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Dude
SFN Die Hard

USA
6891 Posts

Posted - 07/11/2007 :  14:18:47  Show Profile Send Dude a Private Message  Reply with Quote
http://www.galaxyzoo.org/Default.aspx

Sign up and catalog some galaxies!


Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson

"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin

Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth

Ricky
SFN Die Hard

USA
4907 Posts

Posted - 07/11/2007 :  14:48:30   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Isn't this what graduate students are for?

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
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HalfMooner
Dingaling

Philippines
15831 Posts

Posted - 07/11/2007 :  15:50:13   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Nice. I assume we get to name them once we've classified them, and they will then belong to us. I'd really like to be a Galactic Emperor, even if I were an absentee landlord.


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic

USA
13477 Posts

Posted - 07/11/2007 :  16:13:14   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by HalfMooner

Nice. I assume we get to name them once we've classified them, and they will then belong to us. I'd really like to be a Galactic Emperor, even if I were an absentee landlord.


Then you will like my evil pick for this weeks summary to be.

Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.

Why not question something for a change?

Genetic Literacy Project
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JEROME DA GNOME
BANNED

2418 Posts

Posted - 07/11/2007 :  18:52:13   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send JEROME DA GNOME a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by HalfMooner

Nice. I assume we get to name them once we've classified them, and they will then belong to us. I'd really like to be a Galactic Emperor, even if I were an absentee landlord.





If this is how it works.

I am in!



When one plans to rule the universe one must first start with a small out of the way galaxy with little resistance just to get ones feet wet as it were.


What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. - Bertrand Russell
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dv82matt
SFN Regular

760 Posts

Posted - 07/12/2007 :  12:16:08   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send dv82matt a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Dude

http://www.galaxyzoo.org/Default.aspx

Sign up and catalog some galaxies!
Very cool. Thanks Dude.
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend

Sweden
9688 Posts

Posted - 07/12/2007 :  14:47:39   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Dr. Mabuse an ICQ Message Send Dr. Mabuse a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I scored 14 out of 15 at the test, so I guess I'm on.

The servers are heavily loaded right now, so I didn't do more than 10 galaxies. Two of them mergers.

Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3

"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse

Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
Collateralmurder.
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Siberia
SFN Addict

Brazil
2322 Posts

Posted - 07/14/2007 :  15:22:02   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Siberia's Homepage  Send Siberia an AOL message  Send Siberia a Yahoo! Message Send Siberia a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I'm on. 13 out of 15. Not bad for an amateur...

"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa

"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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