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- ninjadave, on 09/10/2009, -1/+110Hubble pictures never fail to rekindle my sense of wonder.
- captinherb, on 09/10/2009, -1/+72The post right below this one is "*****-faced: World Record Drunks" and it has more diggs. Hell in a handbasket swear to god.
- inactive, on 09/10/2009, -1/+44"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love." Carl Sagan
Pictures like these ought to remind us how insignificant our little speck-of-dust planet is, and how if we don't love one another while we're here, we're setting ourselves up for a lifetime of loneliness and misery. - Velenne, on 09/10/2009, -0/+18The pale blue dot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw - diggydougie, on 09/10/2009, -0/+16Same damn universe.
- SpazAttack5000, on 09/10/2009, -0/+13This wasn't a Rorshach test.
- LeeMaple, on 09/10/2009, -0/+11Hubble wasn't designed to see things up close, it was designed to see things far away. Having hubble look at the moon is like pressing your eyeball up against the monitor and trying to read.
I don't even think the Jupiter picture was taken with the primary Hubble camera, It was a secondary one. - JohnILM, on 09/10/2009, -0/+7You're getting dugg down, but I thought it was clever... with Burns playing God and all. (Although, I'll probably get dugg down for saying dugg down. I can never remember if it's that or buried that's appropriate in this situation.)
- macmcraeart, on 09/10/2009, -4/+11who made the universe?
... god did.
Who made god?
no one - he always existed.
the concept of god doesn't really explain much does it? - snusnu, on 09/10/2009, -0/+6http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/multimedi ...
Not all the images in the article. but huge resolution available. - govsucks, on 09/10/2009, -0/+6Meh, ***** em, it was a weak joke anyway.. Considering many don't have pubic hair, they probably don't know who Burns is and I get dugg down all the time anyway.
Beautiful images, amazing technology, digg worthy. - VeryBoredNow, on 09/10/2009, -1/+7there are descriptions under each one of those
- Syugo, on 09/10/2009, -2/+8Man, I REALLY want space travel now. Oh well, I probably just need to wait 20 more years.
- wr332, on 09/10/2009, -16/+22YEAH SCIENCE
- ch00ch, on 09/10/2009, -1/+7I don't know how people can even contemplate the idea of there being absolutely nothing out there. There's got to be at least one planet that can sustain life. Just the idea of that is sick.
- Deemun, on 09/10/2009, -1/+6I just farted and it smelled like Fritos.
- alexkorova, on 09/10/2009, -0/+5Higher resolutions anyone?
- TheIndigoSky, on 09/10/2009, -0/+5My guess would be the fact that this is a giant telescope with ridiculous exposure to see things that far away, the lighting is naturally extremely variable. Furthermore, I'm not sure if all of these pics are purely the visible light spectrum. The person a post or two below me will probably be someone with expertise/research/links, just throwing in my two cents.
- macmcraeart, on 09/10/2009, -1/+5so you believe that a text written by jews in the bronze age that is packed with thousands of laws - that you choose to ignore - holds secrets to the universe? You do realize that the bible makes god out to be a petty, jealous, angry jewish dude who knows less about elementary science than a humble farmer does today?
- soupeh, on 09/10/2009, -0/+4***** amazing.
That is all. - NervousEnergy, on 09/10/2009, -0/+4It's quite a sad fact that if you looked at these beautiful nebula in a spaceship they would be barely discurnable to the naked eye; more of a greyish green smudge than anything we ever see in the pictures taken by Hubble and the other space telescopes.
Hubble is not designed to look at images in the normal human range of the electromagnet light spectrum. In fact, the cameras study the entire spectrum..infra-red right through to X-rays and beyond.. Some of the pictures we see show the subject solely in, for instance, infra-red, and would be impossible to see with the naked eye under normal conditions.
The vast majority of photographs come through as black and white; which are then coloured mainly according to their elemental makeup. So for instance, blue might represent oxygen, yellow hydrogen, and red nitrogen.
See here for more information: http://www.hubblesite.org/gallery/behind_the_pictu ...
NASA isn't exactly deceiving us with these beautiful images; instead they are enhancing them and showing what they would look like were our eyes exceedingly more sensitive and powerful. - dharmajunkie, on 09/10/2009, -2/+5No one made God, He always existed.
Then why couldn't the Universe always existed?
I don't know </head explodes> - dstruktNine, on 09/10/2009, -0/+3No one will know we existed once this planet is gone. The picture that shows multiple galaxies is just mind boggling. Billions of galaxies with billions of stars with billions of planets with billions of....
Yeah, mind blogging. - the2989, on 09/11/2009, -0/+3We need to locate a giant space mirror maybe 60 million light years from here. Then, we need a telescope that can zoom way the ***** in and look at the reflections of dinosaurs walking around on our younger planet 120 million years ago.
