I watched this new program on uk bbc2 yesterday called The history of Science. Episode 1 'What is out there?'.
It charts the history of our understanding of the universe. I found it very interesting how the first 'spyglass' telescope was made using an organ pipe, rough glass and a cannonball. It was first used as defence to detect ships 2 hours before they became visible on the horizon. Then Galileo turned it to the heavens and what he discovered advanced our understanding of our solar sysem immensely but ruined his life. There is a lot of interesting information in the documentary and is very well made. It was only as recently as the 1920s with the discoveries by Edward Hubble that we realised that we are not the only galaxy in this universe but are in one of billions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00s89td/The_Story_of_Science_Power_Proof_and_Passion_What_Is_Out_There/

"Michael Mosley embarks on an informative and ambitious journey exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately interwoven with society's historical path.

Michael begins with the story of one of the great upheavals in human history - how we came to understand that our planet was not at the centre of everything in the cosmos, but just one of billions of bodies in a vast and expanding universe.

He reveals the critical role of medieval astrologers in changing our view of the heavens, and the surprising connections to the upheavals of the Renaissance, the growth of coffee shops and Californian oil and railway barons.

Michael shows how important the practical skills of craftsmen have been to this story and finds out how Galileo made his telescope to peer at the heavens and by doing so helped change our view of the universe forever. "


It took hundreds of years for the church to finally accept that the certainty that the earth is at the centre of the universe was wrong. It is similar to the way that evolution is rejected by some christians today, because it does not concur with the biblical account in genesis. Maybe it will take just as long for the belief in this faith to be superceded by facts and evidence. Intelligent design subscribers and deists accept that the earth is billions of years old but a lot of christians still refuse to accept this fact, just like the heliocentric theory was denied for so long,

Watch the video if you are christian or not. It is very good.

Respects

Watch how our religion drunk and uninformed nairalanders will avoid this informative thread.

HighWITCH:
Watch how our religion drunk and uninformed nairalanders will avoid this informative thread.

There is nothing here that we did not know before, especially you Nigerians and Africans who have not finished studying even your own immediate environment, is it now the outside of your environment you will study?

But you guys are professors and professionals in listening to hearsay.

Do your own study, it is still the same one head, nose, mouth, tongue and feelings, two eyes, ears, hands and legs the hearsayers used too, to carry out their own study.

mantraa:
I watched this new program on uk bbc2 yesterday called The history of Science. Episode 1 'What is out there?'...

Have you ever studied what is in here of your own assessment?

Yet, you are promoting hearsay!

Dtruthspeaker:


There is nothing here that we did not know before, especially you Nigerians and Africans who have not finished studying even your own immediate environment, is it now the outside of your environment you will study?

But you guys are professors and professionals in listening to hearsay.

Do your own study, it is still the same one head, nose, mouth, tongue and feelings, two eyes, ears, hands and legs the hearsayers used too, to carry out their own study.

In understanding the space around you, you acquire better understanding of your environment. Don't forget that as an earthling, everywhere is your domain.

HighWITCH:


In understanding the space around you, you acquire better understanding of your environment. Don't forget that as an earthling, everywhere is your domain.

Au contraire mr, everywhere is not your domain. Ariel is in charge of all lands. Jupiter controls up. Neptune owns the oceans.

HighWITCH:

In understanding the space around you, you acquire better understanding of your environment. Don't forget that as an earthling, everywhere is your domain.

how can you be inside your house and you depend on the sea to learn and understand the rooms and all inside your house? is this not drunkenness?

Please let's just let this matter rest.

Dtruthspeaker:


how can you be inside your house and you depend on the sea to learn and understand the rooms and all inside your house? is this not drunkenness?

Please let's just let this matter rest.

Your parallel is outrightly absurd!

Exmilitant:
Au contraire mr, everywhere is not your domain. Ariel is in charge of all lands. Jupiter controls up. Neptune owns the oceans.

Mr Ex-Mili...oh, sorry. I only reply legible scribbles.

HighWITCH:

Your parallel is outrightly absurd!

No it is not, for if it was, you would have happily pointed out its flaw.

But because it had no flaw, you just thought it would save your face to say it.

Let this matter rest, there is nothing reasonable for you to say beyond this.

Dtruthspeaker:


No it is not, for if it was, you would have happily pointed out its flaw.

But because it had no flaw, you just thought it would save your face to say it.

Let this matter rest, there is nothing reasonable for you to say beyond this.

Do you know how Weather is forecast? It's from observatories outside earth.
Do you know why world powers have spy satellites in space? It's unmatched from space.
Let's keep the conversation more robust with intelligent discuss Pls.