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- gcnaddict, on 08/08/2008, -11/+33Oh hi. I see that you submitted your post at the exact same time as another top-20 digger:
http://digg.com/space/APOD_The_Crown_of_the_Sun
I'm burying this and arbitrarily linking to this story about how you guys are gaming the system.
http://digg.com/tech_news/***** ... - inactive, on 08/08/2008, -11/+24Now the super-submitters have resorted to stealing each others submissions.
http://digg.com/space/APOD_The_Crown_of_the_Sun - matt510, on 08/08/2008, -3/+9If they are submitted at the same time, it isn't really stealing.
Besides, this is the post that is linked from APOD so should be the one dugg. Who cares who submits the article? - PhoenixAvatar2, on 08/08/2008, -1/+4Are you talking about the blue area in the middle or the flowy stuff around it? The blue area is the moon itself. You can vaguely make out the features you normally see on a full moon. Because the moon rotates at the same speed as it orbits the earth we never see the dark side of the moon from the earth. The flowy stuff is the corona of the sun, the gasses and stuff flowing outward from it. There's not much for the light of the moon to reflect off of and either way the light of the sun would dwarf any reflection, so we wouldn't see the a reflection at all. It's as if you were looking for the reflection of something in an active light bulb.
- decepticrat, on 08/08/2008, -3/+6Let me be the first to say, shut the ***** up to all the people calling this submission out as gaming.. they submitted the same cool image at the same time. That's IT! I've had that happen with something I've submitted in the past too, and I'm not a top digger, a gamer, OR getting paid by NASA to put their freakin pics on digg.com. Grow up!!
Kindly remove your tinfoil hats and go about your business.
Beyond that, great submission, JB! :D - Borgcube636, on 08/08/2008, -1/+4See that white dot to the right? It's obviously a UFO .
- opiter, on 08/08/2008, -1/+3Multimillion dollar stuck pixel. It took thousands of man hours and reasearch to develop it. It is the most advanced stuck pixel ever known.
- donores, on 08/08/2008, -1/+3Set the controls for the crown of the sun...
- inactive, on 08/08/2008, -1/+2That's no sun...
- honeymustardn, on 08/08/2008, -6/+7How are they gaming the system if they submit it at the same time? I don't understand.
- matt510, on 08/08/2008, -1/+2Well we never see the FAR side of the moon. The dark side of the moon is always changing.
- inactive, on 08/08/2008, -2/+3Are those faint images on the eclipsed sun a reflection of the side of the moon we never see?
- MadMaxMugie, on 08/09/2008, -0/+1Awesome picture. For some reason it reminds me of Tyriel.
- sho222, on 08/08/2008, -2/+3sure. if you worship the moon.
- suckaPU, on 08/09/2008, -0/+1technically it's dark but the dark side of the moon actually refers to the side that points AWAY from the earth at all time. try pulling your head out of your ass.
- km00, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Oh My God, Look at that... look at that corona there!
Oooh excellent
OooOOOohh.. OOohh yeaaHH - mcclaytonrolls, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1WTF IS THAT?
- JamesPDX, on 08/09/2008, -0/+1The sun does have a magnetic pole so maybe this is something related to that.
- infotech54, on 08/11/2008, -0/+0I think you are right, it is a star. Asellus Australis the second brightest star in the constellation of Cancer
- matt510, on 08/08/2008, -2/+2This is the post that is linked from the APOD, who cares who submitted it?
- clemdia, on 08/08/2008, -2/+2I just stared at this picture for a few seconds... AND NOW I'M TOTALLY BLIND!!!
You sick twisted bastards! Mom was right... - endlessoul, on 08/08/2008, -3/+3I've dugg your comment and your submission linked. I have to say, at over 500 diggs, for the article not to be on the front page by now reeks of something fishy.
This isn't just a problem. It's a joke. - golemeter, on 08/08/2008, -0/+0Actually...I think that might be a star. If you look at the highest resolution version of the picture, you can see a fainter one on the left. Pretty cool.
- diedrewalker, on 08/08/2008, -1/+1Oh yea, I'm sure NASA is paying for diggs. Whatever.
- Icetype, on 08/08/2008, -2/+2not really.
- CATSCEO2, on 08/08/2008, -2/+2Its called spamming other articles with your own. Its very annoying and results in buries.
- RogerStrong, on 08/08/2008, -2/+2I watched an eclipse in Winnipeg back around 1979, and I've yet to see a photo that does justice to what an eclipse really looks like.
The 3D-ness isn't there. The monochrome grey of the corona doesn't have the same, er, intensity. The solar flares appear are a very bright ruby red in real life. - inactive, on 08/08/2008, -4/+3I'll wait for the aPhone 3g.
I failed. - endlessoul, on 08/08/2008, -2/+1I want to believe.
- inactive, on 08/08/2008, -2/+1Thank you. I replied to you before but I think I goofed up and pushed the wrong thing.
- inactive, on 08/08/2008, -2/+1Actually, yes. I think that if you looked into the face of God with out something to eclipse the glory you would die.
- lebatte, on 08/08/2008, -2/+1Dark Side of the Moon in all its glory.
- freezerburn666, on 08/08/2008, -3/+2its a space goatse
- tikibaloni, on 08/08/2008, -2/+0COOL PIC!
- postminimalist, on 08/08/2008, -2/+0Looks like an overhead shot of a bowling ball on a bedspread...
- chrisduser, on 08/08/2008, -3/+1Maybe my imagination is at play here but it looks like space is pinched into the north and south poles.
- kingjam, on 08/08/2008, -4/+1So
- Lynnwood, on 08/08/2008, -5/+2Looking at this picture, I perceive that more of the corona seems to be flowing to the right of the sun. Is this an indication that a "galaxy wind", for lack of a better term is causing this?
- ahawks, on 08/08/2008, -5/+1I'm not especially religious, but did anyone else have this sort of sensation like "this is what looking into the face of God must be like"?
- Mustashio, on 08/08/2008, -5/+0The sun looks fertile...
- FredFredrickson, on 08/08/2008, -7/+1So the back of the sun is blue? O_O
Just kidding, just kidding - I'm always surprised at the cool stuff NASA puts out on APOD. Great picture. - inactive, on 08/08/2008, -10/+2Thanks. You seem to really know what you are talking about. I love the Astronomy Picture of the Day. It's whole education for me.
- inactive, on 08/08/2008, -10/+1Thank you. You really seem to know what you're talking about. Astronomy Picture of the Day is a whole education for me. I love it.
Thanks again for the help.
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