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    Image of Alex Godofsky Alex Godofsky
    11/13/09

    In reply to Beautiful Dress Made Out Of 24,000 LEDs
    What's the song from the video? #galaxyleddress
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    Image of LukeDukem LukeDukem
    11/13/09

    @Alex Godofsky: The Girl With a Pearl Earring soundtrack, track 1 & 17
    [www.amazon.com]
    or
    [www.amazon.com]
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    Kuciwalker promoted this comment Edited by LukeDukem at 11/13/09 2:12 PM LukeDukem was starred LukeDukem was unstarred
    Image of samcal samcal
    11/13/09

    In reply to Beautiful Dress Made Out Of 24,000 LEDs
    "...and don't forget to use the Macy's Accessory Wall, thoughtfully." #galaxyleddress
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    11/13/09

    @samcal: Make it work. #galaxyleddress
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    Image of Michai Michai
    11/13/09

    In reply to Beautiful Dress Made Out Of 24,000 LEDs
    Very cool, better than most of those runway outfits. I'm surprised no one has LED modded a pair of stilettos. #galaxyleddress
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    Image of Alessar Alessar
    11/13/09

    In reply to Beautiful Dress Made Out Of 24,000 LEDs
    In the anime Gankutsuou (a science fiction update of The Count of Monte Cristo) the nobles wear clothing that does this kind of thing, even with patterns and textures. #galaxyleddress
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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/13/09

    In reply to Beautiful Dress Made Out Of 24,000 LEDs
    I love fashion and technology but this wasnt thrilling me. Like most high fashion though, its a concept meant to inspire more realistic pieces later. This concept will show back up, but in a more manageble form. (Imagining what COOL shoes they could make with this.) #galaxyleddress
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    Image of MarClar MarClar
    11/13/09

    @Curves: Just imagining the possibilities a full textile display would open up is giving me brainache...

    ...Woah. #galaxyleddress
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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/13/09

    @MarClar: Yes, make a ladies top and sell ad space on it since guys always stare at that area anyway. #galaxyleddress
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    Image of MarClar MarClar
    11/13/09

    @Curves: I resemble that comment. #galaxyleddress
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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/13/09

    @MarClar: In their defense, (sort of) I dont think they can help it. I think they are just hard wired to look. Its like a deer caught in the headlights. Which is why there are so many dead deer on the sides of the roads...... #galaxyleddress
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    11/13/09

    In reply to Beautiful Dress Made Out Of 24,000 LEDs
    O.K. on the practical side…
    …Can you sit down in this without damaging it and how well will it hold up to a night of dancing? #galaxyleddress
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    Image of :negated: :negated:
    11/13/09

    In reply to Beautiful Dress Made Out Of 24,000 LEDs
    When you just absolutely have to have a a dress that screams, "Look at me, look at me! Look at me, I'm blinking, look at me!! Are you looking at me? Look at me, look at me, look at me, I'm changing colors! Look at me, look at me!" for your attention whoring needs, get the Galaxy Dress.
    I'm not a fan of the cut or the display pattern, either. I suppose someone has to do it first before someone can do it right, but it'd be interesting to see something like this done tastefully. #galaxyleddress
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    11/13/09

    In reply to Beautiful Dress Made Out Of 24,000 LEDs
    I take it you are volunteering to be the test pilot for this flight of fancy, Rosa.
    Now that would be worth the expense to go to Gizmodo Gallery for. #galaxyleddress
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    11/13/09

    @Software_Goddess: I want to know who I need to plead with to try it on.

    I already told the guys that it's what I want for Christmas... #galaxyleddress
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    Image of Con Seannery Con Seannery
    11/13/09

    @Rosa Golijan: You should see if you can get them to make you one before the next Gallery and wear it around there. I mean, we all know that #RosaRocks, but then you could GLOW.
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    Image of Identity (Metric) Identity (Metric)
    11/13/09

    @Rosa Golijan: That would definitely make the Gallery more tempting. I was unable to get it off work this year. :( #galaxyleddress
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    11/13/09

    @Con Seannery: I'm not so sure that I'd want to be a display piece... #galaxyleddress
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    11/13/09

    @Identity (Metric): Aww. Don't miss the next one. They're fun, I promise. #galaxyleddress
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    Image of Identity (Metric) Identity (Metric)
    11/14/09

    @Rosa Golijan: I will definitely try to. :) #galaxyleddress
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    11/14/09

    @Identity (Metric): Glad to hear it. #galaxyleddress
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    Image of Sunburn_summer Sunburn_summer
    11/13/09

    In reply to Beautiful Dress Made Out Of 24,000 LEDs
    Man any woman would look good enough in that to escort Bono to a charity function in his laser jacket #galaxyleddress
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    Image of Con Seannery Con Seannery
    11/13/09

    @Sunburn_summer: I've got to say, that jacket is pretty cool. Is that new for the 360 tour, or has it been around for a while? (The tour was the first I'd seen of it) #galaxyleddress
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    Image of Sunburn_summer Sunburn_summer
    11/14/09

    @Con Seannery: I hadn't seen it before. I'm assuming it's new #galaxyleddress
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    11/13/09

    In reply to Beautiful Dress Made Out Of 24,000 LEDs
    Is there a tux to match? #galaxyleddress
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    Image of met2art met2art
    11/13/09

    In reply to Beautiful Dress Made Out Of 24,000 LEDs
    My dear, you're positively glowing! I'm so thrille dyou're here. Now please, stand over here near me... closer... lean down. That's good. I couldn't see my GBA screen.

