Strange Cosmic Goodness

[Nazshakul]

You gotta admit...

http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/090404-chandra-nebula-02.jpg

That's pretty damn cool. I mean, what are the chances that it would look like a hand!? Then again, humans are hardwired to see symbols in everything, so I guess it's just a weird coincedence and not some eldritch god giving a sign of his coming. :P

Whole story (http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090405/sc_space/cosmichandreachesforthelight)

[Geofforan]

HIGH FIVE!

[Brakogar]

I see it as a hand reaching for something burning. If its a sign maybe it means that we are about to burn ourselves.

[Okhu]

Its a hand reaching for a hotdog. Obviously.

[Nymare]

I think that's very beautiful. Very beautiful. And then a freaky coincidence which makes me wonder if Trent Reznor has seen this or not... and just how many people who were following the ARG leading up to Year Zero's release are now locked in their basements waiting for The Great Destroyer.

[Skaadvik]

it's always disappointing to me when I realize that most of the crazy space pictures don't actually look like that. they use different filters and such (x-ray filter in this case according to the article) to get false-color images of crazy, crazy shit that you can't actually see. There's still some crazy shit out there, though. Space kicks ass.

[opalexian]

I think that's very beautiful. Very beautiful. And then a freaky coincidence which makes me wonder if Trent Reznor has seen this or not... and just how many people who were following the ARG leading up to Year Zero's release are now locked in their basements waiting for The Great Destroyer.

I was gonna say something like that...instead I'll say 'ILU'.

[Irontoe]

I see it as a hand reaching for something burning. If its a sign maybe it means that we are about to burn ourselves.

It only looks like this because astronomers added color to it.

[Malorii]

Pfftt.. you're all wrong.


Obviously this is signaling the waking of an Eldar god.

I must prepare.. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

[Yichimet]

I can never get over the sheer scale of astronomy. That occurrence was 17,000 years ago. It took the light from it SEVENTEEN THOUSAND YEARS to get here, traveling 102,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles.

I am such a nothing.

[Malorii]

Yep, thats why I don't like space. I have an inferiority complex already.

You guys ever see that movie Sunshine? It was a really good movie about this sort of stuff, basically the world is ending because the sun is running out of juice so they fly around in a ship on a one way voyage to restart the sun.


They did a real good job of capturing the little things about space the freak me out. Like how cold it is, this one astronaut gets his helmet broken after running into something or other (can't remember) but his face doesn't get sucked out so much as it just freezes instantly.

Space is a horrible pretty monstrosity. Thanks for sharing that picture!

[Raziel]

Sunshine is the most beautiful movie I've seen since Aronofsky's "The Fountain"

[Malorii]

Never seen the Fountain. Whats it about?

I got really depressed after watching Sunshine. :( Really good movie.

[opalexian]

I've wanted to see The Fountain but haven't gotten a chance...Hmm, I might just go buy it out of hand, I've heard so much good about it.

Sunshine was fantastic, although the crazy homicidal man found in an abandoned space station thing was a little goofy 'cause it's been done before. I love watching Cillian Murphy.

[Grayslin]

I watched The Fountain. A very nice looking movie, though a just a tad too artsy for me. I didn't "get it."

[Raziel]

I've wanted to see The Fountain but haven't gotten a chance...Hmm, I might just go buy it out of hand, I've heard so much good about it.

Sunshine was fantastic, although the crazy homicidal man found in an abandoned space station thing was a little goofy 'cause it's been done before. I love watching Cillian Murphy.

I liked it in Event Horizon, and I liked it in sunshine, because I didn't see it coming. It was a Pace-Changer.

[Swerto]

I effing love sunshine. I need to go watch it now, DAMN YOU!

[Skaadvik]

Raz, you like a lot of shit I like. The Fountain is one of my favorite movies ever... as well as Event Horizon. Sunshine was also awesome.

As to the topic at hand, here are some of my personal favorite space pics:

Calabash Nebula-
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd329/Buttknockerr/Calabash_Nebula.jpg

Eagle Nebula- there was an 8-foot print of this in the museum on the University of Nebraska campus, it was awesome
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd329/Buttknockerr/eagle_nebula_heic0506b_f.jpg

Eta Carinae- there's also an awesome album by Orbit Service called Songs of Eta Carinae. Awesome space music.
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd329/Buttknockerr/etacarinaebig.jpg

Don't remember what this one's called. Eye nebula or something like that-
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd329/Buttknockerr/spacepic.jpg

[Malorii]

Hey one of you space coyotes might know, awhile back there was this scientist guy, I think he was asian i could be completely wrong, But he used and manged to make "sun songs" by useing the suns magnetic and flares up to a music box like instrument so the sun was playing music via monitoring systems, and what not. I forgot all the spacey hows and details. But I never heard it, there was a thing on npr YEARS ago about how you could go to this website and hear the songs the sun made.


any thoughts?

[Skaadvik]

I haven't hear anything about it, but it sounds pretty awesome assuming that it doesn't end up being just static. It would be crazy to hear the sun.

[Malorii]

FOUND IT!

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/singing/

not the one i was looking for .. but close

I'm afraid of the sun.

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/gallery/images/large/suncombo1_prev.jpg

[Skaadvik]

That was pretty cool. It seems really calm and subdued compared to the burning chaos that is the sun.

[opalexian]

I'm afraid of Americans.


And Event Horizon was awesome too. I saw the crazy man on the space station coming in Sunshine tho, as soon as they said they would hook up to it.


I wanna see that giant wall print of that nebula. OSU doesn't have anything cool like that, or if they do they're hiding it from me. :(

[Skaadvik]

Yeah, it was awesome. One of the very (VERY) few awesome things in Nebraska.

[Malethor]

I don't see a hand, but I see the body and part of a neck of a guitar

http://www.axemusic.com/Pictures/esp_AX104BLK.jpg

[Xiphus]

FOUND IT!

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/singing/

not the one i was looking for .. but close

I'm afraid of the sun.

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/gallery/images/large/suncombo1_prev.jpg

SOLAR FLARE! Thank the creator, whoever he is, for the planet's magnetic field. Without it, we will be dead by now!

[Swerto]

SOLAR FLARE! Thank the creator, whoever he is, for the planet's magnetic field. Without it, we will be dead by now!
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