Found In Space (On Flickr)

Jamie stumbled upon a writeup for all you astronomy and photography buffs out there (Perhaps my Dad or Uncle Jim are reading ;). From the writeup "The 'blind astrometry server' is a program which monitors the Astrometry group on Flickr, looking for new photos of the night sky. It then analyzes each photo, and from the unique star positions shown it figures out what part of the sky was photographed and what interesting planets, galaxies or nebulae are contained within. Not only does the photographer get a high-quality description of what's in their photo, but the main Astrometry.net project gets a new image to add to its storehouse of knowledge." Check out the Astrometry.net site for many cool pictures.

Re:Find any killer asteroids yet?

[0xdeadbeef]

It will probably find evidence of vast machine intelligences like itself and decide not to tell us.

sounds like a good time

[bugs2squash]

to confuse the shit out of someone with photo of a backlit piece of black card with random pinpricks in it.

Re:Awesome

[rolandog]

<boatload of="enthusiasm" style="text-transform: uppercase;">That. T-H-A-T. That.</boatload>

Re:sounds like a good time

[plover]

to confuse the shit out of someone with photo of a backlit piece of black card with random pinpricks in it.

Sounds like something a random prick would do.

Re:Awesome

[plover]

I wonder if they'll be able to figure out where I live though...

Given that they're matching these pictures against those taken over the last 60 years or so, and considering the accuracy of the typical consumer camera, I think they'd be able to pinpoint you to an orbit somewhere around the star Sol.

Re:Whoo would have known?

[Anonymous Coward]

Whoa, that rhymed.

Major Discovery

[aoheno]

My infrared image of the kitchen floor bacteria is being interpreted as a major new galactic cluster with supermassive black hole.