For Those Of Us Interested In This Sort of Thing

[Bazile]

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

[Mamyalynne]

Wonderful, thank you !

[chelle7272]

that's a great link, thank you :)

[heathfield]

Add this one...

http://www.newscienti...ity-on-parachute.html

[Old_Geezer]

Where have I heard that before ? "For those of you interested in this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing to interest you."

Aye, since I'll probably have shuffled off this mortal coil by the time they get their digit out and land someone on Mars, this sort of photo is very interesting.

[heathfield]

Well, OG. I remember standing in a busy student pub watching the TV, which at that moment was showing the first ever pictures sent back from the surface of Mars. I congratulated myself on living in an age when I could look upon the actual landscape of another planet. I looked round. Not a single other person was looking at the TV.

[Bazile]

- The intriguing Bubble Nebula lies a mere 11,000 light-years away toward the boastful constellation -

These mind blowing distances is just an example of the reality/ vastness of the universe that simply blows my mind .

Travelling at 186000 miles / second , it would take 11000 years to get there .

Wow .

[Old_Geezer]

Yeah, but I know of a short-cut.

[Bazile]

What - you have found a worm hole ?

[Old_Geezer]

Lawn's full of them.