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More awesome images from NASA programs. Though some of these are false-color images, and some are infrared, even if they don't reflect the color we'd see while traveling in space, the structures themselves are amazing. And it's incredible to think that some of these things are literally millions of years old!
Same problem as 'Space I''; tough to compare to terrestrial views if you aren't sure what you are seeing.
By oldnuc68 1195687120 Reply Spam [+3] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveYeah, that's one problem with this format. If you cruise over to nasa.gov or hubblesite.org, you'll see these images and explanations. But, they still defy the senses even after you know what they are.
By Goclimb 1195710657 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveLove the vid, we have used a few of these pics in some of our deep space vids as well. Don't worry about the producers reward thing, its a good video, we had 30 seconds of slideshow in a music video and they told us the same thing. To thhe few comments I saw about us being alone?? check out Drakes equation, and keep in mind it was written 30 years ago, well before we knew more of what was out there. We're the only planet out of trillions of stars in each galaxy with over 200 billion galzies out there?? hard for me to believe.
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FROM: Vince Stricherz
206-543-2580
vinces@u.washington.edu
DATE: Jan. 13, 2003
'The end of the world' has already begun, UW scientists say
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An illustration from "The Life and Death of Planet Earth" shows the authors' view of the Earth's clock of life. (Image credit: Donald Brownlee/Peter Ward)
In its 4.5 billion years, Earth has evolved from its hot, violent birth to the celebrated watery blue planet that stands out in pictures from space. But in a new book, two noted University of Washington astrobiologists say the planet already has begun the long process of devolving into a burned-out cinder, eventually to be swallowed by the sun.
By their reckoning, Earth's "day in the sun" has reached 4:30 a.m., corresponding to its 4.5 billion-year age. By 5 a.m., the 1 billion-year reign of animals and plants will come to an end. At 8 a.m. the oceans will vaporize. At noon – after 12 billion years – the ever-expanding sun, transformed into a red giant, will engulf the planet, melting away any evidence it ever existed and sending molecules and atoms that once were Earth floating off into space.
"The disappearance of our planet is still 7.5 billion years away, but people really should consider the fate of our world and have a realistic understanding of where we are going," said UW astrophysicist Donald Brownlee. "We live in a fabulous place at a fabulous time. It's a healthy thing for people to realize what a treasure this is in space and time, and fully appreciate and protect their environment as much as possible."
In "The Life and Death of Planet Earth," Brownlee and UW paleontologist Peter Ward use current scientific understanding of planets and stars, as well as the parameters of life, to provide a glimpse of the second half of life on Earth and what comes after.
The book, a sort of biography of our planet, is being published today by Times Books, a division of Henry Holt and Co. It is a sequel to Ward and Brownlee's best-selling and much-discussed book "Rare Earth," in which they put forth the hypothesis that simple life is relatively common in the universe but complex, Earth-like life is exceedingly rare.
"The Life and Death of Planet Earth" explains how the myriad life on Earth today was preceded by a long period of microbial dominance, and the authors contend that complex life eventually will disappear and be succeeded again by a period of only microbial life. They say that higher life will be removed much as it came into being, ecosystem by ecosystem. Aspects of the planet's past, such as numbingly cold ice ages, will be relived in the period of devolution.
"If we do begin to slide into the next glacial cycle, there probably are grand, planetary-scale engineering projects that might stop or lessen the effects," Ward said.
"The big unknowns are whether we can afford to do such projects and would we really know what to do. If the planet was cooling, we could, in principle, begin painting the surface black to collect more heat. Could we afford it? And what would be the many possible ramifications of a planet suddenly covered in black paint? Any planetary remediation project would always run the risk of making things worse."
Eventually, though, scorching heat will drive land creatures to the sea for respite. Those that can adapt will survive for a time, but eventually the oceans will warm too much for the complex life forms to continue.
"The last life may look much like the first life – a single-celled bacterium, survivor and descendant of all that came before," the authors write. Finally, even the surviving microbes "will be seared out of existence."
The prospects of humans surviving by moving to some other habitable planet or moon aren't good, Brownlee and Ward contend, because even if such a place were found, getting there would be a huge obstacle. Various probes sent into space could survive Earth's demise, and just a few grams of material could arguably carry a DNA sample from every human, they say, but it's not likely the human species itself will survive. Long before the planet's final end, life will become quite challenging, and finally impossible, for humans.
