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longship

(40,416 posts)
1. Aha! The Symphony of Science had a video about that.
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 06:26 PM
Mar 2015

We are all connected!



“We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson


Also features other scientists, like Bill Nye, Richard Feynman, and Carl Sagan.

The entire drum track on the video was an actual recording of Richard Feynman drumming, as is visually featured a couple of times in the video.

Enjoy.

We ARE all connected.

For bandwidth limited folks, here are the auto tuned lyrics:
deGrasse Tyson:
We are all connected;
To each other, biologically
To the earth, chemically
To the rest of the universe atomically

Feynman:
I think nature's imagination
Is so much greater than man's
She's never going to let us relax

Sagan:
We live in an in-between universe
Where things change all right
But according to patterns, rules,
Or as we call them, laws of nature

Nye:
I'm this guy standing on a planet
Really I'm just a speck
Compared with a star, the planet is just another speck
To think about all of this
To think about the vast emptiness of space
There's billions and billions of stars
Billions and billions of specks

Sagan:
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it
But the way those atoms are put together
The cosmos is also within us
We're made of star stuff
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself

Across the sea of space
The stars are other suns
We have traveled this way before
And there is much to be learned

I find it elevating and exhilarating
To discover that we live in a universe
Which permits the evolution of molecular machines
As intricate and subtle as we

deGrasse Tyson:
I know that the molecules in my body are traceable
To phenomena in the cosmos
That makes me want to grab people in the street
And say, have you heard this??

(Richard Feynman on hand drums and chanting)

Feynman:
There's this tremendous mess
Of waves all over in space
Which is the light bouncing around the room
And going from one thing to the other

And it's all really there
But you gotta stop and think about it
About the complexity to really get the pleasure
And it's all really there
The inconceivable nature of nature.

 

ErikJ

(6,335 posts)
4. But modern humans migrated out of Africa 60K to 125k yrs ago
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 07:45 PM
Mar 2015

Last edited Tue Mar 17, 2015, 08:42 PM - Edit history (2)

and evolved about 200,000 yrs ago in Africa.

 

Android3.14

(5,402 posts)
13. In the 16 some-odd generations since Europe has interacted with the Americas
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 10:05 PM
Mar 2015

Each person alive today has something around 300,000 to 500,000 ancestors (x=2^n). In sixteen generations, wouldn't the ancestral pool be large enough to reintegrate the bloodlines separated when the Bering straight formed?

Bucky

(53,795 posts)
15. If there were social intermingling all over America as of 1500 CE, then yes. So... No
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 07:28 AM
Mar 2015

The fact that there were Spanish conquistadors in Tenochtitlan in 1519 doesn't mean people in the Amazon's interior tributaries were suddenly sharing genes with Europeans.

Besides which, the mathematical argument for 3000 years back for everyone to have a common ancestor doesn't mean that that common ancestor was around 3000 years ago.

enki23

(7,786 posts)
10. Refers to a modeled geneological ancestor. We didn't come out of Africa 3000 years ago.
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 08:49 PM
Mar 2015

We kinda know that for certain. That fits well within a historical time frame, to state the ridiculously obvious.

 

maindawg

(1,151 posts)
9. Actually
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 08:46 PM
Mar 2015

If you learn about the Sumarian tabletas. Then you know what we are and where we came from.

pampango

(24,692 posts)
17. Don't cramp the right's "Us vs Them" style. They tell me it's more important how we're different
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 01:09 PM
Mar 2015

not how much we are the same.

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