 Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
 9537 Posts
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Sunday, September 11, 2011 11:15:59 PM
I can't wait till the day when we discover that the periodic table is primitive and that it's only a tiny bit of the elements that are possible. watch, one day, we'll study some samples from space and be like, "holy crap! the table is like 100 times bigger and has 100 times more to it than we thought!"
People have studied samples from space (directly and via data gathered from stars). There are more elements on Earth than out there, because some elements have been made in labs.
There appear to be reasons why elements don't naturally occur with larger numbers of protons in the nucleus. Certainly not 100 times as many.
It might happen, but I wouldn't wait for it. |
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bongsmoka420
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
289 Posts
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Sunday, September 11, 2011 9:47:52 PM
I can't wait till the day when we discover that the periodic table is primitive and that it's only a tiny bit of the elements that are possible. watch, one day, we'll study some samples from space and be like, "holy crap! the table is like 100 times bigger and has 100 times more to it than we thought!" |
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 Wendypants
Female, 30-39, Canada
1030 Posts
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Sunday, September 11, 2011 7:20:33 AM
Not enough Morgan Freeman. |
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 QueenZira
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
1762 Posts
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Saturday, September 10, 2011 8:16:51 PM
SlothOfDoom, after listening to your clip (and some other Sagan clips for comparison) one definitely is left with the impression what's being said is poetry, and I can't believe I'm gonna say this but, romantic even. (I'm floored I just said that). |
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 TypicalJerk
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
534 Posts
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Saturday, September 10, 2011 8:12:24 PM
Why would you auto-tune the voice of Morgan Freeman? =| |
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 SlothOfDoom
Male, 30-39, Canada
2041 Posts
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Saturday, September 10, 2011 6:18:07 PM
I think these Symphony of Science songs are getting progressively weaker. The first (and by far best) was obviously done out of passion, the newer ones seem much more forced. The incredible amount of auto-tuning doesn't help. GD had a lot of auto-tuning as well, but it didn't seem nearly as intrusive.
Just in case someone out there has been asleep in a cave, A Glorious Dawn is the first, and IMO best of this series. |
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Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
9537 Posts
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Saturday, September 10, 2011 5:21:24 PM
While my meandering mind is on the subject of science-related stuff that I think is weird...we're all made of mostly nothing physical and so is nearly all matter. The actual physical stuff of many millions of people would fit in a teaspoon. "Solid" matter is nearly all empty (in a physical sense) gaps between and within atoms. |
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Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
9537 Posts
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Saturday, September 10, 2011 5:15:38 PM
I wish they'd ease off the autotuning. Autotuning may help set it to music, but it's in danger of becoming the focus.
I remember wave/particle duality bending my head at school. Prior to that, I had the nicely neat simplified version of science. Careful study showing what stuff is and how it works, where it all fits neatly together, everything can be neatly defined and outcomes can be predicted to any degree of accuracy as long as you know the variables and the rules. Wave/particle duality was my first encounter with the rather more complicated reality. The next one that really stood out was when I read about the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. The idea that something can be fundamentally unknowable is weird. |
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 Link_Hiei
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
5158 Posts
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Saturday, September 10, 2011 8:19:59 AM
I came. |
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Immanio
Male, 18-29, Europe
63 Posts
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Saturday, September 10, 2011 7:32:37 AM
Beautiful. Full stop. |
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 DixxyRarr
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
2677 Posts
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Saturday, September 10, 2011 6:33:24 AM
I think I would have enjoyed it more if it wasn't autotuned.
The Strokes album cover for 'Is This It' at 1:39 ?? |
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 Sock1122
Male, 18-29, Europe
274 Posts
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Saturday, September 10, 2011 3:59:03 AM
stephen hawkins actually gave me goose bumps there :L |
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 Fortitude
Male, 30-39, Australia
253 Posts
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Saturday, September 10, 2011 1:51:57 AM
The ultimate triumph of science is putting an auto tune on Stephen Hawkins |
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 ledzeppeloyd
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
2184 Posts
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Saturday, September 10, 2011 1:12:18 AM
they had me at morgan freeman and michio kaku was just an added bonus |
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 davymid
Male, 30-39, Europe
11676 Posts
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Saturday, September 10, 2011 12:44:38 AM
F*cking beautiful. Not to turn this thread, but how anyone can equate the humdrum of man-made religion with the sheer, exquisite beauty of science is beyond me. Great post. |
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 SuperOnion
Male, 18-29, Western US
151 Posts
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Friday, September 09, 2011 9:26:07 PM
They have an entire album on their website. Symphony of Science is awesome :D |
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 ryan99
Male, 13-17, Western US
2349 Posts
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Friday, September 09, 2011 8:23:40 PM
Nothing will ever beat the original. Carl Sagan ftw. |
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 thelonious
Male, 40-49, Southern US
3200 Posts
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Friday, September 09, 2011 8:14:47 PM
Do we have to autotune physics lessons now to keep the morons interested? I'm ok with that |
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 taylor_stone
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
2476 Posts
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Friday, September 09, 2011 7:25:01 PM
This video contained 2 of the 4 people I would want to narrate the story of my life... Morgan Freeman (narrating my teen years) and Stephen Hawking (narrating my birth)... The others are Patrick Warburton as Brock Samson (narrating my adulthood) and George Takei (narrating my childhood) |
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 botfly
Male, 50-59, Eastern US
549 Posts
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Friday, September 09, 2011 7:18:35 PM
MF is a pedophile that did his own grand daughter |
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 Dylan5121
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
1343 Posts
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Friday, September 09, 2011 7:13:05 PM
ahhh science <3 |
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 mitha
Male, 18-29, Europe
270 Posts
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Friday, September 09, 2011 7:09:17 PM
I hate this high-pitching (or however its called). And who had the drated up idea to do that to The Voice? |
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Male, 40-49, Eastern US
834 Posts
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Friday, September 09, 2011 7:05:01 PM
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