Psychedelic furries hump Carl Sagan's back.

So those of you who hang out with me on Skype probably know that I've been watching Carl Sagan's Cosmos over the past week. Well, I had an episode on and was was browsing deviantART at the same time (because I do stuff like that), and out of curiosity (and masochism) typed "Carl Sagan" into the search bar. Most of it was just portraits of him or quotes from him turned into shitty poetry or this one guy who made backgrounds about Carl Sagan and pot... except for one pice. This piece.

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My muse, the dragoness Dreamkeeper Xian and one of my heroes, Carl Sagan.

I did a similar picture about three or four years ago and came across it the other day...while watching Cosmos, funnily enough.

In his life Carl dreamt of other planets and the life that might be on them. So...in his afterlife, Xian takes him to them and shows him what others might be like in the panels of her enormous wings.

For those wondering exactly what her panels show, from left to right : A Nebula, A water planet with Octo-fishies and possibly carnivorous orange kelp-like plants, Earth, Two panels worth of what her wings normally look like, A gaseous planet with small four winged birds and flying jellyfishes, A strange, blue based mountainous world with four suns, And the other half of the Nebula from the first panel on the left.

We miss you Carl.

Okay, so the bit with the jellyfishes is a bastardization of a bit in Cosmos speculating about life on other planets. It's not about jellyfishes with wings. This person is just really really stupid. Also, five suns? I mean, I've heard of binary star systems, but if there were five suns in close enough proximity to one another to have a single planet orbit around all of them, wouldn't their combined gravity smash them into one another? Yes, I realize I could have picked something else to mumble about, but that bugged me. Shut up.

Now, for reference, here is a photograph of Carl Sagan.

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OH MY GOD THEY COULD BE TWINS.

I don't know what the worst part of this is: the bullshit furry, the weird warped versions of the things in Cosmos that you see behind Sagan and the furry monster, the twirly lines on the clothes that make his legs look like they're bent in four or five places, Sagan's freakishly long neck, the fact that Carl Sagan looks absolutely nothing like that, that someone favourited it, or the fact that she's offering prints of it. She even specifies that she's offering prints of it somewhere off-deviantART, so it's not because deviantART automatically offers that service now.

You must remember, my dear Doctor, that not everyone is as sane as some of us.

Some people, upon receiving any sort of particularly awesome stimulus, immediatly scurry off to molest the memory of it by creating heinous fan-art (be it 'fic or more visual art)

In a less freedom-oriented metasociety, these people would be identified early in life, then exiled to sensory-deprivation chambers or, given the proper medical knowledge, cured.

Dr. Professor Science wrote:

Also, five suns? I mean, I've heard of binary star systems, but if there were five suns in close enough proximity to one another to have a single planet orbit around all of them, wouldn't their combined gravity smash them into one another?

Ah-hem

I spent quite a while looking at that picture wondering exactly what it was that bothered me the most. It's quite a minor thing, actually. Why are Carl Sagan's fingers so pointy? Is he part monster, or something?

unskilled78 wrote:

Dr. Professor Science wrote:

Also, five suns? I mean, I've heard of binary star systems, but if there were five suns in close enough proximity to one another to have a single planet orbit around all of them, wouldn't their combined gravity smash them into one another?

Ah-hem

Counting fail.

Verandering wrote:

unskilled78 wrote:

Dr. Professor Science wrote:

Also, five suns? I mean, I've heard of binary star systems, but if there were five suns in close enough proximity to one another to have a single planet orbit around all of them, wouldn't their combined gravity smash them into one another?

Ah-hem

Counting fail.

:law:

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Such symmetry is also possessed by a peculiar family of geometrical configurations which may be described as 'rosettes'. In these an even number of 'planets' of two (or more) kinds, one (or some) heavier than the other, but all of each set of equal mass, are placed at the corners of two (or more) interdigitating regular polygons so that the lighter and heavier ones alternate (or follow each other in a cyclic manner).

That means it's not just limited to the hexagonal illustration, and as to the instability of such a scenario, the increasing number of objects decrease the probability of the entire construct being coincidental anyway. If a species has the ability to move or create entire orbital bodies where they will, I'm sure they would have the ability to hold them in orbit for long periods of time anyway.