media 📤 7 years ago 2010-06-08
In this segment from THE CASE FOR A CREATOR, Lee Strobel discusses with philosophers of science Robin Collins and Jay Richards the idea of a universe designed and finely tuned to sustain complex life on EARTH. An extremely small change in any of the laws of physics would make life, as we know it, impossible.
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Sun's heat to scorch Earth in 3 billion years, say British scientistsSun's heat to scorch Earth in 3 billion years, say British scientists
📺 Sun's heat to scorch Earth in 3 billion years, say British scientists
TomoNews US 📤 4 years ago 2013-09-24
A team of British scientists say the Earth will continue to be habitable for at least another 1.75 billion years, according to a report by The Guardian.

Researchers at the University of East Anglia expect progressive increases in the sun's temperature to eventually push the Earth out of a habitable zone known as the "Goldilocks region".

The term refers to the narrow band of space surrounding a star, where the temperature is neither too hot, nor too cold for liquid water to flow, but just right.

The increases in the sun's heat, caused by the star's natural life cycle, are expected to cause the Earth's oceans to evaporate and the planet to be too hot to sustain life.

"It will get progressively hotter and there's nothing we can do about it," said Andrew Rushby, who studies planet habitability at the university, according to The Guardian.

The time frame provided by the scientists, however, does appear to leave humanity with enough time to respond to the Earth's inevitable doom. According to their calculations, the planet will fall out of the habitable zone in roughly 1.75 to 3.25 billion years.

"If we are still around, and the optimist in me likes to think we would be, I hope we'd be away from the Earth, perhaps on Mars, or spread out in a huge galactic family across the Milky Way," said Rushby.

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How Does Jupiter Save Earth?How Does Jupiter Save Earth?
📺 How Does Jupiter Save Earth?
Wochit News 📤 1 year ago 2016-07-11
Last week, NASA successfully sent its Juno probe into orbit around Jupiter from a distance of nearly half a billion miles. This is the only the second time in history this has been done. The feat took more than five years and cost over a billion dollars. Now that it's successfully in orbit, the Juno mission will reveal more details of the mysterious planet. Jupiter is so massive that you could fit 1,300 Earths inside of it. It's guarded by a large radiation field that's so powerful it can destroy a spacecraft. It even accounts for the static that you hear on the radio. The planet also protects Earth by acting as a vacuum in the solar system - sucking up asteroids and meteors before they can even reach us.
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The infinite life of pi - Reynaldo LopesThe infinite life of pi - Reynaldo Lopes
📺 The infinite life of pi - Reynaldo Lopes
TED-Ed 📤 4 years ago 2013-07-05
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-infinite-life-of-pi-reynaldo-lopes

The ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter is always the same: 3.14159... and on and on (literally!) forever. This irrational number, pi, has an infinite number of digits, so we'll never figure out its exact value no matter how close we seem to get. Reynaldo Lopes explains pi's vast applications to the study of music, financial models, and even the density of the universe.

Lesson by Reynaldo Lopes, animation by Igor Coric.
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Some `design characteristics` about earth that make it uniquely suited for human life?Some `design characteristics` about earth that make it uniquely suited for human life?
📺 Some "design characteristics" about earth that make it uniquely suited for human life?
John Ankerberg Show 📤 6 years ago 2012-04-03
What are some of the "design characteristics" astronomers have discovered about our universe that make it uniquely suited for human life?
Jashow.org. From our series entitled: What Evidence Is There That God Created and Designed the Universe?
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The Fermi Paradox and the Rare Earth HypothesisThe Fermi Paradox and the Rare Earth Hypothesis
📺 The Fermi Paradox and the Rare Earth Hypothesis
Alphatucana Gameplay, Travel & Vlogging 📤 1 year ago 2016-10-16
Enrico Fermi once asked, 'Where are all the aliens?' With trillions of stars and planets out there, we really ought to have seen them by now... if they are there. The Rare Earth Hypothesis seeks to explain the missing aliens by pointing out just how difficult it is to produce life, especially intelligent life, in the short time window of about 5 billion years before a star like the Sun turns into a red giant and destroys its Earth-like planets.

References:
Robin Hanson: The Great Filter: Are we almost past it?
http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/greatfilter.html

BBC Nature: The History of Life on Earth
http://bbc.co.uk/nature/history_of_the_earth

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Paul Davies - Why a Fine-Tuned Universe?Paul Davies - Why a Fine-Tuned Universe?
📺 Paul Davies - Why a Fine-Tuned Universe?
Closer To Truth 📤 3 years ago 2014-08-04
How can so many numbers of nature—the constants and relationships of physics—be so spot-on perfect for humans to exist? Coincidence and luck seem wildly unlikely.

