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04-02-2007, 11:48 AM | #1 | |
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April 2, 2007: Composite image of eclipse
It's Neatorama collaboration Monday! And it's another wide one. This from Clodfobble, who says "This was sent to me by a colleague who is way into his amateur telescope hobby. The picture's a year old but I hadn't seen it before and his explanation of the focal lengths was really interesting to me." The explanation from Clod's colleague: Quote:
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04-02-2007, 11:52 AM | #2 |
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That's beautiful. Nice picture.
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04-02-2007, 12:08 PM | #3 | |
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Spectacular!
I found this link describing it in a little more detail. Quote:
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04-02-2007, 12:22 PM | #4 |
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Why does our Moon appear the same size as our Sun? This can only be Intelligent Design.
Incidentally, I've been looking for an image to put on the front of my bass drum head (and I know I said that about the ATHF thing) ...
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04-02-2007, 12:28 PM | #5 |
I think this line's mostly filler.
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Plus, there's only one Sun and one Moon. Therefore, there is only one God.
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04-02-2007, 12:33 PM | #6 |
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But that's a total of two. Two round things; boobies, two gonads, two Gods. Well, one God and one Satan. So we should all chop off one nut and one jug. But which one? Put you hands on the TV screen! Then put your hands in your wallet, and then I'll tell you.
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****************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio |
04-02-2007, 05:51 PM | #7 | |
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------------------------------------------------ There are about 10 billion (10^10) stars in an average galaxy, and there are about 10 billion galaxies that we can observe in the universe, so the answer is 100 billion billion or 10^20. John Hawley ========================================================= That's a lot of suns. Are there also a lot of gods?
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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04-02-2007, 10:55 PM | #9 |
in a mood, not cupcake
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04-02-2007, 12:49 PM | #10 |
I think this line's mostly filler.
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No, one Sun, one Moon, and one Earth! One God in three aspects! The Trinity!
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04-02-2007, 12:53 PM | #11 |
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Wait, are you saying that Jesus had three testicles, or three wives?
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04-02-2007, 01:18 PM | #12 |
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sweeeeeeeeet
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04-02-2007, 01:20 PM | #13 |
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my new desktop!
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04-02-2007, 01:38 PM | #14 |
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Needs color. Where's Ted Turner?
1 Sun + 1 moon + 1 Earth = 1 Sun + 1 moon + 1 Earth
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04-03-2007, 09:25 PM | #15 |
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