It never hurts to dream :D - Lasereth, on 09/10/2009, -0/+3I can't believe that people can look at pictures like these and then insist on arguing about healthcare rather than what's out there. The human species' goal should be galactic exploration, not ***** politics like right now. Why the hell aren't we sending real people to Mars. urrghgghhhhhhhh
- navidb, on 09/10/2009, -1/+4I used to think more and more how insignificant we are, but I thought to myself, how many other living 'things; in our universe has seen images like these, with our advancements in technology for our tiny time here on earth, we are damn significant, we are ALIVE.
- inactive, on 09/10/2009, -0/+3Who and Why am I?
- paulmer2003, on 09/10/2009, -1/+4High res.
I *****' demand it! - inactive, on 09/10/2009, -0/+3That my friend is why people like you and me will find it so easy to advance through life. Many people's thought process is clouded by jingoist, vapous, simple minded matters that neither develop the mind nor educate the soul.
- kthoma22, on 09/10/2009, -0/+2I like to consider myself fiscally conservative and generally against government spending. However I love NASA and think they need even more funding to really help further our knowledge of the universe and also encourage young minds to pursue careers in engineering and science.
- the2989, on 09/11/2009, -0/+2i don't think tool was thinking about what year it was when they wrote that song.
- Atario, on 09/10/2009, -0/+2No matter how many times I read or hear those words of Carl's, they never fail to choke me up.
- PowderedToasty, on 09/10/2009, -0/+2space is fuzzy and full of artifacts
- ThreeDee912, on 09/10/2009, -0/+2ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH
- noumuon, on 09/10/2009, -0/+2something that helps gather fundamental knowledge of our universe sounds like a fair priority.
- Nebberz, on 09/10/2009, -0/+2thanks for sharing that
- pcmoney, on 09/10/2009, -0/+2We invest in technology. This is how we move towards a better future.
- inactive, on 09/10/2009, -0/+2The only thing in this universe that cares about us is us. The planet could blow up today and nothing in the universe would shed a tear. We don't matter when you put it into a holistic perspective. We and this planet only matter when we pretend like that's all there is, so we seem bigger and more important.
I know this isn't a comforting answer. But you'll find that reality doesn't care what is comforting to humans. We've existed for a mere blip of time, And thus our impact on the universe is one step above absolute minimal (we can, however, destroy our planet, which we are doing right now with pollution and deforestation.) by the very definition of having little impact on our surrounding space, we are insignificant.
But we should love each other and get along, because at the end of the day, our experience here is all that matters. Therefore, we should aim to make that experience as pleasant and absent of pain as possible. Pretty straight forward really. - captinherb, on 09/10/2009, -1/+3really, not without skill? I'm pretty sure I could throw something together in my basement thats better than that. Hell lets go basic, the human body. Ever had hemorrhoids, major design flaw. I'm positive I could have come up with something better, Not to mention, how can you put the ***** and orgasming organs that close together, seriously
- the2989, on 09/11/2009, -0/+2You are the result of chaotic physics. It's almost entirely random, but in a perfectly organized way.
- iamdak, on 09/10/2009, -1/+3The second one looks like a gigantic alien with a trunk looking and pointing up.
I think I found a new background for my desktop. :) - sonofabiscuit, on 09/10/2009, -0/+1Does anyone know why Hubble images look all fuzzy and full of artifacts when you look a bit closer at the photographs? Is this a natural occurrence or a quality issue on the part of the telescope camera?
- PowderedToasty, on 09/11/2009, -0/+1What if the only thing that cares about anything in the universe is us?
- rtfmpls, on 09/13/2009, -0/+1source: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/l ...
- Sylx, on 09/10/2009, -0/+1Is it just me or does pictures of the universe always look like pictures in a petree (how-ever-you-spell it) dish?
- geoman2k, on 09/10/2009, -0/+1the light that bounces off of us will travel through the galaxy for billions of years, so in a way we will never die.
- enkeps, on 09/10/2009, -0/+1I thought: Gnu saying "come here!"
- geoman2k, on 09/10/2009, -0/+1i took an astrobiology class where we did a formula to calculate the chances of other intelligent life in the universe. i won't go into the math of it but it basically came out to there being one intelligent race per galaxy (optimistically). so the universe is probably teaming with life, but the chances we'll ever see any are pretty low.
i still think there's life on europa tho. 2010 ftw. - duzey, on 09/24/2009, -0/+1-You know what a ***** barometer is, Bubs?
-Measures the ***** pressure in the air. You can feel it! Listen Bubs, hear that? Sounds of the whispering winds of *****.
-Beware- the ***** storm is coming!
"Jim Lahey" - HeaveN, on 09/10/2009, -0/+12nd pic is frodo baggins fighting the cave troll
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