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"3 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701476": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "still don't see what makes this special. it's what every free little astonomy program does, with the added benefit of having lots of data that comes with ms-funds.<br><br><br>(yes, this point has probably come up dozends of times in commentary, but i couldn't care less to read all those)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_15:57:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "b407ad1c212e496395ece442103aa811", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, 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It's a great news. I am highly impressed with the innovation shown by Microsoft.<br><br>Also, because of this software, common people would get access to mysterious universe.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_00:57:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "ff45021b3764c61686c829bc084cdf16", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701478": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"The official site is up\"?  All I see is a \"coming soon\" site.  Nice link bait, though.<br><br>Wait!  Sorry, coming in Spring 2008.  You say \"wait until March 4th\".  For what?  More hype?  Or is MS declaring March 4th the beginning of Spring?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_01:15:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "4cb0110aaa63f28125a2115557f51d8c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701479": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So this is the BIIIGGG thing everyone has been so secretive about?<br><br>I am not a big Astronomy kind a guy... I always like the Google Earth style application because I am into ocean sports and it allowed me to have a bit of a poke around to find new surf breaks without actually driving around in a car.<br><br>... as I said I am not big on Astronomy and while this is sounds interesting I don't think it will change my world. I guess I'll have a look and form my own judgement.<br><br>Although, remind me again where there is a business model in this?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_16:58:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "4e32b73bd70cf8926de0847212053d10", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701480": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "To echo what Robert just said, I asked the same question, e.g. how are going to charge for the WWT, and the answer was that Microsoft was giving it to the world, so that people could build upon it. For those of you above who have indicated even a drop of cynicism or skepticism about the WWT, wait until you see it, there is nothing out there that I have seen that even comes close. It is an order of magnitude better, and simply dazzling...and really so much fun to experience. When I saw it, the people in the room were blown away.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_17:46:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "d005ffd7c74debdb994eededf3d1dae2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701481": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "meant to say SHOULDN'T WATCH FOX NEWS", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_19:49:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "4e32b73bd70cf8926de0847212053d10", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701482": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert,<br><br>Of course it doesn't need a business model... however, they way you talked it up here in your blog and over on your QIK videos I expected something as big as the web itself.<br><br>Yeah I know it will look great but unless you are really into astronomy this will be no more than a brief \"yeah nice\" for most people. So unless there is no other application for the technology I don't know what the big fuzz is about.<br><br>Remember, it's about the content not the technology. There aren't a lot of people reading your blog because they like the blogging technology.<br><br>BTW, personally I thought QIK and the way you use it to deliver raw interviews is much more revolutionary than gazing at the stars Microsoft style...<br><br>QIK to me is like a News Reality TV style... sometimes it seems to be better to see the whole raw story rather then the sanitised version Fox News wants you to see... actually, you probably should watch Fox News in first place.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_19:48:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "4e32b73bd70cf8926de0847212053d10", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701483": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I wonder if WWT will render the sky as nice as desktop apps such as Starry Night, TheSky6, etc. Those (especially Starry Night) are really really nice too.<br><br>BTW Robert, in my spare time (huh, what's that?) I'm an amateur astrophotographer, and you're welcome to join us in one of our Star Parties :-) Not quite a photowalk because well, rather than walking you've got to stay put :-) but might be a fun experiece for you as well :-) Just drop me a line if interested!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_19:45:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "ce1d8230da097424bf1a399a7fa4745d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701484": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And the WorldWide Telescope isn't using SILVERLIGHT??!!??<br><br>What a missed opportunity for Microsoft to show off their other great new technology.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_19:40:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "6d50bdaf13cef6d94ac9ded4dd9eef93", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701485": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@robert:<br><br>I find it a little odd that you have been dangling the \"it made me cry!\" mystery product/experience in front of people for some weeks, finally let everyone in on the \"secret\", and then criticise those who find it less than overwhelming, and tell you as much.<br><br>To say, \"you don't know what you're talking about - you've got to wait and experience it\" is a bizarre response; either don't write the \"cry!\" post in the first place and just show us the video when ready, or expect caustic comments on the way you overhype products. You cannot have your galaxy and eat it.<br><br>All that said, it looks nifty.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_19:35:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "37fad6697281a432478fdbac90f920cf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701486": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"He clicked a button and we saw a completely different view of the same colliding galaxies.\"<br>Although I haven't seen what Microsoft did, I can understand his reaction. I reacted in a similar way when I've been at Futuroscope (it's in France).(http://www.futuroscope.com/eng/attraction-cosmos.php)<br><br>The screen is a huge shpere taking you through a journey in cosmos. It's really really breathtaking.<br><br>Imagine experiencing what Microsoft did with a set of VR glasses and especially if what they did was in true 3D.<br><br>Watch the video, maybe it could set you in the mood to understand<br><br><a href=\"http://www.futuroscope.com/eng/video.php?video=destination_cosmos\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.futuroscope.com/eng/video.php?video=...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_19:21:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "9f39c59ce9aa996004e9dd3cb0469ede", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701487": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Please, please. Someone do this the opposite way. Down.<br><br>I want the same thing for a microscope. Zooming around in a cell, molecular perspectives, etc.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_19:14:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "8ba5f24f6ac5fe771b81444fa4ebdec0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701488": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The WOW! starts now?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_18:01:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "df679bd3d287a21d5ed6020bae384e17", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701489": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OK, so the client is in C#/.NET? Then why not make it the Silverlight Killer App and make it available as a Windows Live service? Anyway, I hope the project makes it out of research.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_18:04:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "c36ac610db7c5a27334f296d6e20f77b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701490": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"if you think this is what every free little astronomy program does then you are particularly clueless\"<br><br>Aw, don't be so mean.  It's always hard to describe how cool something is without even a picture, and from your description, it *does* sound like one of the good free astronomy programs but with more graphics.<br><br>P.S., I love how you sneak in pejorative words like \"little\" to describe mature, portable 100,000-line programs.  But I won't call you \"lame\", even though you specifically asked for it.  :-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_18:13:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "f2c386b4e76e0e86318929f3dace6bb8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701491": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Enough crying already and let's see it.  I'll be honest, whenever I see video of 'peoples reactions', I think of 2 girls and 1 cup!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_18:17:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "b62910ad5d612198740989fdf82b9961", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701492": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Spring 2008, it says?  This may well save me my subscription to Starry Night. :)<br><br>I'll just sit back and speculate about the tech they're using underneath, or just ask them next week...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_18:24:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "364cf3a60e7353cf138e8cad5d64ff08", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701493": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Microsoft introduced the World Wide Telescope in TechFest 2007!<br><br>A year ago nobody didn't care about this telescope, so Microsoft paid you to blog about this, right?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_18:51:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab20d033357c6b9a4e0da157c9c0d8b1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701494": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great, another product that won't run outside of Internet Explorer. I wonder what other Microsoft product will be required in order to run it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_18:51:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "0a4d4bafceb1a885682512c70690a7ec", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701495": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<b>HEY!!!</b><br><a href=\"http://www.stellarium.org/screenshots.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.stellarium.org/screenshots.html</a><br><br>Open source is better than Microsoft.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-02_17:15:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "c239cfbf0562b5b37f95d45b4b4c73b1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701496": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"2. It runs only on Windows. It\u2019s coded in C#/.NET, you\u2019ll meet the developer in our video and you\u2019ll hear more about that then.\"<br><br>I'm shocked.  Totally shocked.<br><br>I think I tried Celestia around 2000, but I see the copyright on the web site dates to 2001 so it might have been as late as that.<br><br>I tried it on Linux.  It didn't require any special software or hardware.  Faster video cards were nice, but not essential.  Maybe if you had seen it back then you would have cried.<br><br>But there was no PR for it.  No flashy video released months in advance hyping it up.<br><br>Think how much sooner the kids of the world would have had something like this were they not waiting for Microsoft to release it.<br><br>That's what makes me cry.<br><br>I remember being able to switch from one point of view to another (on Earth or elsewhere).  Being able to fly anywhere in the visible galaxy at light speed or beyond, improving your intuition about starting and stopping in space as opposed to earthbound vehicles.<br><br>Will the MS version do some new things?  Probably.  Is the concept essentially new?  No.  Is there any reason it should require Vista?  Yes, it's less a Research product and more a Marketing tool.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-29_20:59:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "macbeach", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701497": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I watched the demo from TED and I can totally see why it brought tears to your eyes man. There's nothing more beautiful than the universe itself, and to have such a powerful and simple way of bringing it to everyone really is just wonderful...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-29_19:06:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "7347082ebf6717c110fd81f3b14b11de", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701498": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You are becoming an old man, my grandfather also cries easily. ;-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_17:32:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "607feb9a6d14da864a6cb6a9079160f8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701499": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert,<br><br>Thank you for letting everyone know about this.<br>This is the kind of technology that can change our future by educating our children.<br>It takes a visionary to recognize this and be moved by it.<br>Thanks for being one.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_19:57:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "6121375a03663a7e8c93581600cae64c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701500": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well, I'll admit full on that I suspect that burst of rage I felt when I saw the description and then got to the \"Windows Only\" part, is probably the same one that Windows users must feel when Apple rolls something incredibly cool out with \"Mac Only\" attached to it. That means that this _does_ sound incredible.<br><br>Not surprised by the \"Windows only\" option, because the cynicism centers in my brain had been whispering \"MS=Win Only\" at me from about 10 seconds in.<br><br>It does sound _Very_ impressive. Or at least all those kids looked pretty impressed. But, admittedly, all I can think is: \"Microsoft-Wide Telescope\" Rather than \"World Wide Telescope\".<br><br>And Fear: Sure, this isn't addressing earthquakes, drinking, dogs and cats living, Climactic change, or gingivitis,  but it's a possible tool or inspiration for the next generation of people who will. And I would suggest to you that the people who are going to work on such things, already are, or are trying to, and those that aren't are not going to start because MS releases \"Microsoft's World Wide Litter/Carbon Emissions/Drunk Driver Detector\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_20:08:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "77d40dd5ac6337ad3e13374c6ca2cf17", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701501": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert - check out screenshots of the Uniview visualization platform at <a href=\"http://www.scalingtheuniverse.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.scalingtheuniverse.com</a>. It was developed through the Hayden Planetarium initially along with Partiview, and is installed at numerous digital planetariums and portable dome around the world. It visualizes the NASA Digital Universe Atlas, enabling interactive representations of the entire observable Universe out to the Cosmic Microwave Background. Unfortunately there's no downloadable version, so you'll need to head to one of their installations to see it.<br><br>I give Tours of the Universe with this platform within portable immersive domes regularly - as do numerous others - and the response always includes gasping and crying front wide-eyed and slackjawed observers.<br><br>Does WWT provide true 3D + Time for the objects? The TED video looks like zooming and panning, but is it a navigable 3D space? Trying to understand the distinctions.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-29_18:23:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "2c5ee6f42783fae3d4c098ab4032827a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701502": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I cried as well in 2003 when I first downloaded Stellarium. I'm sure you would have known this freesoftware project earlier, you would not have this reaction for microsoft's product: their demo at TED give me the impression nothing is new with this product.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-29_14:56:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "307c3063d8e3c96ab108a3fc451abdf5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701503": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Stellarium Lover: Stellarium is cool, but it's not the World Wide Telescope. You really need to watch the video on Monday before you try to hype up Stellarium on the WWT's back.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-29_16:10:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701504": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Come on man, these galaxies are millions of light years away.. this information is very outdated.<br><br>P.S. You are the Joan Rivers of the Internet!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_22:17:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "bc4b9054e77c592d126adb18525639ca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701505": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"It is such a shame that Carl Sagan didn\u2019t get to see this.\"<br><br>But he saw billions &amp; billions of other things. :-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_18:00:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "f408480c406d88622058a055b9941eab", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701506": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I expected to see you at the end of their promotional video crying your eyes out :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_01:23:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "garazy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701507": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "scoble (re: 88): fair enough, I'll judge it when it gets released.  I think you've already done a disservice to Microsoft by overhyping it.  NOTHING they do is really any good.  I'll make a prediction: it's a graphics demo to numb weak minds and on closer inspection the inaccuracy of the mapping will be the talk of REAL astronomers.<br><br>I notice you linked to MSN Maps but not to Google Maps.  Any reason for that?  Personally, I think Yahoo! maps are the best - especially their traffic and accident overlays.  But technologically, Google's maps are still the most exciting because they use regular image files and AJAX.  The engineering behind that is awesome, even the javascript dragging.  They were cutting edge, even as we're seeing stuff like that appearing on shopping sites like bluefly (much smaller scaling problems, though - Google was simultaneously low-tech and brilliant).<br><br>Yahoo! and Microsoft's maps, by comparison, are boring because they use Adobe flash as the middleware provider for the interface.<br><br>I'm sure you've seen this, but here's a really informative site:<br><a href=\"http://www.google.com/moon/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.google.com/moon/</a><br>I always lose hours going over this.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_01:25:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "9aae0e2c1503b1e541e4c4cb9bb08f0a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701508": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ithink it sounds pretty cool.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_15:52:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "c75cc4acbe68b2109eac3e0442adee1e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701509": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://everythingimnot.wordpress.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://everythingimnot.wordpress.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_16:01:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "7da03f9df10611669c08d236016ac753", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701510": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This whole \"it made me cry\" business is pure hype.  Yes, the WWT is a really neat idea, but everything that it claims to do has been done on a smaller scale in other astronomy software.... just not on the web.   Don't get me wrong, I'm really looking forward to seeing this... just stop it with the crying business.  We all know it didn't.  You're just attracting attention and hype.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_16:12:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "db5df2f75fe666a83dd125062f95c121", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701511": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Did the kid's reactions remind anyone else of 2 girls 1 cup?<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guZq3cWGRcE\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guZq3cWGRcE</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_16:33:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "d0cb0251a508f5596068e48fcf3ed3b5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701512": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is that new technology that will change our lives.  This is that all elusive software that makes us think and see.  This is that next big thing!  The English language does not have the words to describe what this technology means to me and what I believe it will mean to our tiny grain of sand that we live on.  It is such a shame that Carl Sagan didn't get to see this.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_13:24:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "d69e40b22152cd1f545699ed1c6c8b2b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701513": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "&gt; Yeah, TED presentations always have that elitist self-evident swarmy tact<br><br>Kind of like your comment. WTF, switch to decaf.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_12:53:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "525294fc12fe440fb87edab1bf9545cc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701514": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It sounds like a cool project. Unfortunately the official site is just what MS does best, which is to make self-aggrandizing videos set to trashy dance music talking about how great something is instead of showing it. This isn't to detract from your experience, Robert, but I just get so sick of MS marketing icing being 90% of the cake.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_12:52:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "525294fc12fe440fb87edab1bf9545cc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701515": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>ok\u2026 so I watched the TED presentation\u2026 yeah nice\u2026 already lost interest by the end of the video.</i><br><br>Yeah, TED presentations always have that elitist self-evident swarmy tact, never doing much in way of rigid persuasion or data-analysis. They just assume that if you remain emotionally distant (to their pet topics of the moment) that you aren't of the \"cult\", i.e. people that \"get it\". It's not exactly peer review, but then none of the celebrity-styled Davosish conferences ever are. Watched a slew of TEDs for an editing project, and was half dead at the end.<br><br>But something I noticed...<br><br>You gotta wonder about the kooks at some of those conferences, San Franish liberal-hippie weenies that end up supporting what they hate, as the other side adopts a few of their pet projects. Facist dictatorships murdering half their population, are A-OK, if said dictatorship is helping global warming or 'bridging the digital divide' by handing out few wind-up laptops.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_12:23:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7f6291e8344b594235e57b843fc05d9b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701516": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "All the (over)hype for something Google already released in august of last year? Have you ever even heard of Google Sky?<br><br>I am curious though: what will be the same and what will be different in WWT?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_12:22:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "82c2c6bb9fca3b09116cebb87c82afb6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701517": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I had the same reaction as many of the others that this is just another planetarium until you started talking about viewing things in different wave lengths.  I am guessing since it is free that means that the data requires a internet connection.  This tends to be a problem if you want to take it with you to a dark site.  Beyond that I think I will alway prefer to go out to one of our club sites, enjoy the universe with friends and make my own images.  They may not be of the same quality, but this type of program will only wow me for a couple of day.  The real thing is much more enjoyable.