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10 Strangest Planets In Space10 Strangest Planets In Space
📺 10 Strangest Planets In Space
Thoughty2 📤 3 years ago 2015-03-29
Space is unbelievably strange. You would be forgiven for thinking that every planet out there is similar, just a big ball of rock and gas, but planets are remarkably more unique than that. Here's the top 10 strangest planets in the known universe, that seem like they belong in some bizarre science fiction series.

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Drake's Equation - A Deep Dive | Answers With JoeDrake's Equation - A Deep Dive | Answers With Joe
📺 Drake's Equation - A Deep Dive | Answers With Joe
Joe Scott 📤 2 years ago 2015-12-01
In 1961, astronomer Frank Drake came up with an equation to help determine how many intelligent alien civilizations exist in the universe. Here, we break down that equation and find that the questions it asks are endlessly fascinating.

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The first messages aliens will receive:
http://realclearscience.com/blog/2013/09/will-hitler-be-the-first-person-that-aliens-see.html

How many planets could have heard our radio signals:
http://thenakedscientists.com/HTML/questions/question/1575/

The exoplanet archive:
http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu

The Mediocrity Principle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediocrity_principle

The Rare Earth Hypothesis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis

Drake’s equation on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation


Fermi and Drake info: TEDx talk
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7vsxNqxGpyI



VIDEOS:

Formation of the moon:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=c0FCE4H0Dro

Plate tectonics:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ryrXAGY1dmE

On Drake’s Equation:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=80Ryq6bH2aY

Space Rip Birth of the Moon:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WGTBJHFNywI
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How did the Earth get its tilted axis?How did the Earth get its tilted axis?
📺 How did the Earth get its tilted axis?
ufochannel2013 📤 5 years ago 2012-10-15
How did the Earth get its tilted axis?
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How Earth MovesHow Earth Moves
📺 How Earth Moves
Vsauce 📤 1 year ago 2016-06-13
It’s here! Science stuff, mind-blowing stuff, Vsauce stuff, oh my!! THE CURIOSITY BOX: https://thecuriositybox.com/

Jake’s video about The Curiosity Box: https://youtube.com/watch?v=p91-GhjgeEU

Minute Physics on why December days are the longest: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nZMMuv0Ltyo

StandUpMaths on calendars and leap days: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qkt_wmRKYNQ

Tom Scott on the Equation of Time: https://youtube.com/watch?v=d9Qnobvx_kM

My video on what would happen if the Earth stopped spinning: https://youtube.com/watch?v=K0-GxoJ_Pcg

GREAT visuals showing how Earth moves around the sun: https://youtube.com/watch?v=82p-DYgGFjI

http://timeanddate.com/

George Washington’s birthday: https://archives.gov/legislative/features/washington/

real-time sub solar point location: http://rl.se/sub-solar-point

Lahaina noon images from the Oahu Astrophotography club: https://facebook.com/OahuAstrophotoClub

analemma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma

great solargraph and analemma images: http://analemma.pl/english-version

interactive seasons and ecliptic simulator: http://astro.unl.edu/classaction/animations/coordsmotion/eclipticsimulator.html

Nasa video of seasonal movement of Earth: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20063

Tropical year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_year

Earth rotation specifics: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=20196

How Earth moves through the universe:

https://astrosociety.org/edu/publications/tnl/71/howfast.html
http://slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/03/04/vortex_motion_viral_video_showing_sun_s_motion_through_galaxy_is_wrong.html
http://space.gizmodo.com/racing-while-standing-still-1558642922/1559622011
https://reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1rhu7r/i_always_see_representations_of_the_solar_system

minute physics on cab: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_mZQ-5-KYHw

PBS spacetime on the cosmic microwave background:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3tCMd1ytvWg

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wcBjibuHxEk

CMB rest frame:

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/25928/is-the-cmb-rest-frame-special-where-does-it-come-from
https://reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/2va4t6/does_no_absolute_reference_frame_contradict_the/

Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_reform
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_length_fluctuations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background

wikicommons images:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundial#/media/File:Kew_Gardens_0502.JPG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CathedralofLearningLawinWinter.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Beach,_Florida#/media/File:South_Beach_20080315.jpg

To explore space, I highly recommend these:

