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Space Pictures From Near and Far
Buran writes: "The BBC News has a fine story about the how our galaxy looks from the outside according to the 2-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS). The article describes the shape of our galaxy (a barred spiral; all those books showing concept paintings of a regular spiral galaxy will be out of date now) and how the survey was done (near-infrared measurements of 500 million carbon stars). For the first time, we can see the center of our own Milky Way. All our worldly troubles seem so small..." That takes care of the big picture; Chris McKinstry has submitted news of much closer but just as exciting shots of Saturn -- read below for more on those.
mindpixel writes: "I was very excited when I saw this amazing shot of Saturn come up on the control room monitors of the VLT in November, and I'm even more excited that as of today the image is finally public. It is possibly the sharpest view of Saturn's ring system ever achieved from a ground-based observatory. All of us here at the observatory are quite proud of it, especially the NAOS-CONICA team."
For God's sake, do not kill us! We surrender!
quoting from rw: Before dawn in Afghanistan last Thursday, US Green Berets launched a surprise attack on their unarmed allies, storming a disarmament depot with indiscriminate fire, then rounding up survivors only to tie their hands behind their backs with plastic bands and execute them. This according to that America-hating, propaganda-strewn leftist rag, The New York Times. God bless America.
(yes, I'm very much abusing my 50 karma account and spamming this message all over the place with a +1 bonus. People need to read it, ok? Read the fucking nytimes link. Thanks for your time.)
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The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason. --Ben Franklin
But it's getting a little passè. How about something really interesting?
You can't legislate goodness. Let each to his own destiny, by will of his freely made choices.
I wonder wut OS they r running on the machines in that lab FP!!!!!!
We seldom regret saying too little but often regret saying too much.
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This person has 50 karma. Lets get it down to about 40. Come on moderators, mod this fucker down.
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DESTINY'S CHILD LYRICS
"Bootylicious"
Kelly, can you handle this?
Michelle, can you handle this?
Beyoncé, can you handle this?
I don't think they can handle this!
Barely move, we've arrived
Lookin sexy, lookin fly
Baddest chick, chick inside
DJ, jam tonight
Spotted me a tender thang
There you are, come on baby
Don't you wanna dance with me
Can you handle, handle me
You gotta do much better if you gone dance with me tonight
You gotta work your jelly if you gone dance with me tonight
Read my lips carefully if you like what you see
Move, groove, prove you can hang with me
By the looks I got you shook up and scared of me
Hook up your seatbelt, it's time for takeoff
I don't think you ready for this jelly
I don't think you ready for this jelly
I don't think you ready for this
Cause my body too bootylicious for ya babe
I don't think you ready for this jelly
I don't think you ready for this jelly
I don't think you ready for this
Cause my body too bootylicious for ya babe
Baby, can you handle this?
Baby, can you handle this?
Baby, can you handle this?
I don't think you can handle this!
I'm about to break you off
H-town goin hard
Lead my hips, slap my thighs
Swing my hair, square my eyes
Lookin hot, smellin good
Groovin like I'm from the hood
Look over my shoulder, I blow you a kiss
Can you handle, handle this
I don't think you ready for this jelly
I don't think you ready for this jelly
I don't think you ready for this
Cause my body too bootylicious for ya babe
I don't think you ready for this jelly
I don't think you ready for this jelly
I don't think you ready for this
Cause my body too bootylicious for ya babe
Move your body up and down (whoo!)
Make your booty touch the ground (whoo!)
I can't help but wonder why (whoo!)
Is my vibe too vibealacious for you, babe
I shake my jelly at every chance
When I whip with my hips you slip into a trance
I'm hoping you can handle all this jelly that I have
Now let's cut a rug while we scat some jazz
[Scatting]
I don't think you ready for this jelly
I don't think you ready for this jelly
I don't think you ready for this
Cause my body too bootylicious for ya babe
You, my friend, are a god. ROFLMAO!
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
That's not a black hole. That's Uranus!
Zing!
do not read this line twice.
What did you dirty Linux fuckers do to Perlmonks? I just fucking *know* it was one of you penguin loving fucks that made things go boo-boo. I will extract me revenge, so swear I.
Just because Linux fucking sucks doesn't mean you have to ruin something like Perl for the rest of us.
What a pathetic attempt at humor.
I and the rest of the Slashdot readership prey to god you do not, or are planning in the future, having children. If you did, prepare to pay outrageous costs for caring for that braindead freak.
But what do I know? I am only a troll. You couldn't get laid even if you were Hugh Hefner.
I have a swarm of probes in my pants that NASA can buy for cheap.
Your trolls are not funny. They are infact worse than page lenghtening posts because they are complete and utter crap!
Imposter!
Pants are still optional, but recommended for you.
"The Galactic Center?"
No offense, but it looks awfully like a really really grainy shot through a webcam in someone's darkened bedroom of the nether parts of a human female, and not the center of... oh, wait. I see your point, now.
This also answers the question about where life came from, doesn't it?
Get off my launchpad!
you are for real funny master.(for real)(not sarcasm)
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Yes, this is offtopic. However, I feel it is worth a read. I'd like to introduce to you the Slashspam effect. Basically, it's harnesing the "destructive" nature of a site being slashdotted, and putting it to good use. When you keep recieving spam from a web site, post the URL on slashdot, preferably as soon as a new article is posted. Hopefully the site will be slashdotted, and thereby making the spammer's efforts worthless. Here are a few URLs to get us started: /. about this, maybe they'll like the idea.
http://www.30-day-trial.com
http://www.worldremove.com
I will also be subimtting an article to
How about supporting scientific principles of factually based rants in your post? "building killing devices and using them on peasants in the third world" isn't exactly the most accurate description of our recent activities. So stfu.
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