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"A still more glorious dawn awaits. Not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise. A morning filled with 400 billion suns; the rising of the Milky Way."
-Carl Sagan, particularly via http://www.symphonyofscience.com/
-Carl Sagan, particularly via http://www.symphonyofscience.com/
Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Western Dragon
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File Size 96.4 kB
Agreed. :) I really really love all the work they've done, and it seems like one of the few uses of AutoTune to really make something beautiful and intelligent rather than just having a laugh with it. Though being a complete science geek helps bias me. ;) Really glad you like!
Exactly so. :) I love thinking about things like that, it blows my mind but in a really good way. Just looking up at the night sky and seeing all the other stars, what comparatively few we can actually see, and considering the possibilities out there... but then what gets me even more is looking at one of the Hubble deep field images where the sky is just as dense with points of light, but each point of light is an entire GALAXY. o..o
Aye - it's amazing (and humbling) to realize how very small we are, yet, also how very unique. Think Star Trek TOS had a good quote about that: "In this galaxy there’s a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets. And in the universe, three million million galaxies like this. And in all that, and perhaps more...only one of each of us." -- Leonard "Bones" McCoy, ep. "The Balance of Terror"
Yeah, that's how I feel about it too. :) Some people don't like to think about astronomy and the universe too much, because that sense of scale makes us seem pretty small and insignificant by comparison. The way I like to look at it is as you say... it just makes us, as individuals, as a species, as a planet, as all life in general... that much more special and unique and worthy of cherishing.
Contact is a movie that resonates deeply with me along that same line of thinking.
Contact is a movie that resonates deeply with me along that same line of thinking.
It was all done in OpenCanvas. So it's digital, not 'traditional' in the sense of actual paper and paints and pencils and whatnot, but using a tablet and OC it was all done by hand, no fancy brushes or filters or tools or anything. Lots of tedious scrolling and making little star dots one by one. :)
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