http://shatters.net/celestia/
http://en.spaceengine.org/

music by http://youtube.com/jakechudnow
and http://audionetwork.com

Awesome 3D graphics by Eric Langlay: https://youtube.com/user/ericdraven30
Lame 2D stuff by me.
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`Why Complex Life is Rare in the Universe``Why Complex Life is Rare in the Universe`
📺 "Why Complex Life is Rare in the Universe"
Pell Osborn 📤 8 years ago 2009-10-27
This animated science video illustrates the factors that support the Rare Earth Hypothesis (advanced by Drs. Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee in their book, "Rare Earth") that "simple life may be widespread, but complex life is probably rare throughout the universe." Created by two student groups, ages 8-11 and 12-15, in 15 hours each of class time, "Why Complex Life is Rare" is a LineStorm Animation project designed at the Creative Arts at Park School in Brookline, Massachusetts. Supervised by Pell Osborn of MotionArt Studios, Boston, the highly personalized science film (the animation originated entirely on flipbooks), concludes with a lively celebration of the vast variety of complex life on our Rare Earth. The Philadelphia Mummers' Parade Quaker City String Band performs the energetic soundtrack medley.
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Is Earth Actually Flat?Is Earth Actually Flat?
📺 Is Earth Actually Flat?
Vsauce 📤 3 years ago 2014-12-04
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LOTS OF COOL LINKS BELOW!
Flat Earth gravity simulation by Yeti Dynamics: https://youtube.com/user/yetipc1

Kansas flatness study: (the pancakes used in the study were from IHOP): http://improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume9/v9i3/kansas.html

the flatness of other states: http://theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/science-several-us-states-led-by-florida-are-flatter-than-a-pancake/284348/

"The Meaning Of It All" by Richard Feynman: http://amazon.co.uk/The-Meaning-All-Richard-Feynman/dp/0141031441

“The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten”: http://amazon.co.uk/The-Pig-That-Wants-Eaten/dp/1847081282

related Vsauce video, “Is Anything Real?” https://youtube.com/watch?v=L45Q1_psDqk

Minutphysics “TOP 10 REASONS Why We Know the Earth is Round” https://youtube.com/watch?v=o_W280R_Jt8

Good satirical series about how the Earth IS flat: https://youtube.com/watch?v=83aYfmZpoSs

What if Earth was a cube?

https://possiblywrong.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/if-the-earth-were-a-cube/
http://askamathematician.com/2011/05/q-what-would-earth-be-like-to-us-if-it-were-a-cube-instead-of-spherical-is-this-even-possible/
http://gizmodo.com/how-gravity-would-be-different-if-the-world-were-a-cube-1492018223
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=421

MYTH of the round Earth:

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/09/21/who-discovered-the-earth-is-ro/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth

Earth is round:

http://datagenetics.com/blog/june32012/index.html
http://wired.com/2011/06/how-to-estimate-the-radius-of-the-earth-with-a-lake/
https://web.archive.org/web/20100331205903/http://orfe.princeton.edu/~rvdb/tmp/sunsetTalkSmall.pdf

Varrazano bridge: http://ljhammond.com/phlit/2012-06c.htm

Varrazano spelling controversy: http://huffingtonpost.com/roseanne-colletti/verrazzano-versus-verraza_b_188479.html

Flat Earth Society:

http://theflatearthsociety.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_societies

Wilbur Glen Voliva:

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/5000-for-proving-the-earth-is-a-globe/
http://stevelyons.ca/projects/flat-earth-manifesto/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Glenn_Voliva

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=61797.0#.VH-UhWSsXYH

Flat earth map (one theory): http://earthnotaglobe.com/library/Flat_Earth_Society_Map.jpg

Poe’s Law:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
http://literallyunbelievable.org

Science is always provisional and theories are never conclusively proven:

http://psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/200811/common-misconceptions-about-science-i-scientific-proof
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/09/14/geocentrism-seriously/#.VH3vzmSsXYF

Asimov on being “more wrong”: http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm

Occam’s Razor: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/simplicity/

Newton’s flaming laser sword: https://philosophynow.org/issues/46/Newtons_Flaming_Laser_Sword

Other razors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_%28philosophy%29

relativistic length contractions:

I really liked this one: http://faraday.physics.utoronto.ca/PVB/Harrison/SpecRel/Flash/LengthContract.html
http://physicsclassroom.com/mmedia/specrel/lc.cfm
http://askamathematician.com/2011/01/q-why-does-lorentz-contraction-only-act-in-the-direction-of-motion/

Earth and cosmic ray perspective:

http://reddit.com/comments/97gak/in_the_reference_frame_of_a_7035_tev_cosmic_ray
http://i.imgur.com/nfDHQ.jpg

wolfram contraction simulator: http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/RelativisticCar/

Susan Haack: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundherentism

1996 election NYT crossword:

