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Coolest Space Science Images of 2001
Ant writes "The collective upward human gaze yields numerous special images of space
every year. Being a curious lot with a certain mastery of technology, we
keep looking deeper and with greater resolution at the most remarkable
features of the universe, near and far." Eye candy, desktop source material, and it'll make
ya feel insignificant too!
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Go Kathryn Thurber!
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All the images I've seen so far are really small (course, if they were large, the site would probably be smoking by now)...
For the good stuff, try NASA.
I'm so glad they included a picture of it in the Top 10. Absolutely amazing to look at it.
Around here (Philadelphia), there was a lot of coverage of the storm, and the Franklin Institute (a "knowledgeum", for you Simpsons fans) had special exhibits all about it. Unfortunately, that coverage stopped completely a few days later when the attacks on 9/11 happened.
Glad to see I'm not the only who remembers that storm! And I thought sandstorms in the desert were bad...
have they found Risa yet? i need to pick up a horgon.
;-)
you know... fo' the ladies
Could the site have possibly any more popups???
I just want images, and I'd like to see large versions.... (1024x768 at least)
-Greg
this one?
This shot from space to earth is cool too.
What's black, blue and green and doesn't like sex? The Girl Scout locked in my basement. What's the worst part about having sex with a six year-old? Getting the blood out of your clown suit. What's the best thing about getting a hand job from a five year-old? That little hand makes your thing look really huge. Guy comes home from work to find his girlfriend sitting on the porch, crying. "What's wrong, honey?" "I'm leaving you! I just found out you're a pædophile!" "Pædophile? Why, that's a pretty big word for a ten-year old." How can you tell when your sister's on her period? When your dad's dick tastes like blood! Two pedophiles are lying on a beach tanning, one turns to the other and says, "Excuse me, you're in my son." What's 18 inches long, blue, veiny, and makes a woman cry? Crib death. How could the man's seven year-old son tell that his dad has farked his eight year-old sister? His dad's weiner tasted like blood! Watson returns home to find Holmes in bed with a child. He shouts, "Is this some sort of a schoolgirl?" Holmes replies, "Elementary, my dear Watson." So I was having sex with my girlfriend, and I decided I wanted to get kinky and try and do her in the ass. So I slipped around back; she looked over her shoulder at me and said, "My, how presumptious of you." I said, "Presumptious? That's a big word for a ten year-old." Two guys are walking down the street when a beautiful woman passes. The first guy says, "Damn! I'd love to tear her clothes off, do her in the rear, smear my fæces all over her, slice off her breasts, chop her into little pieces, put her in a garbage bag and toss her into the river!" Second guy says, "Yuck! You're a sick bastard!" First guy says, "What're you? A fag?" A Kidergarden teacher is asking the kids what their father does for a living. All the kids answer except for Little Johnny. The teacher asks Little Johnny what his Dad does and Johnny replies, "My dad is dead." The teacher says, "That's terribile, but what did he do before he died?" Little Johnny replies, "He turned blue and shit all over himself!" A guy calls in sick to work. "What's wrong?" asks the boss. "I'm sick," the guy replies. "You sound all right." "No, I'm really sick. Believe me." "Listen, you were fine yesterday, and we have a lot of work today. I want you in here. You can't be that sick!" "Dude, I just banged my sister. Don't tell me I'm not sick." A little girl accompanied her father to the barbershop. While her dad received a haircut, the little girl stood next to the barber chair, enjoying a snack cake. The barber smiled at her and said, "Sweetheart, you're going to get hair on your Twinkie." "I know," the little girl replied. "I'm gonna get tits, too." An older man and a small boy walk hand in hand through the woods. Boy: "These woods sure are spooky!" Man: "You think you're scared, I've gotta walk out of here alone." What's the difference between Neil Armstrong and Michael Jackson? One walked on the moon, and the other rapes little boys. Has anyone read Michael Jackson's new book, "The Ins and Outs of Child Rearing"? Q: What's the difference between a dead baby and a golden delicious apple? A: I don't cum all over the golden delicious apple before I take a bite out of it. Q: What's the difference between a dead baby and my girlfriend? A: I don't kiss my girlfriend after sex. Q: What is special about a dead baby over all other forms of life? A: You can achieve deep throat from whichever way you enter. Q: What do you have when you have four dead babies, take away two, and add five more? A: An orgy! Q: What's the difference between a dead baby and a table? A: You can't fuck a table. Q: What's white and bobs up and down in a baby's crib? A: A pædophile's ass. Q: Whats the safest way to play with a baby? A: With a condom. Q: Whats more fun than feeling up a dead baby? A: Feeling up a dead baby with three nipples. Q: What does a baby and a Pinto have in common? A: They're fun to ride until they die. Q: What do you get whan you dislocate a dead baby's jaw? A: Deep throat. Q: Whats the difference between a baby and a grandmother? A: Grandmothers dont die when you fuck them in the ass. Q: What's the best sound in the world? A: Hearing dead baby's hips crack under pressure! Q: Whats worse than a having sex with a dead baby? A: Having sex with a dead baby filled with razor blades. Q: How do you stop a baby from choking? A: Take your dick out of its mouth. Q: What's worse than finding a dead baby on your pillow in the morning? A: Realizing you were drunk and made love to it the night before. Q: How do you make a baby cry twice? A: Wipe your bloody cock on his teddy bear. What's better than sex with a twelve year-old boy? Absolutely nothing.Thanks to Fark.com for all of these wonderfully sick jokes! I couldn't have done it without you! And thanks to all the Anonymous Cowards who have flamed me, I have three words for you! "YHBT! YHL! HAND!"
