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Apr 21, 2007, 04:49 PM
 
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/1...05_ys_full.jpg

Pretty cool. Someone posted it on Digg, I thought I'd share it here as well.
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Apr 21, 2007, 07:00 PM
 
whoa.
     
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Apr 21, 2007, 07:07 PM
 
too blurry for a wallpaper for me
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Apr 21, 2007, 07:08 PM
 
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Apr 21, 2007, 10:10 PM
 
Fake. I see Photoshopped lens flare.

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Apr 21, 2007, 11:08 PM
 
Wow!
     
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Apr 21, 2007, 11:09 PM
 
I think I am going to get desktop pics from Nasa now.
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Apr 21, 2007, 11:21 PM
 
Originally Posted by Jawbone54 View Post
Fake. I see Photoshopped lens flare.
We have a winner. Quoted from NASA's website regarding that pic:

"Above, an artist's impression shows a primordial quasar as it might have been, surrounded by sheets of gas, dust, stars and early star clusters."

...still a very cool pic though.
     
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Apr 21, 2007, 11:29 PM
 
Do people seriously think that's real? Good lord, did you look at it?!?

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Apr 21, 2007, 11:49 PM
 
Originally Posted by Jawbone54 View Post
Fake. I see Photoshopped lens flare.

I are just kidding.
Nope. That's the lens flare you get from taking pictures through an optical telescope.
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Apr 22, 2007, 12:21 AM
 
Nasa lies about everything: there is no "space". Stars were intelligently designed to twinkle at us and are about the size of peanuts.
     
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Apr 22, 2007, 01:08 AM
 
Originally Posted by ShortcutToMoncton View Post
Do people seriously think that's real? Good lord, did you look at it?!?

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It doesn't look any more or less realistic than, say, this one.
     
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Apr 22, 2007, 02:28 AM
 
Like who has a screen that big?
     
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Apr 22, 2007, 02:48 AM
 
Originally Posted by toothpick_charlie View Post
Like who has a screen that big?
NASA
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ugh. im really missing camino's auto image resize function.
     
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Apr 22, 2007, 06:30 PM
 
When I view images like that, I'm amazed that some people still believe we are the only beings in the universe.
     
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Apr 22, 2007, 06:40 PM
 
Originally Posted by k squared View Post
When I view images like that, I'm amazed that some people still believe we are the only beings in the universe.
Why? Do you see someone else in that picture?
     
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Apr 22, 2007, 06:41 PM
 
Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES View Post
Needs more unicorn.
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Apr 22, 2007, 06:42 PM
 
Looks fine on a 20"

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Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO View Post
Looks fine on a 20"

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Apr 22, 2007, 06:47 PM
 
Pretty sure that's provided by Candybar, by Panic.
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Originally Posted by imitchellg5 View Post
Where did you get that sexay MacBook Documents icon?
Iconfactory, look for G5 Drives and G5 System

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Pretty sure that's provided by Candybar, by Panic.
and, no, I applied these manually
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I am wrong.
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