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[Horsa]

I visited the planetarium at the festival of the moon last week. The view was phenomenal & breathtakingly beautiful.

Wow! That's mind-blowing. Thank you very much for sharing. I wonder if any of the more scientifically-minded people on here will have any fascinating information to add.

 

[don_fabio]

Earth is just a pale blue dot as one scientist said. I'm a big fan of Cosmos TV series. I find it fascinating the astro-physics and how people actually found a way throughout the history to look up there and measure everything by just watching at the stars. Amazing.

For anyone who didn't watch Cosmos, it's highly recommended plus Neil deGrasse Tyson as a presenter is really joy to watch and listen. I wish scientists had a strong part in leading us on earth, not politicians. Science is not corrupt and will never be.

 

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Earth is just a pale blue dot as one scientist said. I'm a big fan of Cosmos TV series. I find it fascinating the astro-physics and how people actually found a way throughout the history to look up there and measure everything by just watching at the stars. Amazing.

For anyone who didn't watch Cosmos, it's highly recommended plus Neil deGrasse Tyson as a presenter is really joy to watch and listen. I wish scientists had a strong part in leading us on earth, not politicians. Science is not corrupt and will never be.

The original version of Cosmos, with Carl Sagan, is also a must-see. Don’t let the fact that it was filmed in 1980 be a deterrent. There’s a lot there worth seeing, because so much of it is science which hasn’t changed, mixed with a philosophical approach to thinking about the universe.

 

[Horsa]

Earth is just a pale blue dot as one scientist said. I'm a big fan of Cosmos TV series. I find it fascinating the astro-physics and how people actually found a way throughout the history to look up there and measure everything by just watching at the stars. Amazing.

For anyone who didn't watch Cosmos, it's highly recommended plus Neil deGrasse Tyson as a presenter is really joy to watch and listen. I wish scientists had a strong part in leading us on earth, not politicians. Science is not corrupt and will never be.

Definitely with green bits (land) & 1 white bit at the top & 1 at the bottom (the polar regions). It's also an oblate spheroid orbiting the huge orange/yellow firey blob we call the sun. We don't get that T.V. series here in the U.K. (at least not on freeview anyway.) I find that fascinating too but I find all soc. economic & medical history fascinating & I'm lucky enough to work in heritage preservation so sometimes I teach people bits of it *as well as how to do old arts & crafts* or write about it when cataloguing archives so researchers & other people who may want to see these archives or find out this information can. (I'm going to have a break from archiving next week though as I'm helping to organise a 1940's day. I've been put in charge of the sing-song so I'm teaching, singing & getting people to join in with 1940's songs.) I find it fascinating to know how people lived before they had everything we have today & how they thought & what they believed before they knew what we know today. It is amazing indeed. It's also sad that some old scientists were punished for saying things which went against the grain of popular beliefs at the time but have since been proved to be right.

 

[don_fabio]

The original version of Cosmos, with Carl Sagan, is also a must-see. Don’t let the fact that it was filmed in 1980 be a deterrent. There’s a lot there worth seeing, because so much of it is science which hasn’t changed, mixed with a philosophical approach to thinking about the universe.

I was thinking if the original version of Cosmos is worth to watch being well almost 30 years old, but you are right about the science part. It hasn't changed. I will download it then when I get a chance.

 

[don_fabio]

I find it fascinating to know how people lived before they had everything we have today & how they thought & what they believed before they knew what we know today. It is amazing indeed. It's also sad that some old scientists were punished for saying things which went against the grain of popular beliefs at the time but have since been proved to be right.

It is fascinating how people lived before and some parts of their lives were better than we have nowadays. They had real natural food, not contaminated or hormone filled or vegetables sprayed with many chemicals. They didn't have to worry about this, but we have to worry about it today, because we are so used to having available all food every day of the year.

I feel sorry for all punished scientists for living hard lives, laughed at or locked up in a dungeon. All the best scientists in the world were always ahead of the rest and their inventions and theories were often too much to chew for the ordinary people.

 

[Horsa]

It is fascinating how people lived before and some parts of their lives were better than we have nowadays. They had real natural food, not contaminated or hormone filled or vegetables sprayed with many chemicals. They didn't have to worry about this, but we have to worry about it today, because we are so sed to having available all food every day of the year.

I feel sorry for all punished scientists for living hard lives, laughed at or locked up in a dungeon. All the best scientists in the world were always ahead of the rest and their inventions and theories were often too much to chew for the ordinary people.

Definitely. Machines didn't do everything for people. They did things by hand. Life was physically hard but in some ways it was more care-free than life today.

Me too. Galileo Galilei would be a good example & all he did was state that from his observations we lived in a helio-centric rather than earth-centred universe. I agree. A good example would be Jenner's small-pox vaccine & the reaction he got to that.

 

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[Murat Baslamisli]

CN Tower is missing from this list . Built in 1976, it was the tallest building until the Petronas Towers took over.

 

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CN Tower is missing from this list . Built in 1976, it was the tallest building until the Petronas Towers took over.

These lists differentiate “buildings” and “towers”. On the Wikipedia list of tallest towers, the CN Tower is listed, but on the list of tallest buildings it’s not.

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

These lists differentiate “buildings” and “towers”. On the Wikipedia list of tallest towers, the CN Tower is listed, but on the list of tallest buildings it’s not.

I was thinking about that but at the end the Jeddah Tower was included, so...

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

After Bianca, tennis is really catching on in Canada...

 

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After Bianca, tennis is really catching on in Canada...View attachment 2744

The dawn of a new Winter Olympic Sport.

 

[Horsa]

After Bianca, tennis is really catching on in Canada...View attachment 2744

That's good. It's a different variation of tennis too, ice-tennis. Hey! I wonder! Is there any possibility of anyone inventing equestrian tennis? Lol.

 

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That's good. It's a different variation of tennis too, ice-tennis. Hey! I wonder! Is there any possibility of anyone inventing equestrian tennis? Lol.

 

[Horsa]

The dawn of a new Winter Olympic Sport.

I think they'd need to rethink the costumes though. They'd need woolly jumpers like cricketers wear (to keep them warm) as well as ice-skates. Maybe wearing gloves would be a good idea too so they don't get frost-bite in their fingers.

 

[Horsa]

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I hope the horses used weren't show-jumping horses or they'd want to jump the net & the horse would be the cheater. Lol.

 

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[Horsa]

Aww! How cute! They're my Sister's favourite animal. Thank you very much for sharing.