<br><br>My astrophotography album:<br><a href=\"http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/168994856LXByfn?vhost=outdoors\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/168994856LXB...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_16:38:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "1436727bb92bde90faae268f7330bcef", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701518": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, how does it compare to WikiSky? ( <a href=\"http://www.wikisky.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.wikisky.org</a> ) Sounds very similar, but again, I haven't seen it in action.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_16:37:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "d665efca42538f3a2d06db01ac46b865", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701519": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "sdf: if you think this is what every free little astronomy program does then you are particularly clueless. Sorry, but nothing out there does what World Wide Telescope does.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_16:12:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701520": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, We have \u201cwell known\u201d local problems. Just see the death records all over the world year over year, the rate is doubling.<br><br>Yes I understand the relationship with universe(We should explore(slowly) the footprints of bigbang), I read lot of astronomy books and exited lot. But you know at the end of the day, to proof small small things, we need huge investment. In my opinion, we should slow down. speed up the research and solve the well known local problems\u2026somepart of the world doesn\u2019t have food, water\u2026that\u2019s an another story.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_15:56:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "32ca778cb6dc72863614273106fa01ad", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701521": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Can't wait to see it.  I'm wondering about 3D capabilities, that is z-axis movement.  Is the viewer pinned down to a single location when zooming?  Well, I guess I'll just have to wait and see :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_00:53:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "c4fc354ac41508786d9667b697b57b87", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701522": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ok... so I watched the TED presentation... yeah nice... already lost interest by the end of the video.<br><br>I guess I'll have a play around with it when it comes out.<br><br>I am just wondering if perhaps the whole star gazing thing is a North American geeks wet dream. It sure didn't make me cry.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_08:13:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "4e32b73bd70cf8926de0847212053d10", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701523": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Yeah, I guess light is radiation, but it\u2019s not the kind of radiation I was thinking of (like gamma rays or X rays). Infrared\u2019s entry on Wikipedia says it\u2019s electromagnetic radiation:\"<br><br>Ouch redux! Visible light, infrared, gamma rays, x-rays, radio waves, etc., etc. are ALL electromagnetic radiation, varying only in wavelength.<br><br>When I was growing up (in the 50s and 60s), this was primary school stuff. Now, apparently, even college graduates don't understand it, hence my caustic remark about the state of American education. How are we going to compete with the Chinese in the marketplace if our self-styled \"geeks\" can't even understand, let alone articulate, the differences between, say, an IR and an RF remote control?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_07:48:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f408480c406d88622058a055b9941eab", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701525": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nice. Fantastic concept - I think.<br><br>Robert, care to link to something that *directly* deals with this? Both of your links end up at what I guess MS thinks should be the \"main\" site....<br><br>Which yields:<br><br>(1) A very nice description of whatever this is.<br><br>(2) A real nice &lt;del&gt;H2&lt;/del&gt; sorry, TD element with the text \"Reactions to Worldwide Telescope\".<br><br>So far? Not much help. No clarity. And yes, certainly - nothing remotely close to tearjerking.<br><br>(3) A lovely flash player... or is that SVG or Quicktime? Whatever. Yet something else I have to click on - and patiently watch and listen to - about the \"kid reaction\".<br><br>This would be about the time I'm no longer looking for something cool (much less tearjerking) but am wondering if they realize how little the \"get it\".<br><br>Let's &lt;del&gt;go below the fold&lt;/del&gt; dig a little deeper....<br><br>Ah shit - coming in Spring 2008. Sigh. Face it Robert, you blew it with your usual hyperbole - AGAIN.<br><br>Want to make a fool out of me? Post a link to the cool stuff... to something that delivers on the concept you so easily had tears over.<br><br>And do it without a defensive post like this. Oh yeah, and without a 1000 word hyperbolic post like that other one.<br><br>Just simple DO it. No hype. No filler. Simply DO IT.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_22:53:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "dba9deebd401367b9184dec7862ae04a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701526": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert(@96),<br><br>If I can have it Monday, why *this* post? To generate hype? Again, just simply DO it. Its one thing to tease the world with a preview that brings a tear to an A-lister's eye, it another thing to either put up a stupid tease of a site or post about the afore-mentioned tease.<br><br>This post could have waited until Monday. The site could have waited until Monday.<br><br>That said, I'm looking forward to checking it out.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_07:02:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "dba9deebd401367b9184dec7862ae04a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701527": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This appears real cool...\"Google Skyview\" didnt impressed me as \"Google Maps\" or \"Microsoft Live MAps\" ..\"Worldwide Telescope\" may..I was always interested in the universe of which we are a minuscule part of...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_05:47:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "cf72dd6734306e033cb630cfe6c718a6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701528": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A telescope???? Amazing - if it falls over I'll cry.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_05:37:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "7b8f6a17718326b548bf205573f5493c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701529": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Google Search -- Live Search<br>Google Earth -- after a few years.. Microsoft Virtual Earth<br>Google Maps - Live Maps (a few years later)<br>iPod -- Zune (released many years later after the iPod, in direct competition)<br><br>And that's just the yesteryears (Let's not talk about Netscape or MacOS or Excel)<br><br>Seriously, your tears, a video of some children's awestruck faces and some ecstatic blog posts aren't selling me anything at all.<br><br>Even if the Telescope were worth every bit you say, I'd always have a funny nebulous thought in the back of my mind about Google Sky and a company that built its entire product line based on their adversaries' popular products.<br><br>So much for innovation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_00:30:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "2a0b5050e42ef5f671c709dbdbf9a709", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701530": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Awesome, I can't wait!  I was into astronomy years ago, but have fallen out of it.  Perhaps it's time to sell my old telescope and get a new fancy one to hook up to this software.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_13:33:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "popthestack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701531": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "When looking at my little boys and their sense of wonder, this would make me cry too. Go explore kids.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_13:34:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "9c9bbbf2935a01d2c3513b04f95afd29", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701532": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "TomC: I did NOT \"miss\" Google Sky View. Where did you get that idea? It is lame compared to the WorldWide Telescope.<br><br>I really hate people like you who just come here to troll with absolutely no facts behind them. Geeesshh, go back to Digg.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_05:28:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701533": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Gushy piece, how could the writer possibly have<br>missed Google Sky View.  As usual little or no<br>innovation from MS...just tired borrowings.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_05:14:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "0644a33cb2f3afb72eea2c29d11b4114", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701534": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Can you take the telescope and look not at the sky, but into my window from your house?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_01:28:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "b1088dbd877c2d7d33e6b3b63ee38081", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701535": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Why does something need a business model to be inspiring?\"<br><br>A question Ballmer seems to asking MS investors to swallow every day.  Don't know how much money was invested in this project, but I would venture a guess that some MS investors would be questioning the value of it relative to the bottom line.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_01:21:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "4cb0110aaa63f28125a2115557f51d8c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701536": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@Tim Lee : Live Hotmail - Gmail<br><br>Microsoft Office - Google Docs<br><br>Windows Media Center - Apple TV<br><br>Live Maps Traffic Feature - Google Maps Traffic Feature<br><br>Live Messenger - Google Talk<br><br>IE - Safari<br><br>Keyhole - Google Earth<br><br>Where2 - Google Maps<br><br>So much for innovation there.<br><br>But seriously, this will be great. Some of the WinLive stuff Microsoft has is actually better than Google, and I can't wait to see this WWT.<br><br>Oh, and the Zune for the most part beats the iPod Classics and all the other iPods below the Classic level.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_00:51:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "41490c8bca21965f7bdb9d183097b550", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701537": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "anon (85): you have a point. But it'll be out soon enough. Did you watch all the astronomers fawning over it in the video on the official site? Think that's really just vaporware? Got it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_22:36:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701538": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Tom: OK, OK, I get your point. Yeah, I guess light is radiation, but it's not the kind of radiation I was thinking of (like gamma rays or X rays). Infrared's entry on Wikipedia says it's electromagnetic radiation: <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared</a><br><br>Sorry for not being clearer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_22:38:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701539": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\u201cI think it might have been infrared, or maybe a look at radiation being kicked out.\u201d<br><br>Ouch! As if anyone needed another example of the failure of basic science education in this country\u2026<br><br>\"Tom: sorry, that stuff went by so fast I don\u2019t remember it all. I\u2019d like you to watch something for an hour and then try to recall everything you saw.\"<br><br>Well, I do recall from primary school that \"infrared\" IS radiation. The line I quoted is an example of either abysmal comprehension of science, or abysmal grammar. Which of those do you wish to claim, mister \"geek\"?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_22:35:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "f408480c406d88622058a055b9941eab", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701541": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well when you see this when it comes out for once Google will be outdone, they have nothing that will ever come close to this", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_22:33:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "d26ffa8dde6cc82ccb805e2a20a4978c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701542": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dave: you'll have what you want next Monday.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_23:17:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701543": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "underivy: the official announcement of the WorldWide Telescope was supposed to be March 4th. That's when you'll have a lot more details.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_23:15:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701544": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "simon: Bug Labs? Hardly tired of that. Wetpaint? You'll see me use it again and again. I haven't given up on that. Kyte? Well, Qik is live streaming. When Kyte gets live streaming maybe I'll be back.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_23:15:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701545": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Place your bets.<br><br>5 to 1 - Robert never installs it.<br>2 to 1 - Patrick would rather play WoW<br>even money - Robert will tire of it by the time its publicly released, just like Kyte, WetPaint, Bug Labs...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_23:09:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "f9f37fb22041d1d8e23d5854ca244899", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701546": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I can understand why people are skeptical, particularly since MS is involved.  If MS managed to eradicate world hunger, there are some people would still find reason to be cynical about it.<br><br>I've messed around with a few planetarium-type apps, and I'll be much pleased if MS can improve upon what's already out there.  I've been interested in astronomy since I was a little girl, and this kind of thing would have really thrilled me when I was a kid.<br><br>The official website is currently lacking in content somewhat, but that's no big deal to me.  They just announced it.  It's too early to call it vaporware!  The release date is fairly vague and hasn't even come and gone yet anyhow.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_22:59:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "72b0ca82a24ed87517f277450e8dae4b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701547": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow.  You've really outdone yourself this time, scoble.  It's total vaporware.<br><br>The \"official site\" is nothing but a 30-second commercial.<br><br>You know what's so amazing about Google maps?  I can actually use it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_22:24:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "9aae0e2c1503b1e541e4c4cb9bb08f0a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701548": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Christopher: you misrepresent my words. I'd call you an idiot, but that's going to be apparent to anyone who sees this software.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_21:56:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701549": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>expect caustic comments on the way you overhype products</i>.<br><br>Glad to be of service. ;)<br><br>The BEST way to hype up something, is to let the product hype itself, as the \"I am important, and you aren't\" closed beta's won't do that, just creates resentment, and people will dismiss on emotional grounds themselves. Plus, this \"demo\" isn't even a real product. And, if it were a real product, for all but a small niche, it's just a nice gee-whiz thing with no applicational use whatsoever. Plus, it's from Microsoft, which as we all know, won't go anywhere, be that as it may be, cool as all out.<br><br>1. It made me cry.<br>2. You must agree with me, even though you haven't seen it. You must trust me.<br>3. If you don't agree, you aren't credible, nor human, and barely fit to live. Plus you haven't seen it.<br>4. These people (important as they are) all agree. So obviously you are defective.<br>5. You can agree, without having seen. But if you disagree, not having seen is bad. Your faith can only go in one direction.<br><br>Man, with that one-sided temper-tantrum pouting argumentative style I woulda been kicked out Jr. High Debate. ;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_21:47:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "7f6291e8344b594235e57b843fc05d9b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701550": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Seeing how much fun and excitement I already had with Google maps satellite view, I can only wonder how it will be zooming around in the universe. :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_13:42:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "ea5ae47db54d1993df4f63a3abc2d2eb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701551": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Neal: it's far cooler than any planetarium I've ever been in. Planetariums don't let you zoom or pan you way across the sky. And they don't let you switch views instantly between lots of different telescopes.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_14:12:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701552": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "WHAT???!<br><br>Ever heard of Stellarium? Free and open source, detailed view of sky with full context and everything. Easy navigation, zoom, view from anywhere on earth or other planets, at any time... man... How could that make you cry? wuss", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_21:23:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "eb0a82e299cd89366c196196e185fef6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701553": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "More reports from TED: <a href=\"http://www.lunchoverip.com/2008/02/ted2008-what-is.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.lunchoverip.com/2008/02/ted2008-what...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_21:22:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701554": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Tom: sorry, that stuff went by so fast I don't remember it all. I'd like you to watch something for an hour and then try to recall everything you saw.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_20:48:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701555": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This certainly is a giant step towards virtualization and augmented reality. What we are seeing right now is how data gets structured within its context. 5 years from now and you'll have a kind of sixth sense. No keyword entering on your cell phone, but point and click. Whatever you are pointing at, whatever properties, whatever context you are looking for, or even weren't aware of: whatever is known, thought, said, recorded or imagined about the subject or its certain part/property will be available in the appropriate way.<br><br>These are exciting times. Virtual reality and reality are merging.<br><br>By the way, there are virtual microscopes available.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_20:48:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "6353a80b82c811178dbb8bc844c22939", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701556": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"I think it might have been infrared, or maybe a look at radiation being kicked out.\"<br><br>Ouch! As if anyone needed another example of the failure of basic science education in this country...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_20:41:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "f408480c406d88622058a055b9941eab", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701557": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Finnish: I was at the TechFest last year. It wasn't even close to what they showed me this year. I not only wasn't paid by Microsoft but Fast Company paid all my expenses to the trip up to Microsoft.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_20:33:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701558": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Go and watch the videos for other people's opinions: <a href=\"http://wwtelescope.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://wwtelescope.com/</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_20:32:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701559": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ontario: you're right. I find that usage to be similar to mine, too. But humans look at the sky and wonder \"what is out there?\" This gives us a new way to see that and it does inspire by the vastness of the universe and its awesome nature. I'll leave whether a God created that or not to the religious folks, but it is inspiring, no matter what your beliefs are.<br><br>And, who knows, in a few years it might just be possible to go out into space as a tourist, or take a the last years of your life to go work on Mars (they won't send young people there due to the radiation dangers you'll face).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_14:10:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701560": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A desktop planetarium. It's nice to look up occasionally.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_14:10:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "3085a82d299dd1c5655f6702ddfc52f3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701561": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Perhaps I'm parochial, but what excites me about Google Maps and Google Earth is the personal connection that I have, or want to have, with the places I'm viewing. When I look at a Google Earth view of Mikkeli, Finland, I get excited because our Finnish exchange student is studying there. When I look at a Google Earth view of Itajai, Brazil, I get excited because I spent a wonderful weekend in a nature preserve in the area several years ago.<br><br>When TechCrunch spilled the beans on WorldWide Telescope on February 18, my first thought was a \"so what\"? Again, this view is probably parochial, but I probably won't be leaving this galaxy in my lifetime, so I don't see how I can form a personal connection with a zoomed view of another galaxy.<br><br>Then again, I have not seen WorldWide Telescope yet. It may be possible that when I see it, I (like others that you have mentioned) will be transported to another dimension, musing on the vastness of the universe and (if I may say this) on the truly awesome nature of God's creation.<br><br>We'll see.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_14:05:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "adccbf6dcb403dc665707e8c18896a04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701562": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wanderley: it's different than Celestia, but I agree with you that Celestia is pretty cool too.<br><br>Ron: Far better integration than Google's Sky View. A lot more telescopes. More inspiring. Hard to explain until I get to show you the video. Google's Sky View is pretty cool, too, though. The Microsoft Researchers found a better way to stitch together all the databases and display them than Google's team has.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_14:02:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701563": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It sounds great. Can't wait to see it.<br><br>But Robert, how does what you saw compare to Celestia?<br><br><a href=\"http://www.shatters.net/celestia/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.shatters.net/celestia/</a><br><br>I think it's a different proposition, but I think it's pretty inspirational too.<br><br>Thanks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_13:55:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "4b4a9f070a7b971d9147685efa32df37", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701564": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ethan Zuckerberg, who saw the demo at TED today, said \"amazing.\" <a href=\"http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/02/27/pat-burchart-explained-the-96-of-the-universe-we-cant-see/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/02/27/p...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_20:47:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701565": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Not to put a damper on your excitement, which I'm sure is genuine, but how does this significantly differ from the <a href=\"http://earth.google.com/sky/skyedu.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sky View</a> in Google Earth?