mysteries of a dark universe
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watch this video commercial free on the spacerip app available in the apple and google play stores dark energy in full hd 1080p cosmology the study of the universe as a whole has been turned on its head by a stunning discovery that the universe is flying apart in all directions at an ever-increasing rate is the universe bursting at the seams or is nature somehow fooling usthe astronomers whose data revealed this accelerating universe have been awarded the nobel prize for physics and yet since 1998 when the discovery was first announced scientists have struggled to come to grips with a mysterious presence that now appears to control the future of the cosmos: dark energyon remote mountaintops around the world major astronomical centers hum along with state of the art digital sensors computers air conditioning infrastructure and motors to turn the giant telescopes deep in chile039s atacama desert the paranal observatory is an astronomical mecca this facility draws two megawatts of power enough for around two thousand homeswhat astronomers get for all this is photons tiny mass-less particles of light they stream in from across time and space by the trillions from nearby sources down to one or two per second from objects at the edge of the visible universein this age of precision astronomy observers have been studying the properties of these particles to find clues to how stars live and die how galaxies form how black holes grow and more but for all we039ve learned we are finding out just how much still eludes our grasp how short our efforts to understand the workings of the universe still fall a hundred years ago most astronomers believed the universe consisted of a grand disk the milky way they saw stars like our own sun moving around it amid giant regions of dust and luminous gas the overall size and shape of this quotisland universequot appeared static and unchangingthat view posed a challenge to albert einstein who sought to explore the role that gravity a dynamic force plays in the universe as a whole there is a now legendary story in which einstein tried to show why the gravity of all the stars and gas out there didn039t simply cause the universe to collapse into a heap he reasoned that there must be some repulsive force that countered gravity and held the universe uphe called this force the quotcosmological constantquot represented in his equations by the greek letter lambda it039s often referred to as a fudge factorin 1916 the idea seemed reasonable the dutch physicist willem de sitter solved einstein039s equations with a cosmological constant lending support to the idea of a static universenow enter the american astronomer vesto slipher working at the lowell observatory in arizona he examined a series of fuzzy patches in the sky called spiral nebulae what we know as galaxies he found that their light was slightly shifted in colorit039s similar to the way a siren distorts as an ambulance races past us if an object is moving toward earth the wavelength of its light is compressed making it bluer if it039s moving away the light gets stretched out making it redder 12 of the 15 nebulae that slipher examined were red-shifted a sign they are racing away from usedwin hubble a young astronomer went in for a closer look using the giant new hooker telescope in southern california he scoured the nebulae for a type of pulsating star called a cepheid the rate at which their light rises and falls is an indicator of their intrinsic brightness by measuring their apparent brightness hubble could calculate the distance to their host galaxies combining distances with redshifts he found that the farther away these spirals are the faster they are moving away from us this relationship called the hubble constant showed that the universe is not static but expandingeinstein acknowledged the breakthrough and admitted that his famous fudge factor was the greatest blunder of his career

