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The Most Astounding Fact About The Universe

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In a 2008 interview by TIME magazine, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson was asked what he thought the “most astounding fact” about the Universe was. Never at a loss for words, the famed scientist gave his equally astounding answer. His response is in the video above, set to images and music by Max Schlickenmeyer.

It’s the best three minutes and thirty-three seconds you’ll spend all day.

Via io9.com and It’s Okay to be Smart.


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    • Anonymous

      beautiful and awe inspiring

    • Anonymous

      As Joni Mitchell wrote, in the song “Woodstock” –
      We are stardust, we are golden, and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.

    • F16JetJock

      I’m so sorry for you, Mr. Tyson, that of all your intellect and knowledge of the universe and of the smallest particles, even smaller than the atom, that you have yet to give credence to God your Creator. In this dialog you could cot or were not able to address the apparent impossibility of spontaneous generation, that is, life spontaneously generating by itself is one chance in ten followed by over 29,000 zeros on the Earth itself. Indeed, one chance in ten followed by almost 3,000 zeros in the whole known universe. And gee, Mr. Tyson, everyone knows that any chance beyond one chance in ten followed by 50 zeros is considered impossible when infinite time is permitted.

      Yes, Mr. Tyson, we humans consist of 75 trillion living cells with each encoded with its own perfectly-designed DNA molecule, and each cell have the innate ability to communicate with all of the other trillions of cells. And the cells of the brain? What gave them the ability to learn about the infinite Intelligence that created the universe and the ability to reject or seek their Designer and Creator?

      Please, Mr. Tyson, go read Romans 10:9-14. The Truth will set you free from the shackles of academia. Also, I entreat you in your next video, explain who the invisible entities are that Zak Bagans converses with in his Ghost Adventures productions. And further explain what orbs and apparitions are.

    • Anonymous

      Beautiful images. Less than profound dialog. Science without the spiritual connection is cold and lifeless and of only prosaic value. The greatest thinkers have realized that to believe that only science or only a spiritual pursuit of “enlightenment” (for want of a better word)will only lead to half informed conclusions. The greater truths are masked by the limited scope of the observers, and those observers are left with anemic realities.

    • Electrolux

      Connectivity good. Separation bad. This resonates as profound to me.

      I don’t hear too many Christians professing a passion for the teachings of First Corinthians thirteenth chapter. If you are a Christian and you have to look this up, this says a lot about your Christian practice.

      Rather, far too many Christians express a desire for God to come down and squash non Christians like bugs and then to take the Christians up to heaven and enjoy happiness. Some modern Christians seem more like expressions of the Ego.

      I know only what I have personally experienced and that is when my mind generates resentments instead of dwelling on virtuous thoughts like compassion for people and animals, I become agitated and depressed. When I exercise my mind to generate compassion for my enemies, friends and strangers alike, I experience joy and happiness.

    • Anonymous

      The insurmountably astounding fact about the universe is that it exists, rather thna doesn’t. Its oddity, quaintness and home-made feel are remarkable indeed, but secondary. That there should be beings who can type comments about all this is on a par with the prevailing strangeness.

    • Gruff

      To the 2 saying this is pathetic or quoting christianity you really don’t get it do you? We are made from these molecules, when you start to move in to realms of quantum mechanics distance and time doesn’t matter, the universe as ouw we are infinite, for ever changing and renewing. We are only limited by what we can perceive in 3 dimensional space. We are multidimensional beings have a human experience

    • Ozzie_Thinker

      The Christians are predominantly wrong because the creator does not ‘exclusively’ care about humanity. As “purpose” has been contorted and perverted by those who have “vested interests” we have lost our way as a potentially cooperative entity.

    • HereAmI

      Yahuwah created man in His own image. That is why we are pre-eminently important. The universe was fashioned, as a deliberate and entirely purposeful act, for us to dwell in. At its centre, Yahuwah placed the stationary earth, around which it rotates. It is not expanding; it is far smaller than you have been deceived into believing, and it did not originate in an explosion, in chaos. That is a deliberate lie emanating from the prince of darkness, and his servants, the rabbis of the Kabbala, who preach the doctrines of men, and not the Word of Yahuwah. The universe reveals His power, His godhead, and His majesty. Yahuwah created us a little lower than the angels, by breathing, into our faces of clay, His own breath. This is why atoms and molecules can never arrange themselves and become living beings without His intervention. The divine plan is to raise us higher than the angels, equal to His Son, and He will do all that He has purposed. For all of you who yearn for the connectedness which is so denied to you by your own intransigence, pride, and folly, I place before you the words of Almighty God, Yahuwah Elohim.
      “For Yahuwah is not willing that any should perish, but that all might come to a knowledge of the truth, and Yahushuah ha Mashiach, whom He has sent.”
      “In Thy presence is fullness of joy”.
      We have a Creator who has spoken to us.
      We are required to answer.
      “Choose ye this day whom ye will serve”.
      Do not be as the ones in Isaiah ch 66 v 24.
      “And they shall go forth and gaze upon the corpses of the men who have transgressed against Me,
      For their worm does not die, and their fire is not quenched,
      They shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.”
      Do not imagine that these carcasses are sentient, and being subjected to eternal torments. Yeshua atoned for the sins of all men, so His father will not seek further retribution from you; His absolute righteousness has already been fully satisfied in the death of His Son.
      These are they who have been subjected to the Second Death. In the grave there is no consciousness.
      “Ask, and ye shall receive.”

    • Anonymous

      Why can’t you retards just shut the hell up and be happy ur even alive… Quit bringing your version of god into everything.
      How bout you start working on that intuition of yours so you don’t have to keep your heads in the dirt, never 100% sure about what you believe, constantly quoting scriptures and texts…
      Sigh.. just sigh.

