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"Physicist Axel Mellinger travelled 26,000 miles and pieced together over 3,000 individual images to create this, one of the most stunning panoramas of our galaxy every assembled.

Piecing together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece. Axel Mellinger, a professor at Central Michigan University, describes the process of making the panorama in the forthcoming issue of Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. An interactive version of the picture can viewed on Mellinger's website.

"This panorama image shows stars 1000 times fainter than the human eye can see, as well as hundreds of galaxies, star clusters and nebulae," Mellinger said. Its high resolution makes the panorama useful for both educational and scientific purposes, he says.

Mellinger spent 22 months and traveled over 26,000 miles to take digital photographs at dark sky locations in South Africa, Texas and Michigan. After the photographs were taken, "the real work started," Mellinger said.

Simply cutting and pasting the images together into one big picture would not work. Each photograph is a two-dimensional projection of the celestial sphere. As such, each one contains distortions, in much the same way that flat maps of the round Earth are distorted. In order for the images to fit together seamlessly, those distortions had to be accounted for. To do that, Mellinger used a mathematical model-and hundreds of hours in front of a computer.

Another problem Mellinger had to deal with was the differing background light in each photograph.

"Due to artificial light pollution, natural air glow, as well as sunlight scattered by dust in our solar system, it is virtually impossible to take a wide-field astronomical photograph that has a perfectly uniform background," Mellinger said.

To fix this, Mellinger used data from the Pioneer 10 and 11 space probes. The data allowed him to distinguish star light from unwanted background light. He could then edit out the varying background light in each photograph. That way they would fit together without looking patchy.

The result is an image of our home galaxy that no star-gazer could ever see from a single spot on earth. Mellinger plans to make the giant 648 megapixel image available to planetariums around the world.

[University of Chicago via Axel Mellinger via Examiner via io9]" -Gizmodo

Halloween Spirit

Jesus

If he was a musician, he would be Infected Mushroom

WHALE

Of course I go on...

OK TIME FOR BILL'S WORD

TITS TITS TITS and more tits. All because arch never goes on. And this was bill's word

Daisy!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111337

Lol i love daisy

DRAGON AGE!!!!!!!111111111111337

Dragon Age: Origins, (also known as Dragon Age), is a computer role-playing game currently in development by BioWare's Edmonton studio. The game will be released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 in North America on November 3, 2009, and in Europe on November 6, 2009; BioWare has stated that the PlayStation 3 version of the game will be released on November 17, 2009.[2]
Dragon Age: Origins utilizes a new game engine named Eclipse.[6] It has been confirmed that a toolset for creation of fan-made content will be included. The game will be single-player only and not provide LAN support.[7] BioWare co-CEO Ray Muzyka describes Dragon Age: Origins as a 'spiritual successor' to the Baldur's Gate series,[8] though it is not based on Dungeons & Dragons.[9]
Dragon Age: Origins was first announced during E3 2004.[30]
BioWare will release a 'developer-grade' toolset (the same one that they used to make Dragon Age: Origins) to allow extensive modification and customization of the game.[31]
It has also been announced that the retail version of Dragon Age will not use the SecuRom copy protection software used by other EA games, opting instead for a standard disc check.[32]

CC WTF!?

Suffice to say, neither of us got to kiss the princess...

How would the Lone Ranger handle this?

<@dma>  _________________________________________
<@dma> / When confronted by a difficult problem, \
<@dma> | you can solve it more easily by         |
<@dma> | reducing it to the question, "How would |
<@dma> \ the Lone Ranger handle this?"           /
<@dma>  -----------------------------------------
<@dma>       \                _
<@dma>        \              (_)
<@dma>         \   ^__^       / \
<@dma>          \  (oo)\_____/_\ \
<@dma>             (__)\       ) /
<@dma>                 ||----w ((
<@dma>                 ||     ||>>
<@dma> well that didn't come out like i wanted

ALT POKEMON PIX

It's an alt of scyther and of Kabutops if you couldn't figure it out

My life

If you do not identify with this picture, you don't belong on the internet

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Once Again, This Is an ELECTRIC Car?

