Comments on: Hubble spies eye in the sky http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/08/hubble-spies-eye-in-the-sky/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:30:08 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: SkepTTic http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/08/hubble-spies-eye-in-the-sky/comment-page-1/#comment-124655 SkepTTic Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:17:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/08/hubble-spies-eye-in-the-sky/#comment-124655 I can read your mind (looking at youuuuu) I looove that song. Great vocals I can read your mind (looking at youuuuu)

I looove that song. Great vocals

]]> By: kuhnigget http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/08/hubble-spies-eye-in-the-sky/comment-page-1/#comment-124532 kuhnigget Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:42:40 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/08/hubble-spies-eye-in-the-sky/#comment-124532 @ Walruss Please refrain from the defamatory language. "Bug eyed aliens" indeed! The correct term is Spherically Occularized Beings, or SOBs. Make a note of it. @ Walruss

Please refrain from the defamatory language. “Bug eyed aliens” indeed! The correct term is Spherically Occularized Beings, or SOBs. Make a note of it.

]]> By: Don Snow http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/08/hubble-spies-eye-in-the-sky/comment-page-1/#comment-124391 Don Snow Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:53:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/08/hubble-spies-eye-in-the-sky/#comment-124391 @Infophile - I think that your blue eyed planetary nebula is prettier. Closer. Smaller. But, prettier. @Infophile -

I think that your blue eyed planetary nebula is prettier. Closer. Smaller.
But, prettier.

]]> By: Nigel Depledge http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/08/hubble-spies-eye-in-the-sky/comment-page-1/#comment-124389 Nigel Depledge Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:43:36 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/08/hubble-spies-eye-in-the-sky/#comment-124389 Hang on a sec ... I thought (sticking with the musical theme) that The Night Has A Thousand Eyes...? Anyhow: Nice post, Phil, but I'm sceptical about the mind-reading. Have you heard of this chap called James Randi...? He'll set you straight about that. Hang on a sec … I thought (sticking with the musical theme) that The Night Has A Thousand Eyes…?

Anyhow: Nice post, Phil, but I’m sceptical about the mind-reading. Have you heard of this chap called James Randi…? He’ll set you straight about that.

]]> By: Roger Wilco http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/08/hubble-spies-eye-in-the-sky/comment-page-1/#comment-124361 Roger Wilco Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:11:19 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/08/hubble-spies-eye-in-the-sky/#comment-124361 Phil Said: The Alan Parsons Project predicted this image back in June of 1982! You cannot be Sirius! Phil Said: The Alan Parsons Project predicted this image back in June of 1982!

You cannot be Sirius!

]]> By: TheWalruss http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/08/hubble-spies-eye-in-the-sky/comment-page-1/#comment-124360 TheWalruss Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:03:51 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/08/hubble-spies-eye-in-the-sky/#comment-124360 This "gravitational lense" works both ways, right? So as I'm writing this, some bug-eyed alien 11 billion miles away could be putting a similar image of the Milky Way as its desktop background? I know it doesn't work out quite that way because the "lense" galaxy is much closer to here than there, but it's a fun idea! It gets better if you consider that it might be wondering what its galaxy looks like from our perspective, or perhaps that it could be posting some silly comments about it on its version of the 1nt4rw3b... But yea, my actual question is whether this would work both ways if the distances were equal, or if relativity would come into effect - 11 billion years ago, our galaxy would be someplace else so perhaps we'd be outside of the lensing effect? This “gravitational lense” works both ways, right?
So as I’m writing this, some bug-eyed alien 11 billion miles away could be putting a similar image of the Milky Way as its desktop background?
I know it doesn’t work out quite that way because the “lense” galaxy is much closer to here than there, but it’s a fun idea! It gets better if you consider that it might be wondering what its galaxy looks like from our perspective, or perhaps that it could be posting some silly comments about it on its version of the 1nt4rw3b…

But yea, my actual question is whether this would work both ways if the distances were equal, or if relativity would come into effect – 11 billion years ago, our galaxy would be someplace else so perhaps we’d be outside of the lensing effect?

]]> By: kuhnigget http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/08/hubble-spies-eye-in-the-sky/comment-page-1/#comment-124336 kuhnigget Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:37:45 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/08/hubble-spies-eye-in-the-sky/#comment-124336 @Ivan: Hey, that big statue over there doesn't have a nose! No nose? How does it smell? It sphinx! Variations on a theme. @Ivan:
Hey, that big statue over there doesn’t have a nose!
No nose? How does it smell?
It sphinx!

Variations on a theme.

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