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On October 20 2011 08:28 cvlsfts wrote:![[image loading]](http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd435/patriciapatricia1/Picture100.png) The photo above is of a woman whose husband was killed in Iraq. It was the night before his funeral and she wanted to sleep next to his body one last time. The Marines made a bed for her next to his casket and she fell asleep listening to music that reminded her of him.
you are forgetting that he standed guard during the whole night 
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Just shows how small and insignificant our planet/galaxy is...
But a little background info on the Deep space picture. Its basically a black spot where no one thought stars were and this one scientist wanted to test something so he directed the Hubble to stare at 1 spot for a period of several days collecting light. At the time it was very risky because the Hubble is/was a very high priority telescope. Well once the pictures came back this is what they saw (though not the EXACT one but similar)
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Did you just snag the picture and story from somewhere or do you have a link, I'm quite interested in which part of the sky that's from.
Until then, here's a picture of a Venus transit.
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On October 21 2011 11:15 DreamChaser wrote:Just shows how small and insignificant our planet/galaxy is... But a little background info on the Deep space picture. Its basically a black spot where no one thought stars were and this one scientist wanted to test something so he directed the Hubble to stare at 1 spot for a period of several days collecting light. At the time it was very risky because the Hubble is/was a very high priority telescope. Well once the pictures came back this is what they saw (though not the EXACT one but similar)
I think what you described happened in this picture, the Hubble Deep Field image:
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The picture you initially linked is a gravitational lens, where the light of distant objects (stars, galaxies) is distorted by sources of high gravity, such as black holes. They were predicted by Einstein and, amongst other things, proven by such pictures. Fun fact, they can actually be used to watch very distant galaxies whose light wouldn't reach us otherwise (or not without really long lighting times).
Same thing here, Einstein's cross: That's not four quasars, but only one, mirrored multiple times due to the galaxy in the foreground (middle).
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My hometown after WWII, seeing this always make me feel better living today:
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Charlie Chaplin and Ghandi
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On September 29 2011 23:29 Stijx wrote:Might be a stupid question, but what is this?
I could be wrong, but I believe it's supposed to be nuclear missiles being launched. But i'm not 100% sure on that.
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The first dozen pages are too fucking depressing, I don't want to look at starving people. Skipping to page 50 got rid of a lot of that crap though.
I never knew locks were actually like that, I guess they weren't that far off:
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I don't have much to contribute because I don't care for seeing bony people, but I'll try, sorry if its a repost:
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On October 24 2011 04:05 Geovu wrote:The first dozen pages are too fucking depressing, I don't want to look at starving people. Skipping to page 50 got rid of a lot of that crap though. I don't have much to contribute because I don't care for seeing bony people, but I'll try, sorry if its a repost: + Show Spoiler +
"Fucking depressing, bony, starving people; skipping got rid of that crap."
Then why are you posting here. Seriously. Get out, there's the door, but please don't litter this thread with your complaining.
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Click it - huge picture.
Open-pit mining in Germany. Recreating the surface of the moon to satisfy energy demands.
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On June 21 2011 08:56 Aggnog wrote:![[image loading]](http://aigg.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/1308292077691_original.jpg) + Show Spoiler +
A Monument to the Soviet Army in Sofia, Bulgaria, built in 1954. Painted by unknown artists. Sign says "Keeping up with the times".
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To each their own but try to be a little more manner when it comes to "bony" starving humans beings...
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Not sure if it's a re post or not.
But, this picture always makes me think.
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Wow that picture really got me thinking.
And please use image tags 
@ picture above me, Whats that lazer?
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