the riddle of antimatter
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watch this and other space videos at http:spaceripcomin high-res 1080p explores one of the deepest mysteries about the origin of our universe according to standard theory the early moments of the universe were marked by the explosive contact between subatomic particles of opposite charge featuring short interviews with masaki hori tokyo university and jeffrey hangst aarhus universityscientists are now focusing their most powerful technologies on an effort to figure out exactly what happened our understanding of cosmic history hangs on the question: how did matter as we know it survive and what happened to its birth twin its opposite a mysterious substance known as antimatter a crew of astronauts is making its way to a launch pad at the kennedy space center in florida little noticed in the publicity surrounding the close of this storied program is the cargo bolted into endeavor039s hold it039s a science instrument that some hope will become one of the most important scientific contributions of human space flightit039s a kind of telescope though it will not return dazzling images of cosmic realms long hidden from view the distant corners of the universe or the hidden structure of black holes and exploding starsunlike the great observatories that were launched aboard the shuttle it was not named for a famous astronomer like hubble or the chandra x-ray observatorythe instrument called the alpha magnetic spectrometer or ams the promise surrounding this device is that it will enable scientists to look at the universe in a completely new way most telescopes are designed to capture photons so-called neutral particles reflected or emitted by objects such as stars or galaxies ams will capture something different: exotic particles and atoms that are endowed with an electrical charge the instrument is tuned to capture quotcosmic raysquot at high energy hurled out by supernova explosions or the turbulent regions surrounding black holes and there are high hopes that it will capture particles of antimatter from a very early time that remains shrouded in mysterythe chain of events that gave rise to the universe is described by what039s known as the standard model it039s a theory in the scientific sense in that it combines a body of observations experimental evidence and mathematical models into a consistent overall picture but this picture is not necessarily completethe universe began hot after about a billionth of a second it had cooled down enough for fundamental particles to emerge in pairs of opposite charge known as quarks and antiquarks after that came leptons and antileptons such as electrons and positrons these pairs began annihilating each othermost quark pairs were gone by the time the universe was a second old with most leptons gone a few seconds later when the dust settled so to speak a tiny amount of matter about one particle in a billion managed to survive the mass annihilation that tiny amount went on to form the universe we can know - all the light emitting gas dust stars galaxies and planets to be sure antimatter does exist in our universe today the fermi gamma ray space telescope spotted a giant plume of antimatter extending out from the center of our galaxy most likely created by the acceleration of particles around a supermassive black hole the same telescope picked up signs of antimatter created by lightning strikes in giant thunderstorms in earth039s atmosphere scientists have long known how to create antimatter artificially in physics labs - in the superhot environments created by crashing atoms together at nearly the speed of lighthere is one of the biggest and most enduring mysteries in science: why do we live in a matter-dominated universe what process caused matter to survive and antimatter to all but disappear one possibility: that large amounts of antimatter have survived down the eons alongside matterin 1928 a young physicist paul dirac wrote equations that predicted the existence of antimatter dirac showed that every type of particle has a twin exactly identical but of opposite charge as dirac saw it the electron and the positron are mirror images of each other with all the same properties they would behave in exactly the same way whether in realms of matter or antimatter it became clear though that ours is a matter universe the apollo astronauts went to the moon and back never once getting annihilated solar cosmic rays proved to be matter not antimatterit stands to reason that when the universe was more tightly packed that it would have experienced an quotannihilation catastrophequot that cleared the universe of large chunks of the stuff unless antimatter somehow became separated from its twin at birth and exists beyond our field of view scientists are left to wonder: why do we live in a matter-dominated universe