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_13:52:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "d035e1749696ac5dca77cd83d572bac0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701566": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey, tell us something new! We all knew it was the World Wide Telescope a week ago! See <a href=\"http://www.davidarno.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.davidarno.org/</a> for example.<br><br>It'll be interesting to see if it's better than Google's already-available and works-on-all-machines telescope app.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_13:49:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "d8a4aa2a4714496973a4eb3aaff70ea9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701567": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The one thing I always found with owning a telescope was however much I spent I was never satisfied with the results, this sounds like every astronomers dream come true.<br><br>sent from: fav.or.it [FID7844]", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_13:49:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "50818e36d53f1ed9b0f825a64828aa6d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701568": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This sounds fantastic! What I need now, is a giant screen stuck on my ceiling, so I can lie on my back and zoom in and out of the stars I'm staring at.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_13:42:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "21074e3202b2bc4ca07f95d7d7ab0b54", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701569": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What a joke. Typical Microsoft Hype. Once everyone has it downloaded I'm sure they will start charging for it as usual. Very poor resolution. We are only 250,000 miles from the moon and in planet view that is the best they can do ? Google would let us look at all the debris we left in the Sea of Tranquility.  The resolution of Earth isn't 1/100th as good as Google Earth. I am not impressed at all.....Thanks for nothing Bill !!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-13_10:18:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "bde0837469a3e157561726bf8a1d88e2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701570": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think its very impressive as a well executed idea. Kudos to Jum Gray for his vision and MSR for building a \"WOW thats cool\" product.<br><br>I can see why it has to be Windows only (lock-in) or  Windows Vista only (Ultimate Extras perhaps) but... (insert imaginary rant of your choice) :-)<br><br>If it encourages kids to learn more about Physics and Astronomy or actually helps real researchers discover new things, or creates a massive enthusiast community dedicated to studying the night sky the way people go  over google maps, or find us some UFOS ;-), now that would really be amazing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_15:44:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "9d8585e50981b700bddcc797f1b4d46f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701571": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "PXLated: now you know why I wanted VMWare on my Mac. :-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_15:36:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701572": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Might be nifty and better than Google Earth but I can get that on my Mac so Google Earth wins hands down.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_15:34:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "3a088b735d051bca68c1f02e292b207e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701573": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Billy: like I said, you've gotta see it. Then you'll believe. It's pretty clear you haven't seen it yet. Why do I put up with people like you here? I expect this kind of comment on Digg, not here.<br><br>Dovella: it's working. Not sure when it'll be released, though. I imagine that they need to get the servers ready for a pretty sizeable number of people who'll all want to try it out at once. Not an easy scalability problem to solve.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_15:29:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701574": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm Running out to Buy my SEGWAY Scooter Now!!<br><br>SNORES*<br><br>Ironically I went into the origi Post + even tho apparently it's not PhotoSynth it sounds Identical with Zooming + Panning + Multiple Cams*<br><br>Yeah it's c0ol + so are Colourized Hubble Images*<br><br>What a Supreme Disappointment*<br><br>Crying in my BEER!!<br><br>;PPP", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_15:26:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "56ab020f80ef01ff2ad8ac1cf52144ea", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701575": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "beta? demo?<br>its possible or this in future?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_15:25:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "8746aba2a96fc639cdce671e25590d12", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701576": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "fear: if we don't continue to strive to understand our universe why does fixing all those other problems matter?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_15:21:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701577": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"As a taxpayer who\u2019s helped pay for some of these telescopes it\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve seen the results of my and your, investments in our scientific research\"<br>the land we are standing is burning, shaking, melting, oceans are getting angry and so on. So many things have higher priority\u2026........but we are trying to catch stars. Priorities are disordered?<br><br>to microsoft, i want to check my emails in 5 seconds.....vista is loading loading and loadinggggg....fix this first then you show the heaven...anyways its an one time excitement.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_15:19:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "32ca778cb6dc72863614273106fa01ad", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701578": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Buzz: I agree and anyone who's cynical should really be quiet until they've had a look.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_15:18:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701579": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As the guy who suggested to Robert that he check out what Curtis was doing, I am not sure that I have a vocabulary to describe the brilliance of the product. My humble take is that it is going to change forever how people think about the sky/astronomy, etc.<br><br>It is dazzling...find a way to see it, check it out and, and just marvel.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_15:16:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "d005ffd7c74debdb994eededf3d1dae2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701580": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Completely inappropriate, juvenile image coughed up from my inner depths:<br><br>Remember those old gag shop telescopes where the ring around eye piece was coated in black makeup... and you'd trick your friends to look into them and they'd come away looking like they had a black eye?<br><br>How about a telescope where the eye piece is coated in onion juice? You could trick your friends to look into them and they'd com away crying like an A-lister.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_15:14:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "c2ec17b9df58d5843b147cf69deef262", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701581": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "warren: heh, I remember Halley's Comet very well. I sold 60 Celestron $2,000 telescopes in a year that year. I sold two the next. Keep in mind that such a telescope was totally inappropriate for looking at the comet. Every one of my customers knew that, they just used it as an excuse to buy the telescope they were dreaming about for years.<br><br>I would expect this will get people more interested in astronomy and will lead some to spend big bucks on a motorized telescope, but most people live where they can't see the sky so such a purchase wouldn't make much sense.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_15:12:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701582": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Christopher, for instance, read what Rahul Dave wrote about it: <a href=\"http://scobleizer.com/2008/02/14/microsoft-researchers-make-me-cry/#comment-1973155\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://scobleizer.com/2008/02/14/microsoft-rese...</a><br><br>Rahul is a lot more credible than you are.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_15:05:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701583": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Mr. Happy, if I told you about this cool movie called Star Wars, would my text have been able to do it justice before you saw it? No.<br><br>Some things you need to see and experience to get.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_15:01:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701584": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "thomas: please go back and read my original post. I told you that there was no business model here. Why does something need a business model to be inspiring?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_17:15:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701585": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The TED video is already up: <a href=\"http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/224\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/224</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_03:30:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701586": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "#104: I can't ever seem to get useful information out of Yahoo! maps, but they are most definitely \"regular image files and AJAX\".  It's really just like Google Maps but not as polished.  Oh, and obtrusive ads: \"30 days of freshness or my money back\" -- woohoo!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_01:54:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "f2c386b4e76e0e86318929f3dace6bb8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701587": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Christopher: the folks who've seen it say it DOES live up to the hype.<br><br>Mike: Google's Sky isn't nearly as well integrated and doesn't have as many telescopes.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_15:00:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701588": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Its odd that people have to see something in order to be awed by it. If your imagination is so limited by what you can see you have a larger problems then not having this software.<br><br>It oddly reminds me of the torture chamber in \"Life the Universe and Everything\". (Or was it \"So long and Thanks for the Fish\" ?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_14:57:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "357a20e8c56e69d6f9734d23ef9517e8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701589": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Correct me if I am wrong - can you get addicted to such a thing? I mean like how often you post videos to qik kinda thing? Its still a hobby kinda thing 0 lives for a few days n then dies down because someone does something better. Google obviously won't sit quiet after this I am sure.<br><br>Well, I agree - it could still have been the most amazing thing at Microsoft you ever saw - they do nice thing very very rarely ;-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_14:44:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "3452e226d5d71e152eb7145968642c0d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701590": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Umm wrong on #6. Didyah catch my \"sky\" reference before? \"Pulling a talk-about-it, while-not-talking-about-it\" Scobleism. ;) No great secret, least to the usual Press guns, but I gave my word. But these things that pass for \"journalists\" need serious help.<br><br>But I told yah it wouldn't live up to the hype, you gotta stop being a blubbery emotional-roller-coaster. It's just a gee-whiz consumer tool, closed beta at that, not exactly on the level of finding a Dark Matter particle, there.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_14:45:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "7f6291e8344b594235e57b843fc05d9b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701591": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah, sorry, but right now I agree with davidarno: sounds like Google Earth in sky view. Last week I saw Google's Chief Technology Advocate Michael Jones demonstrate it live, and he was practically dancing all over the universe, switching back and forth from Hubble images and observatories in Hawaii that Google has made deals with. It WAS very cool, but I'm curious to see if it's better. As I understand it, all the Hubble pix are already on Google Earth.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_14:42:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "8e9ea2e9881465de09e642692d8662e4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701592": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "sounds awesome!  now, to go look up companies that make telescopes like the one you described that can work with the software.... remember the telescope buying craze that ensued during the last pass of Haley's comet?  Do you think this will inspire such a frenzy if marketed properly?  I mean people DO spend $2,000 on a lot of far less cool shit.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_14:34:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "60b3b3f83b67a7e65714668e3d5315cf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701593": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Will NASA be recognized as a partner in this project?<br><br>For an agency in need of a PR lift, this could certainly help generate some buzz - if they were to use this platform properly.<br><br>On that note, will Microsoft be enabling third party mash-ups within the platform?  Will historians be able to insert historical information around wars fought based on information they read of the stars?  Will users to be able to visit stars who's names they have purchased?  Will brands be able to create mini-games, ARG campaigns and scavenger hunts by having users surf the skies for clues?<br><br>Or will this be relegated to a first time WOW factor we experienced with Google Earth only to see usage drop to a core enthusiast audience thereafter?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_14:38:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "df5ce2d19086dfba1fc439aebf018631", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701594": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks, Robert. I'm moved by the possibilities. Growing up I learned that the future of humanity is to explore galaxies. This kind of technology will facilitate the ambitions and actions of future generations.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_14:38:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "a1dc503c762ef511e7bd13aabc6b82d6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701595": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Larry: good catch. You can tell I'm not an astronomer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_14:33:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701596": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I hope I never look into a telescope and see Beetlejuice. Now if I saw Betelguese, that would be okay, but I really don't want to see Michael Keaton. :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_14:31:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "b4f04f9fd2de8730cda367d361178145", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701597": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Andy: if you read my original post, I told you exactly that. On Monday you WILL be there! :-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_14:20:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701598": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ah so thats what it was - I guess you needed to be there ;0)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-27_14:19:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "05be1783f963783a8ebc0b4e7b66f097", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701599": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well, 167 comments...<br><br>Crying worked for Hillary too, when in doubt, pout.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-02_08:51:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "7f6291e8344b594235e57b843fc05d9b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701600": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wait till Monday till you see the demo! Then you'll know<br>OH, you don't believe??...Wait till April till you see the beta version! Then you'll know<br>OH, you still don't believe?? Wait till June for the proper release! Then you'll know<br>OH, you still don't believe??.... You're a dumbass and don't understand!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-02_12:43:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "8ec140a5dc0ed280848fa42cbe52bd85", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701601": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Both Microsoft World Wide Telescope and Google Sky are possible by a running international effort, the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (<a href=\"http://www.ivoa.net\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.ivoa.net</a>). What Microsoft and Google have done is build massive multi-resolution caches of that data, so that wide sky queries are handled by the wide-angle cache, and the narrower queries are handled by the services themselves.<br><br>The good thing is that these visualization tools are very good in themselves for diffusion and vulgarisation, while scientific tools such as the Aladin Sky Atlas (<a href=\"http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/</a>) also become available to anyone\u2026 with data accesible by everyone.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-03_17:37:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6c83d5d20c63b8e421a7966b04cfedb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701602": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What makes me cry are all the wintards that think Microsoft is capable of anything but monopolistic business, stealing, ripping-off other's work, etc...<br><br>Windoze only?   You're kidding, right?   Where is the pathetic version for 'other platforms' (as if more than one survived them?)  As if anyone in their right mind ever used I.E. in the first place, let alone now.<br><br>There is absolutely no reason for this to be windows only.   It is yet another instance of Microsoft taking (from the likes of NASA this time) and using it to push their monopoly.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-05_12:48:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "20e9ca6dd8816eae178626d9e01ebc4f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701603": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Try Slooh.com.......much better. It's not free like this one is, but it's also LVE images, not archived from other scopes. And for the price ($100/year unlimited usage), it's an unbeatable telescope investment. Trust me, I know. I've been an astronomer for almost 25 years &amp; thr latest scope that I bought cost 10X as much as Slooh &amp; isn't NEAR what Slooh offers. The same set-up would have run me about 15,000-20,000 $$$.<br><br>Best part too is that you can control the scopes PERSONALLY &amp; tell them what you want to look at, then snap pics. Second best part is that you getcontrol of MULTIPLE scopes withthe yearly unlimited package. Right now we have 2 off the coast of Africa. An observatory has been rented already in Australia &amp; the scope will be added soon. And there's 1 more, soon to be 2, getting ready to come on-line in Chile.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_01:25:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "c7ff92efa00c2c8128ca284b4e544f7c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701605": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Trust me, you don't see what Nasa see's. That resolution of the moon is a slam dunk for me. Although I'm sure the unaware are sufficiently lulled.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-17_18:47:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "2bce96171cbc55c6bb7f501586e8d0fb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701606": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Muy Interesante que tengo que hacer para obtener el programa y poder utilisar este telescopio", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-18_23:58:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "7d8f208fa4378b0cfcb2492e86d6f5ab", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701607": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I cry too because ms make things that look \"beautiful\" and then do sweet fuckall. Yay. For once, a complete product would be nice. Feel free to start with XP and move on to everything else. Notepad is ok.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-03_14:55:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "42d0eafba948f4bdce07bd969ec6ea2a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701608": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "WWT is absolutely fantastic.  I think what people are missing is it puts the data into the hands of everyone - even the scientific FITS images can be pulled down without having to know apis/integrations or which website to go to at what time of day and whom to request them from.<br><br>As an amateur astronomer having a tool like this for free has finally put the universe into the hands of many more people. I hope the scope manufacturers quickly embrace it as a tool to not only allow scope controls but integrate their learning, training and user experiences into it so people can share them.<br><br>Google sky doesn't compare, doesn't have the astronomy, astrometry, photometry or science aspect to allow one to do research and publish research and access everyone elses research at the same time.<br><br>People are terrible naive about the functionality of this app. TERRIBLY.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-01_09:25:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "aefcd9939e4b58dd49e4cfb5ca81c8b0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701609": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is late, but...<br><br>@Tom Burke: When Scoble wrote \"radiation\", he was probably referring to \"ionizing radiation\", which is the most common use of the word \"radiation\" according to Wikipedia.<br><br>I agree that it is a very sad commentary that he doesn't seem to understand that gamma rays and X-rays are EM radiation, just like infrared.<br><br>This is what happens when the mass media dumbs down science.  \"Ionizing radiation\" simply becomes \"radiation\", and everyone forgets about non-ionizing radiation.  As another example, power (measured in watts) and energy (watt-hours or joules) are often confused in the mass media.  For example, this article<br><a href=\"http://www.forbes.com/2001/04/02/0330power.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.forbes.com/2001/04/02/0330power.html</a><br>claims that a clothes dryer uses \"100 watts an hour\".  That's kind of like driving 60 MPH per hour, isn't it?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-27_17:17:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "0024e9e9ead230e1f5ff09640165ef36", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701610": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Further to my book \"All creatures do go to Heaven, especially Pets - proved from the original languages of the Holy Bible.\" on:<br><a href=\"http://www.all-creatures.org/ach\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.all-creatures.org/ach</a> I wish to send you the first chapter of my book \"Beyond the beyond.\" which is hardly believable.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-08_10:23:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "e5170d4f54d1decde16d63f5c596fe96", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701611": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "i have microsoft worldwide telescope and i saw 2 tihngs that must be flawed or a mystery of the world...on search type in:<br>RA:14h31m30s<br>DEC:+20:15:03<br>also<br>RA:23h08m23s<br>DEC:-29:49:07", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_20:25:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "312840d4219a3907f23881b99cd9f4f9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9701612": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "thank you", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-28_12:18:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "9b4341bcdc7683ce4befa9105be4cb46", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "18354875", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "125200", "hash": -9144307692302846706}, "thread": {"total_posts": 0, "paginate": false, "per_page": 0, "slug": "what_made_me_cry_microsoft8217s_world_wide_telescope", "num_pages": 1, "days_alive": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 18354875, "num_posts": 135, "closed": true, "queued": false, "killed": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": false, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "faaf467d0f47abde553c3b8e0e1b3570", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
	/* */ this.jsonData.cookie_messages = {"user_created": null, "post_has_profile": null, "post_twitter": null, "post_not_approved": null}; this.jsonData.session = {"url": null, "name": null, "email": null}; /* */

