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That would be a good start.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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All those single socks in one place...
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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If you stare at it for 2 minutes straight and then look somewhere else you can see an image of Justin Bieber.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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well that's a waste of time...
can get the same result faster from a quick glance in the toilet (after a successful visit). bonus (of sorts): sealion dying celine dion will be there too.
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It's amazing how they got the picture -- by taking away everything that they've decided isn't what a black hole should look like.
The sheer scope of the editing they carried out leaves the average photoshopper a gazillion light years behind.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Er, yeah.
And the difference, taken over that distance, is less than a hundred-thousand-billionth (in real billions , not the tiny US ones) of a millimetre -- to see around a succession of great big huge celestial bodies and dust clouds, the furthest of which are are really, really close to the whatever-it-is, and all of which are affecting the few photons we receive in different ways.
All the rest is the equivalent of photoshopping.
But go ahead, believe the bullsh1t... hype... very, very scientific explanation, if you want to
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: bullsh1t... hype...
Thanks for making it crystal clear there's zero point continuing this line of.. whatever.
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Let me get this straight ... a picture of a black hole. In color. And it isn't black.
Got it.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Yep that a picture of something that does not allow light to escape is event horizon. I think we need to read the article.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Black hole sun
Won't you come
And wash away the rain
Black hole sun
Won't you come
Won't you come
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Is this the front view? What would it look like if a picture is taken from the back or a side?
TOMZ_KV
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That's what I've been wondering. Obviously there's no practical way to find out but wouldn't it be cool if it looked like that from every possible angle?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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We can only guess. Likely it looks similar from other angles if it is really formed from a dying star.
TOMZ_KV
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Thinking about it, if the luminescence surrounds the black hole, then we should not be able to see through it into the blackness. What we have in the picture is a section through a black hole isn't it. Or are we lucky to be located just where there is a gap in the aura (or whatever it's called) from our point of view.
I've got a headache...
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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My own question answered... 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUyH3XhpLTo">How to Understand the Image of a Black Hole - YouTube</a>[<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUyH3XhpLTo" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>]
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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That's what a donut looks like to me befgore I put on my eyeglasses each morning.
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Many years ago I read the fantastic book, Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made: Andy Hertzfeld: 9780596007195: Amazon.com: Books[^] by Andy Hertzfeld (one of the original and leading creators of the Mac).
Now, the past few days I've been reading over Andy's web site that inspired that book and I just read the following entry which is absolutely hilarious.
Andy Hertzfeld: Steve had managed to get Don Knuth, the legendary Stanford professor of computer science, to give a lunchtime lecture to the Mac team. Knuth is the author of at least a dozen books, including the massive and somewhat impenetrable trilogy "The Art of Computer Programming." (For an amusing look at Knuth's heady self image, and his $2.56 reward program, see http//www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/books.html)
I was sitting in Steve's office when Lynn Takahashi, Steve's assistant, announced Knuth's arrival. Steve bounced out of his chair, bounded over to the door and extended a welcoming hand.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Professor Knuth," Steve said. "I've read all of your books."
"You're full of sh*t," Knuth responded.
From => http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Close_Encounters_of_the_Steve_Kind.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date[^]
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All hail Knuth!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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raddevus wrote: "It's a pleasure to meet you, Professor Knuth," Steve said. "I've read all of your books."
"You're full of sh*t," Knuth responded.
My new hero.
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...At least according to the latest tzatzistics! 
Ba-Tish! Can't wait for barbecue season. Winter has made an unexpected and highly unwelcome comeback here in Sweden... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Sure but... are there Retsina Greek pie?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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It's always barbeque season in Texas.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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