just feels like the cost to the American people, to the global public is just so astronomical . And it's And like, how is it possible that one man's vanity is actually able to cost this much for theworld? Yeah, I mean, we're not talking about a trillion yet, but I mean, if you look at the cost to the Iranian infrastructure,
but to observe it and to record it and to predict it to predict its effects in the future involves very precise astronomical observations maintained over a very long period of time, hundreds and hundreds of years at least.So here we have myths of a global cataclysm. There is just so much else.
But a lot of people weren't familiar in the professional community with WorldWide Telescope even in the academic education community because they thought it was just this outreach tool. Astronomical Society where data can be embedded in papers, links to the Python code is embedded in the paper, interactive figures are in the paper.
businesses that pursue profit in the usual way will fail, so the chances of succeeding with something like this that contributes to society are astronomically small . Well, I'd like to do something about this, but basically,GR's cultivation techniques will be passed on to the poor . So, the poor
consists of large T-shaped megaliths that can weigh up to 20 tons. There are precise astronomical alignments in it. This was not done by two or three people working together. This was Well, that's the Göbekli Tepe today
But it wasn't until they started doing x-rays and other types of scans and then were able to reconstruct it that they realized it was actually an astronomical clock. It set back the date of a lot of gearing and astronomical knowledge by almost 1,500 years once it was really understood what it was.
That kind of hologram can be reconstructed with white light. One astronomical unit is Earth to Sun.
So basically anyone, if you fall in the bottom third of your class, your chances of dropping out rise astronomically . So you should basically follow a strategy that minimizes your chances of falling in the bottom third of your class. What does that mean?
I can even show you some of those planets. This is my favorite astronomical observation. This is a star called HR8799.
But the investments and the encouragements and the activities that we've done to those companies-- for instance, like SpaceX, Blue Origin-- that now have rockets that can get up We're in astronomical unit one, is between Earth and the sun.
moons of planets, these were all used to fix the position of this boundary line. But all of this astronomical work wouldn't have been possible without the work of enslaved blacks. Black laborers carried all this equipment that needed to be carried.
Yet, if you narrow down the scope to little things like earth, you feel futility. From the astronomical perspective, the earth, South Korea, Seoul, then Gangnam makes it look too. You also talk about light years, but we hardly live more than 100 years. With your career, have you ever felt that humans are powerless before the universe or do you have different ways of viewing the humanity.
and Tristan lolled on the rug beside a low table with a beer, each of us bleary-eyed from reading, I encountered a passage in an obscure booklet entitled, "Arresting and Alluring Astronomical Anecdotes," published in 1897. Here, I learned that while the Great Exhibition of 1851 was in process-- it lasted for several months-- an event of relative interest occurred elsewhere in Europe,
And it's full of activities that teachers can do in the classroom. The American Astronomical Society has a website called eclipse.aas.org.
We could probably fit in somewhere in there. So we want astronomical events that that could have been talked about.
And black holes are an example of dark things that usually we can't see. So here is a astronomical image. Again, this is not a cartoon.
The rates are astronomical .
With 60 petabytes of astronomical image data, you would need something like 3 million HDTV sets to view all the pixels that will be coming out
of an astronomical unit in from the sun and 1/10 of an astronomical unit out, and you had a cup and let the private
value was astronomical . So this idea that society is available and has got a lot of smart people and we can take advantage of crowd computing and so on, I think they really woke up a lot
increasing over astronomical time. And that, in fact, there's more energy flowing through
The numbers are astronomically out of balance. So, what happens next? You're predicting in 2029 there's a financial crash.
They're not just astronomically large numbers, there may be large enough numbers in the realm of economics now.
One of the first astronomically correct maps of the Milky Way was produced by Thomas Wright.
Healthcare costs keep rising astronomically every year.
Within that range is this astronomical amount of different types of life forms.
So there are also two types of astronomical instruments usually used.
If something came within 1,000 astronomical units of the sun, it would technically be in our solar system.
But the investments and the encouragements and the activities that we've done to those companies-- for instance, like SpaceX, Blue Origin-- that now have rockets that can get up They're out there at 140 astronomical units.
My favorite on the right, the flying squirrel, which you can still see up near Perseus in the sky. Both patriotism and imperialism would mark the astronomical work of the commission of US astronomers who went down to run this boundary between Spain and the United States along the 31st parallel.
in "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society," one of the two leading astronomy journals.
She was the curator of astronomical photographs.
And she was also approached by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific to endow a Lifetime Achievement Award for astronomers, and it remains a very prestigious
They were members of the American Astronomical Society.
of "Mercury," the magazine of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, that was just devoted to women and astronomy and told some of their stories.
So one of the things that fell to me was when the software was open sourced, there was a call for interest and participation that was issued by the American Astronomical Society, the main society in astronomy in the US. And I'll explain their role a little bit more later.
and the environment would be astronomical .
And it's basically for astronomical reasons, and we can talk a lot about this.
which is completely dwarfed by the completely astronomical amount that we don't know about how the body works, even ignoring all the stuff that we don't
And the Voyager is like 120 astronomical units, which is the distance between the Earth and the sun.
and the winner of the 2011 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award.
and writes learned papers in astronomical journals and mathematical papers had tacitly assume that the universe is 13.7 billion years old.
about 05 or so was astronomical the rise of the number of things so I could
have to work in the infrared because astronomical dust very much scatters and obscures optical light. But it's much less of a problem in the infrared.
And it just is something astronomically high like that.
with 35 amino acids can fold in an astronomical number of ways.
is major major historians of science in the 1960s. They found encoded in those myths numbers and imagery that could only relate to one thing and that's an obscure astronomical phenomenon called the precession of the equinoxes. I'm not going to go into the technical details, but to observe it and to record it and to predict it to predict its effects in the future involves very precise
This yellow line is for encounters within 1,000 astronomical units.
For reference, one astronomical unit is the distance between the sun and Earth.
Northern side of the rock said property of the United States. And since this was a massive and really important astronomical expedition, we're going to spend a little bit of time digging into it as this window into early American astronomy.