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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 12:05 AM
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Best Hubble Images. Want to feel insignificant?
Start clicking through these images shot by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The two "galaxy field" shots do it for me.

http://www.space.com/bestimg/index.php?cat=hst
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Skip Intro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 12:12 AM
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1. Isn't the Hubble doomed? Isn't it about over? No more fudning or something
Like a year or two ago - wasn't that a big story, at least here?

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dave29 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 12:17 AM
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2. As an aside
I tend to look at the vastness of space and everything it contains as making us rather unique and significant. Thinking of how lucky we are to have such a safe haven that we might have a chance at moving beyond our home planet to see what else is out there.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 12:20 AM
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3. Thanx!


smart knowledge is good and what not
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renate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 01:58 AM
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14. aww....
I love the juxtaposition of the Hubble pictures of the vastness of space and the picture of this lovely little moment on our tiny piece of space dust.

We can either take comfort from the knowledge that the universe is huge and, on the whole, beautiful despite Earth's little speck of spiritual corruption and ecological contamination (although, to be honest, I think that the people who are spiritually corrupt get undeservedly more press than the billions of good people doing good things every day, and that Earth is, overall, really good), or from the beauty of the little moment of love, trust, and attachment in your picture.
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 12:30 AM
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4. Thank you for posting this link
I love seeing these photos.
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DemInDistress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 12:31 AM
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5. saw this 2 yrs ago on NBC..still its an awesome sight..nt
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Der Blaue Engel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 12:31 AM
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6. "I am the eye in the sky..."
"...looking at you...."
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hang a left Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 12:45 AM
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7. Awesome!!!
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pansypoo53219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 12:50 AM
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8. astronomy picture of the day is way better
when i first discovered it, i had to go through a few years of archives.
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renate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 01:51 AM
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13. I absolutely agree--it's my home page
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

No better way to start the day.

And here are the archives:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
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JohnnyRingo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 12:52 AM
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9. Already do....I'm a Democrat.
Hahah...Couldn't help it.
I love the Hubble pix. a couple years ago I bought a huge full color coffee table book of the pix up to then.

Every star we see in the night sky is from our own galaxy. The hubble has brought the wonders of the rest of the cosmos to my living room.

It's truly overwhelming to see images that cannot be described by words in area that cannot be defined by conventional measure.
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jbnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 12:58 AM
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10. The kind of insignificance
that fills you with wonder and delight.
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 01:14 AM
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11. Fantastic!
Great!
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 01:34 AM
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12. I find it extremely comforting.
The implication, to me, of all that space out there, and all that time it's been there and will continue to be there, is that no matter how messed-up my life seems, there are things that are unaffected by any tragedy that might befall me, things that are safe and will remain so. Cosmological stuff and small-scale particle stuff comfort me when I think everything's out of control.

Tucker
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Occulus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 02:00 AM
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15. Funny you should put it that way, because
I also feel insignifigant when considering quarks, or concepts like entangelment.

There is so much we don't know, which is why I love the more, ah, 'exotic' experiments- such as what they're doing at Sandia with the Z machine.

It all makes me feel insignifigant.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 07:34 AM
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16. Actually, I feel inadequate . . .
(it's a guy thing . . . they seem phallic . . .)

Seriously, if the righties are right and we are truly alone in this universe, I feel sad . . . and embarassed that this is the best that "our Creator" could come up with, Intelligent Designer that "he" is . . .
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