Astronomy Picture of the Day!

Today's APoD is from my own personal vault again.  This is a little side project I've been working on out in the toolshed.  I call it a Polynormal Multisingular Well-looker.  This is just the scaled-down beta version, but it does work moderately well so far.  Since almost nobody is well versed enough in astronomy to fully grasp the theoretical technicalities involved with it, it is kind of impossible to describe it in depth.  In laymans terms, it's basically a bunch of telescopes all tied together.  I haven't really been able to figure out how to look through them all at once, but that will come with time.  At the moment, it's also pretty much impossible to point it anywhere except the back of the shed.  Probably going to need more tracks.  Anyways, I think once the full scale model is finished being built, these other problems should be ironed out.  Eat your f**kin' heart out, NASA!

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Wow Astronomer, you look so tiny compared to the whatsit.  I know you're an astronomer, but if you ever decide to make a time machine you better come pick me up.  We can catch a Mariner's game first of course.  But there is so much I want to see.  I want to meet Einstein and stuff.
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This is probably one of the funniest blogs I've ever read.