How about an ultra-high res. pic of 100,000 galaxies?

[Calundronius]

Ok, I'm guessing a lot of you saw the cosmiverse article on fark, but if 677x698 doesn't do it for you, you can always get the original 4000x4123 image. You know, if you want to try and find your house or something.

 

[LongCoolMother]

:Q

edit: oh well, its not like i havent downloaded those 400 meg pics of the world. heh

 

[bonk102]

cool

 

[Calundronius]

Those 400meg tiffs of the earth were great... but when I showed them to my dad after I got back from college, he kept pointing out really obvious landmarks ("hey, you know what that is?"...."it's europe, dad.") and he got greasy fingerprints all over my monitor. :disgust:

 

[Pooteh]

thanx

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

How are you so sure it's 100,000 and not 99,997? Did you count them all? Can you name them?

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Calundronius
Those 400meg tiffs of the earth were great... but when I showed them to my dad after I got back from college, he kept pointing out really obvious landmarks ("hey, you know what that is?"...."it's europe, dad.") and he got greasy fingerprints all over my monitor. :disgust:

Get over it. I wish my father was still alive to enjoy pictures with me (he died in '85 when I was 17). He could rub his fingers all over my damn monitor and I'd just smile.

 

[Calundronius]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
How are you so sure it's 100,000 and not 99,997? Did you count them all? Can you name them?

Well, the european southern observatory said there were 100,001...I'll just take their word on it, they're the astrophysicists, after all.

Edit: And yes, I can name them. They are galaxies NGC300, NGC301, NGC302...all the way up to NGC100301.

 

[TurtleMan]

yo wat is the sun in the middle called, that thing look pretty big ... it look like as that fireball is 100x bigger than our sun

 

[Calundronius]

Originally posted by: AmusedOne

Originally posted by: Calundronius
Those 400meg tiffs of the earth were great... but when I showed them to my dad after I got back from college, he kept pointing out really obvious landmarks ("hey, you know what that is?"...."it's europe, dad.") and he got greasy fingerprints all over my monitor. :disgust:

Get over it. I wish my father was still alive to enjoy pictures with me (he died in '85 when I was 17). He could rub his fingers all over my damn monitor and I'd just smile.

I meant that to be an amusing annecdote, not a bash against my dad...

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Calundronius

Originally posted by: AmusedOne

Originally posted by: Calundronius
Those 400meg tiffs of the earth were great... but when I showed them to my dad after I got back from college, he kept pointing out really obvious landmarks ("hey, you know what that is?"...."it's europe, dad.") and he got greasy fingerprints all over my monitor. :disgust:

Get over it. I wish my father was still alive to enjoy pictures with me (he died in '85 when I was 17). He could rub his fingers all over my damn monitor and I'd just smile.

I meant that to be an amusing annecdote, not a bash against my dad...

Oh, OK

 

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