________________________________________J. Wipo Troll, Esq.
Crapflooder Associates
Slashdot.org
In my view there are two groups of people: those who feel insignificant when confronted by the vastness of nature, and those who don't. Yes, the Universe is enormous, and yes, a 2000m high mountain takes hours to climb, and is huge, and has lasted for millenia. But who or what is more significant, the mountain or quasar that passively sits there, or the human being, aided by his mind and the products of other rational minds (technology) who can perceive or overcome nature? Thunderstorms are significant, but the ability to watch them from space and predict their path is more so. Mountains are impressive, but the ability to climb them aided by a few pounds of equipment is more so. Stars are huge and far away, but human technology and science can reduce them to pictures for your PC desktop. Who is more powerful than who in this case?
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
For me, nothing compares to the Eagle Nebula (M16) pillars images. The fact that the universe contains things of such scale and beauty leaves me both wonderfully awestruck and horribly aware of our insignificance.
Please donate your spare CPU cycles to help fight cancer and other diseases
Those images are so small they can barely be icons on today's desktops! MMmmm, SVG icons...whoops, got distracted. Seriously, desktop wallpaper should be at least 1024x168, with 1600x1200 preferred. It's easy to scale down, but scaling up only happens in movies. (yeah, it pisses me off too)
Here, I know the slashdot effect can be disastrous!
...these are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise
is this article about? I can only scroll down, and my back button is broken. Please help me.
Hey WIPO troll. General Ashcroft won't
be as kind as cmdrTaco when he catches up
with you. You are going to feel pretty
stupid when all your postings are laid
out for all to see at a federal trial.
With any luck you'll have only a $500,000.00US fine.
That should take you about 15 years of your
life to pay off. You will be lucky to get off
with so small a personal cost.
Imagine trying to get loans, jobs, girlfriends
with that kind of criminal record. A little
embarassing I would think to try to explain
yourself.
The RCS revision stamps were clever I must admit.
Haven't you considered that there may be a huge
price to pay for posting these things to public
place?
This is a completely irrelevant side note, but has anyone else noticed that Space.com's picture-presenting cgi feeds the caption in the URL? Silly way of doing things, but provides the opportunity for some fun.
Observe.
I had some really insightful comment about how space exploration has died, but IE ate it. So you get this instead :p
Merry Christmas.
That's no comet, it's the (very recent! or dust would've covered it up) impression of a Sasquastronaut's foot on Mars, decolorized and the surrounding terrain blacked out to perpetuate the Sasquatch-deniers' fraud. Yet more proof of the Sasquatch race, and they're technologically advanced to boot.
I know that Taco only posts these stories because he's entertained by the trolls that will make this post:
Hey Taco! Here's the first picture of a Black Hole!
C - A language that combines the speed of assembly with the ease of use of assembly.
[Apparently this post is extremely good at getting biters. According to an anonymous cow herd, Attorney General Ashcroft is also after me now, in addition to the Canadian horsie-cops that another A.C. sent after me a couple days ago. Well, this should be fun. Keep up the biting, Slashdotters! -ed.]