http://crosswordunclued.com/2009/01/nyt-election-day-crossword.html
http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/2/12/nytimescrossword.jpg
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📺 1of5--Earth The Biography - Rare Planet
Zuke969 📤 8 years ago 2010-03-29
ALL 5 Parts, http://youtube.com/view_play_list?p=105B2311EFACFBE3
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Science confirms Earth’s magnetic field flipped rapidlyScience confirms Earth’s magnetic field flipped rapidly
📺 Science confirms Earth’s magnetic field flipped rapidly
CMIcreationstation 📤 2 years ago 2015-11-16
Did you know that the earth’s magnetic field has reversed direction—or ‘flipped’—multiple times in the past?
The evidence for these reversals is rock solid, because when molten rock cools, certain mineral grains align with the earth’s magnetic field, thus recording the direction of Earth’s magnetic field at the time, in the solidified rock.
Previously, most geologists thought that a single reversal would take many thousands of years. However, creationist physicist, Dr Russell Humphreys, reasoned they must have happened quickly to fit within the biblical timescale.
So Dr Humphreys made a prediction that quickly-cooling thin lava flows would be found that recorded fast changes in the direction of the magnetic field.
This prediction was later proven correct. Scientists were shocked to find major magnetic field changes had occurred within weeks in a single lava flow. They published this in the regular scientific literature. Thus yet another scientific prediction, based on biblical history, proved to be correct. To find out more from Creation Ministries International visit our website creation.com
Reference:
‘Fossil’ magnetism reveals rapid reversals of the earth’s magnetic field http://creation.com/fossil-magnetism-reveals-rapid-reversals-of-the-earths-magnetic-field
The earth’s magnetic field: evidence that the earth is young http://creation.com/the-earths-magnetic-field-evidence-that-the-earth-is-young
Mercury’s Magnetic Field is Young! http://creation.com/mercurys-magnetic-field-is-young

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Fine Tuning Evidence For God's ExistenceFine Tuning Evidence For God's Existence
📺 Fine Tuning Evidence For God's Existence
God4Geeks.com 📤 2 years ago 2015-10-14
In the last few decades, the scientific community has been stunned by discoveries revealing that the universe has been tuned for the existence of intelligent life. It turns out that the precision of the tuning is so delicately balanced that it must be explained.

An example is the cosmological constant that is part of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. It is so fine tuned that if it were different by the smallest amount, intelligent life would not be possible.

Many have tried in vain to develop plausible explanations based on purely natural processes. The reason they have failed is the fine tuned fundamental constants are independent of the laws of nature.

How about chance? Could it be that the constants are just a lucky accident? The answer turns out to be No. As Philosopher William Lane Craig observes, the odds are “so infinitesimal that they cannot be reasonably faced.” In other words, the odds that tuning happened by chance are so small that it is unreasonable to think it happened by chance.

The result is that the best explanation is the Creator has fine tuned the universe for the existence of intelligent life.

For more information about this or other ideas about God, visit God4Geeks.com
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10 Scientifically Impossible Places That Actually Exist10 Scientifically Impossible Places That Actually Exist
📺 10 Scientifically Impossible Places That Actually Exist
TheRichest 📤 1 year ago 2017-01-04
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Upside down geological columnUpside down geological column
📺 Upside down geological column
CMIcreationstation 📤 1 year ago 2016-07-05
Did you know that part of the geological column is found upside-down in Pakistan? At the foot of the Karakorum Mountains, in the Salt Range Formation, scientists have discovered fossilized plants and insects. From an evolutionary perspective, these remains belong to the upper part of the geological column. However, this formation lies beneath Cambrian rocks, which are supposedly over 400 million years older. So why are the fossils of more complex life buried below fossils considered much more primitive? This is a vexing evolutionary problem. Discoveries such as these support the biblical version of earth history, whereby the geological column is primarily a consequence of the global flood and its aftermath. It is no surprise that there is some order in the fossil record, such as sea creatures buried beneath land creatures, and mobile creatures such as birds near the top. But, as the Salt Range Formation testifies, the ordered charts that adorn textbooks aren’t necessarily what we find in the field.

Related Articles:
The Geologic Column: Does it exist? http://creation.com/does-geologic-column-exist
Are fossils ever found in the wrong place? http://creation.com/fossils-wrong-place
Order in the fossil record - How can Noah’s Flood explain it? http://creation.com/order-in-the-fossil-record

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Earth's Tilt and the Seasons - for Planetarium ShowEarth's Tilt and the Seasons - for Planetarium Show
📺 Earth's Tilt and the Seasons - for Planetarium Show
Brad Freese 📤 8 years ago 2010-01-17
This short animation was created to help clarify how the tilt of Earth's axis causes the change of the seasons. It was made specifically for use in the wonderful Planetarium Show "In My Backyard." The animation syncs up with a specific part of the audio from that show. That bit of audio is used here, no copyright infringement is intended!

For more animations on this topic, including one that uses those old red and blue 3D glasses, please see my other videos. (or search for "Earth Orbit - Anaglyph")

For more information, requests for animation useage or anyone who likes it please visit my website to contact me. bradfreese.com Note: Classroom teachers / any other noncommerical work please use this animation with my blessings!
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Cosmic Journeys - Mars: Earth that Never WasCosmic Journeys - Mars: Earth that Never Was
📺 Cosmic Journeys - Mars: Earth that Never Was
SpaceRip 📤 6 years ago 2011-04-30
Did Mars long ago develop far enough for life to arise? If so, does anything still live within Mars' dusty plains, beneath its ice caps, or somewhere underground?

