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[RealAlHazred]

Cosmic butterfly seen in stunning new image captured by telescope in Chile

A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new image of the Butterfly Nebula, a grand and graceful cosmic wonder.

www.cbsnews.com

This photo is, like, 8 million pixels of something lightyears away, and poor @Whizbang Dustyboots can't scrape together 1000 pixels from an image taken in-person... smh...

 

[Ryujin]

The hoops I'm having to jump through to get a decent passport renewal photo taken would be a comedy of errors if it wasn't so damned frustrating.

I paid $15 for someone to take a picture of me with what looks like a circa 2001 digital camera that he then printed on crappy photo paper than I then in turn had to scan back in and which now, in a surprising coup for federal website technology, is being rejected for being too low quality of an image. (And yes, I have tried to clean it up with Affinity Photo.)

And, per the website, you cannot renew in person any more, but must do it online, or go through the much bigger pain in the butt process of applying from scratch if you have to do it in person.

A few weeks back I went through the renewal process as well. Had my picture taken for it at a local drug store and was worried that the picture wouldn't be accepted, because it seemed like the cashier who took it had never used the camera before. Fortunately, te setup seemed to have been good enough that it was accepted. Strangely, our new passports have a plastic photo card insert that's about half a mm thick, instead of paper. Feels strange having a solid card it there.

 

[The Soloist]

RPG players are often like baby ducks, first RPG system they play, is what they want to play all their life. It becomes their mama duck imprinted into their deep memory. They want all other RPGs translated to their mama-duck system.

 

[trappedslider]

It's that time of the year
EDIT: I wasn't going to but i got an invite from a guy i know named Ellis.

 

[payn]

RPG players are often like baby ducks, first RPG system they play, is what they want to play all their life. It becomes their mama duck imprinted into their deep memory. They want all other RPGs translated to their mama-duck system.

Not this grey duck. (Minnesota joke)

 

[The Soloist]

Not this grey duck. (Minnesota joke)

• The Game: Players sit in a circle and a person walks around tapping heads, calling out "duck, duck" for each person. They then call out "gray duck" to a final person, who then stands up and chases the first person to the empty spot.

LOL

 

[Ryujin]

• The Game: Players sit in a circle and a person walks around tapping heads, calling out "duck, duck" for each person. They then call out "gray duck" to a final person, who then stands up and chases the first person to the empty spot.

LOL

Known elsewhere as "Duck, Duck, Goose."

 

[payn]

Known elsewhere as "Duck, Duck, Goose."

Yes, like everywhere on the planet except Minnesota.

 

[Pedantic]

Yes, like everywhere on the planet except Minnesota.

I had no grudge against Minnesota until I learned this. I could even have understood a different bird.... But there's a whole extra syllable!

 

[Ryujin]

I had no grudge against Minnesota until I learned this. I could even have understood a different bird.... But there's a whole extra syllable!

"Well 'goose' is a nasty word in Minnesota, donchaknow. Oh my!"