May 22 2009Dude -- Compared To Our Galaxy, We're Just Like, Little Ants Man. Little Ants That Are High
This is a time-lapse video of the center of the Milky Way Galaxy rising over Texas from 9:20 PM to 6:43 AM on April 21-22, 2009, during a star party. Now I have no idea what a star party is, but if it's anything like the last bachelor party I went to, I want in. We could even shoot the hooker's body into space like they did Spock's in The Wrath of Khan!
Tuesday Diversion: The Milky Way Time-lapse [chicagoist]
Thanks to Danny, who reminds you all: shoot for the stars. Even if you miss, you might bag an alien.
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Reader Comments
1. me - May 22, 2009 12:57 PM
1st losers
2. ME - May 22, 2009 12:57 PM
YOU'RE RIGHT! I AM HIGH!
3. Unnecessary - May 22, 2009 12:59 PM
Damn, I took time to watch the (admittedly awesome) video, and missed frist post. How can I console myself?
4. Heather - May 22, 2009 12:59 PM
And each atom in my fingernail is a universe, dude!
5. Moose Knuckle - May 22, 2009 1:08 PM
The stars at night
Are shining bright
Deep in the heart-o-Texas!
6. catch22 - May 22, 2009 1:09 PM
the milkyway line looks like a gash i had on my leg when i fell off my bike when i was 12
...that or a vag
7. myway - May 22, 2009 1:22 PM
Not milky enough for me...
8. Hawk - May 22, 2009 1:22 PM
The next person that sings that stupid song is getting wing slapped!!
Hawk
from Conroe, TX
9. GLADIATOR - May 22, 2009 1:24 PM
AM I HIGH OR IS JUST BAD SHROOMS? BARF!
Come and join the short and easy game mybrute:
http://burpnassker.mybrute.com
10. SiGee - May 22, 2009 1:33 PM
SOOOO Beautiful!!!
I LOVE TEXAS!!!!!!
11. greg - May 22, 2009 1:51 PM
This is fake, there is no milk in the sky. If there were, I would have mixed with with chocolate by now!
12. The Joker - May 22, 2009 1:52 PM
This was filmed in the red light district?
13. MacMaster - May 22, 2009 1:52 PM
I shot off at the stars and just ended up with a mess on my chest.
14. Mr DickLick - May 22, 2009 2:02 PM
tejas baby!
15. Quik - May 22, 2009 2:19 PM
Ha ha, everyone's actin like Texas is so beautiful. Like this has anything to do with Texas. The stars are the pretty part. They go over every city. Leave it to Texans to try and take credit for the whole galaxy.
16. dude - May 22, 2009 2:20 PM
Could've used more cowbell.
17. Kokopure - May 22, 2009 2:20 PM
Awesome video; I actually don't think of the milky way rising so much as the Earth was floating through space. that's how small that made me feel.
PS. -Pretty- sure you don't really get to pick and choose what ads appear on your site, so I'm not really directing this frustration at you, GW :) But while more or less all of the ads are geek-related, which is a beautiful thing, I'm starting to see National Organization for Marriage ads appear every now and then, advocating a Governor's veto in states where same-sex marriage -is- legal. As a lesbian reader, this is more than slightly irking, as it has nothing to do with this site's content and, personally, is fairly annoying.
Just sharing my thoughts.
Again, awesome vid <3
18. D&G (Douche and Gargoyle) - May 22, 2009 2:23 PM
I'm not normal.
19. Emkay - May 22, 2009 2:39 PM
This is the creepiest thing I've seen today... kinda hypnotic, too.
O.O
20. Wut - May 22, 2009 2:51 PM
I must be super high.. all i see is a white box.
21. jacky - May 22, 2009 2:51 PM
its just funny how some rich ppl thing they are gods..... excuse me sir u r ant
employees fail
http://www.epiclosers.com/load/8-1-0-384
22. Daisy - May 22, 2009 3:20 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max asked an owl how many bites it took to get to the center of a tootsie pop and the owl licked it twice and then bit it, resulting in 3 licks.
23. Krats - May 22, 2009 3:39 PM
WOOT TEXAS!!
very cool video to!
college station, tx
24. InUrNdo - May 22, 2009 4:33 PM
Come on and shoot my hooker Geekologie Writer!
*slurp
25. aids - May 22, 2009 6:30 PM
That was just my jizz i made in space.
http://std-aids.mybrute.com
26. Galtacticus - May 22, 2009 7:10 PM
The sun didn't say first this time! One of the rare times that the Galactic Center of our Milkyway lighted up our morning first!
27. Gando - May 22, 2009 7:15 PM
Aren't we living in the center of our galaxy?
28. Darth - May 22, 2009 7:25 PM
We poor humans are just living in a hidden far away corner of our galaxy! We are all alone!
29. Clamdigger - May 22, 2009 8:19 PM
Must be dust on the lense I saw that same ghost figure. Or it could be because I am have been sitting on the beach drinking for hours.
30. Erin the Dominator - May 23, 2009 3:15 AM
That is completely awesome. It looked like the horizon was catching on fire for a second, but I guess it was just a glare from something?
Either way, I bet if you built a big enough sling shot, you could shoot stuff right in the center of the Milky Way, and then the sky would rain Milky Way bars.
31. Tim Richmond - May 23, 2009 3:53 AM
FAKE FAKE FAKE!!!
Nothing to see here!!! Move Along!!!
FAKE FAKE FAKE
32. coolvid - May 23, 2009 12:18 PM
cool vid
33. kreebilicus - May 26, 2009 8:45 AM
@27 no. we are at the centre of the universe. bethlehem is at the exect centre-point and everthing rotates around christianity.