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Geographic
977 vistas · 12 años hace

Comedian Ben Bailey is quizzing people s common sense with a few trick questions. Think you can t be fooled? Listen carefully and play along to find out how you fare. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Get More Brain Games: https://on.natgeo.com/2TsW5P4 About Brain Games: Are you ready for a truly mind-blowing experience? The Emmy® Award nominated Brain Games features interactive games and experiments designed to mess with your mind and reveal the inner-workings of your brain, exploring the science of perception, memory, attention, illusion, stress, morality, attraction, anger, and much more. Hailed by critics as "tremendous fun" that "makes science entertaining," Brain Games turns your mind s eye inwards for a fascinating journey into the three and a half pounds of tissue that makes you... you. All 8 Seasons of Brain Games are now available on Disney+. About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world s premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, Nat Geo gets you closer to the stories that matter and past the edge of what s possible. Get More National Geographic: Official Site: http://bit.ly/NatGeoOfficialSite Facebook: http://bit.ly/FBNatGeo Twitter: http://bit.ly/NatGeoTwitter Instagram: http://bit.ly/NatGeoInsta Brain Teasers | Brain Games https://youtu.be/6D81BW2CzOU National Geographic https://www.youtube.com/natgeo

Newsinsvideos
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Just felt like doing something a little different. Google Play Link: https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bq6fr2pfddjpqyyxsa6d5cxz4kq&tid=song-Tbxcxlru2x3inpp62hcqohrnhte Lyrics: Circles and cycles and seasons, In everything there s always reason, Let s take our time (I wish you d say), How you feel inside. x2 Circles and cycles and seasons, In everything there s always reason, To Justify (I wish you d say), How you feel inside. Playstore link: http://play.google.com/store/music/artist?id=Axfbx2mgd3s2dh3tb6bxixxvs4y Soundcloud Link: https://soundcloud.com/burnwater/wish-you-were-here Vocals sampled from You+ Me - "Break the Cycle" » My music | http://burnwater.bandcamp.com or » http://www.soundcloud.com/burnwater » Google + | http://www.google.com/+coldfustion » Facebook | http://www.facebook.com/ColdFusionTV » Patreon | https://www.patreon.com/ColdFusion_TV Editing website: www.cfnstudios.com » Twitter | @Coldfustion

Newsinsvideos
2,278 vistas · 12 años hace

This is part 2 of a 3 part Nokia documentary series. In this episode we ll be taking the how Nokia rose to prominence through innovation and great company insight. Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyRb_4-cquc Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJS1C-j7TX4 Soundtrack: Burn Water (Dagogo Altraide) - Hide Bon Iver -Perth (BASKE Tear Up Bootleg) SAINT PEPSI - Alright Nick Leng - Crawled Out Of The Sea Toyboy & Robin - Don t Just Say Mura Masa - ill be alright (tonight) SNAKEHIPS - WHAT U R Kyson - Shadows Cross Bruised Skies & Twin Empire - Without You Sunny Day Real Estate - The Rising Tide » Google + | http://www.google.com/+coldfustion » Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/ColdFusionTV » Patreon | https://www.patreon.com/ColdFusion_TV » My music | http://burnwater.bandcamp.com or » http://www.soundcloud.com/burnwater » More music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOrJJKW31OA Editing website: www.cfnstudios.com ColdfusTion Android Launcher: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nqr.coldfustion.com&hl=en » Twitter | @Coldfustion

AmazingPlaces
1,809 vistas · 12 años hace

Cruising the Galápagos Archipelago - known for its endemic species, and for the historic research done by Charles Darvin. The Galápagos Islands were among the first group of sites added to the World Heritage List in 1978. The human presence is restricted to small number of sites, and the local species almost completely ignore the humans that come close. The sites in the order of appearance in the video: Moreno Point (Punta Moreno) - Isabela island, Urbina Bay - Isabela, Espinoza Point (Punta Espinosa) - Fernandina, Tagus Cove and Darwin Lake - Isabela, Egas Port (Puerto Egas) - Santiago, Espumilla Beach - Santiago, Daphne, Bartolome and the beach on Santiago across the bay from Bartolome, Kicker Rock (Leon Dormido) and the close by beach on San Cristobal. Recorded December 2014 in 4K (Ultra HD) with Sony AX100. Music: “Fire In The Belly” from the album Embrace The Moment, an album of instrumental yoga and relaxation music. Composed by Jai and Herrin Larkan. Flutes by Chris Lane. https://herrin.com.au The album can be purchased here: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/embrace-the-moment/id1061347158 https://open.spotify.com/artist/2hMdpZBLEcaTHR8yI4IB5U https://music.apple.com/us/artist/herrin/1003844733 https://herrin.bandcamp.com/ -------------------------------------- Immerse yourself in Amazing Places on Our Planet without the distraction of words. New 4K video every Friday or every second Friday. Filmed and Edited by Milosh Kitchovitch (business inquiries: https://www.milosh9k.com/contact) YouTube: https://youtube.com/milosh9k Website: https://milosh9k.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/milosh9k Instagram: https://instagram.com/milosh9k Twitter: https://twitter.com/milosh9k More Amazing Places in 4K: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwJH-XOKXh0g2FJ-6J5JuAowQd7R9M1lP

