RE: Attempt at widefield galactic imaging
December 28, 2011 at 2:31 am
(This post was last modified: December 28, 2011 at 2:33 am by orogenicman.)
(December 28, 2011 at 2:27 am)Minimalist Wrote: You know, Oro, I look at that picture and it rams home the fact that if the nut jobs really believe in a god who made life here only that he would have to be one wasteful son of a bitch.
Well, like Carl Sagan said, if it is just us, it is an awful waste of space. And this image is just the Cygnus/Vulpecula region of the Milky way. It does include the region that the Kepler Space probe is looking at trying to find exo-planets.
![[Image: kepler_fov.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.centauri-dreams.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2009%2F02%2Fkepler_fov.jpg)
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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