saturn039s mysterious moons
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watch in high-resolution 1080p launched three years before the new century a spacecraft wound its way through the empty reaches of the solar system on earth its progress was little noted as it swung twice by the planet venus then our moon and earth the asteroid belt and jupiteralmost seven years later on the first of july 2004 the cassini probe entered the orbit of saturn it then began to compile what has become one of the greatest photographic collections of all time of a giant gas planet surrounded by colorful rings guarded by a diverse collection of moons and millions of tiny moonlets within this record is a trail of clues pointing to the energy sources and complex chemistry needed to spawn life what are these mysterious worlds telling us about the universe and earth in the outer reaches of the solar system a billion and a half kilometers from the sun there is a little world known as enceladus nearly all of the sunlight that strikes its icy surface is reflected back into space making it one of the brightest objects in the solar systemat its equator the average temperature is minus 198 degrees celsius it can rise about 70 degrees higher in grooves that stretch across the south pole like tiger stripes looming over it is the giant planet saturnin myth saturn - the roman name for the primal greek god chronos - was the youngest son of gaia or earth and uranus sky wielding a scythe provided by his mother the story goes saturn confronted his abusive father castrating him the blood of uranus flowed into the seas fertilizing the earth and giving rise to enceladus and other giant offspring saturn039s moon enceladus has its own tangled story in 2005 the cassini spacecraft spotted plumes of water vapor shooting out into space from its south pole more recent close encounters have revealed jets of water flavored by slightly salty chemical compounds spewing out from vents in the rough cracked polar terrain that may mean that enceladus harbors a remarkable secret below its frigid surface: a liquid ocean and perhaps a chemical environment that could spawn simple life forms it039s not the only promising stop in the realm of saturn the moon titan is often said to resemble earth in its early days it is lined with volcanoes and a hazy atmosphere rich in organic compounds while enceladus is the size of great britain titan is ten times larger 50 larger than our moon and the second largest moon in our solar systemwe039ve known about titan since the astronomer christian huygens discovered it in 1655 and enceladus since william herschel spotted it in august 1789 just after the start of the french revolution scientists began to investigate these moons in earnest with the launch of the two voyager spacecraft in 1977 the lineup of outer planets in the solar system allowed the spacecraft to fly past each of themthey disclosed new details about their magnetic fields atmospheres ring systems and inner cores but what really turned heads were the varied shapes and surfaces of their moons they039ve all been pummeled over the millennia by wayward asteroids and comets a few appear to be sculpted by forces below their surfaces neptune039s largest moon triton has few craters it039s marked with circular depressions bounded by rugged ridges there are also grooves and folds that stretch for dozens of miles a sign of fracturing and deforming triton has geysers too shooting some five miles above the surface but on this frigid moon -- so far from the sun -- the liquid that spouts is not water but nitrogen tiny miranda one of 27 known moons that orbit uranus wears a jumbled skin that039s been shaped and reshaped by forces within jupiter039s moon io -- orbiting perilously close to the giant planet is literally turning itself inside out rivers of lava roll down from open craters that erupt like fountains flying by europa voyager documented a complex network of criss-crossing grooves and ridges in the 1990s the galileo spacecraft went back to get a closer look it found that europa039s surface is a crazy quilt of fractured plates cliff faces and gullies amid long grooves like a network of superhighways how did it get like this then heat rising up through a subsurface ocean of liquid water cracks and shifts and spreads the icy surface in a thousand different ways europa039s neighbors callisto and ganymede show similar features suggesting they too may have liquid oceans below their surfaces crossing outward to saturn voyager found a similar surface on the moon enceladus so when the cassini spacecraft arrived in 2004 it came looking for answers to a range of burning questions: if this moon and others have subsurface oceans do they also have the ability to cook up and support life and what could they tell us about the origin of life throughout the galaxy

best of ufo sightings of may 2012 afo
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http:wwwanonymousfocomin accordance with title 17 usc section 107 this video is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposesiv put a lot of effort into researching each case in this video however nobody039s perfect and there are bound to be a few videos in here that have been debunked or proven fake but i ask you to always keep your mind open just because someone has told you the video is fake or there039s a video out there explaining in minute detail why it is don039t let that change your mind about it until there is good solid evidence out there that explains why and how the video is a fake stand by your own opinion don039t let somebody else039s opinion overshadow your ownvideos used listed belowmusic used - prludien by richard sharphttp:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=_d8plhkotmyufo dropping lights over escondido california usahttp:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=qfplbnkyzs8ufos filmed from window on apollo 11 missionhttp:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=jdjado3uc3qgigantic disc shaped ufos next to the sunhttp:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=dzmssaxyx6aufo captured by the iss camerahttp:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=x8nm0rzg_ouflashing ufos over norwayhttp:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=cuewokllduoflashing blue ufo over russiahttp:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=u3kjpvblyviufo above mission british columbia canadahttp:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=dz1uqifmfsyghostly white ufo above chicago usahttp:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=q9j45qfrdz0diamond ufo above morin heights canadahttp:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=wm2qje7q-sotriangle ufo spotted over moscow russiahttp:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=tdsaixnza7uflashing ufo above fresno california usahttp:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=pnxqr8k5k8uufos over basel switzerlandhttp:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=zfz8hypcgvatriangular ufo over sonora california usahttp:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=30qcpzjk6lmufo making trumpets of the apocalypse sounds hong kong chinahttp:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=nvb2xfw2vhghard turning craft over rotorua new zealandhttp:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=ofbmdgfqv3aufo039s caught live during iss flighthttp:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=peryd4m-3qocoronal cavity sphere deflects solar eruptionhttp:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=xgs4qunzzfifleet of ufos over dulce new mexico usahttp:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=7g8bjjpp1sgdo yo have a ufo video that you would like to share with the worldjust email us at: anonymousfozgmailcomfacebook message us at: http:wwwfacebookcomanonymousfoor just simply youtube message: anonymousfofair use notice: this video may contain copyrighted material such material is made available for educational purposes only this constitutes a 039fair use039 of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 usc section 107 of the us copyright lawspecial thanks to egzonnikqifb for helping me out with the video again i really appreciate it