self-sustainability
1,847 vistas · 12 años hace

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Newsinsvideos
2,449 vistas · 12 años hace

New channel, same exact format, same narrator, just... new sin-target: music videos. They re pretty f*cked up. EWW Taylor Swift "You Belong With Me": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl-nsSjqf64 EWW Miley Cyrus "Party In The U.S.A.": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3YEjFHa2M4 Channel page: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUBq8oBRVTsMpjWiHfjJpDw Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/cinemasins-store

Newsinsvideos
4,812 vistas · 12 años hace

They made a sequel to that first Percy Jackson movie? Oh well, better go looking for sins either way. Remember, no movie is without sin. Which movie s sins do YOU want to see recounted? Tweet us: http://twitter.com/cinemasins Tumble us: http://cinema-sins.tumblr.com Call us: 405-459-7466 Reddit with us: http://reddit.com/r/cinemasins Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/cinemasins-store

SCIENCE
2,635 vistas · 12 años hace

We prove how nice guys actually finish first! Check out Slugbooks: http://slugbooks.com/asapscience GET OUR BOOK: http://asapscience.com SUBSCRIBE (it s free): bit.ly/asapsci This episode was based on "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins which you can check out here: http://amzn.to/1IuTS68 FOLLOW US--- Instagram and Twitter: @whalewatchmeplz and @mitchellmoffit Clickable: http://bit.ly/16F1jeC and http://bit.ly/15J7ube Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1fjWszw Twitter: http://bit.ly/1d84R71 Tumblr: http://bit.ly/1amIPjF Vine: Search "AsapSCIENCE" on vine! Created by Mitchell Moffit (twitter @mitchellmoffit) and Gregory Brown (twitter @whalewatchmeplz). Send us stuff! ASAPSCIENCE INC. P.O. Box 93, Toronto P Toronto, ON, M5S2S6

Rip
2,153 vistas · 12 años hace

From HubbleCast. The Hubble Space Telescope has returned to one of its most famous landmarks: the Eagle Nebula, also known as the Pillars of Creation. The revolutionary space telescope has delivered a new visible-light image as well as a revealing infrared image. These two images show the Eagle Nebula in more detail than ever before.

self-sustainability
4,443 vistas · 12 años hace

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Cain
651 vistas · 12 años hace

