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    Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy

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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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    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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    Image of Muzzled Muzzled
    11/02/09

    In reply to Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy
    648 mega pixel image, amazing, Thats something I would like to see.

    <3 mega pixel image uploaded to gizmodo? no thanks #galaxy
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    11/02/09

    @Muzzled:

    the full image is over 2 gigs. i dont imagine even giz has the bandwidth to handle everyone trying to grab it at the same time.

    check bittorrent. #galaxy
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    Image of Robert-Freeman Robert-Freeman
    11/02/09

    In reply to Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy
    This doesn't make me feel insignificant, it makes me feel more significant. :) #galaxy
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    Image of Nick Nick
    11/02/09

    In reply to Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy
    universal pictures is gonna send him a cease and cut-it-out letter. #galaxy
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    Image of cobaltage cobaltage
    11/02/09

    In reply to Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy
    There's no way this is going to beat the iPhone.

    Thank you, I'm here all week. #galaxy
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    Image of Nick Nick
    11/02/09

    @cobaltage: actually, android has a google sky map. it's awesome. #galaxy
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    11/02/09

    In reply to Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy
    this means that the image itself is somewhere around 2.16GB or so.

    i could have screwed up a decimal place. 2nd opinion? #galaxy
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    Image of TableZero TableZero
    11/02/09

    In reply to Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy
    What? No "You Are Here" arrow? #galaxy
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    Image of Bertone77 Bertone77
    11/02/09

    @TableZero: These were taken from earth. #galaxy
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    Image of Nick Nick
    11/02/09

    @Bertone77: bahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha... #galaxy
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    Image of Bertone77 Bertone77
    11/02/09

    @Nick: "Mellinger spent 22 months and traveled over 26,000 miles to take digital photographs at dark sky locations in South Africa, Texas and Michigan. "

    pwnt #galaxy
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    Image of Nick Nick
    11/02/09

    @Bertone77: i wasn't laughing at you. i was laughing at you responding to TableZero. it was funny. #galaxy
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    Image of Bertone77 Bertone77
    11/02/09

    @Nick: Oh, I see, it's hard to tell sometimes... #galaxy
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    Image of jayhawk11 is not a fan of smallpox. jayhawk11 is not a fan of smallpox.
    11/02/09

    In reply to Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy
    Does this guy have any plans to release the image to the public? Could be pretty neat as a desktop picture. #galaxy
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    Image of wkm001 wkm001
    11/02/09

    In reply to Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy
    How can a galaxy contain "as well as hundreds of galaxies, star clusters and nebulae"? Is this a map of the universe? #galaxy
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    11/02/09

    @wkm001: Both.

    It's like taking a picture of someone outdoors and having the sky in the background. It can't be helped. #galaxy
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    Image of pexy pexy
    11/02/09

    In reply to Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy
    I want for my house #galaxy
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    Image of Jamez Jamez
    11/02/09

    @pexy: I'd love this as my wallpaper. For my entire house. And the outside, perhaps for camouflage. #galaxy
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    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'

    I've known a few women who can induce the same effect... #galaxy
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    Image of KVirtanen KVirtanen
    11/02/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®:

    I feel sad for you man :( #galaxy
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/02/09

    @KVirtanen: I didn't say I dated any of them. #galaxy
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    Image of PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:
    11/02/09

    @KVirtanen: 'Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a woman making fun of your 2-Megapixel penis' #galaxy
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/02/09

    @PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: : Don't fall for that megapixel myth. It's small, but it's fierce. #galaxy
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    Image of Benjamin Posch Benjamin Posch
    11/02/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: your mother would be sad to know you talk about her that way. #galaxy
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    11/02/09

    @Benjamin Posch: If my mother was still here she'd probably break a chair over my head.. #galaxy
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    Image of Benjamin Posch Benjamin Posch
    11/02/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: damnit. i have this uncanny way of picking the people who's moms are gone to make mom jokes about. sorry dude. #galaxy
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    11/02/09

    @Benjamin Posch: Its ok. #galaxy
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    Image of berbar berbar
    10/01/09

    In reply to Custom Camera Rig Allows For a Stunning Vertical Panorama of a Giant Redwood
    I wonder what stitching software they used.
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