In 1964 the Mariner Four spacecraft flew by Mars and got a good look. What it saw looked more like the Moon than the Earth. Then, in the mid-1970's, two lander-orbiter robot teams, named Viking, went in for an even closer look. The landers tested the soil for the chemical residues of life. All the evidence from Viking told us: Mars is dead. And extremely harsh.

The mission recorded Martian surface temperatures from -17 degrees Celsius down to -107. We now know it can get even colder than that at the poles. The atmosphere is 95% carbon dioxide, with only traces of oxygen. And it's extremely thin, with less than one percent the surface pressure of Earth's atmosphere.

And it's bone dry. In fact, the Sahara Desert is a rainforest compared to Mars, where water vapor is a trace gas in the atmosphere. On Earth, impact craters erode over time from wind and water... and even volcanic activity. On Mars, they can linger for billions of years.

Earth's surface is shaped and reshaped by the horizontal movement of plates that make up its crust driven by heat welling up from the planet's hot interior. At half the width and only 11% the mass of Earth, Mars doesn't generate enough heat to support wide-scale plate tectonics.

Nor does it have the gravity to hold a thick atmosphere needed to store enough heat at the surface to allow liquid water to flow. Nonetheless, some areas that looked to Viking-era scientists like craters and volcanic areas, were later shown to be riverbeds, lake bottoms, and ocean shorelines.

If water once flowed on Mars' surface, where did it all go?

This was the scene at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in 2004. The twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity had just bounced down on the Red Planet. When the excitement died down, the rovers were set off on one of the most remarkable journeys in the history of planetary exploration. Missions like this could one day pave the way for a day when we'll view images from a real astronaut's camera.

Opportunity had come to rest in a small crater near the equator, at a spot called Meridiani Planum. Here, in plain view, on a nearby crater wall, its camera revealed exposed bedrock, the first ever seen on Mars. Not far away, the rover found layered rocks on the face of a cliff. On Earth, they typically form as sedimentary layers at the bottom of oceans.

And at every turn, Opportunity rolled across tiny, smooth, round pellets. They became known as "blueberries" because they appeared purplish-brown against Mars' rust-colored surface. Initially thought to be volcanic in origin, they turned out to be iron-rich spherules of the type that form within cavities in the mud at the bottom of an ocean.

Drilling into rocks, the rover inserted a spectrometer to read the mineral content. The readings showed significant amounts of sulfate salt, a tracer for standing water. That wasn't all. Spirit's broken wheel, dragging behind it, exposed soils saturated in salt.

Clearly there once was water on Mars' surface, but how long ago? And, if there is anything left, where would you find it? One possible answer: the North Pole. From orbit, this region seemed to be covered in frozen CO2 - what we call dry ice. But was there water ice below the surface?

Enter Phoenix, a lander that touched down near the North Pole in early 2008. Radar readings from orbit, taken by the Mars Express mission, hinted at the presence of ice just below the surface.

The Phoenix lander's descent thrusters blew away the top layer of soil, allowing its camera to snap pictures of what looked like ice. Scientists instructed the robot to conduct a simple experiment: reach out and dig a trench, then watch what happens.

As expected, clumps of white stuff appeared. A couple of days later, it was gone. Vaporized. That means it can't be salt or frozen CO2, which is stable in the cold dry temperatures of the Martian pole. So it had to be water, the first ever directly seen on Mars.

There are indications that the North Pole was actually warm enough in the recent past for water ice to become liquid. The Mars Reconaissance Orbiter, or MRO, used radar pulses to peer beneath the surface of the ice cap. These data reveal that the ice, just over a mile thick, formed in a succession of layers as the climate alternated between warm and cold.

Our planet avoids mood swings like this in part because its spin is stabilized by a massive moon. Mars' spin is not, so it can really wobble, with the pole tilting toward the sun for long periods. New observations by the MRO spacecraft show that these wobbles can lead to dramatic releases of CO2, and warming periods due to an increase in the greenhouse effect.
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Effect of Earth's Tilt on WeatherEffect of Earth's Tilt on Weather
📺 Effect of Earth's Tilt on Weather
Iken Edu 📤 5 years ago 2012-11-21
This topic explains the effect of earth's tilting on weather(changing climatic conditions).
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Why Do Venomous Animals Live In Warm Climates?Why Do Venomous Animals Live In Warm Climates?
📺 Why Do Venomous Animals Live In Warm Climates?
Veritasium 📤 5 years ago 2013-02-06
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As a Canadian-Australian, I have always wondered why it is that Australia has so many venomous animals that can kill you while Canada has virtually none. But it's not just Australia - it seems like all beautiful, warm places are cursed with venomous native species. So I set out to find the truth: why have all these venomous species evolved in the world's best holiday destinations?