Have you ever wondered how much water it would take to put out the Sun? It turns out, the Sun isn t on fire. So what would happen if you did try to hit the Sun with a tremendous amount of water? Here s a link to the vsauce video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYf6av21x5c Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: http://www.universetoday.com/ Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Follow us on Tumblr: http://universetoday.tumblr.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Google+ - https://plus.google.com/+universetoday/ Instagram - http://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain Jason Harmer - @jasoncharmer Susie Murph - @susiemmurph Brian Koberlein - @briankoberlein Chad Weber - weber.chad@gmail.com Kevin Gill - @kevinmgill Created by: Fraser Cain and Jason Harmer Edited by: Chad Weber Music: Left Spine Down - “X-Ray” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tcoZNrSveE&feature=youtu.be How much water would it take to extinguish the Sun? I recently saw this great question on Reddit, and I couldn t resist taking a crack at it: We know that the question doesn t make a lot of sense. A fire is a chemical reaction, where material releases heat as it oxidizes. If you take away oxygen from a fire, it goes out. But.. there’s no oxygen in space, it’s a vacuum. So, there’s not a whole lot of room for regular flavor water-extinguishable fire in space. You know this. How many times have we had to seal off the living quarters and open the bay doors to vent all the oxygen in the space because there was a fire in the cargo bay? We have to do that, like, all the time. Our wonderful Sun is something quite different. It’s a nuclear fusion reaction, converting hydrogen atoms into helium under the immense temperatures and pressures at its core. It doesn t need oxygen to keep producing energy. It’s already got its fuel baked in. All the Sun needs is our adoration, quiet, and yet ever present fear. Only if we constantly pray will it be happy and perhaps we’ll go another day where it doesn t hurl a giant chunk of itself at our smug little faces because it’s tired of our shenanigans. So, I’m still going to take a swing at this question… so let’s talk about what would happen if you did pour a tremendous amount of water on the Sun? Let’s say another Sun’s worth of H20. Conveniently, Hydrogen is what the Sun uses for fuel, so if you give the Sun more hydrogen, it should just get larger and hotter. Oxygen is one of the byproducts of fusion. Right now, our Sun is turning hydrogen into helium using the proton-proton fusion reaction. But there’s another type of reaction that happens in there called the carbon-nitrogen-oxygen reaction. As of right now, only 0.8% of the Sun’s fusion reactions proceed along this path. So if you fed the Sun more oxygen as part of the water, it would allow it to perform more of these fusion reactions too. For stars which are 1.3 times the mass of the Sun, this CNO reaction is the main way fusion is taking place. So, if we did dump a giant pile of water onto the Sun, we’d just be making Sun bigger and hotter. Conveniently, larger hotter stars burn for a shorter amount of time before they die. The largest, most massive stars only last a few million years and then they explode as supernovae. So, if you’re out to destroy the Sun, and you’re playing a really, really long game, this might actually be a viable route. I’m pretty sure that wasn t the intent though. Let’s say we just want to snuff out the Sun. Vsauce provides a strategy for this. If you could somehow blast your water at the Sun at high enough velocity, you might be able to tear it apart. If you can reduce the Sun’s mass, you can decrease the temperature and pressure in its core so that it can no longer support fusion reactions. I’m going to sum up. The Sun isn t on fire. There’s no amount of water you could add that would quench it, you’d just make it explode, but if you used firehoses that could spray water at nearly the speed of light, you could probably shut the thing off and eventually freeze us all, which is what I think you were hoping for in the first place. What do you think? What else could we do to snuff out the Sun? Thanks for watching! Never miss an episode by clicking subscribe. Our Patreon community is the reason these shows happen. We’d like to thank Richard Wayne Rigdon Matthew Jones and the rest of the members who support us in making great space and astronomy content. Members get advance access to episodes, extras, contests, and other shenanigans with Jay, myself and the rest of the team. Want to get in on the action? Click here.

Journeyman
693 vistas · 12 años hace

Did the Tsunami bring good to the Maldives? Wave of Change (2005) - How the waves strengthened the Maldives fight against corruption and global warming Subscribe to Journeyman for news and science reports every weekday: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=journeymanpictures.html For downloads and more information visit: http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=18331 The Maldives have always faced two main problems – the threat of global warming and government by dictatorship. Bizarrely, the Tsunami appears to have had a positive impact on both. “The tide is now three to four times higher than it was 100 years ago,” states scientist Dr Ali. The government attempted to deal with this threat by building a artificial island high above sea level. When the Tsunami struck, it used this opportunity to permanently re-house residents on the nine lowest lying islands. Unexpectedly, the President also released political prisoners and promised multi-party democracy. Critics claim this is just a cynical ploy to attract more aid. But released prisoners believe these changes will be permanent. “I don’t see that things can be reversed. We’ve past the point of no return.” ABC Australia - Ref no. 2604 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world s most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world s top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you ll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.

Journeyman
1,506 vistas · 12 años hace

Aceh Rebels After the Flood (2005): Reporter Martin Adler travels behind rebel lines in post-Tsunami Aceh, in Indonesia. Subscribe to Journeyman for more: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=journeymanpictures.html For similar stories see our Indonesia playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlGSlkijht5iBoVsjVzVD-cFToP0GC6dd The Ethnic Cleansing In Aceh That Nobody Knows About https://youtu.be/PkASy36MUvU Sharia Law In Indonesia https://youtu.be/r7lFLKgizQE GAM rebels vow the imminent cease-fire won’t stop them working for an independent Aceh. But how has the Tsunami affected their chance of success? Exclusively, journalist Martin Adler has entered rebel territory and is the first reporter to hear their side of the story. From their vantage point in the mountain, insurgents watched the wave flatten local villages. Although none of GAM’s fighters were killed, their source of supplies has been wiped out and families killed. But the Tsunami has also brought their struggle for independence to the world’s attention. They know it could be a turning point in the war and will use any proposed cease-fire to regroup. “It may be peace or it may be war but we will still mobilise our forces,” states Commander Muharram, GAM’s top leader in North Aceh. Powerful frontline journalism! Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journeymanpictures Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JourneymanVOD https://twitter.com/JourneymanNews Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/journeymanpictures For downloads and more information visit: http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=18085 Martin Adler - Ref no. 2552 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world s most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world s top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you ll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.

