Thus perhaps for only a century out of billions of
years do planets such as the earth appear remarkably bright at radio wavelengths.
Not exact matches
What to
do: If your mission this
year is to improve earnings by 5 % by either gouging your customers or gouging the
planet, that's just not going to get it
done with the Millennials.
But within a few months, I had a great job,
doing pretty amazing stuff and that all led to me writing books, traveling the
planet and have a great life - for the past 20
years.
Although privately held SpaceX didn't reveal any concrete plans, the money could help founder Elon Musk realize his hopes to fly people to Mars within the next 12
years and eventually build a city on the
planet.
And considering every company on the
planet is alive thanks to the selling of products and services, predicting how sales will be changing in coming
years seems like a prudent thing to
do.
Somewhat less grandiosely, Vernal cites Zuckerberg's audacious 10 -
year - and - beyond quest to connect the half of the
planet that doesn't yet use the Internet.
NASA's Juno spacecraft capped a five -
year journey to Jupiter late Monday with a
do - or - die engine burn to sling itself into orbit, setting the stage for a 20 - month dance around the biggest
planet in the solar system to learn how and where it formed.
When two astronomers bump into each other in the hallway, one doesn't say to the other: «We've discovered seven Earth - sized
planets in the Goldilocks Zone just 40 light
years away.»
If your attitude is that no one with $ 500k per
year should discuss their expenses as it insults the median worker earning $ 50k per
year, what
do you say to the 1 out of 3 citizens of our
planet living on less than $ 2 per day?
Why
did I seem to be so active in the Middle East for a brief period about 2,000
years ago, but totally absent everywhere else on the
planet and for the rest of recorded history?
I am a nuclear physicist and
do not believe in God, which was a slow process in my life to conclude that a few billion
years of trial and error along with some incredible sets of «rules» make what happened on Earth inevitable, and is happening on any
planet with the near same conditions that are found here.
If a Republican candidate would say, — yes even if a messiah is coming, people had been saying that for 2000
years, therefore, we are all obliged to preserve the
planet for future generations and human activities
do excessively cause global warming.
I don't focus on my regrets or failures but on what I've
done right, and that includes the family of friends I've made during my 50
years on this
planet, not how well I worship God.
The reason why it took me 45
years to come of the closet so to speak is, I was always surrounded by religion (school, tv), however I used to think there was something wrong with me because I didn't believe and 90 % of the
planet did.
Evolution has operated quietly on this
planet for hundreds of millions of
years, and will continue to
do so long after there are no people left to not believe in it.
Obviously, we didn't just magically appear on the
planet 5000
years ago!
Nothing we
do is crazier than talking donkeys, boats full of animals surviving floods covering the entire
planet, people living for 900 +
years, etc etc etc that you believe and read in your bible (assuming your not agnostic).
Even if we accept the highly questionable proposition that the Big Bang had to have some intelligent designer behind it, how
do we get from there to the Bible, a book written by ignorant men on one
planet 13,400,000,000
years after the event?
Then light was liberated, and then gravity created the first stars and galaxies, then billions of
years later, a local star went supernova and seeded the local nebula with heavier elements, elements necessary for life, elements that were not created during the Big Bang, then the sun was born, then the
planets coalesced, and billions of
years later some primate wrote a story about how the Earth was created at the same time as the rest of the universe, getting it wrong because that primate
did not have the science nor technology to really understand what happened, so he gave it his best guess, most likely an iteration of an older story told prior to the advent of the Judeo Christian religion.
Evolution has been quietly operating on this
planet for billions of
years, and will
do so long after there are any people left to not believe in it.
The sun is not perfectly positioned upon the earth by accident it was placed there for a reason and purpose to support life which is God attended... We are not on this
planet on accident we
did not evolve from a single cell that theory has been debunked for many
years...
We
do not know why there should be millions of
years of life upon this
planet before ever Homo sapiens appeared.
Simply because I exist on a
Planet about a billion light
years from any other currently living form of life, not chemicals, elements or gases, and how I don't see this as some random thing — there is something greater than you and I and the evidence is all around you.
Do you realize how many people will be on the
planet in just 20
years?
They don't understand that many religious people, including the Pope, have no problem whatsoever with a 14 billion
year old universe full of life evolved on a million
planets.
I believe that if we, as followers of Jesus, are truly going to be living radical, missional lives of purpose, protecting the
planet, healing the abused, giving water to the thirsty, feeding the starving, inventing new and better ways of
doing things, and leading the way for global change, then every
year we should see more and more Christians on this list.
Apparently, being powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, and being at least 13,700,000,000
years (age of Universe)
does not stop him having purely human emotions over the behaviour of an individual human on one of «his»
planets.
