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How NASA Colorizes Hubble Images
addie writes "The Ottawa Citizen among others is running a story about how NASA determines what colors to paint their latest Hubble pictures. I'm personally happier looking at a dramatic doctored image, especially when the B&W originals are available."
They asker the whiz kids at Turner Classics ...
Oh yeah, fr0st p!st ....
is it that bad seein a hot chick again? if i see a hot chick walkin down the hall i dont say "repost"
Myth: Open Source is written by heterosexuals.
Fact: All Open Source development is done by raging homosexuals. The more flaming examples include Anal Cox, Linus Turdballs, Eric Ass-Reaming Raymond, and the entire Slashdot crew. The ringleader of the slashdotters, a man named CmdrTaco, engages in a practice known as Taco-snotting, along with his faggot-buddies Jeff Homos Bates and CowBoiKneel.
Myth: Open Source is written for heterosexuals.
Fact: Using Open Source software can cause suppressed homosexual fantasies to surface, leading to all out flaming faggotry within 6-8 weeks. Anecdotes of otherwise hetero men turning queer are far too numerous to count, but a few examples stand out. In one case, a man was arrested loitering outside an elementary school and making sexual overtures to several children: he quickly confessed that shortly after installing the Mozilla browser on his computer, he began to have uncontrollable urges to, to put it simply, have his cock sucked off by little boys. He soon met several other like-minded men through discussions on the Bugger Zilla mailing list (all already homosexuals), who together kidnapped a total of seven children whom they brought back to their apartment and sodomized. The other two men are still at large and believed to still be using Mozilla.
Myth: Open Source is multicultural.
Fact: Open Source is openly racist.
Myth: Open Source is democratic.
Fact: Open Source is controlled by a few narrow-minded zealots (mentioned throughout this post), most of whom are either Communists, Stalinists, Nazis, or Fascists. Additionally, Open Source supports terrorism.
Myth: Open Source is tolerant of religious preferences.
Fact: Open Source developers regularly engage in holy wars over the superiority of various Open Source projects, such as the Emacs program (preferred by Christians) versus vi (used mostly by neo-pagans and Satanists); or the KDE desktop (a favorite among Muslims) versus the GNOME project (particularly favored by Jews). Posts initiating crusades or jihads against other developers can be found regularly throughout the newsgroups and mailing lists.
Myth: Open Source is tolerant of sexual preference.
Fact: See above. Either you are a homo, you become a homo, or you never visit Richard Stallman alone in his office and hope to God you never meet him on the street at night.
Myth: Open Source is tolerant of political differences.
Fact: Open Source is an anarcho-communist philosophy bent on the destruction of capitalism. The very same Richard Stallman, a man whose name is disturbingly reminiscent of Stalin, has stated several times in public that his vision includes the subjugation of all who own intellectual properties under the jackboot of the GPL. The GPL is a pernicious piece of literature lifted straight from Karl Marxs Communist Manifesto, and is fortunately banned in many democratic nations.
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STOP ME BEFORE I POST AGAIN!
CRAYONS!
(rimshot)
-Billco, Fnarg.com
What, next you're going to tell me that they color dinosaurs, too?!
This is kind of a let-down... To think that the structures of the universe need PR-team doctoring to become (more) beautiful is kind of disappointing.
python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
Taco, I want you to fuck me in the ass please. I am dying to be anally accosted. I want to be ravaged like hog. I want you to dress like a farmer and make me oink like a pig. I want an ass reaming like no other. Taco, I haven't had this kind of lust for you since the crazy college days. We used to butt fuck each other in the stalls. You always told me not to flush and preferred using my feces as apposed to real lubricant. I remember your chocolaty member, your manhood, draped in my feces. Man, Robbie, I remember. I was day dreaming, escaping into a nether world where we used to fornicate, and live in fornicatory bliss. You used to like to keep your tubes socks on to enhance they gay look. We were so flitty and light on out feet. I am so very confused these days. I have difficulty conceptualizing the time that was then in contrast to now. I mean, first you were a raging homosexual, now you deprecate me in favor of this "woman." I know that bitch is a transvestite. You are closeting your homosexuality and denying your roots in my ass!
I am destabilizing. The world is going dark to me. I have scintillating threads of motley thoughts, my ability to control my self evanesces away! I have only an adamantine desire to see your balloon knot once again, and to have you ravage mine! I see a world of GOATS. A goat fucking extravaganza. I invoke the ANUS of DOOM! I hate Taco.
SON of the GOAT, HUGE ASS WIDENER, This is a massive, massive ass attack from the Minister of Goat, Ayatollah man-meat.
Dilated Meat Pie. Most suppressed people really like seeing this. It gives them new masturbatory fodder.