What's black, blue and green and doesn't like sex? The Girl Scout locked in my basement. What's the worst part about having sex with a six year-old? Getting the blood out of your clown suit. What's the best thing about getting a hand job from a five year-old? That little hand makes your thing look really huge. Guy comes home from work to find his girlfriend sitting on the porch, crying. "What's wrong, honey?" "I'm leaving you! I just found out you're a pædophile!" "Pædophile? Why, that's a pretty big word for a ten-year old." How can you tell when your sister's on her period? When your dad's dick tastes like blood! Two pedophiles are lying on a beach tanning, one turns to the other and says, "Excuse me, you're in my son." What's 18 inches long, blue, veiny, and makes a woman cry? Crib death. How could the man's seven year-old son tell that his dad has farked his eight year-old sister? His dad's weiner tasted like blood! Watson returns home to find Holmes in bed with a child. He shouts, "Is this some sort of a schoolgirl?" Holmes replies, "Elementary, my dear Watson." So I was having sex with my girlfriend, and I decided I wanted to get kinky and try and do her in the ass. So I slipped around back; she looked over her shoulder at me and said, "My, how presumptious of you." I said, "Presumptious? That's a big word for a ten year-old." Two guys are walking down the street when a beautiful woman passes. The first guy says, "Damn! I'd love to tear her clothes off, do her in the rear, smear my fæces all over her, slice off her breasts, chop her into little pieces, put her in a garbage bag and toss her into the river!" Second guy says, "Yuck! You're a sick bastard!" First guy says, "What're you? A fag?" A Kidergarden teacher is asking the kids what their father does for a living. All the kids answer except for Little Johnny. The teacher asks Little Johnny what his Dad does and Johnny replies, "My dad is dead." The teacher says, "That's terribile, but what did he do before he died?" Little Johnny replies, "He turned blue and shit all over himself!" A guy calls in sick to work. "What's wrong?" asks the boss. "I'm sick," the guy replies. "You sound all right." "No, I'm really sick. Believe me." "Listen, you were fine yesterday, and we have a lot of work today. I want you in here. You can't be that sick!" "Dude, I just banged my sister. Don't tell me I'm not sick." A little girl accompanied her father to the barbershop. While her dad received a haircut, the little girl stood next to the barber chair, enjoying a snack cake. The barber smiled at her and said, "Sweetheart, you're going to get hair on your Twinkie." "I know," the little girl replied. "I'm gonna get tits, too." An older man and a small boy walk hand in hand through the woods. Boy: "These woods sure are spooky!" Man: "You think you're scared, I've gotta walk out of here alone." What's the difference between Neil Armstrong and Michael Jackson? One walked on the moon, and the other rapes little boys. Has anyone read Michael Jackson's new book, "The Ins and Outs of Child Rearing"? Q: What's the difference between a dead baby and a golden delicious apple? A: I don't cum all over the golden delicious apple before I take a bite out of it. Q: What's the difference between a dead baby and my girlfriend? A: I don't kiss my girlfriend after sex. Q: What is special about a dead baby over all other forms of life? A: You can achieve deep throat from whichever way you enter. Q: What do you have when you have four dead babies, take away two, and add five more? A: An orgy! Q: What's the difference between a dead baby and a table? A: You can't fuck a table. Q: What's white and bobs up and down in a baby's crib? A: A pædophile's ass. Q: Whats the safest way to play with a baby? A: With a condom. Q: Whats more fun than feeling up a dead baby? A: Feeling up a dead baby with three nipples. Q: What does a baby and a Pinto have in common? A: They're fun to ride until they die. Q: What do you get whan you dislocate a dead baby's jaw? A: Deep throat. Q: Whats the difference between a baby and a grandmother? A: Grandmothers dont die when you fuck them in the ass. Q: What's the best sound in the world? A: Hearing dead baby's hips crack under pressure! Q: Whats worse than a having sex with a dead baby? A: Having sex with a dead baby filled with razor blades. Q: How do you stop a baby from choking? A: Take your dick out of its mouth. Q: What's worse than finding a dead baby on your pillow in the morning? A: Realizing you were drunk and made love to it the night before. Q: How do you make a baby cry twice? A: Wipe your bloody cock on his teddy bear. What's better than sex with a twelve year-old boy? Absolutely nothing.Thanks to Fark.com for all of these wonderfully sick jokes! I couldn't have done it without you! And thanks to all the Anonymous Cowards who have flamed me, I have three words for you! "YHBT! YHL! HAND!"
________________________________________J. Wipo Troll, Esq.
Crapflooder Associates
Slashdot.org
As you might expect, the coolest images of 2001 are not as cool as the coolest images of all time. Of these, my favorites are the Eagle nebula and the Hubble Deep Field.
That that is is that that that that is not is not.
