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Author Topic: The Metroid Nebula  (Read 13633 times)

« on: August 27, 2008, 12:17:42 AM »
Mega 2
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BP

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« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2008, 12:33:58 AM »
Heh. Nice. But if you'd asked me, the first thing I'd've said would've been "jellyfish."
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Turtlekid1

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« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2008, 06:37:48 AM »
It does look rather more like a jellyfish, actually...
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ShadowBrain

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« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2008, 07:56:57 AM »
As I understand it, none of those nebulas or any of that other space stuff is ever really colored like that in... well, "real life". They spruce it up on computers, or something.
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Glorb

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« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2008, 02:04:58 PM »
They do?
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« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2008, 02:26:00 PM »
Jellyfish it is.
ROM hacking with a slice of life.

ShadowBrain

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« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2008, 02:47:38 PM »


May or may not aid in Glorb's confusion.
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« Reply #7 on: August 27, 2008, 03:00:33 PM »
I was thinking that at first but it looks more like a jelleyfish.
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Glorb

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« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2008, 03:03:44 PM »

May or may not aid in Glorb's confusion.

That's actually what I was thinking of when you mentioned sprucing up. I don't think NASA or whoever recolor their photos before releasing them; that must've been some weiner with Photoshop.
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Kuromatsu

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« Reply #9 on: August 27, 2008, 03:04:58 PM »
I was thinking that at first but it looks more like a jelleyfish.
Metriods practically are jellyfish.

« Reply #10 on: August 27, 2008, 03:07:52 PM »
It probably does look like a jellyfish to a regular person, but I've played through "Metroid 2" and "3" so many times in the past 10 years that I have Metroids ingrained in my brain.  Also to me it looks like it has those teeth (or whatever they are) that Metroids have, and doesn't have those skinny dangly tentacles that most jellyfish have.

Incidentally, my friend says he can see Mario's face in it, too.

As I understand it, colors in pictures of nebulae are enhanced, but not randomly selected.  The colors of stars and gas are based on their chemistry.  Closer nebulae can be seen with faint colors, and the levels of those are greatly increased for photos in books, magazines etc.  Our instruments can't see any color in further nebulae, so colors are added based on their known or hypothetical chemical compositions, giving an impression of what they might look like (again, with the contrast turned up).  

Edit: I should probably post where I found the picture. - http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080825.html
« Last Edit: August 27, 2008, 03:10:26 PM by Mega 2 »
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ShadowBrain

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« Reply #11 on: August 27, 2008, 03:15:07 PM »
^ Yeah, that's it.

Besides, there is no color without light and, obviously, space is pretty dark in most places.
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Chupperson Weird

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« Reply #12 on: August 27, 2008, 03:34:09 PM »
They have telescopes that track what they want to take pictures of, and use cameras with really, really long exposure times.
That's what a professor I had said, anyway.
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« Reply #13 on: August 27, 2008, 09:06:22 PM »
To me, it vaguely looks like a Toad with sunglasses screaming. I guess it's right for him to scream, since he is missing his body.
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Captain Jim

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« Reply #14 on: August 27, 2008, 09:48:01 PM »


You can't unsee it.
No! I don't want that!

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