Now
3,962 vistas · 12 años hace

Finally, our first South American country. Now shut up and do the Tango with me. http://facebook.com/GeographyNowFanpage http://instagram.com/GeographyNow_Official http://twitter.com/GeographyNow Become a patron! Donate anything and Get exclusive behind the scenes footage! All profits go towards helping me pay my rent so I can focus more of doing GN videos. Go to: http://patreon.com/GeographyNow

construction
1,908 vistas · 12 años hace

The 3 levels of Building Information Modelling (BIM) maturity explained in simple terms! (including BIM Level 2 and BIM Level 3). Lots of people talk about the different levels of BIM, but what do they actually mean? Well the levels run from 0-3 and are used as measures of BIM maturity; that is the construction supply chain’s ability to operate and exchange digital information. Level 0 is essentially the use of computer aided design (or CAD tools) to create drawings and drawn elements using IT software. It’s the first step up from generating information by hand. By contrast levels 1-3 deal with varying degrees of modelling, collaboration and eventually the exchange of fully integrated, interoperable data. Within Level 1, we progress from CAD to generate suites of 2D information, followed by non-federated 3D models. Level 2 sees the progression to building information models and the federation of those models between different parties in the project team. Federation takes place within a single shared online area known as a common data environment. In broad terms, Level 2 is defined as “file based collaboration and library management” but we’ll take a closer look at what that really means in a moment. Level 3 envisages a wholly integrated project information model, hosted and fully developed in a common data environment, by all members of the project team in real time. That model could then be passed to the Employer for use in lifecycle management as an ‘Asset Information Model’. The 0-3 Levels of BIM maturity are different to the various dimensions of building information model data. In addition to 3D drawn information, attribute data can be included at 4D, 5D and 6D. 4D refers to time or project programme information, 5D to refers to cost data and 6D facilities management. The key thing here is that these are dimensions, not levels. All of these elements could be found within a Level 2 or Level 3 BIM model. The wedge-shaped diagram in this video was developed by Mark Bew and Mervyn Richards and is hence known at the Bew-Richards BIM Maturity Model. Spanish sub-titles provided by Iria Carreira (https://twitter.com/iriacarreira). For more BIM videos click here to subscribe now - http://ow.ly/GxW7y The B1M is the definitive video resource for building information modelling (BIM). We want to inspire a million people through our videos to help mobilise BIM adoption around the world. View this video and more at http://www.TheB1M.com Follow us on Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/TheB1M Like us on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/TheB1M Follow us on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-b1m-ltd B1M pictures on - http://instagram.com/theb1m/ We welcome you sharing our content to inspire others, but please be nice and play by our rules: http://www.theb1m.com/guidelines-for-sharing Our content may only be embedded onto third party websites by arrangement. We have established partnerships with domains to share our content and help it reach a wider audience. If you are interested in partnering with us please contact Enquiries@TheB1M.com. Ripping and/or editing this video is illegal and will result in legal action. © 2014 The B1M Limited | Share + Inspire

construction
2,322 vistas · 12 años hace

Join Simon Lovegrove and Trevor Woods for a comprehensive explanation of what 5D BIM is and how it can help Estimators and QSs working in a building information modelling (BIM) environment. Presented by Exactal in association with The B1M. Filmed at University of Westminster, London, in 2014. For more BIM videos click here to subscribe now - http://ow.ly/GxW7y The B1M is the definitive video resource for building information modelling (BIM). We want to inspire a million people through our videos to help mobilise BIM adoption around the world. View this video and more at http://www.TheB1M.com Follow us on Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/TheB1M Like us on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/TheB1M Follow us on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-b1m-ltd B1M pictures on - http://instagram.com/theb1m/ We welcome you sharing our content to inspire others, but please be nice and play by our rules: http://www.theb1m.com/guidelines-for-sharing Our content may only be embedded onto third party websites by arrangement. We have established partnerships with domains to share our content and help it reach a wider audience. If you are interested in partnering with us please contact Enquiries@TheB1M.com. Ripping and/or editing this video is illegal and will result in legal action. © 2015 The B1M Limited | Share + Inspire

construction
4,108 vistas · 12 años hace

Forget what you may have heard about building information modelling (BIM) for a moment.... and just imagine. Presented by Fred Mills. For more videos click here to subscribe now - http://ow.ly/GxW7y View this video and more at http://www.TheB1M.com Follow us on Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/TheB1M Like us on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/TheB1M Follow us on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-b1m-ltd B1M pictures on - http://instagram.com/theb1m/ We welcome you sharing our content to inspire others, but please be nice and play by our rules: http://www.theb1m.com/guidelines-for-sharing Our content may only be embedded onto third party websites by arrangement. We have established partnerships with domains to share our content and help it reach a wider audience. If you are interested in partnering with us please contact Enquiries@TheB1M.com. Ripping and/or editing this video is illegal and will result in legal action. © 2014 The B1M Limited

self-sustainability
1,331 vistas · 12 años hace

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self-sustainability
1,234 vistas · 12 años hace

