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- KennMac, on 10/12/2007, -9/+131i'm in ur valleyz, stealin ur starz
- Billiam627, on 10/12/2007, -4/+96This is bar none the best picture I have seen on digg. And that even includes all the funny cat pictures.
- robdiggity, on 10/12/2007, -3/+83This shot just became my Beryl skydome.
- newsheatdotcom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+76You Cant Has Cheezburger!
- pearmanjim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+65oh no! a moving rock!
- theroyalweman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+65"I believe that whoever put those stars up there surely doesn't want us to have pre-marital sex."
- MrSkrilla, on 10/12/2007, -5/+67Let's see the pictures then *****
- Winters, on 10/12/2007, -2/+64Wait...ALL of them?
- OsiVert, on 10/12/2007, -2/+58I was in death valley 3 months ago, and the light pollution is coming from Las Vegas. You can see a glow over the mountains to the east all night long. It's kind of sad, actually.
- jasz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+37/me has a new background..
- wonboodoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31"Ugg boooga boomba"?
- thescimitar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31I doubt that highly. The city you live in must be very small, or magically invisible at night... twenty miles from here (nyc) and it's still a bright orange sky. Moreover, for deepsky imaging, even distant light pollution is a problem.
- quantumHobbit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25I'm Just Curious which city SirBotchness is referring to. He probably isn't lying, keep in mind dense cities in the US are the exception rather than the rule. Suburbs however are the real culprit with light pollution because they spread the light over a larger area.
@scimitar twenty miles south of NYC I'll assume Manhattan is probably Long Island which is guess what? a well populated suburb. No wonder you can see any sky in the largest megalopolis in the nation. Twenty miles South of where I am now, Baton Rouge, is the middle of nowhere. You can't see as much mostly due to humidity, but you get my point.
Note: I traveled to Arizona once and spent a frigid cold night in Navajo country staring at the sky. This picture doesn't do it justice. If you are at all interested in astronomy. Spend some time in a desert staring at the sky. It is really amazing. - drlha, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26Yeah, but Vegas just wouldn't be the same if it was all low-pressure Sodium lamps!
- UtahApocalyse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23I do amateur astronomy in Utah. The club I am in about 10 years ago picked a nice dark location about 45 mins from Salt Lake in the Tooele area. Now that area has grown so much we have lost most of the dark skies we once had there. I hope everyone, especially younger kids get a chance to go somewhere REALLY dark and see the night sky. there is nothing else like it, and someday we may not be able to see it.
- Charginmahlazer, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22DORK!
- macinpcusr, on 10/12/2007, -12/+29Out of this world!
- Humptydank, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15
I live in New York City, and my sky looks like a ceiling. - carbonetc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14If we all still had that above us every night the psychological effect on society could be palpable. We might not be so quick to assume that we're so important.
Or we'd just take it for granted like everything else. - superbonbon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I pulled over in the middle of the Nevada desert on a drive to Las Vegas and stepped outside of my car and I was really humbled by the beauty of the sky at night. It was so dark I could barely see my car from 10 feet away, but the stars illuminated the sky in such a way I literally held my breath in wonder. Now back in the city whenever I glance up at the sky, most the stars are obstructed by the hazy glow of artificial light. I think everyone should try to get to a very dark isolated place and just observe the millions of stars at least once in their life.
- NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I come from a town with the population of 1,000 and i always think its funny how people come to visit always spend a few hours looking at the sky.
- Kerakera, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I live an hour outside a large city and the sky isn't very vibrant due to the light pollution from the city and my neighbors thinking they need spot lights in their yards (as if anyone wants to steal their lawn ornaments?). It's actually gotten worse in the ten years I've lived here.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13lol i think everyone has just found their new desktop
i also set it on mine, its perfect for dual monitors - r0ryb0ryalis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14I still think something so suspicious must be a BOMB
- greenlight2001, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Constant cycle of thawing (during the early morning) and freezing (during the night) of the dirt slowly moves the rock around. Thats my guess anyways.
http://www.billandcori.com/deathvalley/dv_moving_rocks.htm - stanleyford, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Actually, this is a real phenomenon. There's a part of Death Valley where rocks seemingly move around on their own. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racetrack_Playa
- quantumHobbit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Agreed. There is nothing like seeing it in person. You can actually see depth(not really but it appears that way for some reason). Also no monitor will capture the contrast or the "twinkling". Seeing a sky like that above your head gives you sense of awe in creation or of your place in the universe. It's little wonder ancient people looked up at the sky and saw gods there.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10After living in the city, it is kind of scary to look up and see so much natural light coming from the night sky.