	
	this.curPageId = 'dsq-comments';

	this.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

if(typeof DsqLocal == 'undefined') {
	DsqLocal = {};
}



/**
 * Dsq.Strings: UI strings
 */
Dsq.Strings = new function() {
	this.ADD_NEW_COMMENT = "Add New Comment";
	this.LOG_INTO_DISQUS = "Log into DISQUS";
	this.USE_MEDIA = "Use Media";
	this.LOGOUT = "Logout";
	this.SHARING_OPTIONS = "Sharing options";
	this.SHARE_ON = "Share on";
	this.TWEET_THIS_COMMENT = "Tweet this comment";
	this.SHARE_ON_NEWSFEED = "Share on news feed";
	this.SEND_UPDATE_TO_YAHOO = "Send update to Yahoo!";
	this.REBLOG_ON = "Reblog on";
	this.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS = "Configure options";
	this.POST_AS = "Post as";
	this.SORT_BY = "Sort by";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe by email";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS = "Subscribe by RSS";
	this.POPULAR_NOW = "Popular now";
	this.BEST_RATING = "Best Rating";
	this.NEWEST_FIRST = "Newest first";
	this.OLDEST_FIRST = "Oldest first";
	this.HIGHLIGHTED = "Highlighted";
	this.UNSUBSCRIBE = "Unsubscribe";
	this.REQUIRED = "Required";
	this.OPTIONAL = "Optional";
	this.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A = "You are commenting as a";
	this.LOGIN_BELOW = "Login below";
	this.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT = "Please login below to comment.";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe to all comments by email";
	this.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS = "Do not subscribe to comments";
	this.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS = "Real-time updating is";
	this.ENABLED = "enabled";
	this.PAUSED = "paused";
	this.PAUSE = "Pause";
	this.RESUME = "Resume";
	this.SHOW = "Show";
	this.JUST_NOW = "Just now";
	this.REPLY = "Reply";
	this.EDIT = "Edit";
	this.FLAG = "Flag";
	this.MODERATE = "Moderate";
	this.CANCEL = "Cancel";
	this.REPLYING_TO = "Replying to";
	this.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS = "Report missing reactions";
	this.POST_A_COMMENT = "Post a comment";
	this.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT = "Flag inappropriate comment";
	this.FLAGGED = "Flagged";
	this.NO = "No";
	this.YES = "Yes";
	this.NEVER_MIND = "Never mind";
	this.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR = "Are you sure you would like to report this comment to a moderator";
	this.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION = "This will flag comments for moderators to take action";
	this.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN = "To rate, please log in";
	this.JUST_A_MOMENT = "Just a moment...";
	this.GUEST = "Guest";
	this.NAME = "Name";
	this.EMAIL = "Email";
  this.WEBSITE = "Website";
  this.SETTINGS = "Settings";
  this.MODERATOR_OPTIONS = "Moderator options: ";
  this.MODERATE_OPTIONS = "Moderate Options";

  // Thread moderator actions
  this.CLOSE_THREAD = "Close thread";
  this.OPEN_THREAD = "Open thread";
  this.REMOVE_THREAD = "Remove thread";
  this.RESTORE_THREAD = "Restore thread";
  this.ACTIONS = "Actions";
};
// Dsq.Strings

/**
 * Dsq.FmtStrings: functions that return interpolated UI strings
 */
Dsq.FmtStrings = new function() {
	// Seems we have to use named interpolation for Django to translate. Investigate more.
	this.LOGGED_IN_AS = function(username) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logged in as %(username)s', {username:username});
	};

	this.LOGOUT_FROM = function(disqus) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logout from %(disqus)s', {disqus:disqus});
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL = function(total, num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comment", {num:num, total:total});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comments", {num:num, total:total});
		}
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION = function(num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comment", {num:num});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comments", {num:num});
		}
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s comment'
				: '%(num)s comments'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_LIKES = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s like'
				: '%(num)s likes'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_POINTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s point'
				: '%(num)s points'
			), {num:num});
	};
};
// Dsq.FmtStrings





Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN = 'a2d140c59df8cd4ce27a20e0829cacd8';
Dsq.COMMENTS_RE = /(<li.*?id="?dsq-comment-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/li>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_RE = /(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-header-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/div>)\s*(<div.*?class="?dsq-comment-body"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_BODY_RE = /\s*(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-message-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
// HACK: Safari ends with "-->" while other browsers end with "--&gt;" as expected.
Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE = /&lt;!--\[(.*?)\]--(?:>|&gt;)/gim;



var FragmentPacket = function(reader, writer, writer_url, is_child, receiveCallback) {
	var that = this;
	this.reader = reader;
	this.writer = writer;
	this.writer_url = writer_url;

	this.is_child = is_child || false;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

	this.READY		= 0x1;
	this.WRITING	= 0x2;
	this.FIN		= 0x4;
	this.ACK		= 0x8;

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;
	var listener = function() {
		that.recv();
	};
	return window.setInterval(listener, 10);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

FragmentPacket.prototype.recv = function() {
	var hash;
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

		var hashIndex = this.reader.location.href.indexOf('#');
		if (hashIndex == -1) {
			return;
		}
		hash = this.reader.location.href.substring(hashIndex+1);
	}
	var flags = parseInt(hash.substring(0, 4), 10);
	var seqno = parseInt(hash.substring(4, 24), 10);
	var data  = hash.substring(24);

	if (this._lastHash !== hash) {
		this._lastHash = hash;
		this.log('recv: ' + hash);

		this.log(' flags: ' + flags);
		this.log(' seqno: ' + seqno + ' len: ' + hash.substring(4, 24).length + ' (' + hash.substring(4, 24) + ')');
		this.log(' data: ' + data + ' len: ' + data.length);

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

		if (flags & this.WRITING) {
			this._accumMsg += data;
			this.sendFlag(this.ACK, seqno);
			if (flags & this.FIN) {
				this.log('recv finished: ' + decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));
				this.receiveCallback(decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));

				this._accumMsg = '';

				this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
			}
		}
	}

	return {
		flags: flags,
		seqno: seqno,
		data: data
	};
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendRawPacket = function(packet) {
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
		this.writer.name = packet;
	} else {

		this.writer.location.href = this.writer_url + '#' + packet;
	}

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendFlag = function(flag, seqno) {
	this.sendRawPacket(this._zerofill(flag, 4) + this._zerofill(seqno, 20));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {
	this._send(0, encodeURIComponent(msg));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._send = function(packetNum, msg) {
	var that = this;
	var recvBuf = this.recv();

	if (packetNum === 0) {

		if (!(recvBuf.flags & this.READY)) {
			this.log('client is not ready, waiting...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		}
	} else {

		if (!( (recvBuf.flags & this.ACK) && (recvBuf.seqno === this._lastSeqno) )) {
			this.log('waiting for ack from client...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		} else {
			this.log('received ack: ' + this._lastSeqno + ' ' + recvBuf.seqno);
		}
	}

	var flags = this.WRITING;
	var num_packets = Math.ceil(msg.length / this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	this.log('num_packets: ' + num_packets);

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

		this.log('message successfully sent!');
		this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
		return true;
	}

	this._lastSeqno++;

	if (packetNum == num_packets-1) {
		flags |= this.FIN;
	}

	var data = msg.substring(packetNum * this.MAX_DATA_LEN, (packetNum+1) * this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	var packet = this._zerofill(flags, 4) + this._zerofill(this._lastSeqno, 20) + data;

	this.log('sending raw packet: ' + packet);
	this.sendRawPacket(packet);

	return this._send(packetNum + 1, msg);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._zerofill = function(num, width) {
	var retval = num.toString();
	var retval_len = retval.length;
	for (var i = 0; i < width - retval_len; i++) {
		retval = '0' + retval;
	}
	return retval;
};

var PostMessagePacket = function(receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId) {
	var that = this;
	this.receiver = receiver;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;
	this.id = id;


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;

	var listener = function(e) {

		if (!that.id) {
			that.id = e.data;
			return;
		}


		var id = e.data.split(';')[0];
		if (id !== that.id) {
			return;
		}
		var data = e.data.substring(e.data.indexOf(';') + 1);

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

	if (typeof window.attachEvent == 'function') {
		window.attachEvent('onmessage', listener);
	} else if (typeof window.addEventListener == 'function') {
		window.addEventListener('message', listener, false);
	} else {
		throw new Error('No method found to create event listener for PostMessagePacket.');
	}
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



	var needs_reget = false;
	try {
		if (typeof this.receiver.id == 'undefined' || typeof this.receiver.postMessage == 'undefined') {
			needs_reget = true;
		}
	} catch(e) {


	}
	if (needs_reget && typeof this.receiverId != 'undefined') {
		this.receiver = document.getElementById(this.receiverId).contentWindow;
	}

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

		packet = this.id;
	} else {
		packet = this.id + ';' + msg;
	}
	this.receiver.postMessage(packet, '*');
};

PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = null;
PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id = function() {
	var id = (new Date()).getTime();
	if (id == PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id) {
		id++;
	}
	PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = id;
	return id.toString();
};

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

	this.objectToJSON = function(obj) {
		var json = '';
		var results = [];

		if (obj === undefined || obj === null) {
			return 'null';
		}

		switch (obj.constructor) {
			case Object:
				for (var property in obj) {
					if (obj.hasOwnProperty(property)) {
						results.push(this.objectToJSON(property) + ': ' + this.objectToJSON(obj[property]));
					}
				}
				json = '{' + results.join(', ') + '}';
				break;
			case Array:
				for (var i = 0; i < obj.length; i++) {
					results.push(this.objectToJSON(obj[i]));
				}
				json = '[' + results.join(', ') + ']';
				break;
			case Number:
			case Boolean:
				json = obj.toString();
				break;
			case String:

				var specialChars = {'\b': '\\b', '\t': '\\t', '\n': '\\n', '\f': '\\f', '\r': '\\r', '\\': '\\\\'};

				json = obj.replace(/[\x00-\x1f\\]/g, function(match) {
					var ch = specialChars[match];
					return ch ? ch : '\\u00' + match.charCodeAt().toPaddedString(2, 16);
				});

				json = '"' + json.replace(/"/g, '\\"') + '"';
				break;
			default:

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

	this.createHandler = function(send_func, registered_funcs) {
		var that = this;
		var handler = function(message) {

			try {
				var rpc = eval('(' + message + ')');
			} catch(e) {
				alert('bad JSON: ' + message);
				return;
			}
			if (rpc.method) {

				if (!registered_funcs[rpc.method]) {
					return;
				}

				var retval = registered_funcs[rpc.method].apply(null, rpc.params);
				if (rpc.id) {
					var response = {
						result: retval,
						error: null,	// TODO
						id: rpc.id
					};
					send_func(that.objectToJSON(response));
				}
			} else if(rpc.result) {

				if (!that.ids[rpc.id]) {
					return;
				}

				that.ids[rpc.id](rpc.result);
				delete that.ids[rpc.id];
			}
		};
		return handler;
	};

	this.execute = function(send_func, method, params, response_callback) {
		response_callback = response_callback || null;
		var id = (response_callback) ? (new Date()).getTime() : null;

		var request = {
			method: method,
			params: params,
			id: id
		};

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

		if (id) {
			this.ids[id] = response_callback;
		}
	};
};
JsonRpc = new JsonRpc();

var ParentMessenger = function(childUrl, receiverUrl, container, receiveCallback) {


	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari') >= 0 && parseInt(navigator.userAgent.substring(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Version/') + 8), 10) == 3) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	} else if (window.opera) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}



	if (!receiverUrl &&
		navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Gecko') >= 0 &&
		parseFloat(navigator.userAgent.slice(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 3, navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 6)) < 1.9) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}


	if (/msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) {


		if (document.domain == window.location.hostname) {
			receiverUrl = '';
		}
	}

	var that = this;
	this.childUrl = childUrl;
	this.receiverUrl = receiverUrl;
	this.container = container || document.body;

	this.packetHandler = null;


	this._ready = false;
	this._error = false;


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

		that.receiver = document.createElement('iframe');
		that.receiver.src = receiverUrl;
		that.receiver.id = 'receiver_' + (new Date()).getTime();
		that.receiver.name = that.receiver.id;

		that.receiver.frameBorder = '0';
		that.receiver.frameSpacing = '0';
		that.receiver.style.borderStyle = 'none';

		var receiver_onload = function() {
			var receiver = document.getElementById(that.receiver.id).contentWindow;

			try {
				receiver.document.body.innerHTML = '';
			} catch(e) {

				that._error = true;
			}
			receiver.document.body.style.padding = '0px';
			receiver.document.body.style.margin = '0px';

			var child = receiver.document.createElement('iframe');
			child.id = 'child';
			child.name = 'child';
			child.src = that.childUrl;

			child.frameBorder = '0';
			child.frameSpacing = '0';
			child.style.borderStyle = 'none';
			child.style.width = '100%';
			child.style.height = '100%';
			receiver.document.body.appendChild(child);

			that.child = receiver.document.getElementById('child').contentWindow;
			that.receiver = receiver;

			that.packetHandler = new FragmentPacket(that.receiver, that.child, that.childUrl, false, receiveCallback);

			that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();

			that.packetHandler.sendFlag(that.packetHandler.READY, 0);

			that._ready = true;
		};

		that.receiver.onreadystatechange = function() {
			if (this.readyState == 'complete') {
				receiver_onload();
			}
		};