As the sun gets hotter and grows in size, it will envelop Mercury and Venus. It is possible it will stop just short of Earth, the authors say, but the conditions still would make this a most-inhospitable planet. More likely, though, the sun will consume Earth as well, severing all the chemical bonds between molecules and sending its individual atoms out into space, perhaps eventually to form new planets. That would leave Mars as the nearest planet to the sun, and on Mars the fading sun's glow would be like that of Earth's moon.
That end is still some 7.5 billion years distant, but by then Earth will have faced a variety of "ends" along the way, the authors say. The last dinosaur perished long ago. Still to come are the last elephant, the last tree, the last flower, the last glacier, the last snowflake, the last ocean, the last life.
"The Life and Death of Planet Earth" is like its predecessor, "Rare Earth," in that the authors collected and distilled some of the latest scientific ideas about the Earth's place in the universe, Brownlee said. He hopes the new book, like "Rare Earth," will spark widespread discussion, and give people a fundamental and realistic view of the past and future of their planet.
"It's a healthy thing to think of the place of Earth among the other planets, and its place in the sun. The sun gave life and ultimately it will bring death."
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For more information, contact Brownlee at (206) 543-8575 or brownlee@bluemoon.astro.washington.edu or Ward at (206) 543-2962 or argo@u.washington.edu
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UW Home > UWIN > News and Events
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FROM: Vince Stricherz
206-543-2580
vinces@u.washington.edu
DATE: Jan. 13, 2003
'The end of the world' has already begun, UW scientists say
Click on image for high-resolution version
An illustration from "The Life and Death of Planet Earth" shows the authors' view of the Earth's clock of life. (Image credit: Donald Brownlee/Peter Ward)
In its 4.5 billion years, Earth has evolved from its hot, violent birth to the celebrated watery blue planet that stands out in pictures from space. But in a new book, two noted University of Washington astrobiologists say the planet already has begun the long process of devolving into a burned-out cinder, eventually to be swallowed by the sun.
By their reckoning, Earth's "day in the sun" has reached 4:30 a.m., corresponding to its 4.5 billion-year age. By 5 a.m., the 1 billion-year reign of animals and plants will come to an end. At 8 a.m. the oceans will vaporize. At noon – after 12 billion years – the ever-expanding sun, transformed into a red giant, will engulf the planet, melting away any evidence it ever existed and sending molecules and atoms that once were Earth floating off into space.
"The disappearance of our planet is still 7.5 billion years away, but people really should consider the fate of our world and have a realistic understanding of where we are going," said UW astrophysicist Donald Brownlee. "We live in a fabulous place at a fabulous time. It's a healthy thing for people to realize what a treasure this is in space and time, and fully appreciate and protect their environment as much as possible."
In "The Life and Death of Planet Earth," Brownlee and UW paleontologist Peter Ward use current scientific understanding of planets and stars, as well as the parameters of life, to provide a glimpse of the second half of life on Earth and what comes after.
The book, a sort of biography of our planet, is being published today by Times Books, a division of Henry Holt and Co. It is a sequel to Ward and Brownlee's best-selling and much-discussed book "Rare Earth," in which they put forth the hypothesis that simple life is relatively common in the universe but complex, Earth-like life is exceedingly rare.
"The Life and Death of Planet Earth" explains how the myriad life on Earth today was preceded by a long period of microbial dominance, and the authors contend that complex life eventually will disappear and be succeeded again by a period of only microbial life. They say that higher life will be removed much as it came into being, ecosystem by ecosystem. Aspects of the planet's past, such as numbingly cold ice ages, will be relived in the period of devolution.
"If we do begin to slide into the next glacial cycle, there probably are grand, planetary-scale engineering projects that might stop or lessen the effects," Ward said.
"The big unknowns are whether we can afford to do such projects and would we really know what to do. If the planet was cooling, we could, in principle, begin painting the surface black to collect more heat. Could we afford it? And what would be the many possible ramifications of a planet suddenly covered in black paint? Any planetary remediation project would always run the risk of making things worse."
Eventually, though, scorching heat will drive land creatures to the sea for respite. Those that can adapt will survive for a time, but eventually the oceans will warm too much for the complex life forms to continue.
"The last life may look much like the first life – a single-celled bacterium, survivor and descendant of all that came before," the authors write. Finally, even the surviving microbes "will be seared out of existence."
