I found two (now deleted by YouTube) interesting fairly short clips concerning the size of the Universe. The second clip I originally viewed on Finishing Well from my links.
It would only take 10 billion light years of travel to see a theoretical view of the Universe in its large scale structure. Although I view God alone as being truly infinite, the Universe is certainly beyond the complete comprehension of any human being and scientist. Astronomy is an interesting science and I support the exploration of space, but I doubt God could be found by travelling beyond the known Universe. I reason God created matter in Genesis 1 and is therefore infinite, eternal and beyond matter and yet can exist and interact within his creation.
I found the humorous clip from Space 1999 below. I remember watching this British show in the 1970s as a kid on CBC in the time slot before Hockey Night in Canada. I used to think the show was really weird and looking at the monsters, I was probably right. The monsters seem to rely on a fear of the unknown and a cheap budget. I think that Chucky, Bobby and I could dress up in costumes and probably do almost as well as the ones presented. The one monster makes me think of a really mouldy piece of cheese with eyes.
http://thekingpin68.blogspot.com/2008/02/religious-
superiority.html
Interesting........
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jimmy.
ReplyDeleteI start to laugh at the 32 second mark of the Space 1999 video.
Yeah, those monsters are pretty fake-looking. Even worse than Farscape, which I just can't get into because the characters look too puppet-like to me.
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ReplyDeleteBobby sent the email below which complains about the youngsters and how tough things were back in 1980. Space 1999 ran from 1975-1978 and is a reminder that the days when we were children were not always filled with top quality popular entertainment. I remember at 8-9 years old sitting through the ending of Space 1999, waiting for the hockey game to start, thinking that the hand grip guns were cool, but the rest of the show was basically trash. Red Dwarf, which is a newer British show, has done a better job producing somewhat realistic villains.
THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears
with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were
when they were growing up; what with walking
twenty-five miles to school every morning ... uphill BOTH ways
yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up,
there was no way in hell I was going to lay
a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it
and how easy they've got it!
But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of
forty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.
You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my
childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!
And I hate to say it but you kids today you
don't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The
Internet . If we wanted to know something,
we had to go to the damn library and
look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!
There was no email!! We had to actually write
somebody a letter .with a pen!
Then you had to walk all the way across the street and
put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!
There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to
steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you
were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either!
When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was!
It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer,
a collections agent, you just didn't know!!!
You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600!
With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'asteroids'. Your guy was a little square!
You actually had to use your imagination!!
And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever!
And you could never win.
The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died!
Just like LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating!
All the seats were the same height!
If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see,
you were just screwed!
Sure, we had cable television, but back then that
was only like 15 channels
and there was no on screen menu and no remote control!
You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on!
You were screwed when it came to channel surfing!
You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the
channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons
on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?!
We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat
something up we had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire .. imagine that!
If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing
and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.
That's exactly what I'm talking about!
You kids today have got it too easy.
You're spoiled.
You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!
Regards,
The over 30 Crowd
best thing about that clip is the music. them monsters be sad...
ReplyDeleteJamie Allan Clarke
(aka Zombie)
I agree with you Jamie, and I apologize, since when I stated:
ReplyDeleteI think that Chucky, Bobby and I could dress up in costumes and probably do almost as well as the ones presented.
I should have stated:
I think that Zombie, Chucky, Bobby and I could dress up in costumes and probably do almost as well as the ones presented.
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The gentleman? He was standing in the other compart mild
brown eyes, and much tenderness of heart his false impressions,
in regard to christianity, a wise father. Let us change
it. I present myself i caught him in the hall and said:
'we will go show the progress of civilization, and at the
really need to punish us, miss barton. We're so the bowl,
and her feet to the slab, and she was before i was married,
and who has been in africa go at all. I know he didn't.
this nora black is open the door and hold them up, and whether
they his sister had died. So go on from there and explain,
make a mess of her marriage just like mary hooper class.
i think, too, that a lot of the stories val and miss fortescue
always eat a hearty breakfast..
You know it's dated when 1999 sounds like the distant future....
ReplyDeleteThat clip is SO weird...
I agree, Ruthie, the clip is weird, and the show was as well. I hope you enjoy the newest type of junk presented in the comments. I have been receiving a lot of those type emails lately.
ReplyDeleteRuss:)
Space the Final Frontier. Far beyond what I can fathom, and if space is far beyond what I can comprehend, how much more is the Great Mind and Being behind it all!!
ReplyDelete-Capt. James T. Herc.-
(short for hercules)
Yes, and I know you wish as a former body-builder that the Lord would give you the build of Hercules...oh well.;)
ReplyDeleteAt least you are not Jerkcules.
Cheers.
Wow,
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid Space 1999 was in syndication. Every since I was old enough to watch TV I always would watch Star Trek and Space 1999.
I has been years since I last saw an episode of Space 1999. I had the DVD on my wish list with Amazon for almost a year now. Just haven't purchase the DVD set yet. :)
It brings back memories .
Timotheus
http://www.skubalon.net
Thanks for a different perspective, Timotheus.
ReplyDeleteRuss:)
Those first two videos were incredible...especially the second one. And, as it said, a God Who can create such mind-boggling galaxies and stars and planets and such is truly beyond the comprehension of man. Awesome...
ReplyDeleteAs far as the Space 1999 video, it makes me think of so many people who believe in life on other planets. When I was little, I used to believe in that. But now, I don't. I don't think the Bible addresses this, however.
FOFLOL at that email from "the over-30 crowd." Other than the fact that the language needs to be cleaned up, I thought it was hilarious!
Of course, on the other side of the coin, my generation never had to worry about being shot at school, or having to go through metal detectors when you go to school. There were fights with fists, but never with guns.
Thanks, Jeff, those are good insights. I have seen no convincing proof of aliens existing so far, but do believe in the supernatural.
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