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







		if (Dsq.Utils.ie) {
			if (that.container.clientWidth === 0) {

				var _waitForWidth = function() {
					if (that.container.clientWidth > 0) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					} else {
						window.setTimeout(_waitForWidth, 100);
					}
				};
				_waitForWidth();

				that._once = false;
				that.receiver.onresize = function() {
					if (!that._once) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					}
					that._once = true;
				};
			}
		}

		that.container.appendChild(that.receiver);
	};


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

			that.packetHandler.send();
			that._ready = true;
		};

		var id = PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id();
		var receiverId = 'child_' + id;


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

		that.container.innerHTML += '<iframe ' +
			'src="' + childUrl + '" ' +
			'id="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'name="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'onload="ParentMessenger._receiver_onload_' + receiverId +'();" ' +
			'></iframe>';

		that.receiver = document.getElementById(receiverId).contentWindow;
		that.packetHandler = new PostMessagePacket(that.receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId);
		that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();
	};

	if (typeof window.postMessage == 'function') {
		_createReceiverForPostMessage();
	} else {
		_createReceiverForFragmentPacket();
	}

};

ParentMessenger.prototype.sendMessage = function(message) {
	var that = this;
	if (!this._ready) {

		window.setTimeout(function() { that.sendMessage(message); }, 10);
		return;
	}
	this.packetHandler.send(message);
	return true;
};

Dsq.NewFrames = function(url) {
	this.url = url;
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype.init = function(onFailure) {
	var that = this;

	try {
		this.messenger = new ParentMessenger(this.url, Dsq.jsonData.integration.receiver_url, this.container, this.receive_callback);
	} catch(e) {
		if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
			onFailure();
		}
	}

	if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
		var iId = window.setInterval(function() {
			if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				return;
			}
			if (that.messenger._ready) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
			} else if (that.messenger._error) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				onFailure();
			}
		}, 10);
	}
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype._execute = function(method, args, callback) {
	var that = this;
	if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
		return false;
	}
	JsonRpc.execute(
		function(msg) { that.messenger.sendMessage(msg); },
		method,
		args || [],
		callback);
	return true;
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame = function(container, parent_post_id) {
	var that = this;
	this.container = container;
	this.parent_post_id = parent_post_id;

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

		Dsq.Debug.log('Dsq.ReplyFrame.sendFunc');
		that.messenger.sendMessage(msg);
	};


	var postComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		Dsq.jsonData.posts[response.message.id] = response.message.post_meta;
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key]) {
			Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key] = response.message.user_meta;
		}


		var reply_position = (typeof(disqus_insert_wrt_sort) == 'undefined' 
			? (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reply_position ? -1 : null) 
			: (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? null : -1));
		
		if (response.message.post_meta.approved) {
			Dsq.Post.insert(response.message.post_meta.parent_post_id || reply_position, response.message.id, response.message.post_meta.message);
		}

		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var postComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(response.message, 'Error');
		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onFailure(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var editComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);
		
		message.innerHTML = response.message;
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
	
	var editComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('Sorry, there was an error editing this comment.', 'Edit Error');
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	var getUserByEmail_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var msg = response.message;
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(parent_post_id);

		if (msg.username) {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'login', {
				'username': msg.username,
				'display_name': msg.display_name,
				'avatar_url': msg.avatar_url,
				'verified': msg.verified,
				'email': fields.email.value
			});
		} else {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'register');
		}
	};

	var validateAuth_onSuccess = function(response, auth_choice) {
		Dsq.Templates.postComment(parent_post_id, null, true, auth_choice);
	};

	var validateAuth_onFailure = function(response, auth_choice) {
		var pid = parent_post_id ? '-' + parent_post_id : '';
		var msg = response.message;

		if (auth_choice == 'register') {
			var fields = ['email', 'username', 'password'];

			for (var i = 0; i < fields.length; i++) {
				var field = fields[i];
				var errorDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-' + field + '-errors' + pid);

				if (msg[field]) {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = msg[field];
				} else {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = '';
				}
			}
		} else if (auth_choice == 'login') {
			Dsq.$('dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid).innerHTML = '<p>We couldn\'t log you in. Please verify your login.</p>';
		}
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.receive_callback = JsonRpc.createHandler(sendFunc, {
		'postComment.onSuccess': postComment_onSuccess,
		'postComment.onFailure': postComment_onFailure,
		'editComment.onSuccess': editComment_onSuccess,
		'editComment.onFailure': editComment_onFailure,		
		'getUserByEmail.onSuccess': getUserByEmail_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onSuccess': validateAuth_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onFailure': validateAuth_onFailure,
		'reload': function() { window.location.reload(); }
	});

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=scobleizer' +
		'&t=what_made_me_cry_microsoft8217s_world_wide_telescope' +
		'&ff=' + Dsq.Thread.ff +
		'&default_text=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_default_text) +
		'&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
	if (this.parent_post_id) {
		this.url += '&parent_post=' + this.parent_post_id;
	}
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype = new Dsq.NewFrames(Dsq.ReplyFrame.url);

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.post = function(author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe) {
	this._execute('postComment', [author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.edit = function(post_id, message) {
	this._execute('editComment', [post_id, message]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.setState = function(parent_post_id, depth) {
	this._execute('setState', [parent_post_id, depth]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.getUserByEmail = function(email) {
	this._execute('getUserByEmail', [email]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.validateAuth = function(auth_choice, email, username, password) {
	this._execute('validateAuth', [auth_choice, email, username, password]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.authenticateFacebook = function(session, forum_url) {
	this._execute('authenticateFacebook', [session, forum_url]);
};

	Dsq.Facebook = function() {
	var that = this;

	var handleSessionData = function(session) {

		var forum_url = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;




		if (typeof disqus_facebook_forum != 'undefined') {
			forum_url = disqus_facebook_forum;
		}
		Dsq.frames.reply_0.authenticateFacebook(session, forum_url);
	};

	var onLogin = function() {
		FB.Connect.getSignedPublicSessionData(handleSessionData);
	};

	this.login = function() {
		FB.Connect.requireSession(onLogin, true);
	};
};
Dsq.Facebook = new Dsq.Facebook();


	






Dsq.Themes = {};

Dsq.Themes.narcissus = new function() {
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-form-area';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-textarea-wrapper';



	
	this.header = function() {
		var comments_count, total_posts, num_posts;
		var html = '';
		var missing_perm_tmpl;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.missing_perm) {
			missing_perm_tmpl = Dsq.Templates.missingPermissions();
			if (missing_perm_tmpl) {
				html += '<div class="dsq-missing-permissions">' + missing_perm_tmpl + '</div>';
			}
		}

		total_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.total_posts;
		num_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_posts;

		if (total_posts) {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL(total_posts, num_posts);
		} else {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION(num_posts);
		}

		html += ' \
		<div id="dsq-comments-title"> \
			<h3>' + comments_count + '</h3> \
		</div> \
		';

		html += ' \
		<div class="dsq-options"> \
			<span class="dsq-item-sort">'
				+ Dsq.Strings.SORT_BY + ' \
				<select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);"> \
					<option value="hot" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 4 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.POPULAR_NOW + '</option> \
					<option value="best" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 3 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.BEST_RATING + '</option> \
					<option value="newest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.NEWEST_FIRST + '</option> \
					<option value="oldest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 1 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.OLDEST_FIRST + '</option> \
				</select> \
				&nbsp; \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<span id="dsq-subscribe">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.subscribed
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.UNSUBSCRIBE + '</a>'
						: '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL + '</a>')
				+ '</span> \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-rss" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png" alt="" /> \
				<a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/what_made_me_cry_microsoft8217s_world_wide_telescope/latest.rss">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS + '</a> \
			</span> \
		</div> \
		';

		
		

		return html;

	};
	
	this.footer = function() {
		var html = '';

		html += Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
		
			html += Dsq.Templates.realtime();
			html += Dsq.Templates.showThreadSettings();
			html += Dsq.Templates.postBox();

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		


		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) {
 			html += ' \
				<div class="dsq-global-moderator-extras">'
					+ '<strong>shortname:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url
					+ '<strong>thread id:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.id
					+ '<strong>thread slug:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.slug
				+ '</div> \
			';
		}

		return html;
	};
	
	this.realtime = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			html += '<div id="dsq-realtime-options" class="dsq-options">'
					 + Dsq.Strings.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS + ' <strong id="dsq-realtime-status" style="text-transform: lowercase">' + Dsq.Strings.ENABLED + '</strong>. \
					 <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-toggle" style="text-transform: capitalize"></a> \
					</div>';
		}

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
			html += ' \
				<div style="display: none" id="dsq-realtime-alert" class="dsq-realtime-alert"><span id="dsq-realtime-queued"></span> <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-show"></a></div> \
			';
		}
		
		return html;
	};

	this.showThreadSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '<div id="dsq-thread-settings" class="dsq-thread-settings">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATOR_OPTIONS;
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showSettings(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.SETTINGS + '</a>';
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showModeratorActions(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>';
		if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled && Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.reportMissingReactions(); return false;">'
						+ Dsq.Strings.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS
						+ '</a>';
		}
		html +='</div>';

		return html;
	};

	this.postBox = function(post_id, use_fallback_iframe) {


		var html;
		var display_sharing_options = Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated;

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post) {
			return '';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.hasOwnProperty(Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain)) {
				display_sharing_options = false;
			}
		}
		
		if (post_id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];				
		}
		
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		var _requestUserInfo = function() {
			var html;



			var user_has_email = false;

			html = '<div class="dsq-request-user-info"> <!-- // If authenticated --> \
				<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT + '?ctkn=' + Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN + '" class="dsq-request-user-logout">' + Dsq.Strings.LOGOUT + '</a> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td rowspan="2">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '')
								+ '<img src="' + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR + '" width="48" height="48" class="dsq-request-user-avatar">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-name">'
								+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
									 ? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '">' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '</span>'
									 : (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_verified
											? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span>'
											: '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span>'))
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '') 
								+ Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username 
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
							+  (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && user_has_email ? ' <small>(<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.remoteAccountSettings(); return false;">change settings</a>)</small>' : '')
							+  (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <small>(<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/info/" target="_blank">change name</a> or <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/avatar/" target="_blank">picture</a>)</small>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-stats"> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count == 1 ? 'comment' : 'comments') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count == 1 ? 'like' : 'likes') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.points + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.points == 1 ? 'point' : 'points') + '</span> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		var _loginOptions = function() {
			var html;
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-authenticate"> \
				<p class="dsq-autheneticate-copy">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
					? Dsq.Strings.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A + ' <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. ' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.LOGIN_BELOW + '.'
					: Dsq.Strings.REQUIRED + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT + '.')
				+ '</p> \
				<ul class="dsq-login-buttons">'
					+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-disqus.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Facebook.login(); return false;"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-facebook.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-twitter.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL(); return false" ><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-openid.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_yahoo ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Yahoo.startYahooConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-yahoo.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
				+ '</ul> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {



				return '<div id="dsq-form-area" style="display:none"><div id="dsq-textarea-wrapper"></div></div>' + _loginOptions();
			} else {
				return '';
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<div id="' + (post_id 
			? 'dsq-reply-post-' + post_id
			: 'dsq-new-post')
		 	+ '" class="dsq-post-area"> \
			<div class="dsq-dc-logo"> \
				<a href="http://disqus.com/comments" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/disqus-logo.png"></a> \
			</div>'
			+ (post_id 
				? '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.REPLYING_TO + ' ' + userData.display_name + '</h3>'
				: '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT + '</h3>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated 
				? _requestUserInfo()
				: _loginOptions() )
			+ '<div id="dsq-form-area' + pid + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-textarea"> \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper" id="dsq-textarea-wrapper' + pid + '"></div> \
			</div>'
			+ (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated
			? ' \
			<div class="dsq-post-fields"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-name' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_name ? disqus_def_name : (Dsq.jsonData.session.name ? Dsq.jsonData.session.name : Dsq.Strings.NAME + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-website' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (Dsq.jsonData.session.url ? Dsq.jsonData.session.url : Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')" class="dsq-placeholder') + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" /></div></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-email' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_email ? disqus_def_email : (Dsq.jsonData.session.email ? Dsq.jsonData.session.email : Dsq.Strings.EMAIL + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"> \
							<div class="dsq-subscribe"> \
								<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.chooseSubscribe(' + post_id + '); return false" class="dsq-subscribe-menu"><span id="dsq-subscribe-select' + pid + '">' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post ? Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL : Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS) + '</span> <small>&#9660;</small></a> \
								<ul class="dsq-panel" id="dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid + '"> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(2, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL + '</a></li> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(0, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS + '</a></li> \
								</ul> \
								<input id="dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid + '" type="hidden" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post + '" /> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div>'
			: '')
			+ '<div class="dsq-post-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-sharing-options" ' + (!display_sharing_options ? 'style="display:none;"' : '') + '> \
					<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onfocus="document.getElementById(\'dsq-post-button' + pid + '\').focus();"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.SHARING_OPTIONS + ' <small>&#9660;</small></span></button> \
					<div class="dsq-panel"> '
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '"'
								  + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Twitter</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook
								&& (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.enabled === true ||
										(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'facebook'))
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Facebook</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Yahoo!</label> \
								</div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Tumblr</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Wordpress</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Movable Type</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
								  <label for="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' TypePad</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ '<div><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections/" target="_blank" class="dsq-configure-options">' + Dsq.Strings.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS + '</a></div>'
					+ '</div> \
				</div>'
				+ '<button type="button" class="dsq-button" id="dsq-post-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.POST_AS + ' '
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					? Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					: Dsq.Strings.GUEST)
				+ '</span></button>'
				+ (post_id
					? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button" id="dsq-cancel-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.CANCEL + '</span></button>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
			+ '</div>' // end dsq-form-area
		+ '</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};




	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-append-post-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		html = ' \
		<table> \
			<tr> \
				<td id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-avatar" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
					<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
					? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
					: '')
				+ '</a> \
				</td> \
				<td class="dsq-comment-header-meta"> \
		';

		
		return html;
	};
	
	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var html;
		var parent_display_name = '';
		
		if(_meta.parent_post_id) {

			var _parent_meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[_meta.parent_post_id];

			if (_parent_meta) {
				var parentUserData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_parent_meta.user_key];
				parent_display_name = parentUserData.display_name;
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/moderator.png" class="dsq-moderator-star" title="Moderator" /> \
		<span class="dsq-comment-header-time"><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')" title="Permalink">' + (_meta.is_realtime ? Dsq.Strings.JUST_NOW : _meta.date) + '</a></span> '
		+ (_meta.parent_post_id && parent_display_name
			? '<a href="#comment-' + _meta.parent_post_id + '" title="Jump to comment">in reply to ' + parent_display_name + '</a>'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		<td id="dsq-like-pts-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-comment-header-likes">'
		+ (_meta.points
			? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		</tr> \
		</table> \
		';
		return html;
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		var html = '';
		return html;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed || !_meta.approved) { return ''; }
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
					? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.moderateOptions(' + post_id+ '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>'
					: '')
				+ '<a href="#" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG + '</a> \
			</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right">'
				+ (_meta.votable 
					? '<span id="dsq-like-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-like">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1)" >Like</button>'
						: 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;')
					+ '</span>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-post-edit" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + ')" >' + Dsq.Strings.EDIT + '</button>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<span class="dsq-comment-footer-reply" id="dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-comment-footer-reply-tab">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button><span></span> \
					</span>'
					: '')
			+ '</div> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};



	
	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		var item = '<li class="dsq-comment dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-header"> \
			<table> \
			<tr> \
			<td class="dsq-header-avatar"> \
			';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'" class="dsq-avatar">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {

			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar92.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== ''
				? '</a>'
				: '')
			+ '</td>'
			+ '<td><cite class="dsq-comment-cite">' + reaction.author_name + '</cite> <span class="dsq-comment-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</span></td>'
			+ '<td class="dsq-comment-header-likes"></td>'
			+ '</tr></table></div>' // end dsq-comment-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header" \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-reaction-header-left">'
							+ '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png" />'
							+ ' From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
							+ 'via <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : 'UberVU') + '</a>'
						+ '</td>'
						+ '<td class="dsq-reaction-header-right">';

			if(reaction.retweets) {
				var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
				if (num_retweets > 0) {
					if (num_retweets == 1) {
						item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
					} else {
						item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');
						item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
						var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 3) ? 3 : num_retweets;
						item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);
						if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
							item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
								+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
						}
					}
				}
			}	
			item += '</td></tr> \
			</table> \
			</div>' // end dsq-reaction-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-body"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left"> \
				</div>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator 
					? ' \
					<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right"> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-hide-reaction" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + ')">Hide</button> \
					</div>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 id="dsq-reactions-title" class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-container"> \
			<table> \
				<tbody> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-tl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-tr"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-body"> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
								<div class="dsq-popup-title"> \
									<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" style="float:right" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)">Close</button>'
									+ content['header'] 
								+ '</div>'
								+ content['body']
							+ '</div> \
							<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
						</td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-bl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-br"></td> \
					</tr> \
				</tbody> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
	};



	
	this.chooseSubscribe = function(post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		menu.style.display = menu.style.display == 'block' ? 'none' : 'block';
		
	};
	
	this.setSubscribe = function(value, el, post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var input = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid);
		var select = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-select' + pid);
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		select.innerHTML = el.innerHTML;
		input.value = value;
		this.chooseSubscribe(post_id);
	};
	
	this.getFormFields = function(post_id) {

		var fields = {};
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var name = Dsq.$('dsq-field-name' + pid);
		var email = Dsq.$('dsq-field-email' + pid);
		var website = Dsq.$('dsq-field-website' + pid);
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid);
		var password = Dsq.$('dsq-field-password' + pid);

		fields = {
			'name': name,
			'email': email,
			'website': website,
			'username': username,
			'password': password
		}
		
		return fields;
	}
	
	this.validateFields = function(post_id) {
		
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) { return true; }
		
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		
		var nameField = fields.name;
		var websiteField = fields.website;
		var emailField = fields.email;
		
		websiteField.value = (websiteField.value == Dsq.Templates.placeholder['website']) ? '' : websiteField.value;
		
		var v = [{

			validator: Dsq.Validators.name,
			value: nameField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.email,
			value: emailField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.url,
			value: websiteField.value
		}];
		
		return Dsq.Validators.validate(v, function(e) { Dsq.Popup.popModal(e, 'Oops...') } );
	};
	
	this.checkExistingUser = function(post_id) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);		
		Dsq.Popup.loading(post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		}
	};

	this.validateAuth = function(el_clicked, post_id, auth_choice) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		var email = fields.email ? fields.email.value : '';
		var username = fields.username ? fields.username.value : '';
		var password = fields.password ? fields.password.value : '';
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		}
	};

	this.lightboxUpdateEmail = function(post_id, new_email) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		fields.email.value = new_email;
	};

	this.lightboxAuthenticate = function(post_id, auth_choice, auth_data) {
		var title, body;
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		if(typeof(auth_data) == 'undefined') {
			var auth_data = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		}

		d = auth_data;

		switch(auth_choice) {
			case 'register':
				var suggestedUsername = d.name.value.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/g,'').toLowerCase();
			
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Register a <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';

				body = ' \
				<ul class="dsq-lightbox-register-reasons"> \
				<li>Verify your comments</li> \
				<li>Edit and delete comments</li> \
				<li>Manage comments and replies</li> \
				</ul> \
				';

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Email</td> \
							<td><input type="text" value="' + d.email.value + '" onchange="Dsq.Templates.lightboxUpdateEmail(' + post_id + ', this.value)" /><div id="dsq-email-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + suggestedUsername + '"/><div id="dsq-username-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /><div id="dsq-password-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'login\'); return false">Login instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button type="button" class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Register and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			case 'login':
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Login to your <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';
				body = '';
				
				if(d.avatar_url) {
					body += '<div class="dsq-lightbox-recognized"><table><tr>';
					body += '<td><img src="' + d.avatar_url + '" alt="" /></td>';
					body += '<td><span class="dsq-badge ' + (d.verified ? 'dsq-badge-verified' : 'dsq-badge-registered') + '">' + (d.verified ? 'Verified' : 'Registered') + '</span></td>';
					body += '<td>Hey <strong>' + d.display_name + '</strong>, is that you? Login below to claim this comment.';
					body += '</tr></table></div>';
				}

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username or Email</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (d.avatar_url ? d.username : '') + '" /></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password <a href="http://disqus.com/forgot" target="_blank">(cannot log in?)</a></td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'register\'); return false">Register instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button type="button" class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Login and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
		Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid).focus();
	};
	
	this.buttonsToRestore = [];
	this.setLoadingButton = function(btn, post_id) {
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		if (btn) {

			var loadingBtn = document.createElement('button');
			loadingBtn.id = btn.id + '-loading';
			loadingBtn.innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-lite.gif" alt="" /> ' + Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
			loadingBtn.className = btn.className + ' dsq-post-loading';
			btn.parentNode.appendChild(loadingBtn);
			btn.style.display = 'none';
			var cancelBtn = Dsq.$('dsq-cancel-button' + pid);
			if(cancelBtn) { cancelBtn.style.display = 'none'; this.buttonsToRestore.push(cancelBtn); }
			this.buttonsToRestore.push(btn);
		} else {

			var buttons = this.buttonsToRestore;
			for(var i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
				buttons[i].style.display = 'inline';
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$(buttons[i].id + '-loading'));
			}
		}
		
	};

	this.postComment = function(post_id, el_clicked, force, auth_choice) {
		var append_id = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);

		if (Dsq.Templates.validateFields(post_id)) {

			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && !force &&
				((!Dsq.Utils.readCookie('skipped_auth') && !disqus_skip_auth && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled) || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post)) {
				Dsq.Templates.checkExistingUser(post_id);
				return false;
			}
			var params = [];
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
				params.push(fields.name.value,
					fields.email.value,
					fields.website.value);

				if (auth_choice == 'login' || auth_choice == 'register') {
					params.push({
						auth_choice: auth_choice,
						username: fields.username.value,
						password: fields.password.value,
						email: fields.email.value
					});
				} else {
					params.push(null);
				}

				params.push(null /* sharing options */, Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + append_id).value);
			} else {
				var service_checked = function(name) {
					var el = Dsq.$('dsq-sharing-' + name + append_id);
					return (el !== null && el.checked === true) ? '1' : '0';
				};
				params.push(null, null, null, null, {
					tw: service_checked('twitter'),
					fb: service_checked('facebook'),
					tr: service_checked('tumblr'),
					wp: service_checked('wordpress'),
					mt: service_checked('movabletype'),
					tp: service_checked('typepad'),
					yh: service_checked('yahoo')
				});
			}

			var frame = Dsq.frames['reply_' + (post_id ? post_id : 0)];
			frame.post.apply(frame, params);

			if (el_clicked) {
				Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
			}
			
			if (force) {
				Dsq.Utils.createCookie('skipped_auth', true);	
			}
			
		} else {
			return false;
		}
	};

	this.editComment = function(el_clicked, post_id) {
		var edited_message = Dsq.$('dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id).value;

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].edit(post_id, edited_message);
	};

	this.toggleEdit = function(post_id) {
		var body = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-body-' + post_id);
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);

		if (!Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id]) {


			message.style.display = 'none';
			if (Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {

				var edit_area = document.createElement('div');
				edit_area.id = 'dsq-edit-' + post_id;
				edit_area.className = 'dsq-edit dsq-textarea';
				edit_area.innerHTML = ' \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper"> \
					<textarea class="dsq-edit-textarea" id="dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id + '">' + message.innerHTML + '</textarea> \
				</div> \
				<div class="dsq-save-edit"> \
					<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.editComment(this, ' + post_id + ')" class="dsq-button-small">Save Edit</button> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id + '" style="display: none"></div> \
				';

				body.appendChild(edit_area);

				if (!Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id), post_id);
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].init();
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
		} else {

			message.style.display = 'block';
			Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id] = !Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id];
	};
	
	this.edit = function(el, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(post_id, button) {
		
		if(!this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

			if (Dsq.$('dsq-reply-post-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id);
				var container = Dsq.$('dsq-textarea-wrapper-' + post_id);
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] && container) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(container, post_id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].init(function() {

						Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id, true);
						Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id).innerHTML = '';

						var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
						Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id), post_id, {theme: theme});

					});
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-append-post';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply-active';
			
		} else {

			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = '';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply';
		}
		
		this.stateReplyToggled[post_id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[post_id];

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie && this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

		}

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: post_id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]
		});
	};
	
	this.moderateOptions = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		if(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) { return false; }

		var html;
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-moderate-options"> \
		<table>'
		+ (_meta.email ? '<tr><td>Email</td><td>' + _meta.email + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ (_meta.ip ? '<tr><td>IP address</td><td>' + _meta.ip + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ '<tr> \
			<td>Actions</td> \
			<td><ul>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
				? '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
				: '')
			+ '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Delete Comment</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li> \
			</ul></td> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		html += '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
		
		return Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Moderate Options', post_id);
	};
	
	this.placeholder = {
		'class': 'dsq-placeholder',
		'name': Dsq.Strings.NAME,
		'email': Dsq.Strings.EMAIL,
		'website': Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')'
	};
	
	this.handlePlaceholder = function(evt, el, key) {
		var placeholder = Dsq.Templates.placeholder[key];
		var className = Dsq.Templates.placeholder['class'];
		
		switch(evt.type) {
			case 'focus':
				if(el.value == placeholder) {
					el.value = '';
					el.className = '';
				}
				break;

			case 'blur':
				if(el.value == '') {
					el.value = placeholder;
					el.className = className;
				}
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
	};
	
	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked) {

		var extra_params = '';

		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked);
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'what_made_me_cry_microsoft8217s_world_wide_telescope'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};
	
	
	this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {


		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
			}
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/vote.js'
				+ '?post_id='    + id
				+ '&vote='        + vote);
		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login('To rate, please log in');
		}
	};

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {

		Dsq.$('dsq-like-pts-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.';

		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;';
		}
	};




	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {
		var approved = response.message.post_meta.approved;

		if (parent_post_id) {
			Dsq.Post.toggleReply(parent_post_id);
		}

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
		
		if (approved) {
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		} else {			
			var unapproved_msg = 'Thanks for posting!\
	 Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.\
			';
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(unapproved_msg, 'Comment awaiting approval', post_id);
		}

		var sharing_results = response.message.sharing_results;
		var sharing_errors = '';
		for (var service in sharing_results) {
			if (sharing_results.hasOwnProperty(service) === true) {
				if (sharing_results[service].error === true) {
					sharing_errors += service + ', ';
				}
			}
		}

		if (sharing_results.facebook && sharing_results.facebook.callback) {
			FB.ensureInit(function() {
				FB.Connect.streamPublish('', sharing_results.facebook.attachment);
			});
		}

		if (sharing_errors !== '') {
			var message = 'Your comment was posted, but there were errors sharing with the following connections: ';
			message += sharing_errors.replace(/,\s$/, '');
			message += '<p><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections" target="_blank">Configure your connections here</a></p>'
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sharing options');
		}

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.postComment_onFailure = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
};




// TODO: It might be faster to use string methods to find all <li (...) </li> blocks and pass to Dsq.PostHandler manually.
Dsq.CommentsHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_post = Dsq.Templates.prependPost(post_id);
	var append_post = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(post_id);

	content = content.replace(Dsq.POST_RE, Dsq.PostHandler);
	Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter++;
	head = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContainer(post_id, head);
	return prepend_post + head + content + tail + append_post;
};

Dsq.PostHandler = function(str, h_head, post_id, h_content, h_tail, b_head, b_content, b_tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_header = Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader(post_id);
	var append_header = Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader(post_id);
	var prepend_body = Dsq.Templates.preBody(post_id);
	var append_body = Dsq.Templates.postBody(post_id);
	var append_footer = Dsq.Templates.postFooter(post_id);

	b_content = b_content.replace(Dsq.POST_BODY_RE, Dsq.PostBodyHandler);
	return h_head + prepend_header + h_content + append_header + h_tail + b_head + prepend_body + b_content + append_body + b_tail + append_footer;
};

Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	content = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContent(post_id, content);
	return head + content + tail;
};

Dsq.MediaPostHandler = function(str, args, offset, s) {
	args = args.split(' ');
	if(args[0] == 'seesmic') {
		return '<br />' + Dsq.Templates.mediaSeesmic(args[1], args[2]);
	}
	return '';
};


/**
 * Shorcuts
 */
Dsq.$ = function(element) { return document.getElementById(element); };
Dsq.$b = document.body || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];


/**
 * Dsq.Debug: Logging functions.
 */

Dsq.Debug = new function() {this.log=function(s){};this.profile=function(f){if(typeof f == 'function')return f();else return eval(f);};};


/**
 * Dsq.Urls: URL paths
 */
Dsq.Urls = new function() {
	this.LOGIN = '/profile/login/';
	this.LOGOUT = '/logout/';
	this.REPLY = 'http://scobleizer.disqus.com/what_made_me_cry_microsoft8217s_world_wide_telescope/reply.html';
	this.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE = '/AnonymousUser/';
	this.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR = 'http://media.disqus.com/images/noavatar92.png';
};
// Dsq.Urls

/**
 * Dsq.Validators: Validation for form fields
 */
Dsq.Validators = new function() {
	this.VALID_EMAIL_RE = /^[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*\@(([a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*)+\.[a-z]{2,}|([0-9]+\.){3}[0-9]+)$/i;
	this.name = function(name) {
		var error = false;

		if(typeof Dsq.Templates.placeholder !== 'undefined' &&
		   name == Dsq.Templates.placeholder.name) {
			error = true;
		}
		if(name.length <= 1) {
			error = true;
		}

		if(error) {
			return "Please enter a name to comment.";
		} else {
			return true;
		}
	};
	this.email = function(addr) {
		if(Dsq.Validators.VALID_EMAIL_RE.test(addr)) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please enter a valid email to comment.";
		}
	};
	this.url = function(addr) {
		if(!addr || addr.indexOf('.') != -1) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please check your website URL (this field is optional).";
		}
	};

	this.validate = function(bulk_validation, failure_callback) {
		failure_callback = failure_callback || function(e){ alert(e); };

		for(var i = 0; i < bulk_validation.length; i++) {
			v = bulk_validation[i];
			ret = v.validator(v.value);
			if(ret !== true) {
				failure_callback(ret);
				return false;
			}
		}
		return true;
	};
};

/**
 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
 */
Dsq.Utils = new function() {
	this.ie = /msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
	this.ie7 = (document.all && !window.opera && window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true : false;
	this.ie6 = (!window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true: false;
	this.webkit = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('AppleWebKit/') >= 0;
	this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = {};
	this._styleSheet = null;

	this.gebiFromElement = function(el, id, tag) {
		// This only method only helps IE.
		if(!this.ie) {
			return Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var cacheKey = el.id + '-' + tag;
			tag = tag || 'div';
			if(typeof this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] != 'undefined') {
				collection = this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey];
			} else {
				collection = el.getElementsByTagName(tag);
				this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] = collection;
			}

			for(var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) {
				if(collection[i].id == id) {
					return collection[i];
				}
			}
			return null;
		}
	};

	this.execOnReady = function(func) {
		var node = document.createElement('document:ready');
		try {
			node.doScroll('left');
			func();
			node = null;
		} catch(err) {
			setTimeout(function() { Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(func); }, 10);
		}
	};