And in addition, you can't tell me definitively that the yellow, black, and white striped 1000
year old, and 100 foot tall polka dotted vampire lady in black stockings isn't alive and doesn't exist, speaking perfect English even though she has never visited our
planet, on the dark side of the moon, and has never been seen by the golden crown of creation, god's highest achievement, man, who dwelleths at the very epi - center of the universe, surrounded on all four sides by the heavenly spheres and angels, and overseen by god in heaven bless her extensive gold threaded wardrobe.
Why was it that man
did not bother with your God for the other 1,000,000
years we have been on the
planet.
In answer tothey not him.There is no place in the book, the Bible, that says the
planet is only 6000
years old, it is the word of God, just because the Bible has been misinterpreted by men and women over the
years does not make it (the Bible) a work of fiction.The Bible has been proven to be more accurate and unchanged than any other text of antiquity.Case in point Kedorlaomer.
«god» was so responsible in making that «provision» for being «saved» that «he» waited tens of thousands of
years after modern man arrived on this
planet (dooming countless generations to «hell» because they didn't have a chance), and then on top of that «he» implemented «his» «provision» in the middle of a freakin» desert in a time when there was no Internet and at a time when those ignorant goatherding people thought the world was flat (thereby dooming countless more generations of people to «hell» because there was no way, for example, to even get the message to what would become the Americas 15 centuries later).
In the closing
years of the 20th century we are being called to
do something unprecedented: to think wholistically, to think about «everything that is,» because everything on this
planet is interrelated and interdependent and hence the fate of each is tied to the fate of the whole.
20
years behind us southern states and NEW YORK, sad and scary... nobody denies freedoms like the south, nobody... the top ten incarcerators on the
planet are southern states and more blacks are in prison then were slaves before the civil war... even if marijuana reforms
did pass the republiCANTS in charge would deny you all your freedoms, centuries of practice... no matter though, we never planned on getting your backwards brethren from day one, half the country already but not one southern state, lol... not 1....
I simply mean that following the teachings of all the religious leaders
do not end up being the same thing
do not lead to the same implications for life on the
planet in the
years to come.
All we need to
do is notice that since the «Big Bang» occurred fifteen or twenty billion
years ago some momentous things have happened, in particular the emergence of life and mind on our
planet (and perhaps elsewhere).
And when you
do «think»
do you ever wonder why, of all the millions of people and thousands of cultures on the
planet 2,000
years ago, all throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, North and South America, and the rest of the Middle East you Jews were the «chosen people»?
You honestly believe that an all powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies (each with billions of stars) about 13,720,000,000
years ago, then sat back and
did nothing for virtually all this time, until h.omo Sapiens evolved on one
planet, then sent his «son» to visit some Jews in the late Iron Age Middle East and tell them parables about wheat, goats and sheep.
In spite of what we read in the headlines, the ratio of bad to good deeds
done on any given day across our
planet holds at close to zero any day of the
year.
Is it to live a few miniscule
years on this tiny
planet among the immense universe to then go join God and
do nothing the rest of eternity?
If other
planets have different
year lengths and day lengths,
does that mean «God» created the universe according to THEIR calendars?
«The next fifty
years will be crucial to our
planet's future,» says Bill McKibben, because they «could so devastate the earth's biology [sic] that it will never again be able to support life as abundantly as it
does at present.»
If any one of you truly believe what written in the Bible, then you should have no problem believing that all the various Gods in reality were Aliens landed on
planet earth and who
did take the locals for a fantasy ride that has yet to finish... think how much fun they must have been having all these
years..
While there is no existential god that dispenses grace or justice I believe that the gods of the bible, the «Elohim», were scientists from another world who had reached the technical abilities to travel through space to other
planets and clone humans and they
did just that on our
planet thousands of
years ago.
As a matter of fact, the judgement day is happening right now, as the 50
years that it takes for us to ruin this
planet is just a blink of the eye to anyone who doesn't live the paltry 100
years that humans
do.
When this
planet does end (the sun should implode 5 - 7 billion
years from now, taking our entire solar system with it..
For thousands of
years there was no evidence that
planets outside the solar system existed, but that
did not mean they
did not.
As I gear up to begin seeding for this
year's garden, I'm reminded of the simple — but incredible — power of the home garden, and that for a 3 or 4 month stretch in summer - fall, I buy very little at the grocery store, my food coming from my own little rectangle on this
planet, or, for what I can't / don't grow, from the local farmers» markets.
In all the
years that you've been
doing this wonderful blog (and all the
years I've been reading it), there is only ONE recipe that includes beets - the BEST root veggie on the entire
planet!
That's why we've been
doing our best to lead by example for the past six
years, educating people about the consequences our dietary choices are having on people and
planet, and encouraging everyone to eat green.
At Bluejacket, the brewery Engert helped open last
year, the flagship brew Forbidden
Planet does just that.