I asked chemists, visited the zoo, interviewed entomologists and snake experts. The answer I found was complicated:
1. The majority of venomous species are ectotherms, cold-blooded creatures whose internal temperatures are governed by their surroundings.
2. This means they have limited periods of activity - mainly while it's warm out, and can only exert short bursts of energy, so they are generally "sit and wait" predators. This may explain why they, more than mammals or birds, evolved venom.
3. It also explains why there are more of these species in warm climates. There are more of all species in warm climates, but this trend is especially pronounced for ectotherms.
4. So there are a greater number of venomous species in warm places, simply because there are more species in warm places. Cold climates still have venomous creatures, like the rattlesnakes of Canada and European vipers.
5. But history also has a role to play. In Australia, there were no snakes until 20 million years ago when a venomous sea snake from Asia encountered the land, sending venomous species to all corners of the continent. Later non-venomous arrivals have done well in the tropics but not as well in Australia's colder climates, so venomous types still dominate there. Hawaii has no venomous land snakes and nor does Jamaica.
6. The recent ice age also would have driven ectotherms from the northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere. This is why there are no snakes in Ireland, for example.

Special thanks to Prof. Rick Shine, Prof. Dieter Hochuli, Prof. Roger Lowe, Prof. Martyn Poliakoff and Taronga Zoo, especially Joe Haddock and Dean Purcell.

Cinematography by Charles Clement
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Trigonometry: What Is It?Trigonometry: What Is It?
📺 Trigonometry: What Is It?
New Planet School 📤 5 years ago 2013-01-02
This video shows how trigonometry is both interesting and useful. Its history, practical uses, place in mathematics and wide use are all covered. If you are wondering why you might want to learn trigonometry, start here!
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How Scientists Created A Wormhole In A LabHow Scientists Created A Wormhole In A Lab
📺 How Scientists Created A Wormhole In A Lab
Seeker 📤 2 years ago 2015-09-09
Wormholes don’t only exist in space. Scientists have just created one in the lab… with magnets!

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A Magnetic Wormhole
http://nature.com/articles/srep12488
“Wormholes are fascinating cosmological objects that can connect two distant regions of the universe. Because of their intriguing nature, constructing a wormhole in a lab seems a formidable task.”

Physicists Built a Wormhole for Magnets
http://smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/physicists-built-wormhole-magnets-180956345/?no-ist
“The metal sphere lets one magnetic field pass through another undetected, which could lead to improvements in medical imaging.”

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No evolution for 3.5 billion years???No evolution for 3.5 billion years???
📺 No evolution for 3.5 billion years???
CMIcreationstation 📤 2 years ago 2015-07-28
Stromatolites are regarded by many as the oldest fossils on earth. They are interpreted as the remains of colonies of blue-green algae, or more accurately, cyanobacteria. The oldest ones are claimed to be 3.5 billion years old. Within this evolutionary perspective, one would expect these colonies to have radically changed, but remarkably, they are essentially the same today. Stromatolites, therefore, are classic examples of living fossils.

Living fossils cause major problems for evolution because they provide stunning examples of how evolution hasn’t occurred.

They also call into question the evolutionary timeframe.

Some people try to downplay the significance of living fossils by arguing that when something is well adapted to its environment it doesn’t need to change. But this would need the environment to be constant for the supposed period of time. This argument cannot apply to stromatolites, because during 3.5 billion years of alleged evolutionary time, many radical environmental changes supposedly occurred, including the arrival of new predators and parasites. To find out more from Creation Ministries International visit our website creation.com

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What If The Moon Disappeared?What If The Moon Disappeared?
📺 What If The Moon Disappeared?
BrainStuff - HowStuffWorks 📤 3 years ago 2014-11-19
Without the moon, how would Earth's environment be affected? Would we survive?

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Oh hey there BrainStuff. I'm Lauren. And it's time you and I had a talk... about the moon.

I know we haven’t been there in a while, but… it’s pretty rad. We think that about 4.5 billion years ago, something the size of Mars crashed into Earth and ricocheted into space to form the Moon. It even took some of Earth’s mantle with it. So there’s ancient chunks of our planet merged with space stuff up there, just hanging out in orbit.

But even with all that, I’m not sure the moon gets all the credit it deserves. If it wasn’t there, things would be a lot different here on our little blue planet.

First, we'd see some pretty dramatic changes to the ocean. The moon is responsible for most of the effects of tides. Without it, the tides would only be a third of the size they are now. This is because the sun would account for the major gravitational pull affecting the altitude of the ocean. And while the sun is way bigger than the moon (like 400 times bigger), it is also much further away. So the tides it creates only have about 40% of the strength of our current lunar tides.

Surfing wouldn’t be the only thing that suffered. Lots of ecosystems rely on the motion and changes of the tides to sustain them. Plus, the moon holds a bulge of tidal water around Earth’s middle that would disperse without its gravity, changing coastlines around the world.