when will time end
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it now seems that our entire universe is living on borrowed time how long it can survive depends on whether stephen hawking039s theory checks out special thanks to ivan bridgewater for use of footagetime is flying by on this busy crowded planet as life changes and evolves from second to second and yet the arc of human lifespan is getting longer: 65 years is the global average way up from just 20 in the stone age modern science however provides a humbling perspective our lives indeed the life span of the human species is just a blip compared to the age of the universe at 137 billion years and counting it now seems that our entire universe is living on borrowed time and that even it may be just a blip within the grand sweep of deep time scholars debate whether time is a property of the universe or a human invention what039s certain is that we use the ticking of all kinds of clocks from the decay of radioactive elements to the oscillation of light beams to chart and measure a changing universe to understand how it works and what drives it our own major reference for the passage of time is the 24-hour day the time it takes the earth to rotate once well it039s actually 23 hours 56 minutes and 41 seconds approximately if you039re judging by the stars not the sun earth acquired its spin during its birth from the bombardment of rocks and dust that formed it but it039s gradually losing that rotation to drag from the moon039s gravitythat039s why in the time of the dinosaurs a year was 370 days and why we have to add a leap second to our clocks about every 18 months in a few hundred million years we039ll gain a whole hourthe day-night cycle is so reliable that it has come to regulate our internal chemistrythe fading rays of the sun picked up by the retinas in our eyes set our so-called quotcircadian rhythmsquot in motion that039s when our brains begin to secrete melatonin a hormone that tells our bodies to get ready for sleep long ago this may have been an adaptation to keep us quiet and clear of night-time predatorsfinally in the light of morning the flow of melatonin stops our blood pressure spikes body temperature and heart rate rise as we move out into the worldover the days and years we march to the beat of our biologybut with our minds we have learned to follow time039s trail out to longer and longer intervalsphilosophers have wondered does time move like an arrow with all the phenomena in nature pushing toward an inevitable endor perhaps it moves in cycles that endlessly repeat and even perhaps restore what is there we know from precise measurements that the earth goes around the sun once every 365256366 days as the earth orbits with each hemisphere tilting toward and away from its parent star the seasons bring on cycles of life birth and reproduction decay and death only about one billionth of the sun039s energy actually hits the earth and much of that gets absorbed by dust and water vapor in the upper atmosphere what does make it down to the surface sets many planetary processes in motion you can see it in the annual melting and refreezing of ice at the poles the ebb and flow of heat in the tropical oceansthe seasonal cycles of chlorophyll production in plants on land and at sea and in the biosphere at largethese cycles are embedded in still longer earth cycles ocean currents for example are thought to make complete cycles ranging from four to around sixteen centuriesmoving out in time as the earth rotates on its axis it completes a series of interlocking wobbles called milankovic cycles every 23 to 41000 years they have been blamed for the onset of ice ages about every one hundred thousand years then there039s the carbon cycle it begins with rainfall over the oceans and coastal waves that pull carbon dioxide into the sea

global ice levels declining at alarming pace
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global ice levels are seen in rapid decline in this animation from nasa039s gravity recovery and climate experiment graceadd tdc to your circles on googlehttps:plusgooglecom100134925804523235350postsjoin the conversation on facebookhttp:wwwfacebookcomthedailyconversationfollow the daily conversation on twitterhttp:wwwtwittercomthedailyconvomusic:http:uploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommons55cfrederic_chopin_-_nocturne_eb_major_opus_92c_number_2ogg

japan nuclear meltdown update now the media gives us a ten second
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sound bite saying it worse than we reported now of to our contemporized bullshit that means nothing

pyramid ufo over china new amazingly clear footage
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double sunrises 3ds max animation
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the mercury039s double sunrises a surprising astronomical feature unique in the solar system done with 3ds max and rendered with mentalraymusic from: music4yourvidscouk

