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nobonobo says 10 January 2014 at 7:03 pm Looks like it ate a baby carrot. Luckily, most of its predators hate carrots.
chigau (違う) says 10 January 2014 at 7:12 pm My iPad sees a big whitespace where there should be a video.
Trebuchet says 10 January 2014 at 9:16 pm Is that a baby dumbo octopus? Also an interesting primitive-looking shark in there. And bagpipe music. Octopuses look a little like bagpipes, now that I think of it.
Sili says 11 January 2014 at 8:12 am And bagpipe music. Octopuses look a little like bagpipes, now that I think of it. Don’t tell me you’ve never heard the joke.
jagwired says 11 January 2014 at 2:48 pm @3 Gregory, That’s where my mind went too. But that’s probably because I had just finished looking at this Hubble photo: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/01/10/tarantula_nebula_another_stunning_hubble_photo.html
poose says 12 January 2014 at 5:32 pm Is it just me, or did the first image say “Bad Astronomy” or what? Plait, why am I looking at you? Did you have a hand in this?
Gvlgeologist, FCD says 12 January 2014 at 8:40 pm May you be whipped with noodly appendages, Gregory in Seattle. That’s exactly what my first thought was, too.
nobonobo says
Looks like it ate a baby carrot. Luckily, most of its predators hate carrots.
chigau (違う) says
My iPad sees a big whitespace where there should be a video.
Gregory in Seattle says
My God! It’s full of stars!
Trebuchet says
Is that a baby dumbo octopus? Also an interesting primitive-looking shark in there.
And bagpipe music. Octopuses look a little like bagpipes, now that I think of it.
Sili says
Don’t tell me you’ve never heard the joke.
Trebuchet says
@5, Sili: Apparently not. Off to Google…
azpaul3 says
@5 Sili Now I’m not so sure that’s a carrot.
jagwired says
@3 Gregory,
That’s where my mind went too. But that’s probably because I had just finished looking at this Hubble photo: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/01/10/tarantula_nebula_another_stunning_hubble_photo.html
poose says
Is it just me, or did the first image say “Bad Astronomy” or what?
Plait, why am I looking at you? Did you have a hand in this?
Gvlgeologist, FCD says
May you be whipped with noodly appendages, Gregory in Seattle. That’s exactly what my first thought was, too.
mjmiller says
Yep, me too. Pillars of Creation was my first thought.