The prospects of humans surviving by moving to some other habitable planet or moon aren't good, Brownlee and Ward contend, because even if such a place were found, getting there would be a huge obstacle. Various probes sent into space could survive Earth's demise, and just a few grams of material could arguably carry a DNA sample from every human, they say, but it's not likely the human species itself will survive. Long before the planet's final end, life will become quite challenging, and finally impossible, for humans.
As the sun gets hotter and grows in size, it will envelop Mercury and Venus. It is possible it will stop just short of Earth, the authors say, but the conditions still would make this a most-inhospitable planet. More likely, though, the sun will consume Earth as well, severing all the chemical bonds between molecules and sending its individual atoms out into space, perhaps eventually to form new planets. That would leave Mars as the nearest planet to the sun, and on Mars the fading sun's glow would be like that of Earth's moon.
That end is still some 7.5 billion years distant, but by then Earth will have faced a variety of "ends" along the way, the authors say. The last dinosaur perished long ago. Still to come are the last elephant, the last tree, the last flower, the last glacier, the last snowflake, the last ocean, the last life.
"The Life and Death of Planet Earth" is like its predecessor, "Rare Earth," in that the authors collected and distilled some of the latest scientific ideas about the Earth's place in the universe, Brownlee said. He hopes the new book, like "Rare Earth," will spark widespread discussion, and give people a fundamental and realistic view of the past and future of their planet.
"It's a healthy thing to think of the place of Earth among the other planets, and its place in the sun. The sun gave life and ultimately it will bring death."
###
For more information, contact Brownlee at (206) 543-8575 or brownlee@bluemoon.astro.washington.edu or Ward at (206) 543-2962 or argo@u.washington.edu
In its 4.5 billion years, Earth has evolved from its hot, violent birth to the celebrated watery blue planet that stands out in pictures from space. But in a new book, two noted University of Washington astrobiologists say the planet already has begun the long process of devolving into a burned-out cinder, eventually to be swallowed by the sun.
By their reckoning, Earth's "day in the sun" has reached 4:30 a.m., corresponding to its 4.5 billion-year age. By 5 a.m., the 1 billion-year reign of animals and plants will come to an end. At 8 a.m. the oceans will vaporize. At noon – after 12 billion years – the ever-expanding sun, transformed into a red giant, will engulf the planet, melting away any evidence it ever existed and sending molecules and atoms that once were Earth floating off into space.
"The disappearance of our planet is still 7.5 billion years away, but people really should consider the fate of our world and have a realistic understanding of where we are going," said UW astrophysicist Donald Brownlee. "We live in a fabulous place at a fabulous time. It's a healthy thing for people to realize what a treasure this is in space and time, and fully appreciate and protect their environment as much as possible."
In "The Life and Death of Planet Earth," Brownlee and UW paleontologist Peter Ward use current scientific understanding of planets and stars, as well as the parameters of life, to provide a glimpse of the second half of life on Earth and what comes after.
The book, a sort of biography of our planet, is being published today by Times Books, a division of Henry Holt and Co. It is a sequel to Ward and Brownlee's best-selling and much-discussed book "Rare Earth," in which they put forth the hypothesis that simple life is relatively common in the universe but complex, Earth-like life is exceedingly rare.
"The Life and Death of Planet Earth" explains how the myriad life on Earth today was preceded by a long period of microbial dominance, and the authors contend that complex life eventually will disappear and be succeeded again by a period of only microbial life. They say that higher life will be removed much as it came into being, ecosystem by ecosystem. Aspects of the planet's past, such as numbingly cold ice ages, will be relived in the period of devolution.
"If we do begin to slide into the next glacial cycle, there probably are grand, planetary-scale engineering projects that might stop or lessen the effects," Ward said.
"The big unknowns are whether we can afford to do such projects and would we really know what to do. If the planet was cooling, we could, in principle, begin painting the surface black to collect more heat. Could we afford it? And what would be the many possible ramifications of a planet suddenly covered in black paint? Any planetary remediation project would always run the risk of making things worse."
Eventually, though, scorching heat will drive land creatures to the sea for respite. Those that can adapt will survive for a time, but eventually the oceans will warm too much for the complex life forms to continue.
"The last life may look much like the first life – a single-celled bacterium, survivor and descendant of all that came before," the authors write. Finally, even the surviving microbes "will be seared out of existence."
The prospects of humans surviving by moving to some other habitable planet or moon aren't good, Brownlee and Ward contend, because even if such a place were found, getting there would be a huge obstacle. Various probes sent into space could survive Earth's demise, and just a few grams of material could arguably carry a DNA sample from every human, they say, but it's not likely the human species itself will survive. Long before the planet's final end, life will become quite challenging, and finally impossible, for humans.
