SRL Archive - Semi Stupid Pictures

I found this laying around on Imgur today, perhaps some of you would like it. :) Well-said and wonderfully illustrated, IMO.

Interesting.
Imgur/reddit always has some very nifty and appealing images to see and think about ;)

You know what else is cool? All the atoms which we are comprised of are mostly empty space. The relative distance between the nucleus of an atom and the electrons that orbit it is vast. You can imagine a grain of sand as the nucleus, the orbiting electron would be something like 4 miles away.

That's trippy.

From: Scorched
You know what else is cool? All the atoms which we are comprised of are mostly empty space. The relative distance between the nucleus of an atom and the electrons that orbit it is vast. You can imagine a grain of sand as the nucleus, the orbiting electron would be something like 4 miles away.

That's trippy.

Whoa that really is hard to believe! But it's on the internet so it must be true! That is pretty interesting stuff to say the least!

From: Scorched
You know what else is cool? All the atoms which we are comprised of are mostly empty space. The relative distance between the nucleus of an atom and the electrons that orbit it is vast. You can imagine a grain of sand as the nucleus, the orbiting electron would be something like 4 miles away.

That's trippy.

Yeah, we learned about that in chem, it's probably my favorite class :D

From: BMWxi
Yeah, we learned about that in chem, it's probably my favorite class :D

I took chem last year and I didn't hear anything about this! This stuff is cool! Lol

Evolution - 2/10 would not read.

From: ___
Evolution - 2/10 would not read.

Ah yes, this reminds me a quote from the bible: Proverbs 3:5:

Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;

Even the bible forbids you to think independently. After all, it's easier to say " 'cause God did it", right? ;)

From: Flight
Ah yes, this reminds me a quote from the bible: Proverbs 3:5:


Even the bible forbids you to think independently. After all, it's easier to say " 'cause God did it", right? ;)

The Bible can say basically anything you want if you just pick certain parts out from it. I don't believe in evolution either, but I'll leave that to another days discussion.

I did not mean to stir up a Biblical debate. Thats on you.
But we can all pull Bible verses out of our asses all day.
How can a piece of organic matter create something with functioning organs that reacts with the environment?
In scripting terms that is like dropping a cat on your keyboard and expecting it to make something useful that compiles.

that was pretty interesting, oh what you find on imgur lol. anyways not getting involved in this argument peace.

From: ___
I did not mean to stir up a Biblical debate. Thats on you.
But we can all pull Bible verses out of our asses all day.
How can a piece of organic matter create something with functioning organs that reacts with the environment?
In scripting terms that is like dropping a cat on your keyboard and expecting it to make something useful that compiles.

Do it a near infinite number of times, then its that much more likely to happen, our brains have a hard time really understanding "Infinite", if something is possible and can happen no matter how unlikely it is to happen, apply infinite amounts of waiting and its going to happen its just a matter of when :)

I always wondered how Raw atoms and materials somehow turned into living bacteria, theres some really interesting videos explaining about it on youtube ;)

From: Scorched
You know what else is cool? All the atoms which we are comprised of are mostly empty space. The relative distance between the nucleus of an atom and the electrons that orbit it is vast. You can imagine a grain of sand as the nucleus, the orbiting electron would be something like 4 miles away.

That's trippy.

Chrome has a really nice galaxy zoom-in/out tool.

http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/100000-stars/

Not only at subatomic level there is emptyness but there is mindboggingly huge emptyness all around us. I bet they are related :)

Assuming we are alone out there is equally frightnening as assuming we are not the only ones 0_o

Wow it's really interesting!

Thanks for the find!

Makes you really think about the complexities of life..

Food for thought over this Christmas.

From: DannyRS
Do it a near infinite number of times, then its that much more likely to happen, our brains have a hard time really understanding "Infinite", if something is possible and can happen no matter how unlikely it is to happen, apply infinite amounts of waiting and its going to happen its just a matter of when :)

I always wondered how Raw atoms and materials somehow turned into living bacteria, theres some really interesting videos explaining about it on youtube ;)

Our brain's were created by this atomic reaction… how should we have trouble understanding it? Shouldn't it still be evident today?

Oh well, we will leave this conversation unchanged, so I'm out.

From: Flight
Ah yes, this reminds me a quote from the bible: Proverbs 3:5:


Even the bible forbids you to think independently. After all, it's easier to say " 'cause God did it", right? ;)

Reminds me of another quote as well:
'Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.'

From: ___
I did not mean to stir up a Biblical debate. Thats on you.
But we can all pull Bible verses out of our asses all day.
How can a piece of organic matter create something with functioning organs that reacts with the environment?
In scripting terms that is like dropping a cat on your keyboard and expecting it to make something useful that compiles.

Because only those that can adapt survive. Those with malfunctioning organs would die off, leaving behind only the species with suitable genes that can adapt to the environment. This is a multi-million year process.

And haven't you heard of the Infinite monkey theorem? ;)

@Flight and riwu, before you continue to ostracize our bible believing brethren on this forum, maybe consider that I think independently of you. (And yes riwu, your quote's only purpose is to create division.)

Egads, no religion debate please.

I did like the picture. There's some pretty cool things in the universe. But the overall size of things just always overwhelm me.

From: cause
@Flight and riwu, before you continue to ostracize our bible believing brethren on this forum, maybe consider that I think independently of you. (And yes riwu, your quote's only purpose is to create division.)

Haha no offense intended cause. :p I was simply quoting that because of ___'s reaction to anything evolution-wise: instant disregard, no open mind.

From: Flight
Haha no offense intended cause. :p I was simply quoting that because of ___'s reaction to anything evolution-wise: instant disregard, no open mind.

I'm sorry for even posting that…
Yes. I'm a Christian so I don't believe in evolution.
We can all talk about right and wrong, but in the end we walk away unchanged.
You can believe evolution is what made out Earth, I can believe God did it in 7 days. I respect your view, please respect mine.

From: ___
I'm sorry for even posting that…
Yes. I'm a Christian so I don't believe in evolution.
We can all talk about right and wrong, but in the end we walk away unchanged.
You can believe evolution is what made out Earth, I can believe God did it in 7 days. I respect your view, please respect mine.

Aye that sounds like a deal to me mate.

Well I was just kind of shocked that you (flight) instantly quoted a bible verse when he disregarded evolution, yet made no mention of anything else (___ that is).