Hi-res, all-sky Milky Way interactive panorama...
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Hi-res, all-sky Milky Way interactive panorama...
http://home.arcor.de/axel.mellinger/ (Linky goes to interactive version.)
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Re: Hi-res, all-sky Milky Way interactive panorama...
That's pretty awesome. I'll show it to my daughter tomorrow, but I don't think her 5 year old brain can comprehend it all. May as well start on her now! 

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Definitely! Start her on appreciating the vastness and beauty of the cosmos now. It'll make a very deep, lasting impression,I think!FIO wrote:That's pretty awesome. I'll show it to my daughter tomorrow, but I don't think her 5 year old brain can comprehend it all. May as well start on her now!
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"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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And in other news, some old space junk got re-imaged the other day.
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Dad-blasted Korean software. I can't right-click that to see the whole thing.Gawdzilla wrote:And in other news, some old space junk got re-imaged the other day.
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Never happened. It was all done in a hangar in the Nevada Desert.Gawdzilla wrote:And in other news, some old space junk got re-imaged the other day.
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What a great pic!
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I entered this thread expecting a chocolate milky way
But this one's sweet too.

But this one's sweet too.
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"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
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Don't tempt me. I've already had my sugar quota todayMBF wrote:Here ya go:

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angrychimp wrote:Don't tempt me. I've already had my sugar quota todayMBF wrote:Here ya go:

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"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
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Where's the "supposed" golf ball if this "supposed" landing ever "supposedly" happened at "supposediddly" all. Can't argue with lojiks.
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That pic is kind of mind blowing.
Amazing.
Amazing.
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