Notoriously baffling yet oddly compelling, 2001: A Space Odyssey essentially follows two astronauts (Keir Dullea's Dave Bowman and Gary Lockwood's Frank Poole) as they embark on a quest into the farthest reaches
of the known galaxy.
You fought in every corner
of the known galaxy before fate lead you to Lethaea.
The «goal» of the game is to reach the center
of the known galaxy.
He goes from being some decent run of the mill guy, not a bad hand with a gun to then being the absolute saviour
of the known galaxy and a pillar of everything good, even if you went full renegade just to be a prick and get rewarded for it.
Not exact matches
I
know that he must think he's doing the right thing by taking himself out
of the equation, and that means he thinks the best thing for the
galaxy is that he's not a part
of this and, by extension, that the Jedi are not a part
of this.
And we think that oceans and water are necessary for the development
of life as we
know it, so perhaps, if these kinds
of ocean worlds are common across the
galaxy, and if that's where life most often develops.
Last year, I met an astronaut, and he said that
no matter how great
of a career he'll have as an astronaut, he'll never truly make a dent on the
galaxy.
At its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all -
knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions
of galaxies...»
Catholicism is the belief that an all -
knowing, immortal being, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions
of galaxies, has a personal interest in my $ ex life.
I am sure you
know how vast our
galaxy is and also the
galaxy of galaxies.
Everything single
galaxy, star (sun) and planet, in the universe have been formed by gravity over billions
of years,
NO god needed.
Let's face it, the belief that an infitely old, all -
knowing sky - god, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions
of galaxies, will cause people to survive their own phsical deaths and live happily ever after in heaven, if they follow some random laws laid down in Bronze Age Palestine = Judaism.
Why are there billions
of galaxies inhabiting the
known universe and within those billions
of stars all
of which are being born and dying.
Oh, so in the vast
known Universe, which reaches out for 15 BILLION light years in all directions, with over 100 BILLION
galaxies, containing an average
of 100 BILLION stars each, with most
of those stars now thought to have multiple planets orbiting around them, you can't imagine that there would be at least ONE little planet SOMEWHERE with the right conditions for life without divine intervention?
Catholicism is the belief that an infinitely old, all -
knowing, super-being, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions
of galaxies (each with billions
of stars and planets) impregnated a late Iron Age Jewish virgin with himself, to give birth to himself and then sacrifice himself to himself to «forgive» the original sin
of a couple we now all
know never existed.
It would be otiose to give examples: a distant thunder is in the past as much as a distant star; but
no matter how far in time - space a star or
galaxy is, it is always faintly immanent in my Here - Now even when its action is below the threshold
of human perception; its action can be made visible by a combination
of lenses or a prolonged photographic exposure.
No, Jesus is not at the physical center
of the
galaxy.
Yet, given what we
know about the formation
of solar systems and the biology
of life, combined with the fact that there are billions
of galaxies each containing billions
of stars, I find it perfectly plausible that alien life could exist.
Facts: This God didn't
know how the universe was actually created, it didn't recognize any physical feature
of the universe or form
of life unknown to humans at the time (no
galaxies, no microorganisms, etc.).
I have
no doubt there there is life outside
of our
galaxy and the universe (not really sure where that came from).
In this vast cosmos, such as science
knows it, we humans (even as an entire race, from beginning to end) are barely a speck in silent space, unimportant, less enduring than
galaxies and stars» less so even than many plants, insects, and viruses» here today like the grass
of the field, tomorrow gone.
The belief that an infinitely old, all -
knowing sky - god, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions
of galaxies, will cause people to survive their own physical deaths and live happily ever after in heaven, if they follow some random laws laid down in Bronze Age Palestine = Judaism.
You
know, when we're jetting at light speed to other
galaxies and planets and universes at the touch
of a button.
t its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all -
knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions
of galaxies 13,720,000,000 years ago (the age
of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.
God: You
know how all that matter, that was generated after the bang, has started to clump and form all these cool features, like stars and
galaxies, and even clusters
of galaxies?
It must have been hell to thinking human beings back then... not
knowing the basics
of how our Solar System works... heck, we just figured out not that long ago that there is more to the universe than our
galaxy.
We die
knowing that the promise
of further glory outlives us in other
galaxies.
