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Why is this galaxy so discombobulated??

Goshdarnit if I know.  A pretty, glittery starburst galaxy.

I like that word, discombobulated.  It's funky, sounds like something to describe a sewing machine's bobbin going berserk and wildly kinking up thread or something.    Or maybe bobbing for apples gone wrong.

<Whew>, what a relief!  I gave up trying to sit bolt upright years ago.  Don't slouch exactly, but as I'm sitting now my back feels comfy.

--Cindy

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The 8 O'clock Arc

I like that name.  8)

Gravitational amplification:

It's also a Lyman-break galaxy:

--Cindy

:shock:  I'm not so certain, Tom.  An online friend of mine lives very close to the Canadian border and recently mentioned how our dollar and Canada's are currently very close in value.  1 U.S. dollar used to equal (nearly) 2 Canadian; now (IIRC) 75 U.S. cents is comparable to 1 Canadian dollar...something like that (can't recall specifics).

Our money is quickly becoming "worthless."  It worries me.

O Golden Night...

[URL=http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/image-details.cfm?imageID=2348]the rings are brightly shiiii-ning[/URL]

  Fabulous.

Don't have to deny it, but why encourage the bad aspects?  Rape, murder and spousal abuse are also aspects of human nature.  Should we encourage those too?

Accentuate the positive.

Good grief.

You know, this sort of thing turns a lot of non-advocates off.  I've heard too many people say "What's the point of colonizing the Moon or Mars or whatever, if it's going to be the same human problems there as here?  Besides, we've got enough problems here."

Maybe humans on Mars could be genetically modified to NOT be war-like.

Or they could read Carl Jung's ideas on "Propitiation to the god of war" (I started a thread by that name in this folder quite some time ago).

As much effort, time and trouble it's going to take to make Mars even halfway comfortable in living, it'd certainly behoove humans to AVOID war there as much as possible! 

We're so spoiled by this our home planet; we've been rippin' around getting away with all kinds of crap for centuries because we're native to this place.  Mars likely won't be as "forgiving."  That fact alone might do humans there a lot of good...as in mind your p's and q's, try to get along.

Anyway, let's focus on the positives.  War...sheesh.

Collapse of seafood stock by 2048?

One of the researchers is named Boris Worm.  Seems amusingly appropriate considering fish-hook-worm. 

Likely this is another Doomsday Scenario.  But our population is growing by leaps and bounds.  Time to rename Earth Easter Island?

That's what it seems like

You'd think Ride, McAuliffe and Tereshkova never existed.  Ah, but they weren't billionaires or even piddly millionaires were they?

Well of course you do; she's rich.  Gets your blood pressure revved up, does it?

And no other woman ever has gone into space...ever.

Awww...how nice and altruistic.  And just how much $ are you putting out towards that cause versus:

...including another $25 million for another ISS visit.  Why not donate that money towards education, Ms. Altruism?

Hmmmmmmm (skeptical).

And it doesn't hurt your ego either, right?    (Out of sight, out of mind is scary).  After all, you are the first woman in space ever.    Let's forget all about those "homely peasants" before Ansari...(who never received even 5% of the adoration this chick's getting).

I agree with this.  Also, Australia has experienced troubles with Muslim youth deliberately targeting, attacking/raping Australian women because of "their immodest dress" (by Islamic standards).  Aussie women (this is occurring in Finland too, last I heard) are being labeled "whores" because they wear short-sleeved shirts, bathing suits, won't wear a jihab, etc.  Just last week a prominent Muslim cleric in Australia compared "immodestly dressed" Aussie women to a piece of meat...and who's to blame if the cats come to eat?  In other words it's okay for Muslim men to be so wildly beastial they cannot control their urges because she asked for it.  That swinish mentality is worthy of the stone age. It's also absurdly hypocritical.  Islam forbids sexual contact outside of marriage.  Yet punitive forced fornication is okay; she deserved it.

If I were Muslim and didn't like the dress codes of a nation I willingly moved to, I'd leave -- go back home.  But no, most (the loudest, most violent of them) won't conform or at least tolerate the difference; nope, their host nation is the one "who should change" to accommodate the immigrants.     

Assimilate or go home.  My grandparents immigrated to the US in the early 1900s; they adapted, learned English, obeyed the laws, worked hard, etc.  If they didn't like it here they could always go back to Czechoslovakia.  Universal sentiment applies.

Robert, how do you define the word "racism"?  I'm curious because when I think of suicide bombers I think of Muslims...just like when I think of the word "fascist" I think of Italy...or when I hear "kamikaze" I think of Japan.

Some people bring stereotypes onto themselves, just like "redneck" in America has bad connotations.  It's not fair [who said life was?] but it's not necessarily racist.

And racism isn't exclusive to whites, either.  Not by a long shot.  Militant Muslims attacking and raping white Australian women just because they're different are racists.

:shock:

Robert, I'm trying to visualize that.    Male belly dancer??  I dunno...that's quite an image.    You'll go as Mr. Spock next year, right?

Speaking of belly dancers, around 1990 a newly-retired (and very homely) physician sent photos of he and wife's "round the world" travels to our clinic.  In one photo he was all cheesy schoolboy grin over a very beautiful, shapely belly dancer.  He wrote in the caption:  "Istanbul is very boring."

I thought to myself it probably is for the belly dancer. 

...that and "average Joe's" on infomercials who are 43 but look 53; women my age pitching for Oil of Olay; my sister now having to dye her hair because there's too much grey.  :shock:  The 40's are an interesting age group to be in [I'm 41]; people either look really good...or really do not.  :-\ 

Anyway, glad you had fun.  Probably the most original costume I've ever seen actually involved a married couple.  Can't recall Randy's costume (this was in my early teens), but Cathy went as Oscar the Grouch -- including sitting in a trash can affixed to wheels which Randy pulled around all night long.  Lol!