	// Courtesy of http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
	this.createCookie = function(name,value,days) {
		if (days) {
			var date = new Date();
			date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
			var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
		}
		else var expires = "";
		document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
	};

	this.readCookie = function(name) {
		var nameEQ = name + "=";
		var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
		for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
			var c = ca[i];
			while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
			if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.eraseCookie = function(name) {
		Dsq.Utils.createCookie(name,"",-1);
	};

	this.deleteNode = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			this.deleteChildren(node);
			if(typeof node.outerHTML != 'undefined') { node.outerHTML = ''; }
			else if(node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); }
			delete node;
		}
	};

	this.deleteChildren = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			for(var x = node.childNodes.length-1; x >= 0; x--) {
				var childNode = node.childNodes[x];
				if(childNode.hasChildNodes()) { this.deleteChildren(childNode); }
				if(typeof childNode.outerHTML != 'undefined') { childNode.outerHTML = ''; }
				else node.removeChild(childNode);
				delete childNode;
			}
		}
	};

	this.findPos = function(obj) {
		var curleft = 0;
		var curtop = 0;
		if (obj.offsetParent) {
			do {
				curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
				curtop += obj.offsetTop;
			} while (obj = obj.offsetParent);
		}
		return [curleft,curtop];
	};

	this.getWindowSize = function() {
		var windowWidth = -1;
		var windowHeight = -1;

		if(typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number') { //Non-IE
			windowWidth = window.innerWidth;
			windowHeight = window.innerHeight;
		} else if(document.documentElement) { // IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode'
			windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth;
			windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight;
		}

		return [windowWidth, windowHeight];
	}

	this.getScrollPos = function() {
		var scrollWidth, scrollTop;

		if(document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollWidth)) {
			scrollWidth = document.documentElement.scrollWidth;
			// IE is weird here.  If no doctype is provided, document.body.scrollTop is 0,
			// otherwise document.documentElement.scrollTop is 0.
			scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop;
		} else if(document.body.scrollTop && document.body.scrollWidth) {
			scrollWidth = document.body.scrollWidth;
			scrollTop = document.body.scrollTop;
		}

		return [scrollWidth, scrollTop];
	}

	this.addEventListener = function(instance, eventName, listener) {
		var listenerFn = listener;
		if (instance.addEventListener) {
			instance.addEventListener(eventName, listenerFn, false);
		} else if (instance.attachEvent) {
			listenerFn = function() {
				listener(window.event);
			};
			instance.attachEvent("on" + eventName, listenerFn);
		} else {
			throw new Error("Event registration not supported");
		}
		return {
			instance: instance,
			name: eventName,
			listener: listenerFn
		};
	};

	this.removeEventListener = function(event) {
		var instance = event.instance;
		if (instance.removeEventListener) {
			instance.removeEventListener(event.name, event.listener, false);
		} else if (instance.detachEvent) {
			instance.detachEvent("on" + event.name, event.listener);
		}
	};

	this.fixIframesIE = function(id) {
		var disqusThread = Dsq.$(disqus_container_id);
		var iframes = disqusThread.getElementsByTagName('iframe');

		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-content');
		}

		for(i = 0; i < iframes.length; i++) {
			if (container) {
				iframes[i].style.width = container.offsetWidth;
			}
		}
	};

	this.getElementsByClassName = function(oElm, strTagName, strClassName) {
	/* Credit: Jonathan Snook [http://www.snook.ca/jonathan], Robert Nyman [http://www.robertnyman.com] */
		var arrElements = (strTagName == "*" && oElm.all)? oElm.all : oElm.getElementsByTagName(strTagName);
		var arrReturnElements = new Array();
		strClassName = strClassName.replace(/\-/g, "\\-");
		var oRegExp = new RegExp("(^|\\s)" + strClassName + "(\\s|$)");
		var oElement;
		for(var i = 0; i < arrElements.length; i++) {
			oElement = arrElements[i];
			if(oRegExp.test(oElement.className)) {
				arrReturnElements.push(oElement);
			}
		}
		return (arrReturnElements);
	};

	this.postToUrl = function(url, post_data, opt_redirect) {
		var form = document.createElement('form');
		var iframe_container = document.createElement('div');
		var id = 'dsq-temp-iframe-' + (new Date()).getTime();

		form.method = 'POST';
		form.action = url;
		if (!opt_redirect) {
			form.target = id;
		}
		iframe_container.innerHTML = '<iframe style="display:none" name="' + id + '" id="' + id + '"></iframe>';

		for(var key in post_data) {
			if(post_data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var input = document.createElement('input');
				input.name = key;
				input.type = 'hidden';
				input.value = post_data[key];

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

		Dsq.$b.appendChild(iframe_container);
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(form);
		form.submit();
	};

	// Strips integer id from id of element in the form ('some-id-###')
	this.extractId = function(e) {
		var chunks = e.id.split('-');
		if(chunks.length <= 1) {
			return 0;
		} else {
			var retval = parseInt(chunks[chunks.length-1]);
			return !isNaN(retval) ? retval : null;
		}
	};

	this.getStyle = function(el, styleProp) {
		if(el.currentStyle) {
			var y = el.currentStyle[styleProp];
		} else if(window.getComputedStyle) {
			var y = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
		}

		if(y == 'transparent' || y == '') {
			this.getStyle(el.parentNode, styleProp);
		} else {
			return y;
		}
	};

	this.execScript = function(url, append_qs, container) {
		var script = document.createElement('script');
		append_qs = typeof append_qs == 'undefined' ? true : append_qs;
		container = container || Dsq.container;

		if(append_qs) {
			var j = (url.indexOf('?') >= 0) ? '&' : '?';
			url += j + (new Date()).getTime();
		}
		script.type = 'text/javascript';
		script.charset = 'UTF-8';
		script.src = url;
		container.appendChild(script);
		return script;
	};

	this.pluralize = function(num, singular, plural) {
		return (num != 1) ? plural || 's' : singular || '';
	};

	this.getRequestParams = function(queryString /* optional */) {
		var pairs, tuple;
		var params = {};

		queryString = queryString || window.location.search.substring(1);
		pairs = queryString.split('&');

		for (var i = 0, pair; pair = pairs[i]; i++) {
			tuple = pair.split('=');
			params[tuple[0]] = (tuple[1] || true);
		}

		return params;
	};

	this.addCssRule = function(selector, styleText, index) {
		var stylesheet;
		index = index || 0;

		if(!this._styleSheet) {
			var styleEl = document.createElement('style');
			document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(styleEl);
			this._styleSheet = styleEl.sheet;
			if(!this._styleSheet) {
				// IE does not like our newly created stylesheet.
				this._styleSheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length-1];
			}
		}
		stylesheet = this._styleSheet;

		if(stylesheet.insertRule) {
			var ruleText = selector + ' { ' + styleText + ' }';
			if(index == -1) {
				index = stylesheet.cssRules.length;
			}
			stylesheet.insertRule(ruleText, index);
		} else if(stylesheet.addRule) {
			stylesheet.addRule(selector, styleText, index);
		}
	};

	this.forEachIn = function(obj, callback) {
		for(var key in obj) {
			if(obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				callback(key, obj[key]);
			}
		}
	};

	this._interpolateGlobalContext = {
		// values that get used a lot and are global to the request
		'profile_url': Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE,

		'disqus_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url,
		'media_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url,
		'request_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.username,
		'request_display_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username,
		'forum_name': Dsq.jsonData.forum.name
	};

	this.renderFromContextStack = function(key, contexts) {
		// Returns the first instance of `key` in the array of objects `contexts` or else ''
		for (var i=0; i<contexts.length; i++) {
			if (contexts[i][key] !== undefined) {
				return String(contexts[i][key]);
			}
		}
		throw new Error('key ' + key + ' not found in context');
	};

	var that = this;
	this.interpolate = function(fmt, opt_localContext) {
		// Interpolate `fmt` named-format string with an assumed global context.
		// Based on `interpolate` in django.views.i18n
		var contextStack = [opt_localContext || {}, that._interpolateGlobalContext];
		return fmt.replace(/%\(\w+\)s/g, function(match){
			return that.renderFromContextStack(match.slice(2,-2), contextStack);
		});
	};

	this.stripTags = function(s) {
		// Removes HTML tags from `s`
		return s.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/g,"");

	};

	this.assert = function(b) {
		if (!b) {
			throw new Error('Assertion error.');
		}
	};

};
// Dsq.Utils

/**
 * Dsq.Popup: Popup helper functions.
 */
Dsq.Popup = new function() {
	this.timeHide = new Array();
	this.timeShow = new Array();
	this.activePopup = {};
	this.profileCache = {};
	this.statusCache = {};

	this.showTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the hide timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeHide[post_id]);

		// start the timer
		if(!Dsq.Popup.profileIsOn && !Dsq.Thread.adminIsOn) {
			this.timeShow[post_id] = setTimeout("Dsq.Popup.popProfile(\"" + post_id + "\")", 400);
		}
	};

	this.hideTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the show timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeShow[post_id]);
	};

	this.updateProfile = function(username) {
		// Callback from /embed/profile.js
		if (this.statusCache[username]) {
			var statusEl = Dsq.$('dsq-profile-status-' + username);
			statusEl.innerHTML = this.statusCache[username];
			statusEl.style.display = 'block';
		}

		if (this.profileCache[username]) {
			var _cache = this.profileCache[username];

			var _genhtml = function(text) { return '<span><big>' + text + '</big></span>'; };
			var _no_comments = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS(_cache.comments_count));
			var _no_likes = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_LIKES(_cache.likes_count));
			var _no_points = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_POINTS(_cache.points));

			var statsEl = Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + username);
			statsEl.innerHTML = '';

			if (Dsq.jsonData.users[username].registered) {
				statsEl.innerHTML = _no_comments + _no_likes;
			}
			statsEl.innerHTML += _no_points;

			var activeSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.active_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.active_sites[i];
				activeSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (activeSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = activeSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = 'This site.';
			}

			var moderatedSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.moderated_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.moderated_sites[i];
				moderatedSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (moderatedSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + username).innerHTML = moderatedSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + username).innerHTML = '';
			}
		}

		// Reposition popup after full HTML is rendered
		if(Dsq.Popup.activePopup && Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el) {
			Dsq.Popup.initPopup(Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.type);
		}

	};

	this.showCookieMsgs = function() {
		var title = '';
		var message = '';
		var numAlerts = 0;

		Dsq.Utils.forEachIn(Dsq.jsonData.cookie_messages, function(k, v) {
			if (!v) return;

			switch(k) {
				// Cookie: Twitter
				case 'post_twitter':
					if (v === 'error') {
						title = 'Twitter Error!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-error">Oops, we couldn\'t tweet this comment. Please check your <a href="http://disqus.com/account/services">account settings</a>.</li>';
					} else {
						var _msg = v.split(':');
						title = 'Tweeted!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-success">Your comment was successfully tweeted. <a href="http://twitter.com/' + _msg[0] + '/status/' + _msg[1] + '">Click here to view the tweet</a>.</li>';
					}
					break;
				// Cookie: Unapproved Post
				case 'post_not_approved':
					title = 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-not-approved">Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.</li>';
					break;
				// Cookie: Profile Found
				case 'post_has_profile':
					title = 'Use your existing commenter profile';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-has-profile">You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a></li>';
					break;
				case 'user_created':
					var _data = v.split(':');
					title = 'Profile created!';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-user-created">You have just created a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, the best way to claim, manage, and track your comments all over the web. \
					<br /><br />A confirmation is being sent to <strong>' + _data[1] + '</strong>. Please check for this email in order to verify your profile. \
					<ul class="dsq-list-tick"> \
						<li>Your username is <strong>' + _data[0] +'</strong>. <a href="http://disqus.com/people/' + _data[0] + '/" target="_blank">Click here to view your public profile</a>.</li> \
						<li>Be sure to set your profile picture, as well as connect your <span class="dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> and <span class="dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> accounts. <a href="http://disqus.com/account/" target="_blank">Click here for account settings</a>.</li> \
					</ul> \
					</li>'
					break;
				default:
					break;
			}
			numAlerts++;
		});

		if(numAlerts > 1) {
			message = '<ul class="dsq-list-bluebullet">' + message;
			message += '</ul>';
			title = 'Thanks for posting!';
		}
		if(numAlerts > 0) {
			if(typeof(disqus_cookie_msgs) == 'function') {
				disqus_cookie_msgs(message, title);
			} else {
				Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
			}
		}
	};

	this.helpBadges = function(post_id) {
		var html = ' \
			<ul class="dsq-popup-help"> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile with a confirmed email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, but has not yet confirmed his or her email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span> is not logged in with any account and has not claimed his or her comments.</li> \
				<li class="dsq-help-otheraccts">Other accounts</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> is using his or her Facebook profile via Facebook Connect.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> is using his or her Twitter profile via Twitter Sign-in.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-openid">OpenID</span> is using his or her OpenID.</li> \
			</ul> \
		';

		this.popModal(html, 'Help: Types of Commenters', post_id);
		return;
	};

	this.permalink = function(post_id) {
		var header = 'Link to this comment';
		var body = '<strong>You are anchored to</strong>:<br />' + document.location.protocol + '//' + document.location.host + document.location.pathname + document.location.search + '#comment-' + post_id;

		this.popModal(body, header, post_id);
	};

	this.login = function(header, body) {
		var h = header || 'Login or Register';
		var b = body || '';
		b += Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: 'dsq-popup-login'});
		b += '</iframe>'; // HACK: Sometimes there is something funky with the IFRAME SRC that causes no end tag
		this.popModal(b, h, null, true, 'dsq-popup-login');
	};

	this.blacklist = function(id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		var title = 'Add to Blacklist';
		var message = ' \
		Adding this person to the blacklist will block him or her from commenting on this site. Check the following types that you would like to add to the blacklist:'
		+ (userData['registered'] ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-username" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-username"><strong>Username</strong>: ' + userData['username'] + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ (_meta.email ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-email" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-email"><strong>Email address</strong>: ' + _meta.email + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ '<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
			<input id="dsq-blacklist-ip" type="checkbox" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-blacklist-ip-warning\').style.display=\'block\'"> \
			<label for="dsq-blacklist-ip"><strong>IP address</strong>: ' + _meta.ip + '</label> \
		</div> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p id="dsq-blacklist-ip-warning" style="display:none">	\
				Note: Blocking this person\'s IP address may also unintentionally prevent others, who share his/her IP address, from commenting on this site. \
				This may include people who are sharing the same computer, living in the same house, or using the same Internet provider. Only block an IP address as a last resort. \
			</p> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p style="text-align:center"><button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Post.blockUser(' + id + '); this.disabled=true; this.innerHTML=\'Just one moment...\'">Add to Blacklist</button></p> \
		';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
	};

	this.remoteAccountSettings = function() {
		var body = '';
		// Set up IFrame.
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/_auth/embed/remote_settings/';
		var attributes = {id: 'dsq-popup-account-settings'};
		if (typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}

		body = Dsq.Templates._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
		this.popModal(body, 'Account Settings', null, true, 'dsq-popup-account-settings');
	};

	this.popModal = function(message, title, post_id, use_listener, extra_classes) {
		var container = document.createElement('div');
		var header, body;

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

		if(typeof(title) == 'undefined') { title = ''; }
		if(typeof(use_listener) == 'undefined') { use_listener = true; }

		if(post_id) {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message-' + post_id;
		} else {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message';
		}

		header = title;
		body = message;

