why not - more simply - a cosmos existing eternally by itself? without "god" or a "ground of being"? adding god adds what? dirk offers a teleology of sorts - the claim of cosmic flow toward human existence. well, most scientists will have none of this. to them, whether or not the universe has a beginning, god is very much not needed. i meet the co-author, with stephen hawking, of the grand design, physicist leonard mlodinow. len argues that the nature of time - not the manipulations of god - explains the origin of the universe. when we ask how something begins we think about maybe something we see in the present and we trace it down to time to a point where before which it didn't exist. and that, so that's the beginning. that assumes that time is the way we learn about in school which is a linear a number like a number line and there's a zero and then there's beyond a zero. but modern physics tells us that time isn't really like that. the universe as we go back in time was smaller and smaller and smaller and we also know that as all the matter an

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planet which is sixty three line tears away from us and probably rains a melting glass check out the cosmos wonders on our website. while you as well visit our emotion page what was still the best media is for you on the latest events and today it's a brazilian workers protest which was swallowed in and swallowed in flame as police violently despite its rises had to call right now for that and much more the sign. in northern ireland over thirty police officers and an m.p. were injured in rioting after the annual loyalists parade in belfast turned violent the pro british orange order march attended by thousands fled because they were the traditional route was shortened to stop at passing through six terran flashpoint police have to resort to water cannons to stop the angry mob entering the nationalist neighborhood. reports now from belfast i can't. even get this right next to. me but. i. want to. find out. that this is the big brother like bilbo that you can see in the background. between the police and the brother who is right though the core of the barrel is wrong the buffalo is being floo

russia on the will comply with the kremlin is condition to stop harming the us but motion to the cosmos with a burglarizing a propaganda platform to the whistleblower. yours with a gun tom when you take a nice say there's no indication of the mass hunger strike is ending despite u.s. officials claiming most of the protesting prisoners have eaten a meal for the first time since february. the violence in belfast past clashes break out of the annual orange order parade despite a heavy police presence. on the war within a syrian rebel spokesman tells all save the west should be cautious about supplying arms to the anti assad front she claims has been hired by al kind an intimate.

decision making process that's had to take place and the crucial thing right now and i know ross cosmos will be looking at this immediately the crucial thing right now is to look at the systems that are in place to look at the decisions that were made to identify where the failures were and to take some action and show that actually being taken to alleviate that problem just turned fifteen minutes past the hour now with more news including the latest on protests in egypt as hundreds of thousands demand president morsi to step down we go live to carlos tell his square . download the official publication. stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch r.t. anytime anywhere. continues here and on the clock is ticking for egypt's president mohamed morsi as the wednesday ultimatum for government action approaches immense crowds determined to oust the is mis leader still showed no intention of leaving carter's town his square and there's a live pictures from there at the moment here on now a draft by th

decision making process that's had to take place and the crucial thing right now and i know ross cosmos will be looking at this immediately the crucial thing right now is to look at the systems that are in place to look at the decisions that were made to identify where the failures were and to take some action and show that action is being taken to alleviate that problem and finally patrick just briefly why does appear that manned flights are safer than these unmanned ones. well it's very good that that's the case isn't it and certainly i would feel quite confident sitting on top of a soyuz launch or going into space right now that's that's no problem at all there are two very different launch vehicles the fuel systems that are used are very different in this case in the case of the proton it's a hyperbolic system a combination of hydrazine nitrogen tetroxide which is the reason that people are very concerned about the environmental impact of this in the case of the soyuz launcher the rocket fuel liquid kerosene and liquid oxygen which is a very different proposition so the two launches

let's make a cosmo. that is a lot of vodka. anderson you are the best so i do love you. here is to you for real. >> anderson, congratulations on your new season and you better get to the drunken monkey. [applause] [cheering] >> congratulations. [applause] and she really talks like that. and those lips anderson are like this. she talks like that. i almost thought she was a man. >> anderson: is she a dude? >> no, she had a baby. dudes cannot have babies no matter how many sex changes took place. >> anderson: part of the things i do not get is i am not a drinker, i don't like drinking. i will have wine now and then. but there is this other story i saw in the news that is causing outrage and it's inappropriate. urban outfitters a store that i like to shop at. plain t-shirts i buy there. they are selling this line of t-shirts and their target market is young people 18-25. and they are selling all the pro drinking shirts. like i drink you're cute. >> and i vote for vodka. >> anderson: p this other shirt misery loves alcohol? >> now, that is crazy. >> anderson: i don't think --

the u.s., represented by nasa, russia represented by cosmos, japan represented by their space agency,a, the canadian space agency. then 19 european administrations represented european space station. >> what are the obvious things from time to time that you degree about among those nations? >> flight opportunities. who is going to get their astronaut to fly in space. and the agreement, it's a treaty that brought us together as this entity. this is one reason i think that -- on a sidenote -- i think the international space station should be nominated for the nobel peace prize. you asked this question earlier about the u.s. and russia, our relationship. the international space station is a working relationship, a conglomea -- con glokglom racial -- a con depfment lomeration of 20 different countries. every one of them wanting to do what they want to do. and the flight opportunities have come with donations to the station. there is no exchange of funds except between us and russia. every other nation it is in kind. they either put a module up, they take components that go into the statio

