Freak "cosmic telescope" reveals most distant star ever observed:
9 billion light years from Earth
http://tiny.cc/rnzcsy
The Infinite Cosmos
The Infinite Cosmos
If God can create a star that He-She-It cannot count, then God is not omnipotent. If God cannot create a star so distant that He-She-It cannot find it, then God is not omnipotent.
Freak "cosmic telescope" reveals most distant star ever observed:
9 billion light years from Earth
http://tiny.cc/rnzcsy
Freak "cosmic telescope" reveals most distant star ever observed:
9 billion light years from Earth
http://tiny.cc/rnzcsy
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
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Burning Petard
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Re: The Infinite Cosmos
And if He/She/It is omniscient, does he know if Shroedinger's cat is alive before the box is opened? Or maybe with omnipotence the cat can be simultaneously killed and resurrected.
snailgate
snailgate
The Infinite Cosmos
sg, are you messin' with my head? Ouch!Burning Petard wrote:And if He/She/It is omniscient, does he know if Schrödinger's cat is alive before the box is opened? Or maybe with omnipotence the cat can be simultaneously killed and resurrected. snailgate
Spontaneous creation, or something else? You gotta' have faith... or not.
Regardless, nine billion years. And how many more beyond that. We are so insignificant outside our own orbit.
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
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Burning Petard
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Re: The Infinite Cosmos
Yeah, but your orbit is huge compared to mine. Just yesterday morning, I could smell Kennett Square way over here in Bear.
[sorry 'bout the inside joke people. Local geography. The area now frequented by Ray is a local favorite for commercial growing of mushrooms. The mushroom houses produce their product with lots of 'used horse feed'. Sometimes weather conditions will carry that smell a long ways. This 'mushroom soil' is carefully treated to be sterile so only the desired fungus grows in it, but it still smells. At some point the stuff is no longer useful for growing mushrooms and is sold for home gardeners. "Used mushroom soil' is highly desired for gardening, particularly in raised beds.]
One of my favorite poets is William Blake, and his phrase, . . . to see the universe in a grain of sand. Or the line from Hamlet and the musical 'Hair' What a piece of work is man. . . Some things are just beautiful beyond imagination, and yet, as Hamlet pointed out man can be so petty.
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[sorry 'bout the inside joke people. Local geography. The area now frequented by Ray is a local favorite for commercial growing of mushrooms. The mushroom houses produce their product with lots of 'used horse feed'. Sometimes weather conditions will carry that smell a long ways. This 'mushroom soil' is carefully treated to be sterile so only the desired fungus grows in it, but it still smells. At some point the stuff is no longer useful for growing mushrooms and is sold for home gardeners. "Used mushroom soil' is highly desired for gardening, particularly in raised beds.]
One of my favorite poets is William Blake, and his phrase, . . . to see the universe in a grain of sand. Or the line from Hamlet and the musical 'Hair' What a piece of work is man. . . Some things are just beautiful beyond imagination, and yet, as Hamlet pointed out man can be so petty.
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