This kind of view of our galaxy is definitely one of the only advantages to living in a microscopic secluded town in central georgia.
I bet most people live their whole life without ever experiencing this kind of unpolluted view of the night sky. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I've been to Death valley national park recently. Most places in there really feel like from another planet
- WraythX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Some of us managed to grow up with that whilst living close to a major city (Wellington, NZ) and everytime I go home it is still just as glorious only 15 minutes out of the city. At least NZ will always be a bastion of wonderful views :)
- jonssonar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Its ok... most digg users have never been outdoors, away from their computers in the past 10 years... They are all sad... sad mutants.
- Armor1901, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10You should read the caption beneath the article. The rock moved during a recent rain storm.
"...an unusually placed rock that was pushed by high winds onto Racetrack Playa after a slick rain." - warmonger48, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Imagine what the ancients thought when they looked up and saw that.
- wing05, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Time to send another raccoon into a transformer station that'll take down the entire grid for a few days and give us another great blackout, star gazing from within cities, neighbourhood barbecues, etc...
- theratdotus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7ive never been out of nyc my entire life, i have never looked up and saw a sky full of stars. i feel like a mutant.. a sad mutant
- boren, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9It's really sad that you don't even know that this is what it could look like if we didn't have all the light pollution. Yes, you can manage light pollution.
- cyranthus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8it looks fine the way it is....
- InsaneMachine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Skydome is a concept in Beryl and Compiz that refers to the background that is used when switching between desktops.
A good picture for the skydome background is one with a 2:1 aspect ratio: a panoramic shot, due to the wrapping of the background onto the skydome sphere that wraps the image around a virtual cylinder.
http://swik.net/Skydome - moresheth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8@Stormwysper
If you are using Windows, you can set the image to your desktop and select "Tile" - and it will continue across both monitors.
It would be best to size it to your screen resolution, though, to get the best effect. To do this,I added up the total pixels for my setup and went into Photoshop and set the crop tool to 2304x1024 at 72 dpi, and selected the area I wanted. Just save and apply after that. Just be sure to use Tile. - greenlight2001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Very true. The other 25% is awesome. It's that 25% that makes me go back and visit friends out there every now and again. I didn't just throw that comment out for nothing, I've seen a vast majority of the city (my friend loves to drive the city and tour guide for me).
- terminality, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8I appreciate it, really I do, but nasas servers aren't known for their instability.
- Ngai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5If only it looked like this everywhere.... but damn lights, cities, etc...
they hide the fact of where we're at... - MadScientist420, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6can't run Linux. This computer is my workhorse...runs a mass spec, electron and x-ray spectrometers, FTIR, etc, all of which can not be run on Linux currently.
Still looking for the extend desktop option in XP.... - quantumHobbit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I meant can't see in above timer ran out.
@greenlight2001
I'll admit you're right about that, but I'm still a huge fan of the other 25%. - planbtech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://farm1.static.flickr.com/223/491744634_95c95d4ce7_o.jpg
muiti 22" display span GORGEOUS - MadScientist420, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4mind telling me how to get the pic to wrap to both monitors? For some reason I have the whole pic on each one...
- roguescout, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yeah! The Racetrack at night. If you guys think that is amazing, you should try the sunrise in Death Valley on a clear day. Just set up a lawn chair facing east and wait. Nothing else is quite like the very moment the Sun's rays break over the distant peaks and spill into the valley.
- deralte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3seems to me like that block of stone had enough of the view
- MadMastaZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3So the color was taken out and left it to look gray, spooky and scary?
nice. - Rev0lver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@quantumhobbit
Brooklyn and Queens are not considered part of Long Island due to their proximity to Manhattan. Those three boroughs in addition to the Bronx and Staten Island make up the five borough that make up "New York City", despite the fact that Manhattan is typically referred to as "The City".
Once you go east enough to hit Nassau, THEN you're in Long Island. -
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