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Mind Blowing Flight Through The Universe

Take a flight through a sliver of the known Universe in the most intricate 3D animation of space and time mankind has ever seen. Video credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory www.youtube.com Music by Kevin MacLeod, “Comfortable Mystery” incompetech.com Join the conversation on Facebook www.facebook.com Add TDC to your circles on Google+ plus.google.com Follow The Daily [...]

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An Intergalactic Collision

This simulation shows two galaxies in a billion year tango of epic proportions. From NASA: This simulation, which represents a few billion years of evolution, shows two disk galaxies interacting in a graceful gravitational dance. The color represents the temperature of the gas in the galaxies. The simulation shows how gravity can rearrange the gas [...]

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Charles Yu: New Technology Creates Science Fiction World

Charles Yu, author, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Eli Horowitz, former Managing Editor and publisher of McSweeneys, discuss how the speed of advancing technology makes us feel that we are living in a science fiction universe. Complete video available for free at fora.tv

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Hadron Collider: Solving the Great Questions of Physics

Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, acknowledges that there are still a great many cosmic unknowns to discover, even after the purported finding of the Higgs Boson “God Particle” at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Complete video available for free at fora.tv

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Cosmic Curiosity: Is Mars still on our minds?

NASA’s ‘Curiosity’ rover has begun work on planet Mars, preparing to zap a small rock with a laser to examine its chemical composition. The car-sized vehicle has ten different tools to study the Red Planet, one of which was developed in Russia. RT’s Lori Harfenist went to find out whether average New Yorkers are excited [...]

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Earth From Space Flyover Compilation

The International Space Station (ISS) captured these incredible videos of the Earth from low orbit. Join the conversation on Facebook www.facebook.com Add TDC to your circles on Google+ plus.google.com Follow The Daily Conversation on Twitter www.twitter.com Check out more ISS videos from NASA, here: eol.jsc.nasa.gov Keywords: TDC TheDailyConversation The Daily Conversation

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Flying Through Space

Take a flight through a sliver of the known Universe in the most intricate 3D animation of space and time mankind has ever seen. Video credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory www.youtube.com Music by Kevin MacLeod, “Comfortable Mystery” incompetech.com Join the conversation on Facebook www.facebook.com Add TDC to your circles on Google+ plus.google.com Follow The Daily [...]

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Earth Flyover Compilation

The International Space Station (ISS) captured these incredible videos of the Earth from low orbit. Join the conversation on Facebook www.facebook.com Add TDC to your circles on Google+ plus.google.com Follow The Daily Conversation on Twitter www.twitter.com Check out more ISS videos from NASA, here: eol.jsc.nasa.gov Keywords: TDC TheDailyConversation The Daily Conversation

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‘Scientists understand only 4% of universe’

Despite all the scientific breakthroughs and Nobel Prizes for discoveries, scientists seem to be no nearer to a possible answer to their main question – why did the universe appear? RT sat down to talk to Aleksey Filippenko, an American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, CA. He was the [...]

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Dark Energy: The Greatest Unknown Force of the Universe

Robbert Dijkgraaf, Dutch mathematical physicist and string theorist, discusses the greatest “known unknown” of the universe, dark energy. Dark matter and energy comprise approximately 96% of the universe, but know physicists know little about the physical phenomena. Complete video available for free at fora.tv

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The Amazing Annular Solar Eclipse

The annular solar eclipse on May 20th, 2012 was an impressive display of our place in the solar system. Watch the eclipse’s shadow: www.nasa.gov Watch the Interactive Exoplanet video: vimeo.com Add TDC to your circles on Google+ plus.google.com Join the conversation on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow The Daily Conversation on Twitter www.twitter.com

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The Death of a Star

For the first time, astronomers captured, from start to finish, a black hole consuming a star. This is a computer simulation of that event. Add TDC to your circles on Google+ plus.google.com Join the conversation on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow The Daily Conversation on Twitter www.twitter.com Credit: www.nasa.gov

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