This is Fucking Amazing!
 

The first one is God's vagina.

and this is asshole?

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ima...ng_hst_big.jpg

That second pic....
do you see the shape of a man in a hat, carrying a baby in his left arm?

yeah

but left hand for him or for us?

Yes amazing and beautiful.

looks like my grandma's jello mold at christmas time...

my favourite....shows how small and insignificant we are :) :(


http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ima...stacs_full.jpg

Great pics, I love space! :)

true.... with an uncropped pic of that size in this thread, I too feel dwarfed.

:1orglaugh

Space Station Mir..mother of all spacestations..:glugglug

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ima..._sts76_big.jpg

eyeandy :)

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ima...ndler_full.jpg

mother and a baby :)

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ima...ssini_full.jpg

w0w0w0w0w



http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ima...endler_big.jpg

I'm sure NASA will appreciate all their images being hotlinked here.


Why not just post links?

ahhh they have a lot of money for space program

if they can waste few hundred million dollars on the satelite, i am sure they can pay 0.6 cents per gig of bandwith :)

This guy is l337

Keep 'em coming! :thumbsup

This is exactly why I keep saying one of these days some giant aliens are going to come and squash this little dot of a planet if we don't take care of it and all the people on it in the right way.

Just like we pull weeds out of a garden, so will they.

:1orglaugh

Yeh, look at all those galaxies and tell me we're the only ones here.

I bought a really kickass telescope last fall and so far have seen Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mars, the moon, and several comets.
Was able to see several of the moons around Jupiter and could see the seperations in the rings of Saturn. The Great Red spot on Jupiter is acutally white right now because it absorbed a white storm a few months back. It is supposed to take a year to turn back to red.
Can't wait for the weather to get just a little nicer so that I can be out later at night and not freeze my balls off.

The first one isn't space, it's the air over Bagdad.

I don't think the aliens care if I recycle.:2 cents:

I love all the pics from Hubble... but it bothers me a bit that NASA doesn't state that they're colored by an artist.
I mean... it's cool that these gas clouds are bigger than galexies, and it's something to think about- but seriously, with all the colors they put into em you could photoshop a pic of a cloud from your house to look similar (using the same method).

As I recall, they're colored by a program, not an artist, but it's true that you could produce similar color spectra from a picture of your house. Hm...come to think of it, anyone got any wideband digital spectrographic data of a naked chick? Anyway, in NASA's defense, they've got this digital data, and they need to render it somehow or other, and while they could have chosen uglier colors, they had to be something, and I think they chose well. Fake rays eminating from stars are also arbitrary, but help provide the viewer with a sense of the magnitude of the star. And what the heck, NASA needs money, and prettier pics help them with that. Who among us hasn't touched up a model's breast on a key tour? :-)

does this guy have a pulse?

Great pictures!
:thumbsup

Oz

This is what the picture dictionary has under the word 'Alone'....

badass pics, thanks stanton, went well w/ my first cup of coffee..!

That's some pretty impressive stuff! :thumbsup

i can hotlink some more :1orglaugh

A Sagittarius Starscape

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ima...ion_uks022.jpg

earth at night

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ima...2_dmsp_big.jpg

ewww.....another village idiot fucked up a thread :(

damn..you scared the hell outta me...

For those of you interested in these things, check out this OpenGL project i coded last week:

(everything virus checked, no worries)

Download: http://www.cjultra.com/opengl/planet.zip

You also need to put this file in your system32 folder: http://www.cjultra.com/opengl/glut32.dll


Instructions:

Extract the contents of the zip file in a folder.

Run main.exe

You will see a blank window. Now you can use the right click menu to draw. Click on the following selections:

- Draw planet sphere
- Planet texture -> earth.bmp
- Draw cloud sphere
- Cloud texture -> clouds.bmp
- Cloud transparency
- Cloud shadows

You can use the left mouse button to drag and rotate the planet. Also you can use the Animate option in the right click menu to make it rotate smoothly (clouds and planet rotate at different speeds). You can use the wireframe mode to see the wireframe model of the planet. You can use culling for increasing the performance; it doesnt draw the opposite surface that is not visible to the camera if it is enabled.

You can use your own textures with the program. But they have to be 2:1 in size and the dimensions have to be power of 2 and extensions need to be bmp. So they have to be like 1024x512 or 512x256 or 256x128 etc.. When you run main.exe, it will detect them all and add to the list inside the program.


here are a few screenshots (but it looks much better when you run it from your PC):


http://www.cjultra.com/opengl/1.gif

http://www.cjultra.com/opengl/3.gif


here is the sourcecode:
http://www.cjultra.com/opengl/main.cpp
http://www.cjultra.com/opengl/Glext.h

Here's a link to a site that shows present time images of the earth.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html

monkeyman, you just make me sick :feels-hot :321GFY

Does anyone else see a family of llamas frollicking in a jacuzzi full of butter with jars of pickles in this pic???

thats amazing!

some disturbing shit you guys post...