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To: kanawa

Hard to believe such things actually exist. Incredible beauty and scale.


3 posted on 10/17/2005 7:57:17 AM PDT by mikegi
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To: mikegi

It's strange how it can make us proud of our acheivement yet humbled at the same time.


6 posted on 10/17/2005 8:01:41 AM PDT by kanawa
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To: mikegi

That is much more impresive than the Ford Galaxy.


13 posted on 10/17/2005 8:05:41 AM PDT by oyez
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To: mikegi
>Hard to believe such things actually exist. Incredible beauty and scale

Hey, you can see it
with your naked eyes! If you
use binoculars,

it can look cool, too.
Not like the time-lapse stuff, but
some see it like this:





22 posted on 10/17/2005 8:25:17 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: mikegi

Sorta puts our political arguments into some perspective, not to mention the subjects of Earth, humankind and the solar system. Then to realize that our galaxy and that of Andromeda are only two of billions of galaxies. Go see "Serenity" for some space opera entertainment. It temporarily takes one's mind off our general insignificance.


28 posted on 10/17/2005 8:57:36 AM PDT by Paulus Invictus
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To: mikegi
Hard to believe such things actually exist.

That's a lot like the Milky Way. In other words, we look like that, too.

48 posted on 10/17/2005 12:34:39 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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