Big Pictures Convinced Me the World Is Old: Extended Discussion
Channel: Eric Mickelsen
Date: 01/11/2015

Some of the most interesting and impressive images ever created changed how I look at the universe forever.  They convinced me that the world is old.
Just the pictures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yvtQZ_AWBM

Simulating a Universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGNLyYGpv8Y

NOAA
https://www.flickr.com/photos/noaaphotolib

NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html

ESA
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images

2-degree field redshift survey
http://www.2dfgrs.net/

ETOPO1 Global Relief Model
Amante, C. and B.W. Eakins, 2009. ETOPO1 1 Arc-Minute Global Relief Model: Procedures, Data Sources and Analysis. NOAA Technical Memorandum NESDIS NGDC-24. National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA. doi:10.7289/V5C8276M [access date: 9/30/2015].

NASA Earth Observatory image and animation by Robert Simmon, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data provided courtesy of Chris Elvidge (NOAA National Geophysical Data Center). Suomi NPP is the result of a partnership between NASA, NOAA, and the Department of Defense. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

Broken rock fragments and cracks on the seafloor are indicative of a highly faulted terrain. Atlantic Ocean, Mid-Atlantic Ridge. 2005 July.
Credit: IFE, URI-IAO, UW, Lost City Science Party; NOAA/OAR/OER; The Lost City 2005 Expedition.

The manipulator arm of the Hercules ROV sampling a rock in an area of iron-stained hydrothermal alteration on the Atlantis Massif. Atlantic Ocean, Mid-Atlantic Ridge. 2005 July.
Credit: IFE, URI-IAO, UW, Lost City Science Party; NOAA/OAR/OER; The Lost City 2005 Expedition.

"Alfred Wegener 1910" by Unknown - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg Aufnahme-Nr. 426.293. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons

Þingvellir from the information centre
By Ivan Sabljak (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Flosagjá at Þingvellir
By Hansueli Krapf (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Cañón Silfra, Parque Nacional de Þingvellir
Diego Delso [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

2008 Age Grid Whole-World Images
https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/crustalimages.html
Mr. Elliot Lim, CIRES & NOAA/NGDC

Numerical Simulation of the Large-Scale Tectonic Changes Accompanying the Flood
John R. Baumgardner, PhD.

Donkey Kong Arcade Machine from the 1980s
by Alexisrael
CC BY-SA 3.0

The full size Noah's Ark in Dordrecht, Netherlands
Ceinturion
CC BY-SA 3.0

Sharpest ever view of the Andromeda Galaxy
http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/
NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton (University of Washington, USA), B. F. Williams (University of Washington, USA), L. C. Johnson (University of Washington, USA), the PHAT team, and R. Gendler.

Zooming in on the Andromeda Galaxy
https://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1502a/
NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2, N. Risinger (Skysurvey.org), J. Dalcanton (University of Washington, USA), B. F. Williams (University of Washington, USA), L. C. Johnson (University of Washington, USA), the PHAT team, and R. Gendler.

ESO 77-14
NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
Release Date: April 24, 2008

Earth's Location in the Universe
Andrew Z. Colvin
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

2-Degree Field Redshift Survey Blue-on-white and 2-Degree Field rotating slice movie 
http://www.roe.ac.uk/~jap/2df/
Reproduction of these images is fair use as part of a critical discussion of publicly available data.

First 3D Map of the Universe's Dark Matter Scaffolding
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/First_3D_map_of_the_Universe_s_dark_matter_scaffolding
NASA, ESA and R. Massey (California Institute of Technology)

"Orecchiette carbonara" by Foodista - originally posted to Flickr as Photo of Orecchiette Carbonara. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Commons

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Remedy for Melancholy by Kai Engel CC BY 4.0

Cylinder Nine by Chris Zabriskie CC BY 4.0

Sunset by Kai Engel CC BY 4.0

Golden by Little Glass Men CC BY 4.0

Pick Up a Convict on Alcatraz by Chris Zabriskie CC BY 4.0

Thank God For Secular Humanists by Apache Tomcat CC BY-SA 4.0