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The Day I Touched The Universe – Video

Religion promotes fear in you, fear of death, fear of going to hell, fear of burning for eternity. People who understand science do not fear from it or from the vast universe. Instead they are amazed by it, they are curious about it. Astronomy is humbling and character building experience. If you appreciate universe, you wont have fear of death.

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Carl Sagan – Pale Blue Dot – What we really are

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

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Let’s say, you are the first human to make alien contact

Lets say you are the first human to make alien contact. It will be the most important moment in the history of entire human existence. The time will be denoted as pre-contact and post-contact era instead of BC and AD. You will be more important than Jesus. Here are few instruction on how not to screw that chance.

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There is no GOD but there is this un-named force

I am an atheist. I don’t believe in God. But I do feel some really great moments that I can’t describe. Its beyond my understanding.

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The most important image ever taken

The point here is, the universe is just so big that our brain is not made to hear and process large numbers like this. We orbit around sun, one of the 500,000 Million stars from our galaxy. This image from Hubble telescopes shows that there are billion-times-trillion such galaxies in the universe. The number is so big that the probability of not having life in some other planet is almost zero. Watch this remarkable video to be amazed.

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