As the sun gets hotter and grows in size, it will envelop Mercury and Venus. It is possible it will stop just short of Earth, the authors say, but the conditions still would make this a most-inhospitable planet. More likely, though, the sun will consume Earth as well, severing all the chemical bonds between molecules and sending its individual atoms out into space, perhaps eventually to form new planets. That would leave Mars as the nearest planet to the sun, and on Mars the fading sun's glow would be like that of Earth's moon.
That end is still some 7.5 billion years distant, but by then Earth will have faced a variety of "ends" along the way, the authors say. The last dinosaur perished long ago. Still to come are the last elephant, the last tree, the last flower, the last glacier, the last snowflake, the last ocean, the last life.
"The Life and Death of Planet Earth" is like its predecessor, "Rare Earth," in that the authors collected and distilled some of the latest scientific ideas about the Earth's place in the universe, Brownlee said. He hopes the new book, like "Rare Earth," will spark widespread discussion, and give people a fundamental and realistic view of the past and future of their planet.
"It's a healthy thing to think of the place of Earth among the other planets, and its place in the sun. The sun gave life and ultimately it will bring death."
There was an Indian woman who made a statement to the effect that, "there are many paths to the top of the mountain. It doesn't matter which path you take, as long as you aspire to reach the top of the mountain. There have been, and cony
By gsirving 1205670259 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removewhen I hear people say "this little ball of dirt"we live on is all there is.The universe, which an end to has never been found.
By buddyo 1196114860 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeyeah that is true, producer rewads can't be still images put together they have to be videos.
By spyder2021 1195727215 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removegod made colors, if not for god we would not have the things we have today to see the beauity
By mdwright48 1195844734 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removenice clips of images. But watch yourself, seeing you don't own the copywrites to the images you can't sign up for "Producers Rewards" you have to have original meterial and original background music. Anything used that is not yours will result in it being removed. Like the last one you posted was removed from "Producer Rewards". So please keep it in mind seeing I like your short clips and are nice to look at, would like to see more. Just watch yourself so you dont get your account banned.
By spyder2021 1195702385 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveEverything in this video is public domain, meaning that all the items can be used for any purpose, so long as a reference to the originator is made. What fails to qualify me for the Producers Rewards is the slideshow nature of this video...or at least I believe that to be the case.
I'll keep the clips coming!
To think he created every single atom, element, galaxy, star, planet, and organism. Theres no doubt his power is infinite. Life is a beautiful thing, apreciate, it dont throw it away, its your chance to make a difference. Its sad how we destroy gods creation and not even thank him for creating it, but its very sad how we dont even thank him for creating us. Jesus will return very soon. Thank you for viewing. God bless you all.
By R1GO 1195688122 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removewhich god?
People believe in so many and have believed in so many.
Zeus, Ra, Odin, Allah
Pick one :) (not that they're so different)
you need to wake up, soon you will wish you did, who else but god could create such beauty, not man, man can paint but not build things in space look at our planet, and the beauty, but man is destroying it, do you think he is going to let us keep going up in space like we have been and putting things that do not belong n space, there is a reason for every star and every planet, just the moon alone has power over the oceans, think about it
By mdwright48 1195844151 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removefunny
if were all gods children whats so special about jesus
what is so special about jesus you ask, he died on the cross so you could be saved, but you have to live the life he did not die to ask then=m kind of questions, and he was gods only son,,better be carefull on that, i would not want to be in your shoes i will say that you need prayer lots of it to,
By mdwright48 1195844576 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeso what is special obout god that you belive in, if He let down his son died on the cross just to saved human that make a destruction and wars.
By opiks 1196085689 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveI think he was the first in his time with his type of haircut that could walk on water...
lol, no I don't know. I like your question :)
i think i wuld not be asking such a stupid quistion like that soon enough you will find out why are you here, for a reason, and if you say them kind of things you won't be here long to find out, i do not think i would go there buddy
By mdwright48 1195844339 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeyou are stupid if you are believe the lie thing in your religion, such as jesus is a god son, you'r celebrate chrismast even jesus is not born in that day. you force children to believe in santa claus even he doesnt exist.
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are
itchy
To bad there is no one in space to appreciate it; we are the only ones who can BECAUSE WE ARE ALONE.
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