. >> than another world like ours because it changes the way we look at the cosmos. >> reporter: hardillions of stars in the universe, it wasn't until 1995 that scientists were 100% sure they had found a planet beyond our solar system. since then, 71 planets have been discovered including 132 confirmed by kepler. the space craft went off line in may due to a mechanical issue that nasa hopes to fix. but scientists still have 18 months of data to comb through in the search for more planets. some are freezing cold. think neptune at minus 360 degrees fahrenheit. some are scalding hot. think mercury which can reach 800 degrees. but the hunt is for what scientists call the goldilocks planet. not too hot, not too cold, making them a lot like earth. kepler researcher tom barkley found one of the first goldilocks. did you yell? did you go eureka? >> to some extent it was reliefment finally we've done it. >> reporter: it helps to have a telescope in outer space and the use of $100 million super computer to crunch the numbers. that dimming so many light years away is beyond miniscule. >> this is

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. >>> and cosmo not. an unmanned russian rocket nose dives moments after launch and explodes into a massive fireball. what went wrong? today tuesday, july 2nd, 2013. >>> from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a tuesday morning. >> i'm willie geist along with natalie morales. thousands attended the service for the firefighters that died battling a dangerous wildfire. >> this is a community in mourning and the fire is spreading and threatening more homes. we'll talk to the widow of one of the fallen. andrew ashcraft. she shared to us the final photo he texted her showing him and fellow member of the team moment before the fire made its devastating fatal turn. but first, the latest on the investigation. let's get right to nbc's miguel almaguer. good morning to you. >> reporter: savannah, good morning. in the next day or two firefighters hope to know more about what happened on the day so many

having someone who works with the "cosmo" poll motel in las vegas, caesar's palace, do you think those maids, valet parkers, janitors should have somebody to -- represent them when they fire them or there's a labor dispute? the nlrb goes out of business august 1st. so we're not interested in cutting a deal topaz one, two, or three nominees. the president deserves to have his team in place, and there are no more major objections or qualifications to any of the nominees. all we need is six to invoke cloture. let them vote against the people. why should they hold them up in an up or down vote procedurally? it's not about democrats and republicans. typical about having a president. this time obama having the team in place. in three and a half years, it may be president clinton, maybe president biden. maybe president bush. shouldn't they be able to have the team they want? that is what this is about. it's about making washington work regardless who is the president. if there's a single person out who thinks washington is working well. you can search for them, but one place walk there down t

and "cosmo's" 50 ways to make your man say americans must pay with blood for the deaths of muslims abroadrold ford jr. and mark mckinnon in washington. our lead story this morning, editors at "rolling stone" magazine are now speaking out in defense of their latest cover. it features what some call a glamorized rock star photo of accused boston bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev. cvs said, we believe this is the right decision out of respect for the victims. and rigte-aid said the issue is being removed from stores. slamming the issue, writing the magazine's founder, saying, quote, it awards a terrorist with celebrity treatment and reaffirms a terrible message that destruction gains fame from their killers and their causes. saying, part, the cover story falls within the traditions of journalism and "rolling stone's" long-standing commitment. the fact that tsarnaev is young and in the same age group as many of our readers makes it all the more important for us to examine the complexities of this issue and gain a more complete understanding of how a tragedy like this happens. and this isn't new for "r

about having someone, as i explained to my caucus who at a cosmo ol policy tannin who at the times in vegas. do you think the maids, managers and janitors should have somebody to represent them when they he fire them. >> the nlrb goes out of business august 1st. we are not interested in cutting a deal to pass one, two or three nominees. the president deserves to have his team in place, and there are no more major objections to the qualifications of these nominees. all we need is six. let them vote against theme people. why should they hold them on an up or down vote procedurally? this isn't about dempsters or republicans. it is about having a president having his team in place. in 3 1/2 years it may be president clinton, maybe president biden, maybe president bush. but shouldn't they be able to have the team they want? this is about making washington work regardless of who is the president. if there is a single person out there who thinks washington is working well, you can search for him, but walk down that hall. mitch mcconnell thinks the status quo is terrific. the only person who

. >> truly cosmo and worldly. >> you know i'm not. >> this is mean. >> vigilantes. >> the vigilantes back, because, if, in fact, it was an orchestrated attempt, to talk about down interest rates after 254, what's going to happen in the next couple of weeks is going to be quite interesting because it is going to actually be an outcome here, either the fed is going to take control of something they had control of the last three.5 years or will lose control in the next three weeks. itself the way it looks to me that the bond market is shaping up right now. >> you, considering what you think about the economy, can you tell us whether earnings are going to be sort of middling? is that how you put it in. >> i think that's a consensus right now. i think expectations are low in the second quarter. they may accelerate based on a modesting a sell rakes in the economy which has gotten everybody excited over the last number of weeks. at newberg, one of the hallmarks is we are too focused. we try not to get caught up in the short-term back and forth of the marks. our long-term record would kit th

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cosmos were huge after sex in the city, weren't they?best friends kelly taylor and brenda walsh each dated which guy? brandon walsh, dylan mckay, steve sanders? >> "c"? >> finally, somebody goes home with "scandalous." >> good, she's been waiting for you. look how happy she seemed. okay, so dylan mckay. the bad boy, tell us about that. >> i mean -- friends don't have to break up over guys, and if dylan mckay is on the offer, i think you should date him. >> he's the bad boy. who doesn't want him? >> irresistible. totally irresistible. >> back across to kathie. >> this is a girl from alabama, who is dying to lose so she can get my cd. finish this lyric from the 1996 spice girls song "wannabe." ♪ if you want to be my lover ♪ you got to get with my friends ♪ ♪ make love forever >> friendship never ends. >> not the right key, but it was good. >> classic spice girl hit, hit of the '90s, and i love she can still sing it. we all can probably still sing it. >> almost all of us. i don't know if kathie can. back across to kath. >> all right, from c