black hole meltdown in the galactic center
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black hole extravaganza in 1080p from esocast not long ago watching something being ripped apart as it falls towards a giant black hole would be science fiction this is now realityobservers under dark skies far from the bright city lights can marvel at the splendor of the milky way arching in an imposing band across the sky zooming in towards the center of our galaxy about 25000 light years away you can see that it is composed of myriads of starsthis is a pretty impressive sight but much is hidden from view by interstellar dust and astronomers need to look using a different wavelength the infrared that can penetrate the dust clouds with large telescopes astronomers can then see in detail the swarm of stars circling the supermassive black hole in the same way that the earth orbits the sunthe galactic center harbors the closest supermassive black hole known and the one that is also the largest in terms of its angular diameter on the sky making it the best choice for a detailed study of black holesthis black hole039s mass is a hefty four million times that of the sun earning it the title of supermassive black hole although it is huge this black hole is currently supplied with little material and is not shining brightly but this is about to changeusing eso039s very large telescope a team of astronomers has discovered a new object that is heading almost straight towards the black hole at vertiginous speed the object is not a star but a cloud of gasquotthe cloud consists mainly of hydrogen gas gas which we see anyhow in the galactic center all over the place this particular cloud weighs more or less three times the mass of earth so it039s a rather small and tiny blob only but it glows very brightly in the light of the stars which are surrounding it quotas the astronomers watch the cloud has been picking up pace as it gets closer to the giant black hole its speed has doubled in the last seven years and it is now speeding towards the black hole at more than 8 million kilometers per hourthe astronomers have already seen the cloud039s outer layers becoming more and more disrupted over the last few years as it approaches the black hole but the exciting part is yet to comequotthe black hole imagine it sitting here has a tremendous gravitational force and the cloud as it comes in it will be elongated and stretched it will become essentially like spaghetti it will be elongated and falling into the black holequotquotthe next few years will be really fantastic and exciting because we are probing the territory here this cloud comes and gets disrupted but now it will begin to interact with the hot gas right around the black hole we have never seen this beforequotno one knows what will happen next the cloud will probably heat up and may start to emit powerful x- rays as it gets disrupted in the end the material will eventually disappear by falling into the black hole for the scientists this event is truly a unique chance to probe the hot gas around the black holequotbut this process of how material gets into the black hole really is not clear to us we don039t understand it in any detail and here in the galactic center we have an opportunity so to speak to have a probe of this process how material really gets added to the black hole and what the physical processes are how the interactions happen in this very central region that039s a fantastic opportunityquotthis is indeed science fiction becoming science fact

energy in saudi arabia
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the report provides details of key power generation market players global operations and financial performancehttp:wwwmarketreportsonsaudiarabiacomenergy-utility-market-research-reports-3878power-generation-saudi-arabiahtml

symphony of science - 039we are all connected039 ft sagan feynman degrasse tyson amp bill nye
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solar plexus: the secret gravational system law of attraction in actionmp3 available at http:wwwsymphonyofsciencecom quotwe are all connectedquot was made from sampling carl sagan039s cosmos the history channel039s universe series richard feynman039s 1983 interviews neil degrasse tyson039s cosmic sermon and bill nye039s eyes of nye series plus added visuals from the elegant universe nova stephen hawking039s universe cosmos the powers of 10 and more it is a tribute to great minds of science intended to spread scientific knowledge and philosophy through the medium of music check out quota glorious dawnquot by carl sagan another symphony of science projecthttp:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=zsgixgeljbcand my website for more original music:http:wwwcolorpulsemusiccomclick hq to watch in better quality enjoyjohnjohnsymphonyofsciencecomlyrics:degrasse tysonwe are all connectedto each other biologicallyto the earth chemicallyto the rest of the universe atomicallyfeynmani think nature039s imaginationis so much greater than man039sshe039s never going to let us relaxsaganwe live in an in-between universewhere things change all rightbut according to patterns rulesor as we call them laws of naturenyei039m this guy standing on a planetreally i039m just a speckcompared with a star the planet is just another speckto think about all of thisto think about the vast emptiness of spacethere039s billions and billions of starsbillions and billions of speckssaganthe beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into itbut the way those atoms are put togetherthe cosmos is also within uswe039re made of star stuffwe are a way for the cosmos to know itselfacross the sea of spacethe stars are other sunswe have traveled this way beforeand there is much to be learnedi find it elevating and exhilaratingto discover that we live in a universewhich permits the evolution of molecular machinesas intricate and subtle as wedegrasse tysoni know that the molecules in my body are traceableto phenomena in the cosmosthat makes me want to grab people in the streetand say have you heard thisrichard feynman on hand drums and chantingfeynmanthere039s this tremendous messof waves all over in spacewhich is the light bouncing around the roomand going from one thing to the otherand it039s all really therebut you gotta stop and think about itabout the complexity to really get the pleasureand it039s all really therethe inconceivable nature of nature

