This is stunning work. Bravo! I feel so small and insignificant right now. And that's not a bad thing.
You ought to see it in person, in any dark sky place - that would clear your perspectives
Grand mosaic of the Milky Way is now larger than ever
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Yeah I'd pay for a full resolution version so I can get this printed across my entire wall. Despite the "high" resolution of many of the pictures on the page, not a single one is high enough resolution to print much larger than A3 or so while still seeing the stars/details.
He's selling (up to A2 or so) prints via https://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/ . Maybe you can contact him & ask for something larger.
I would absolutely buy something larger.
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#33Damn, I wish my engineering journal had drawings like that in it.
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What are the odds we are the only one?
Nobody can tell you without pulling numbers out of thin air. That's the point. The only thing that can be said is that the probability of intelligent life arising is greater than 0, which follows from our own existence. Beyond that, any claims about the likelihood of intelligent life are just 20th and 21st century versions of "there must be a God because the universe couldn't have arisen by chance."
The universe became conscious in the form of man and asked ‘who made me’ so it’s the universe arguing with the universe about a creator :)
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Might be even less. Japan is huge on making very large graphics from printing on sheets of white adhesive: https://youtu.be/ioyMec7YU0Y If they added it to the ground it cheaper to install and then kids could run on it in the gym (could easily cover an entire Gym, lol): https://youtu.be/mBjSM783Tug Would be fun with the retroreflectors added like in the latter video, as with the lights off and only head lamps on you…
That's pretty neat. But I wonder what the surface looks like after removal?
Of the sticker? Very clean, because the adhesive is built to stick together like a command strip.
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#36Damn! So much out there that we might never be able to see.
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#37Is there a higher resolution image of this available anywhere? The 7000 x 1150 one is nice, but I couldn't find a link to anything larger. It says the original is 120,000 x 18,000 so it was a little disappointing to have the available version not even fill the vertical resolution of my monitor.
Yeah I'd pay for a full resolution version so I can get this printed across my entire wall. Despite the "high" resolution of many of the pictures on the page, not a single one is high enough resolution to print much larger than A3 or so while still seeing the stars/details.
I also was hoping to find a higher resolution image I could buy to print out somehow.
The full resolution is 18k x 120k pixels. At 300 DPI that works out to be 60 x 400 inches. Or 5 feet tall and 33 feet and 3 inches long, or close to 2 meters high and 10 meters long.
I think I might have a hallway that it could fit in, but wow that’s big!
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That's pretty neat. But I wonder what the surface looks like after removal?
Of the sticker? Very clean, because the adhesive is built to stick together like a command strip.
No, was thinking how does the wall look after removal? Does the adhesive take paint or other parts of the surface off?
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#39Question: What would it look like to be living on an electron, whizzing around a proton, inside a molecule, inside a living being?
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#40This is stunning work. Bravo! I feel so small and insignificant right now. And that's not a bad thing.
That's one of my favorite aspects of astronomy. To the universe, we're (Earth) just a spec on a dot. The stepping away from all of the things that seem so stressingly important and realize that it's only us that feels that stress and the universe really absolutely doesn't give a shit. It always helps me to give less of a shit too.
So true. If I happen to be do something new, high risk or making me stress out thinking about it in context of the larger universe (and staring at these pictures help) quickly puts me at ease. Very effective. I have passed this to others over the years.