We now
know that a good percentage
of Stars have planets, some
of which fall into the «Goldilocks» habitable zone and that it is highly likely that life exists richly throughout our
galaxy and all the others.
I hypothesize that a
galaxy - worth
of stars had to die, a
galaxy - worth
of super-novae had to explosively obliterate themselves for life, as we
know it, to exist.
There are hundreds
of billions
of stars in our
galaxy, each with planets, that large
of a number even if a tiny fraction had an atmosphere and even if a fraction
of them had water (as we
know it is required, but life may not require it on other planets) it would be amazing if there wasn't a carbon based lifeform somewhere else in our
galaxy, let alone in the universe with billions
of galaxies each with billions
of stars and trillions
of planets.
Believing that an all -
knowing being, capable
of creating the entire Universe and its billions
of galaxies popped into existence out
of nothing, based entirely on Bronze Age Palestinian mythology IS ludicrous.
The belief that an infitely old, all -
knowing sky - god, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions
of galaxies, will cause people to survive their own phsical deaths and live happily ever after in heaven, if they follow some random laws laid down in Bronze Age Palestine = Judaism.
Aren't you smart enough to
know human's can not make the solar system, billions
of galaxies filled with billions stars.
I believe that an all -
knowing being, powerful enough to create the entire cosmos and its billions
of galaxies, watches me have $ ex to make sure I don't do anything «naughty» like protect myself from disease with a condom.
Without Nothingness hemming together all
of the celestial pageantries» clusters
of galaxies in nebulas, ever forming solar systems, Life as we
know would never have been able to be and therefore become.
Q. 3 I believe that an all -
knowing being, powerful enough to create the entire cosmos and its billions
of galaxies, watches me have $ ex to make sure I don't do anything «naughty» (like protect myself from disease with a condom, for example).
«NGC 1277's black hole could be many times more massive than its largest
known compete tor, which is estimated but not confirmed to be between 6 billion and 37 billion solar masses in size.It makes up about 59 percent
of its host
galaxy's central mass — the bulge
of stars at the core.
Let us put aside this still unresolved problem
of the upper limits
of the world, and since we do not yet
know what may be beyond or around the
galaxies, let us at least consider what unites them — that is to say, try to describe the genesis
of their swarm.
Without Nothingness hemming together all
of the celestial pageantries» clusters
of galaxies in nebulas forming solar systems, Life as we
know would never have been able to be and therefore become.
Christianity is the belief that an infinitely - old, all -
knowing, immortal being, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions
of galaxies, has a personal interest in my $ ex life.
At its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all -
knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions
of galaxies 13,700,000,000 years ago (the age
of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,700,000,000 years for h.omo sapiens to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.
At its most fundamental level, Catholicism requires a belief that an all -
knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions
of galaxies 13,700,000,000 years ago (the age
of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,700,000,000 years for h.o.mo sapiens to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.
At its most fundamental level, it requires a belief that an all -
knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions
of galaxies 13,700,000,000 years ago, sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years, waited for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,700,000,000 years for h.omo sapiens to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle east.
At its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all -
knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions
of galaxies 13,720,000,000 years ago (the age
of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.
At its irreducible minimum, Catholicism requires a belief that an all -
knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions
of galaxies 13,720,000,000 years ago (the age
of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.
Judaism is the belief that an immortal, all -
knowing super-being, powerful enough to create the entirie Universe and its billions
of galaxies, has a personal interest in how much skin I have on my di.ck.
I'm sure Galileo would have been delighted to
know that the Roman Catholic Church loved his idea
of a heliocentric
galaxy.
At its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all -
knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire observable Universe and its billions
of galaxies about 13,720,000,000 years ago (the approximate age
of the current iteration
of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point in our evolution from Hom.o Erectus, gave us eternal life and a soul, and about 180,000 years later, sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in Greco - Roman Palestine.
You just have to
know that all
of the other beings in the
galaxy are laughing uncontrollable at this planet and it's inhabitants right now.
The belief that an infinitely old, all -
knowing sky - god, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions
of galaxies, chose a small nomadic group
of Jews from the 200 million people then alive to be his «favored people» provided they followed some rural laws laid down in Bronze Age Palestine equals Judaism.