The fact that the Tesla Roadster is both electric and attractive should have conditioned us to see supercars as being electric-capable, but it's still hard to swallow.

Someday electric sports cars like the e-WOLF here will be THE guaranteed way to pick up robotic prostitutes along the superhighway.

-Gizmodo

LOLLER monkey

Hello class, this is bill. bill is a monkey. actualy he is a monkey of a certain avian variety. He's thinking of a word...can you guess what it is?

Steam Account Phishing Scam

As many of you may know, I am in a Day of Defeat (classic) clan. Two of our clan members recently had their accounts phished right from under their noses. I thought that I would forward you this information so you can better protect your beloved Steam accounts. Here's what happened to my friends:

They reported getting an instant message (via Steam friends) from one of their friends saying that there was a way to get free Steam games. The message included a link. They clicked on the link and gave their account information.

Now I know what you're thinking: they just gave their information to a website they didn't know? They should know better than that!

It's not quite that simple; you see, I clicked on the link when one of my clan mates (hacked at the time) sent me the same message. The website looks EXACTLY like steampowered.com. I mean the borders, buttons colors and everything. It's practically an exact replica of Valve's website. Of course I knew something was afoot, so I did not give the website my information.

If your account has recently been phished, hijacked or hacked, please visit the follow links to try to regain your precious account:

1. Create a "Support Account" with Steam. This is separate from your actual game account:

https://support.steampowered.com/register.php

2. Then, contact Steam Billing and Support:

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1223-QROC-4460

3. Submit a support ticket following these directions:

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?p_faqid=197

Tread carefully everyone. And remember, Steam will NEVER ask you for your account information.

P.S. I couldn't find any recent material (links and whatnot) regarding this scam since it is so new. This happened to my friends just this weekend.

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Notepods Are The Saddest iPhone Knock-Offs Ever

There have been some pretty horrible iPhone knock-offs, but I say enough is enough when you have to draw in your own apps.

Notepods

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Indeed, the only way you are going to make a phone call on this is if you use your imagination. These paper iPhones are designed for one thing and one thing only—taking notes. At least it's double sided—one half for regular notes and the other half for technical sketches.

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Fallout 3 AER9 Laser Rifle

Sorry for not posting as often as I should. The college work load is hell and it's only getting worse each day. I'm finding it difficult to divvy my time between everything that needs to be done. But I'm sure you don't want to hear about my problems. No, I think that you want to hear about how someone produced an exact replica of a Laser Rifle from the Fallout universe.

There is a blog on the internet named Volpin Props. The owner of the blog makes all of these crazy replicas for his clients. (people that go to conventions, etc.) As it turned out, one of his clients needed a Laser Rifle for a Fallout convention that they were going to. Enjoy!

By the way, he also just finished a Big Daddy from Bioshock.

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$1.2 Billion Russian Yacht Comes Equipped With Laser-Powered Anti-Paparazzi Shield

Gizmodo-

"Famed Russian yacht-fanatic Roman Abramovich added a new feature to his 557-foot, $1.2 billion monstrosity, Eclipse: A laser shield that sweeps the boat's surroundings for paparazzi and then fires a bolt of light at the camera to destroy any photo.

The lasers detect CCDs, or charge-coupled devices, which are used in most (but not all; CMOS chips are also around) photoelectric sensors. Guards can activate the lasers when they spot any suspicious glint of a camera's lens, which will then shoot a bright, focused light directly at the camera, ruining any photography.

Predictably, paparazzi (the only Italian plural I know, embarrassingly Looks like I don't know any Italian, and will never pretend to know even a single word again) are angry about the laser shield, whining that:

Intermeddling with goods belonging to someone else, or altering their condition, is a trespass to goods and will entitle the photographer to claim compensation without having to prove loss.

It might be kind of a lost cause, since it's awfully hard to hide a 557-foot boat at all times without, like, sinking it, but anything that involves lasers shooting at paparazzi sounds pretty good to me."