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Cain
3,197 vistas · 12 años hace

Think big. Really big. Like, cosmic big. How big can things in the Universe get? Is a galaxy big? What about a supercluster? What is the biggest thing in the Universe? More info on the Great Attrractor here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4nv-cP_qqg Ethan Siegel s Starts With a Bang https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-supercluster-d28272ec7796 Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: http://www.universetoday.com/ Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Follow us on Tumblr: http://universetoday.tumblr.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Google+ - https://plus.google.com/+universetoday/ Instagram - http://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain Jason Harmer - @jasoncharmer Susie Murph - @susiemmurph Brian Koberlein - @briankoberlein Chad Weber - weber.chad@gmail.com Kevin Gill - @kevinmgill Created by: Fraser Cain and Jason Harmer Edited by: Chad Weber Music: Left Spine Down - “X-Ray” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tcoZNrSveE&feature=youtu.be Our observable Universe is a sphere 96 billion light-years across, and the entire Universe might be infinite in size. Which is a hoarders dream walk-in closet space stuffed full of “things”. It’s loaded down with so much stuff, we ve even given up naming things individually and now just spew out a list of letters and numbers to try and keep track of it all. So, as is traditional, in a fit of adolescent OCD and one-upmanship reserved generally for things like tanks, planes and guns, we’re drawn to the question... What’s the biggest thing in the Universe. Well, 14 year old Fraser Cain, put down your copy of “Weapons and Warfare Volume 3” which you picked up at the dollar store as part of an incomplete set, as this is going to get a little tricky. It all depends on what you mean by a “thing”. The biggest physical object is probably a star. The largest possible red giant star could be as big as 2,100 times the size our Sun. Placed inside our own Solar System, a monster star like this would extend out past the orbit of Saturn. That’s big, but we might be able to get even bigger if we’re willing to get past the idea that a “thing” has to be a homogeneous physical object. Consider the regions around supermassive black holes. Within our own galaxy, things are pretty quiet, but around actively feeding black holes, there can be disks of material with such temperature and density that they act like the core of a star, fusing hydrogen into helium. Which, purely based on high volumetric density of pure awesome, I’m going to call a thing. An accretion disk around a quasar could be light days across, extending well past the orbit of Pluto and killing us all, if you dumped it in our Solar System. If we’re going to be all philosophical about what constitutes a “thing” and you’re not all fussy about physical structure and just want a collection of material held together by gravity, then we can really can make some leaps and bounds in our “who’s got the biggest” measuring contest. Our own galaxy extends up to 120,000 light-years across. There are much larger galaxies, ones that make the Milky Way look like that cat leash pendant from Men In Black 2. And ours is just one contained within a much larger cluster of galaxies known, rather unimaginatively, as the Local Group. Don’t let the centrist name fool you, this cluster contains around 50 galaxies and measures more than 10 million light-years across. And we’re just getting started. The Local Group is one part of the Virgo Supercluster. A massive galactic structure that measures 110 million light-years apart. In 2014, astronomers announced that the Virgo Supercluster is just one lobe of an even larger structure, beautifully known as Laniakea, or “Immeasurable heaven” in Hawaiian. The name originated from Nawa a Napoleon, an associate professor of Hawaiian Language at Kapiolani Community College. It honors the Polynesian sailors using “heavenly knowledge” navigating the Pacific Ocean, reminding us that romance is still alive and well in space and astronomy. Laniakea is centered around the Great Attractor - a mysterious source of gravity drawing galaxies towards it. I almost forgot about our size contest. So who’s got the biggest space thing? According to buzzkill Ethan Siegel from the Starts With a Bang blog, you can’t actually have a structure that’s as big as Laniakea, and call it a thing. The fine-print reality is that the expansion of the Universe is being accelerated by dark energy. These galaxies are being pushed apart by dark energy faster than gravity can pull them together. So they’d never be able to form into a single object given enough time.




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