Celestial Fireworks
Posted by LC Aggie Sith on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 in Funny Pics, Last Frontier, Political Correctness
Like a July 4 fireworks display, a young, glittering collection of stars looks like an aerial burst. The cluster is surrounded by clouds of interstellar gas and dust—the raw material for new star formation. The nebula, located 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Carina, contains a central cluster of huge, hot stars, called NGC 3603.
See? Even the Universe celebrated our Day of Independence 
And I highly recommend going over to Michelle Malkin, just for this:
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Ooooo… gorgeous!
Here’s one of my favorite images from the Carina constellation. It’d be really, really cool of Eta Carinae blew its lid while we’re still around to see it.
Crap. I left out this part when I was cutting/pasting the html for the above comment…
“Lovely pic. (I always love your space pics!)”
I love Carina, too. That is one hellacious stellar show
That new NASA emblem is just fucking scary. Funny, but scary.
But very apt, cmblake
Bill Whittle and company have a great little show about the current NASA/Obama curfluffle.
And at some point during the discussion, the active participation (indeed, the taking over of “the space program”) of private concerns in the continuing exploration/development of Space, is not only suggested, but actively endorsed.
I whole heartily agree with this, with the possible exception of our military being allowed to develop their own “space arms/contingencies/forces”. Granted, their ships/fighters/equipment will be provided for by contractors (Rayathon/Lockheed/Douglas-Martin/ect) so their will be “corporate input” there as well, but the potential to eliminate at least some of the PC and other ills which are befalling NASA, would be a plus.
I agree, Guy. I do think we are better off with a private space program. I believe the Air Force program does more exploration than NASA, IIRC.
However, since my taxes go to NASA, the damn least they can do is waste it on Space Shit (h/t Nicole), and not some feel-good policy towards some barbaric group whose contributions to the world were last seen over a thousand years ago
Mmmmm..Michelle Malkin. Yum.