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Hasta la VISTA baby!

Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:19 pm

Rather gorgeous image taken by the new VISTA camera on the European Southern Observatory. It's cosmotastic

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Re: Hasta la VISTA baby!

Post by Beelzebub2 » Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:21 pm

Awww!!!!!
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Post by devogue » Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:22 pm

Wow.

I got vertigo scrolling down.

Go Jesus! :clap:
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Re: Hasta la VISTA baby!

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:24 pm

Meh, I have the same view out my window. (When I visit the ISS.)
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Re: Hasta la VISTA baby!

Post by Beelzebub2 » Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:25 pm

Some more here - from the same site. :tup:
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Re: Hasta la VISTA baby!

Post by Rum » Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:26 pm

Its a giant brain. You can see the stem! :shock:
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Re: Hasta la VISTA baby!

Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:28 pm

Rum wrote:Its a giant brain. You can see the stem! :shock:
It's an enormous server currently being built to house all of Zilla's posts....
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I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"

AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!

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Re: Hasta la VISTA baby!

Post by devogue » Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:28 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:
Rum wrote:Its a giant brain. You can see the stem! :shock:
It's an enormous server currently being built to house all of Zilla's posts....
:funny: :funny: :funny:

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Re: Hasta la VISTA baby!

Post by Pappa » Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:35 pm

Rum wrote:Its a giant brain. You can see the stem! :shock:
It looks like Cthulhu to me. :tea:
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Re: Hasta la VISTA baby!

Post by Rum » Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:36 pm

It also looks like a neuron. We are after all, just as I have always suspected, part of the mind of god. :levi:
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Post by devogue » Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:41 pm

It's a big fucker, all that.
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Re: Hasta la VISTA baby!

Post by Rum » Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:42 pm

De-fucken=vogewweee wrote:It's a big fucker, all that.
Well god is infinite you see. You should know that being a Catholic and all that. :roll:
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Re: Hasta la VISTA baby!

Post by devogue » Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:49 pm

Do you know what would really improve that pic?

A nice profile shot of the USS Voyager.

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Re: Hasta la VISTA baby!

Post by Horwood Beer-Master » Sun Dec 13, 2009 7:44 pm

Rum wrote:Its a giant brain. You can see the stem! :shock:
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