Two cucumbers, better than one. This is to show that the giver is really smaller than what is needed to fill GOATSE man. He east Cheerioatse brand O's
A Disney product right where it belongs. Up a goat's ass. Death to Mike Eisner, the butt buddy of Commander Tak0.
Raw and dilated man-pussy. Put back the trouser snake, Tako. You dick is way too small for this man's ass.
A Prolapsed rectum is sure to whet even the most jaded flaming fuck's appetite. Tak0, your penis is regrettably way too small, even for your "Fiancée's" unfettered anus. She doesn't want to dirty her ass with the likes of your pathetic member.
GOAT KORAN
Classic HIT ME IN THE SHITTER BABY, UNGH HUH
Classic Oh yeah, in the shitter some more, in the shitter.
Classic More ass stretching goodness.
Female Goater My pussy is too small for this APPLE.
Goatse Grandpas - GRANPA GOAT S3X0R5
Son of a Goat - Holy fucking son of a goat. Kind of looks like Tako from behind, but to be sure I'd have to ask CowGryl Kneel
1 Oh, pardon me sir, would you happen to have any ANAL LUBE?
2 UNGH FART, pssssbt, ungh, tweeep, squeaaaaaak ungh
3 PFFFFFFFFFFT AHH pffft
4 FOOOOOOOOOOOOF blud dribble dribble
Prime Number Shitting Goatse Man See The Prime numbers flow like the river SHIT
Goatse Returns! Fuck yeah, the goat man is a coming back to Trollaxor
I summon the powers of HUGE GAPING ASS!
Our Goatse Prayer
Llegaré a ser petador, el mejor que habrá jamás.
Mi causa es ser reventador, tras mi gran petada anal.
Petaré cualquier animal llegaré a partirlo en dos.
Al fin podré agujerear el culo de Goatsemon. (Es Goatsemon)
Petalos todos. Es mi destino, mi misión. (Es Goatsemon)
Tú eres mi amigo fiel, pero deja ya mi esfinter. (Es Goatsemon)
Petalos todos. Seremos mejor al fin.
Te peto yo, y tú a mí Goatsemon.
Hazte con todos. Goatsemon..
So I came home from work the other day to discover my cat laying on the floor. His breathing was very shallow and his eyes were very glassy. When I approached him I noticed a belt tied around his arm and both a syringe and a bent spoon laying beside him. Despite all his promises to the contrary, my beloved Mittens has started shooting up smack again!
Fortunately the paramedics showed up quickly and gave him some naloxone which saved him. Unfortunately the problem of my cat being addicted to heroin still remains. Last week he sold my stereo and this weekend Mittens offered to perform oral sex on me in exchange for a hit.
I love my cat and want to see him off this horrible drug. Unfortunately he won't stop on his own! Mittens says he can quit anytime he wants to and becomes combative when I force the issue. I'm tired of seeing him throw his life away. He could've been a great mouser, one of the best before he got hooked.
Can anyone recommend a way to get my cat off heroin? It would be much appreciated.
MEOWMIX..
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"If you took a spaceship toward the Cone Nebula and you got close enough to see it, it would probably look mostly grey, just as the Orion Nebula does in a telescope. And if you got really close to it, it would get so diffuse you probably wouldn't even be aware that you were at it," says Terence Dickinson, editor of Sky News, Canada's popular astronomy magazine.
This is just plain wrong - I feel duped. Maybe this is a bit of an overreaction, but it is basically scientific fraud, since the images are largely presented as depicting the actual appearance by eye. There is nothing wrong with using visual colors to depict non-visual phenomena, such as gamma rays, but it would be nice if this was clearly described. NASA barely labels the images as pseudocolored on their own site and not at all on the main page, so you can't expect the popular press to get this right.
Now they airbrush my science.
My life is over
Does anyone have a link to the original image data? I respect the work of the image processing scientists, and I'd like to try my hand at it as well.
Since what's being represented is often energy that's not visible to the naked eye, there's choice in the colours used in digitally processing the various exposures
Of COURSE they have to color the images! They're using the actual images from the telescope from different-color filters. It's okay that they color it, so we can see what's going on. Ultraviolet and infrared pictures (which we've all seen) are in black and white, but really that's just representation too, since we wouldn't be able to see the colors that were actually recorded. Do you really want to look at a picture that's emitting gamma-rays into your head, even if it WERE possible to set that up?
See if you enjoy the following in-line UV image of my pet cat:
Any sufficiently simple magic can be passed off as mere advanced technology.
or did anyone else read the headline as colonizes? :-)
"MS Windows is like the Force. It has a Dark Side, a Light... damn, there goes that analogy!"
Hmmm I wonder if, on their quest to paint the universe they do it by numbers or they get some good artist, cash in hand hush hush P.S. space is really black right?