Zaphod Beeblebrox used the title of this post to pick up Trillian in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, which was a lot of fun and full of some pretty wild things to think about. But, with an earth spaceship on Titan sending back pictures the real Galaxy seems just as exciting as the BBC's Galaxy. ESA/NASA have released some preliminary processed images, but they have also released all of the raw pictures which anyone can download. Which brings us to another wonder of the modern world: Adobe Photoshop. You can see the results of the Internet and "Open Source Image Processing" yourself by going to this site and looking at the great work all of these geeks in pajamas are putting out. You can see a lot more detail in these pictures than in those released so far by ESA. I look at this picture (click on it for a larger version), and wonder what the odds were of the probe coming down on "land" when it could just as easily have vanished into that "Methene Sea".
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