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This is an impressive presentation of the latest images with simple yet detailed explanations of what we're seeing in each of the images: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-14/tour-through-nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-images/101231818 I must say the Cosmic Cliffs image of the Carina Nebula is blowing my mind, I can't stop looking at it... Do yourself a favour and view it at a full 14575 x 8441 resolution (only a link, as the image is over 120MB in size!) : https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01G7ETPF7DVBJAC42JR5N6EQRH.png

Maybe they had some real fancy catering backstage.

More likely

I’m hearing the budget was $40m. Surely fucking not.

I think China's going to come out of this conflict feeling pretty good too. Maybe not with their ambitions to eventually "reunify" China by taking Taiwan... but I think they've stood to gain a lot from Russia being put under strain by the West. They now have a role as a sort of middle man, with a reliant west on them, a cheaper oil & gas from Russia (also driving Iran to drop prices to be competitive, so ultimately getting cheaper oil and gas), and an economic void to fill with many western countries leaving Russia that China can replace and in turn have more influence over their politics in the future. Turkey's definitely come out of this looking like the NATO country that's angling to restore peace between Russia and Ukraine and end the war though and weirdly Erdogan ends up looking like a pretty good statesman at least on matters of foreign policy/geopolitics because of this conflict.

I can't, there's no whisky in the image

Love that link, some of the shots are mind blowing

That's my new desktop background! Mindblowingly beautiful.

A few years ago my mate in America asked me to do him a favour, his mother died who was from Scotland and her death wish was she wanted her ashes scattered over Arthurs Seat here in Edinburgh, he sent me the urn with the ashes and I duly complied with his wishes and sent the urn back once I had scattered them. At the time mentioned the wife was a bit edgy about having an urn in the flat with ashes inside so she made sure I placed the urn in the back room out of the way until they were scattered and the urn sent back. Well, his father died 3 weeks ago and he had the same dying wish to have his ashes scattered at the same place as his wife so I am just waiting for the urn to arrive and do the latter, the wife is still the same and told me to make sure the urn is put in the back room etc. This always reminded me of an episode of old granddad & Del boy in OFAH with granddad having a conversation with an urn, I remember it because I was half pissed one night and to put the heebie-jeebies on the wife I went into the back room and pretended to have a conversation with the urn

As the saying goes "Red sky at night, shepherd's delight. Red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning"

The sunset sky over my neighbourhood today.

Biggest city in each European country that never had a football club in the highest division. Interesting!