Also, did you know that the moon helps slow down the rotation of Earth? Yep, without it we wouldn't have 24-hour days. They'd be more like 6-8 hours long. We'd have to remake our calendar to accommodate between one thousand one hundred and one thousand four hundred days per year. Not only would that screw up all of our schedules, but a faster rotation would also increase the amount of wind and storms on our planet.

If that's not enough extreme climate change for you, "no moon" would also destabilize the Earth's axis, unpredictably changing our tilt with side effects that would render the planet inhospitable to lots of its creatures.

Right now we're tilted at a lovely 23 degrees, which gives us relatively mild seasons and environments. But the moon acts as an external force that stabilizes that angle. Without it we could wobble anywhere between zero degrees (with no seasons and barely any sunlight) to 85 degrees, where the planet would fall over on its side like a kitten on a catnip high. Mars, for example, wobbles between only 15 and 35 degrees, and it experiences drastic climate changes where ice drifts all the way from its poles to its equator.

Finally, gang... I don't know if you've noticed, but the moon's pretty darn bright up there in the middle of the night. Sure, the sun is four-hundred-thousand times brighter. But sometimes it still hits your eye… you know, like a big pizza pie. Which means that without it, our nights would be a lot darker than we're used to. Try stumbling around in the woods without a moon and see how you like it.

SOURCES:

http://science.howstuffworks.com/no-moon.htm

Siegal, Ethan. "The top 5 things we'd miss if we didn't have a moon." ScienceBlogs. Aug. 8, 2013. (June 26, 2014) http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/08/08/the-top-5-things-wed-miss-if-we-didnt-have-a-moon/

Foing, Bernard. "If we had no moon." Astrobiology Magazine. Oct. 29, 2007. (June 26, 2014) http://astrobio.net/topic/exploration/moon-to-mars/if-we-had-no-moon/

http://news.discovery.com/earth/weather-extreme-events/blog-what-if-the-moon-disappeared-130425.htm

http://io9.com/5945603/who-destroyed-the-moon-best

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DetonationMoon

Lunar and Planetary Institute. "Moon becomes geologically inactive." Universities Space Research Association. (June 26, 2014) http://lpi.usra.edu/education/timeline/gallery/slide_29.html

Masters, Karen and Carter, Lynn. "What would happen if we did not have a moon?" Cornell University. 2000. (June 26, 2014) http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=104

ScienceLine. "How does the moon control the tides?" University of California Santa Barbara. (June 26, 2014) http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=353
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How to know your life purpose in 5 minutes | Adam Leipzig | TEDxMalibuHow to know your life purpose in 5 minutes | Adam Leipzig | TEDxMalibu
📺 How to know your life purpose in 5 minutes | Adam Leipzig | TEDxMalibu
TEDx Talks 📤 5 years ago 2013-02-02
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Cows acting like compassesCows acting like compasses
📺 Cows acting like compasses
CMIcreationstation 📤 2 years ago 2015-08-11
What does a cow have in common with a compass needle? The answer is that both of them ‘know’ the orientation of the earth’s magnetic field.
No, this isn’t crackpot science. In 2008, the prestigious journal, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, published research documenting how cows grazing in a field have a tendency to align themselves with the earth’s magnetic field.
And this phenomenon isn’t just limited to cows; many animals including deer, birds, turtles, bats, and even some bacteria, can sense the earth’s magnetic field for alignment or navigation.
The fact that so many living things have this ability is rather ironic, considering that the famous evolutionist J.B.S Haldane once said that evolution couldn’t produce magnets.
Just as man-made magnetic compasses are the product of forethought and design, so, too, the magnetic sensing in animals points to an intelligent designer. To find out more from Creation Ministries International visit our website creation.com

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How Fast Does the Earth Rotate?How Fast Does the Earth Rotate?
📺 How Fast Does the Earth Rotate?
Fraser Cain 📤 4 years ago 2013-05-20
In this short video, Universe Today publisher Fraser Cain does the math to help you understand just how fast you're spinning in space right now, and how you'd actually gain a little weight if the Earth stopped spinning.

Based on this article from Universe Today:
http://universetoday.com/26623/how-fast-does-the-earth-rotate/

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The Earth feels firm and solid beneath your feet. Everything's calm and quiet. Right?

We know the planet is rapidly spinning on its axis completing one full rotation every day.

As we're gravitationally bound to the planet, and hurtling around in space, right along with it.

We follow a circular path around the Earth at hundreds of kilometers per second.

So, just how fast does does it spin, and how fast are we rotating around on the surface?

Before we can talk speed, I've got to clarify how long a day is, it gets a little sticky.

We count a day as twenty-four hours.

This is the length of time it takes for the Sun to return to the exact same spot in the sky as it was in the day before.

Astronomers call this a solar day. Here's where it gets a little complicated.