    • Anonymous

      Stop praising God and He might take you seriously.

    • Anonymous

      I love to hear these Anti-Christs speaking about connectivity and oneness and the FIRST CHANCE THOSE LYING HYPOCRITES HAVE THEY BLAST CHRISTIANS.

      Apparently Jewdeo “Christians” are not the only HYPOCRITES in a “cult”.

    • RAINSCRYPT

      good narrative. hated the song. HereAmI also provides a good narrative. in fact, i found his to be far more engaging. both are expressing the magnificence of life and origin. however, what HereAmI presents is far more transcending when considering the words. i think it is ruthless to try to strip a man of his faith when evidence to the contrary does not exist. but thats just my opinion, as HereAmI has his.

    • HfjNUlYZ

      It will be a wonderful day when all the very well meaning but misguided religious followers realize that the God they try so hard to please, is in fact….. them! :)

      The consciousness which observes and experiences this reality, through our individual bodies, is what religions have come to call God. We are all ‘God’ experiencing itself subjectively.

      Through interacting with other ‘selves’ during our lifetime we are all meant to realize, or more accurately remember, that we are all one consciousness, that infinite love is the only truth and everything else is an illusion.

      The people in control of our governments, religions and pretty much all other institutions on this planet, are hell bent on promoting devision and keeping us from realizing this. It is their only hope to hang on to the control they have had over over us for so long.

      We are all one… don’t you remember?
      :)

    • zgravity

      Here we go again. Bring the bible into a discussion about what may or may not happen. To those who read the bible my question is this. Where was God when millions of people were murdered by sadistic governments? What! Your answer is it’s God’s will. Well will this, if God created the universe and created us in his own image then why would God want the majority to suffer under the few? Why doesn’t he bring his divine powers to bear to calm the Earth down so his children can live on a calm planet in peace with one another? Now the shock. It’s called evolution and we have yet to evolve to the next level of being and understanding. So keep reading the words of God written by man and edited by a bunch of men in robes who think they know better and what God really wants for all of us. Me I’ll live life to it’s fullest helping those who I can and to fight for this planet not just for me but for all of us. We are the power that any God would and should envy and fear as we are all free thinkers, not brain washed and brain dead robots.

    • Room With a View

      There are two kingdoms, Darkness and light.
      You know when a room is dark, and you see so much when the light has been switched on.
      Find the light switch and all will be revealed.
      Those people sitting in the darkness have seen a great light.
      we have not been abandoned, but we live in an evil world and corruption is everywhere. Yes even us. It is not just the “elite” who are corrupted, everyone is in the same boat.
      Who else has offered salvation?
      It would be good if God would punish evildoers, are you ready for your punishment. How many times were you unkind yesterday, or selfish, or hateful?
      The punishment is for the Devil and his Angels, that is why he hates us. Jesus has shown us how to escape this punishment, and provided the means to assimilate the truth into our lives, however we accept this cruel life and believe the lie that we committed the original sin.
      Sorry, we didn’t. That is why we are saved and Satan and his hordes punished. Stop feeling guilty. Accept the free gift, go on your way equipped with what God has provided for us, whilst here on the earth, better times are ahead once he (God/Jesus) has put an end to it once and for all.

    • Anonymous

      When will people stop making statements that are founded in metaphysical taste, as if they were making statements about the weather, or their car? When will they stop making statements about phenomena as if they upheld, or were illuminated by, essentially metaphysical propositions? Once this starts ,there is no end; and all to no purpose whatever.
      “”The unassailable, prime datum of human sentience is its capacity to be inextricably wrong, and beyond the awareness of this fact.

    • Son_Of_Anubis

      The Catholic Church and actually the whole of Christian doctrine is based on stories, falsehoods and outright lies. Jesus was not the Son of God but rather an enlightened prophet who spread his word through his travels and desciples. The ‘immaculate conception’ was not a virgin birth, Mary was impregnated by her husbdand Joseph. Jesus so he is the Son of Joseph if anything, he along with his brother James and the rest of his siblings were all children of Mary and Joseph. I also think that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were lovers/married and did have at least one child whose bloodlines and descendants range in their thousands nowadays. I don’t say not to have belief in something by why not believe in yourself rather than some lies and an ‘invisible God’ who cares not if you lie or die and who is a jealous God and a vengeful God…if he was a parent he would be charged with child abuse they way he ‘talks’ and ‘acts’….this in not ‘someone’ or ‘something’ that a sane, normal or rational person should be a part of …if anything I’m going to believe that some advanced space ‘alien’ seeded life on Earth and going to have faith in myself which is what everyone should have rather than relying on a God who doesn’t give a shit, if he did he wouldn’t have ‘given us’ free thought and wouldn’t allow the endless suffering that goes on in the world. This is the type of ‘thing’ you want to be associated with? Something that relishes the daily sufferings of ‘his children’? What kind of bastard would allow his children or his creations to suffer as much when he could lift up his magical finger and cure all of man’s ills. Obviously there is no rational answer because God as the anthropomorphic being we’ve assigned to this doesn’t exist. And I get tired of the old ‘cop out’ you must have faith…faith in what? Lies? Faith in some invisible entity that doesn’t manifest itself and show us the way? Don’t take the fairy tale book called the Bible at face value. The actual first 4 ‘gospels’ weren’t writtent until 350+ years after the events happened, basically hearing the stories through the ‘grapevine’ from people who weren’t even there but who heard the stories from those before them and those before them and so on for 350 years….try keeping a story straight after 350 years, try it with a story for a week with many people telling t and see how much it changes and then you get the idea how much it would change over thousands of people telling it over 350 years, the stories would have no relation to the events that happened.

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