    Please, sit still! #galaxyleddress
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    Image of RT100 RT100
    11/13/09

    @met2art: should've gotten the SP. it has backlighting #galaxyleddress
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    Image of Yanguang Yanguang
    11/03/09

    In reply to Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy
    "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft #galaxy
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    Image of Benjamin Posch Benjamin Posch
    11/02/09

    In reply to Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy
    well, not that my opinion matters or anything, but i clicked for the full size view. it didn't seem very big, and i don't really feel that insignificant afterwords, honestly. no more than normally anyway. it was a little wider than my browser window was at the time, but i dragged it out and fixed that. #galaxy
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    Image of Bertone77 Bertone77
    11/02/09

    @Benjamin Posch: Try Zooming in. #galaxy
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    Image of Heliophage Heliophage
    11/03/09

    @Bertone77:

    Methinks he clicked on the image of this post, rather than going to the actual site. #galaxy
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    Image of psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you!
    11/02/09

    In reply to Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy
    The thing I'm particulary worried about, doesn't every galaxy has a black hole in it's center? A massive one? If so, the gravitational force of it must be intense. Plus the thing must be spinning like mad. Wouldn't that make the gravitational field expand to a disc shape field that spreads wide and far? What if our Solar system were to cross that field into the other side of it?

    I'm no chef but I would imagine that everything would get stirred pretty good in our solar system. Kinda scary if you think about it. #galaxy
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    11/02/09

    @psychonaut2021: Secrets of the Pineal Gland:

    it's not an issue at this distance. because gravity diminishes with the inverse cube of the distance, the supermassive black hole being disc shaped has, for all intents and purposes, equivalent gravitational pull regardless of our orientation relative to it.

    think of it this way. put a quarter on your desk, and put your finger a few inches away from it. look at the relative distance from your finger to the edge, center, and far edge of the quarter. now lift your finger up a bit and look at it again. if you're truly keeping your finger the same distance away from the center, you just got a little bit closer to the close top edge - but you also got further away from the far bottom edge.

    now imagine your finger is a couple thousand miles from the quarter, and you did the same thing. that's akin to the proper scale of things here. even if gravity diminished with the regular inverse of the distance you'd see almost no effect whatsoever.

    furthermore, the solar system crosses the galactic plane every 13,000 years or so, and things seem to be fine for the last few hundred thousand years as far as cataclysm is concerned.

    interestingly enough, though, is that human history goes back about 9,000 years, but there is a lot of evidence to suggest that we were around, and civilized, long before that. look into the grooved metal spheres of South Africa, the Baghdad Battery, Egyptian electroplating/arc lighting, Indian Vedic Texts, and various other monolithic structures of unknown origin/construction method.

    we've been around in present form fo about 100,000 years, maybe up to 150,000 years. that's ~125 solar plane crossings. we're still here. I wouldn't worry about it (especially since there's jack shit to be done)
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    Image of AUAnonymous AUAnonymous
    11/02/09

    @nutbastard:
    Just saying but I'm pretty sure that gravity is proportional to the inverse square of the distance, not the cube #galaxy
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    Image of Bos'un's Mate Bos'un's Mate
    11/02/09


    @AUAnonymous: #galaxy
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    Image of psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you!
    11/02/09

    @nutbastard: Aha! I'm glad I read your response.

    Alden up there got it wrong. He missed the part where I say it crosses through the disc, not crash into the blackhole.

    With that said, nutbastard, I see what you're saying, but I was talking more about stronger gravity pulls, since we're crossing the disc. Or am I missing something here? If so please do explain, because I may be misunderstanding you.

    Further more the fact that you mentioned that people back then were quite civilized (which I was hoping someone would mention it, thanks!) suggest that something did in fact occured that kinda set us back a bit.

    I'm into "sacred geometry" and it seems like the ancients understood our universe better than what we do now adays. I mean they knew it was holographic in nature, and that it's based on a duality principle. Not only that but Metatron's cube is something so complex. It even describes how the cells begin to multiply when a baby is being formed. Amazing stuff really. Thank The Architect I joined the big G, if you catch my drift.

    Either way, let me know if I got your message right! I'd love to look into this further.

    *hearted* #galaxy
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    Image of JohnnySaber JohnnySaber
    11/03/09

    @psychonaut2021: Secrets of the Pineal Gland: I don't understand much of what you said, but I would really like to be pointed in a direction where I could read more about this stuff. #galaxy
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    Image of psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you!
    11/03/09

    @JohnnySaber: Look up "sacred geometry".

    "Fasten your seatbelt Dorothy, 'cause Kansas is going bye bye!".

    Enjoy! #galaxy
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    Image of Crashproof Crashproof
    11/02/09

    In reply to Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy
    "Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy"

    Except for Chuck Norris. #galaxy
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