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Friday Night Movie: BEHOLD, The Wonders of the Universe, “A Cosmological Fantasia”

Posted by mistergroonk in Animation, Movies, Music, Science, Space on April 8, 2011

Physicist Brian Cox(who was a science consultant on Danny Boyle‘s lovely project SUNSHINE) hosts the BBC’s Wonders of the Universe which looks like a fantastic four part series about life, the universe and everything in it. Currently it’s only aired in the United Kingdom. This is a damn shame. Hey, History Channel/Discovery Channel/The Learning Channel! Why don’t we get awesome looking shows like this imported onto USA television?!

You could easily replace one of your silly shows like MonsterVision, Ancient Aliens or I-thought-I-Saw-a-Ghost-One-Time-but-it-Turned-Out-it-was-Just-a-Cat-in-Heat.

Above we have 15 minutes of visual effects created by BDH with a musical score by Timo Baker
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Just Within Cosmic Reach…

Posted by mistergroonk in Just Freaking Neat, Photography, Space on April 22, 2009

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It’s a hand, isn’t it?

Yes, definitely a hand. A hand reaches but what does it want?

To crush?

To caress?

The sharpest minds on the planet can speculate on universal motivations both scientific and spiritual. Just know we’ve seen this kind of tomfoolery before.
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“Saturn’s a mess”

Posted by mistergroonk in Science, Space on October 16, 2008

That’s a direct quote from Bad Astronomy’s Phil Plait. He talks at length about Saturn’s south pole craziness.

While he talks vortexes, convection and other science stuff, right-brain mythology has me waxing artistic. It kinda looks like:

1) a Picasso-esque smiley face
2) little spermy men circling for the kill
3) the launchpad clearing for Saturnian outpost attack

What’s it look like to you?

(via bad astronomy)

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A Time Before the Big Bang?

Posted by mistergroonk in Science, Space on June 8, 2008

Scientist now believe our universe may have bubbled off from a parent one.

Their model suggests that new universes could be created spontaneously from apparently empty space. From inside the parent universe, the event would be surprisingly unspectacular.

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The inspiration for their theory isn’t just an explanation for the Big Bang our Universe experienced 13.7 billion years ago, but lies in an attempt to explain one of the largest mysteries in physics – why time seems to move in one direction.

The laws that govern physics on a microscopic scale are completely reversible, and yet, as Professor Carroll commented, “no one gets confused about which is yesterday and which is tomorrow”.

Other Universal news:

(via warren ellis, bbc news )

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