light a fire with your pee
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can you use your pee to start a fire you039ll know after you see this if you like survival and fire-making techniques this video is a must seewwwthekingofrandomcomwarning: this project should not be attempted without adult supervision and adequate training misuse or careless use of tools or projects may result in serious injury property damage andor death use of this video content is at your own riskmusic by kevin macleod stormfront stomp dancehttp:incompetechcomthis isn039t looking good at all what was supposed to be an easy day hike is quickly turning into a life threatening situation you039re highest priority is to get a fire going before nightfall but you can039t use your water bottle because all your clean water is gone this is a challenge that039s going to require a little more creativity you039re going to have to light this fire with your pee for this project you039re going to need some of that special yellow liquid and the timing is great because with all that water you drank nature is calling you can use a container like your water bottle to collect as much as possible now that039s really not a lot and it looks like you039re still a little dehydrated but you039re going to have to make it work when you flip the bottle over and attempt the water bottle trick from a previous video it doesn039t seem to be working and that039s because you don039t have enough fluid in your bottle you try removing the label to see if that helps but it039s not making much of a difference ok time to check your lunch bag to see what other resources you have there039s a bag of celery sticks that could be useful but here039s something even better your apple is wrapped with a plastic wrap perfect carefully remove the wrapper making sure not to rip it and now you039re going to need some rocks when you place these rocks in a circle they039ve formed a crude concave mold the rocks help form the wrapper into a bowl shape and now you can add the liquid when it039s filled to the edges grab all the sides and hold them together at the top making this into a little liquid pouch twisting this pouch while holding at the top helps remove any air and seals the liquid inside when you twist the excess plastic around your middle finger like a ring then wrap it around the base to hold it in place the pressure can be adjusted and you039ve got yourself a great little liquid lens that039s easy to use it039s magnifying very well so time to test it out on some tinder one of the pages from your map should work perfectly so focus the sunlight on the darkest ink you can find because this will absorb the heat it039s incredible how quickly this starts smoking and where there039s smoke there039s a hope of fire a hole is burning in the paper now and when it039s about the size of a quarter it039s pretty well self sustaining without wasting any time try adding layers of dry grass and blowing gently to add some air it039s getting hot and smoking quite a bit so just blow a little stronger and success you039ve got a flame without wasting any time build your fire up and it039s finished you just lit a fire with your pee well there039s a little trick most people will never have to use but might be good to know just in case if you liked what you saw become a subscriber by clicking here and you039ll be notified when i post new videos give this video a thumbs up and share with your friends i appreciate your support thanks for watching

kanye west voyr: permanent
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ted talk tim jackson economics of climate change
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tim jackson currently serves as the economics commissioner on the uk government039s sustainable development commission and is director of resolve -- the research group on lifestyles values and environment after five years as senior researcher at the stockholm environment institute he bcame the professor of sustainable development at university of surrey and was the first person to hold that title at a uk university he founded resolve in may 2006 as an nter-disciplinary collaborationacross four areas -- ces psychology sociology and economics -- aiming to develop an understanding of the links between lifestyle societal values and the environmenthe is also the author of the influential book propserity without growth he serves as chair to the 039new energy solutions039 advisory board for danish investment company bankinvest and is associate researcher on a templeton foundation project on 039the pursuit of happiness039 tim is also an award-winning playwright and his environmental drama the cry of the bittern won a public awareness of science drama award in 1998 his most recent play variations won the 2007 grand prix marulic and is longlisted for the 2008 sony drama award