As we're taking a full year to go around the Sun, and changing our relative position to our star, we have to add about four minutes every day to nudge the Sun back into the same spot.

Which means if you look down at the Earth and watch it turn one complete rotation on its axis, you'd count twenty-three-point-nine-three hours.

This is what's known as a sidereal day and is a more accurate measurement of the planet's rotation. This is the amount of time we're going to use to calculate the speed the Earth turns at.

Let's assume that you're standing on the equator, the halfway point between the north and south pole.

Over the course of a sidereal day you'll travel along the entire circumference of the Earth, and end back to your starting point.

We know the circumference of the Earth is fourty-thousand-and-seventy-five kilometers.

Divide twenty-three-point-nine-three hours into the circumference and you get
one-thousand-six-hundred-and-seventy-five kilometers per hour, or four-hundred-and-sixty-five meters per second.

Every second that goes by, you've hurtled almost half a kilometer through space,
and you didn't even break a sweat.

This spinning is even causing you to lift off the Earth a little bit, like when you spin a weight on a string.

That lifting force is about zero-point-three-percent of the force of gravity pulling you down.

If the Earth wasn't spinning, you'd weigh zero-point-three-percent more than you do now.

As you travel towards the poles, your speed of rotation slows down.

Just imagine if you were standing straight upright on the North Pole, lining your own axis up with the earth.

It would take you a whole day to turn around once, which is pretty slow even by sloth standards.


Our space agencies take advantage of the Earth's rotation to launch rockets.

The closer you are to the equator, the less fuel you need to get into orbit, or the heavier payloads you can carry.

That's why Cape Canaveral in Florida is a great place to launch rockets.

Some clever people created Sea Launch, which blasts rockets off from an ocean platform, right at the equator.

Which is even better at maximizing your launch benefits of planetary rotation.
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Amazing factors that are carefully fine tuned to allow life on EarthAmazing factors that are carefully fine tuned to allow life on Earth
📺 Amazing factors that are carefully fine tuned to allow life on Earth
The day approaches 📤 2 years ago 2015-08-03
From Prager University. A good little vid about the critical factors fine tuned to allow life on planet earth. God is clever.
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The history of our world in 18 minutes | David ChristianThe history of our world in 18 minutes | David Christian
📺 The history of our world in 18 minutes | David Christian
TED 📤 7 years ago 2011-04-11
http://ted.com Backed by stunning illustrations, David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the Internet, in a riveting 18 minutes. This is "Big History": an enlightening, wide-angle look at complexity, life and humanity, set against our slim share of the cosmic timeline.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://ted.com/translate.
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What is so special about the human brain? | Suzana Herculano-HouzelWhat is so special about the human brain? | Suzana Herculano-Houzel
📺 What is so special about the human brain? | Suzana Herculano-Houzel
TED 📤 4 years ago 2013-11-26
The human brain is puzzling -- it is curiously large given the size of our bodies, uses a tremendous amount of energy for its weight and has a bizarrely dense cerebral cortex. But: why? Neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel puts on her detective's cap and leads us through this mystery. By making "brain soup," she arrives at a startling conclusion.

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Epigenetics and natural selectionEpigenetics and natural selection
📺 Epigenetics and natural selection
CMIcreationstation 📤 2 years ago 2015-10-26
Did you know that the DNA code is itself governed by another code known as the epigenetic code? This physical and chemical code determines which genes are switched on. Changes in this code can greatly alter an organism without altering one letter of its DNA. For instance, scientists have managed to change the coat colour in mice by feeding them a diet that switches off certain genes.
Epigenetics poses new problems for evolution. For instance, a group of animals with a camouflaged coat colour might be favoured in a particular environment, but if this coat colour is due to epigenetics and not the actual DNA code, then the non-camouflaged animals would be selected against in vain. When the epigenetic modification is reset by a diet change, natural selection is sent back to square one.
The field of epigenetics, therefore, creates problems for evolution and strongly points to a master programmer who invented the DNA and epigenetic codes.
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📺 Finely tuned Earth - designed for life


Finely tuned Earth - designed for life by CMIcreationstation
If you were able to choose the planet you lived on, which one would it be? Well, I would definitely choose earth, because it is so well suited for life. Whether you're considering the Earth's distance from the sun, or its gravity, axial tilt or magnetic field, one conclusion is inescapable. Earth is finely tuned for life.
Many see this as evidence for a designer but others don't. If earth wasn't finely tuned, they say, we wouldn't even exist so it doesn't indicate a designer. But is that a satisfactory answer? Imagined you were dragged before a trained firing squad and they all fired and all missed. If I asked you why you're not dead and you answered, "Well if I did die I wouldn't be here to tell you," you think I'd be satisfied with that explanation?
In the same way, atheists cannot give a satisfactory answer for earth being so finely tuned for life.

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