This year's images are nice, but the one I like most is here:
For one thing, it could affect us directly... and some scenarios could make it an extinction event.
oh, what a cute little setup space.com has. all glorified and brushed up. bah! we're geeks, right? here's something far less propgandized; The Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive has hundreds of great pictures.
...and it has more than ten images!
One of my favorite ways to get good pictures is to search it for the word "nebula" ( click here )- it gives you a nice thumbnail index that I much prefre over that space.com "Image Viewer"
Use my userscript to add story images to Slashdot. There's no going back.
Not to toot my own horn, but here's a nice(in my opinion) extragalactic picture. I'm an undergrad and my lab group and I took these this past semester. The two images are of the same galaxy, just different contrast settings to hilight different features. If it weren't for the odd shape, they'd be good desktop pics. NGC 660
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These images would look nice on a calendar, assuming they were blown up to the proper resolution/size. I wonder if we'll be able to get them on Thinkgeek anytime soon.
:).
I especially like the one with the huge solar flare
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
That picture never got me. It's pretty, and it's interesting, but it fails me on the "insignificance" front--probably because it looks too sci-fi, too much like a painting. The universe I picture us buried alive in is way more spooky and empty and sad than that.
This photo's a decent evocation of it:
http://www.solarviews.com/r/uranus/uranus.jpg
[sorry 'bout the plain text, but I assume any "Uranus" href link is "goatse until proven innocent" in this age of reflexive crack-modding]
Your mouth is like Columbus Day.
It is an altered exaggeration of the original Viking version of the face.
Table-ized A.I.
If you like images of space and the universe check out the artwork by Greg Martin. Although they're rendered images, they're still spectacular.
Note the variable star to the far left of this animated gif.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap011224.html
Maybe they will name it after me!
(Don't worry, its not a goat thingy)
Table-ized A.I.
Pictures of space will scare off women, and make your co-workers you're some sort of Star Trek idiot. On the other hand, if you have PROPAGANDA on your desktop, you're helping to promote Linux, women dig your style, and your co-workers will envy your desktop. Simple as that.
Cheers, and have a merry one,
Bowie J. Poag
x10.com is really punding my b*tthole... two ads on this page, I've really had it with them by now.
While the above images are cool, they don't fit the timeline and the latter image doesn't even fall into the category of "space image", ie. of an extraterrestrial nature. The story title is "Coolest Space Science Images Of 2001 ". The first image in the above comment is dated 1996 and the second is from 2000. We have also seen these images countless times.
How this got modded up as "Interesting", I'll never know.
ian, playing the part of The Grinch.
ian
Article: and it'll make ya feel insignificant too!
Insignificant to whom?
If it makes you feel insignificant, this means you're making yourself a reduced image of the Universe. In this reduced image you seem small. But that isn't the real size and significance of the Universe, nor is it your real size and significance.
Try to see the Universe as it really is, without reducing it. Try to see it with you as significant as you really are, and the Universe all the more immense and awesome.
I don't think anyone can fathom the Universe as it really is, but the attempt can be a wonderful experience.
The Universe is indeed vast and wondrous.
Terrorists can't threaten a country's freedom and democracy. Only lawmakers and voters can do that.
[begin carnivore bait] I'm going to hi-jack a plane and bomb the whitehouse where those bloody afgans messed up. Bin Laden Rules!!! long live bin laden. Drugs cocaine bomb bombs nuclear plane flight hi-jack attack terrorist allah lord bush force anthrax [end carnivore bait]
Pop-ups and pop-unders and thousands of cookies...
Go to the source: antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
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I'm on PJ's "enemies" list! Are you?
Pain - made to order
I'm not the second coming, I'm the first wave
Better get an army, cuz the fire left me unscathed
You betcha bottom dollar I'm the top of the shit pile
So stick around cuz I'll get to you in just a few
Step off the achtung, get back or get stung
Idiotic sense of yourself, are you that dumb?
Entire legion of me, totalitarian
The one and only motherfucker, top of the world man
Cuz I can't stand it, planned it, gonna crash land it
In other words, consider me branded
Another version of me, another version of you
Both barrels, what you gonna do?
All I hear is human noise
You made your own fuckin' choice
I belong to only me
Silence for my revelry
I can only die over time
Filthy hands, stay away from mine
Every reason is a right to hate
Painful clutch - death is fine gimme mine
Only one of us walks away
Somebody explain this
I don't care cuz you don't exist
What the fuck is this another joke?
Rekoning!
Proof of the gay-linux conspiracy!
I think this says it nicely :)