		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupModal(header, body);
		Dsq.Popup.initPopup(container, post_id, 'message', extra_classes);
		if(use_listener) {
			Dsq.Popup.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', Dsq.Popup._closePopup);
		}
	};

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

	this.loading = function(post_id) {
		var title = Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
		var body = '<div style="text-align:center; padding: 5px 0 10px 0"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif" alt="" /></div>'
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
	};

	this.lightbox = function(message, title, post_id) {
		// Wraps Dsq.Popup.popModal

		var overlay = document.createElement('div');
		overlay.id = 'dsq-overlay';
		overlay.className = 'dsq-overlay';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(overlay);
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, post_id, false, 'dsq-lightbox');
	};

	this.popProfile = function(post_id, userKey) {
		var post = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id];
		if (post && post.has_been_anonymized) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('This message was anonymized by its previous owner.', 'Anonymized', post_id);
			return;
		}

		if(post_id) {
			userKey = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id].user_key;	
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][userKey];
		var elId = 'dsq-popup-profile-' + userKey;
		var container = document.createElement('div');

		if(this.activePopup.el) {
			this._closePopup(null, true);
			if(this.activePopup.linkClicked) {
				this.activePopup.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		container.id = elId;
		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupProfile(userKey);

		this.initPopup(container, post_id, 'profile');
		this.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._closePopup);

		if(!this.profileCache[userKey]) {
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/embed/profile.js'
				+ '?username=' + userKey
				+ '&anon=' + (userData['registered'] ? 0 : 1)
				+ '&f=' + Dsq.jsonData['request'].forum);
		} else {
			this.updateProfile(userKey);
		}
	};

	this._closePopup = function(e, force) {
		var activePopup = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el;
		var id = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id;
		var link = 'dsq-avatar-' + id; // HACK: Specific to profile toggle target

		// HACK: This event should be gone if there is no active popup.
		if(!activePopup) {
			return;
		}
		if(force || !Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, activePopup.id)) {
			// TODO: This is breaking iE?
			if(Dsq.Popup.popupListener) {
				Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Popup.popupListener);
			}
			
			// Kill overlay
			var overlay = Dsq.$('dsq-overlay');
			if(overlay) { Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(overlay); }
			
			try {
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(activePopup);
			} catch(e) {
				// HACK: IE6 throws an error when using deleteNode() with a node containing a <table> in the html.
				activePopup.parentNode.removeChild(activePopup);
			}
			Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {};
		}

		if(!force && Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Popup.activePopup.linkClicked = true;
		}

	};

	this.initPopup = function(popup, post_id, type, extra_classes) {
		popup.className = 'dsq-popup dsq-popup-' + type + ' ' + (extra_classes ? extra_classes : '');
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6 || Dsq.Utils.ie7) {
			// HACK: We can't modify the body before it's ready, so we need
			//       to use an IE-safe "DOMReady" workaround before loading
			//       our popup.
			Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(function() {Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup); });
		} else {
			Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup);
		}

		popup.style.display = 'block';

		var xPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[0] - popup.offsetWidth) / 2;
		var yPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[1] - popup.offsetHeight) / 2;

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
			yPos += Dsq.Utils.getScrollPos()[1];
		}

		popup.style.left = xPos + 'px';
		popup.style.top = yPos + 'px';

		Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {
			'el' : popup,
			'id' : post_id,
			'type': type,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};
	};

	this.isClicked = function(e, id) {
		var t = e.target || e.srcElement;
		while(t && t.parentNode) {
			if(t.id == id) {
				return true;
			}

			t = t.parentNode;
		}
		return false;
	};
};
// Dsq.Popup

/**
 * Dsq.Templates
 */
Dsq.Templates = new function() {
	/*
	 * Counter keeping track of the number of posts iterated over.
	 */
	this.postLoopCounter = 0;
	this.filters = {};
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-post-add';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-post-add';

	this.registerTemplate = function(name, func) {
		this['$$_' + name] = func;

		if(typeof DsqLocal.Filters != 'undefined'
		&& typeof DsqLocal.Filters[name] == 'function') {
			// Push filters to this.filters to unify code.
			this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
			this.filters[name].push(DsqLocal.Filters[name]);
		}

		this[name] = function() {
			var ret;

			if(typeof DsqLocal.Templates != 'undefined'
			&& typeof DsqLocal.Templates[name] == 'function') {
				ret = DsqLocal.Templates[name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(ret === undefined) {
				ret = this['$$_' + name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(this.filters[name]) {
				var args = [ret];

				args.push.apply(args, arguments);
				for(var i = 0; i < this.filters[name].length; i++) {
					ret = this.filters[name][i].apply(this, args);
				}
			}

			return ret;
		};
	};

	this.registerFilter = function(name, func) {
		this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
		this.filters[name].push(func);
	};

	/**
	 * Dsq.Templates.Filters
	 */
	this.Filters = new function() {
		this.commentContainer = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var classes = [];
			if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page > 1) {
				classes.push('dsq-append');
			}

			//
			// Extra classes used for custom themes
			//

			if(_meta.depth) {
				classes.push('dsq-comment-child', 'dsq-depth-' + _meta.depth, 'dsq-parent-is-' + _meta.parent_post_id);
			}


			//

			if(_meta.author_is_creator) {
				// TODO: We need to deprecate the "special" class since it is not properly prefixed.
				classes.push('special', 'dsq-special');
			}
			if(_meta.author_is_moderator) {
				classes.push('dsq-moderator');
			}
			classes.push(['dsq-odd', 'dsq-even'][Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter % 2]);

			s = s.substring(0, s.lastIndexOf('>'));
			return s + ' class="dsq-comment ' + classes.join(' ') + '" style="margin-left:' + _meta.depth*30 + 'px">';
		};

		this.commentContent = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			if (_meta.killed) {
				return '<em>Comment removed.</em>';
			} else if (!_meta.approved) {
				return '<em>This comment was flagged for review.</em>';
			}

			s = s.replace(Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE, Dsq.MediaPostHandler);
			return s;
		};
	};

	//
	// Thread
	//
	// TODO: These need to be stripped of all Django template tags.

	this.authPost = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			return '';
		}
		var result = [];
		result = result.concat([
				'<div id="dsq-auth"',
						Dsq.jsonData.integration.reply_position ? 'class="dsq-auth-bottom"' : '',
						'>',
					'<div class="dsq-by">',
						'<a href="http://disqus.com" target="_blank">',
							(Dsq.jsonData.integration.disqus_logo ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/by-disqus.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">') :
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/dsq-button-120x19.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">')
							),
						'</a>',
					'</div>',
					'<div class="dsq-auth-header">',
						'<h3 id="dsq-add-new-comment" class="dsq-h3-addcomment">',
								Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT,
						'</h3>',
						'<div id="dsq-login">',
						(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
								? '<p class="dsq-login-message" id="dsq-login-message">You are commenting as a <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. You may select one to log into:</p>'
								: '')
		]);
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			result = result.concat([
							Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
								'<a id="dsq-login-toggle" href="%(disqus_url)s%(login_url)s?next=article:%(thread_id)s" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsq-profile-btn.png" title="%(log_into)s" alt="%(log_into)s"/></a>',
								{login_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGIN, thread_id: Dsq.jsonData.thread.id, log_into: Dsq.Strings.LOG_INTO_DISQUS}
								),
							'&nbsp; ',
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ?
								'<div id="dsq-fbc-login" onlogin="DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin()" size="medium" background="light" length="short" style="display:inline; margin-right:7px"></div>' :
								''
							),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-twitter-login" class="dsq-twitter-login" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect();" style="display:inline; cursor: pointer"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/twitter-signin-short.png" style="margin-right:7px" /></div>', {}) : ''),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-openid-login" class="dsq-openid-login" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL();" style="display:inline; cursor:pointer;"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/openid-login-button.png"/></div>', {}
								) : '')
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
						'</div>', // dsq-login
					'</div>', // dsq-auth-header
					'<div id="dsq-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated" ',
						Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated ? 'style="display:block"' : '',
						'>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-pic">',
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">' +
																			'<img class="dsq-post-avatar" src="%(avatar_url)s" alt="" /></a>',
																			{avatar_url: Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR,
																			url: (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
																					 ? Dsq.jsonData.request.url
																					 : Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE) }),
						'</div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>', {url:Dsq.jsonData.request.url})
										  )
										: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(profile_url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>')
											)
									),
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">',
									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsqicon12.png" alt="%(logged_in_as)s"/>&nbsp',
											{logged_in_as: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username)})
										: ''),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="%(logout_from_disqus)s">',
											{logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN, logout_from_disqus: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('DISQUS')})
										: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'twitter')
												? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using Twitter (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
												 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
												: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'openid')
													 ? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using OpenID (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
													 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
													 : ''
													)
											)
									),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote ? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('<span class="logo-disqus">DISQUS</span>') : ''),
									'</a>',
								'</li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
		]);
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect) {
			result = result.concat([
					'<div id="dsq-fbc-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated">',
						'<div id="dsq-fbc-profilepic" class="dsq-authenticated-pic" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.ProfilePic" size="square" facebook-logo="true"></div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									'Logged in as <span id="dsq-fbc-name" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.Name" linked="true" useyou="false"></span>',
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">using Facebook Connect <a href="#" onclick="javascript:DisqusFbcParentController.logout();return false;">(Logout)</a></li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
				'</div>', // dsq-auth
				'<div id="dsq-toolbar-items">',
				'</div>'
		]);
		result = result.concat([
					//
					//
					//
				((!Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) ?
					// Needs to be translated:
					('<p id="dsq-no-anon-msg">Required: Please log into <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> ' +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? 'or connect with Facebook ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? 'or sign in with Twitter ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? 'or sign in using OpenID ' : '') +
					Dsq.Utils.interpolate('to comment on <strong>%(forum_name)s</strong>.</p>')) :
					''
				),
				'<div id="dsq-post-add"></div>',
				'<div style="margin:10px 0">',
				((Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media) ?
						'<a href="#" id="dsq-media-link" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, false, \'media\'); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.USE_MEDIA + ' <small>&#9660;</small></a>' :
						''),
				'</div>'
		]);
		return result.join('');
	};


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 <span id="dsq-num-posts">135</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/what_made_me_cry_microsoft8217s_world_wide_telescope/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/what_made_me_cry_microsoft8217s_world_wide_telescope/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p>Comments for this page are closed.</p>\
	 </div>\
		';

		

		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) { 
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-alert-message dsq-upgrade-message"> \
				<strong>Disqus upgrade available.</strong> Hi ' + Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username + ', this message is being displayed to you because you are a moderator of this site. <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-upgrade-message\').style.display=\'block\';this.style.display=\'none\';return false">Click here for details.</a> \
				<div style="display:none; margin-top:10px;" id="dsq-upgrade-message"> \
					A new theme is available with added features. <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/settings/' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url + '/?p=customize">To change your theme, click here</a> and choose the theme Narcissus. \
					If you do not upgrade, you are missing out on features such as: real-time commenting, new sign-in integrations, and an upgrade interface. \
					<strong>This message will automatically go away in one week.</strong> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			' + html; 
		}
		return html;
	};

	this.footer = function() {
		var html = Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

	this.pagination = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) { Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = ''; }
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.thread.paginate) { return ''; }

		//
		// TODO: num_paginator still uses the template tag for pagination, 
		// 		while append_paginator does it all in JavaScript.
		//		This should all be in JavaScript.
		//

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages > 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.page < Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages) {
			html = ' \<a class="dsq-paginate-append-text" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this); return false">Show more comments...</a>\
	 <button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-paginate-append-button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this);">Load more comments</button>\
			';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = html;
			return '';
		} else {
			return '<div id="dsq-pagination" class="dsq-pagination">' + html + '</div>';
		}
	};

	this.trackbacks = function() {
		var html = '';

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://scobleizer.disqus.com/what_made_me_cry_microsoft8217s_world_wide_telescope/trackback/';
		}

		html += '<div class="dsq-item-trackback">Trackback URL&nbsp;&nbsp;<input class="dsq-trackback-url" onclick="this.select()" readonly="true" value="' + trackback_url + '"></div>';

		if(trackbacks.length) {
			html += '<ul id="dsq-references">'
			for(var i = 0; i < trackbacks.length; i++) {
				var trackback = trackbacks[i];
				html += '<li><cite><a href="' + trackback.author_url + '" rel="nofollow">' + trackback.author_name + '</a></cite> \
						<p class="dsq-meta">' + trackback.date + '</p> \
						<p class="dsq-content">' + trackback.excerpt + '</p></li>';
			}
			html += '</ul>';
			html = '<h3 class="dsq-h3-trackbacks">Trackbacks</h3>' + html;
		}

		return html;
	}

	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		/* Reaction HTML begins */
		var item = '<li class="dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-header-avatar">';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'">';
		} else {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="#" onclick="return false;">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {
			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar32.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png"/>'
			+ '</a></div>'
			+ '<cite><span>' + reaction.author_name + '</span></cite>'
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"><a class="dsq-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</a></span>'
			+ '</div><div class="dsq-reaction-body">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-footer">From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
			+ 'via <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : 'UberVU') + '</a>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator ? '&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a class="dsq-hide-reaction" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + '); return false;">Hide</a>' : '') + '</div></div>';

		if(reaction.retweets) {
			var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
			if (num_retweets > 0) {
				item += '<div class="dsq-reaction-retweets">';
				if (num_retweets == 1) {
					item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
				} else {
					item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');

					item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
					var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 15) ? 15 : num_retweets;
					item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);

					if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
						item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
							+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
					}
				}
				item += '</div>';
			}
		}

		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '	<p>Comments for this page are closed.</p>\n';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

	this.prependPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="comment-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-comment-reply-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-header-avatar" id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
				<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
				? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
		';
	};

	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];

		return ''
			+ (_meta.author_is_moderator
				? '<img class="dsq-mod-star" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/bullet-star.png" title="Moderator" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
				<a id="dsq-time-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-time" href="#comment-' + post_id + '" title="Permalink">' + _meta.date + '</a> \
			</span>';
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		return '';
	}

	this.postBody = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Deprecate flagging conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		return ''
			+ (_meta.edited
				? '<p class="dsq-editedtxt">(Edited by a moderator)</p>'
				: '')
			;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Use media should be conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed) { return ''; }

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
								 	<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You are commenting as a Guest. You may choose to log into an existing DISQUS Profile, your Facebook, Twitter or OpenID account to comment on Scobleizer" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Optional:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:18354875" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
									&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img class="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_small_short.gif" alt="Facebook Connect"/> \
									<a href="#" onclick="FB.Connect.requireSession(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin); return false;">Connect</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/twitter-signin-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
		// Makes a tag attributes string out of an object.
		// Caller is responsible for making sure nothing needs to be escaped.
		var result = [];
		for (key in attributes) {
			result.push(' ' + key + '="' + attributes[key] + '"');
		}
		result = result.join('');
		return result;
	};

	this._frameGeneric = function(base_url, params, attributes) {
		if(typeof(disqus_callback_params) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_callback_params = '';
		}

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'scobleizer',
			't'				: 'what_made_me_cry_microsoft8217s_world_wide_telescope',
			// Do we need encodeURIComponent here?
			'ifrs'			: encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css),
			'to_redirect'	: encodeURIComponent(window.location),
			'cbp'			: disqus_callback_params,
			'ff'			: Dsq.Thread.ff,
			'fc'			: Dsq.Thread.fc,
			'ac'			: Dsq.Thread.ac,
			'default_text'	: disqus_default_text
		};

		base_url += '?' + (new Date()).getTime();
		// Add params to default_params.
		if(params) {
			for(var key in params) {
				if(params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					default_params[key] = encodeURIComponent(params[key]);
				}
			}
		}
		// Build querystring.
		for(var key in default_params) {
			if(default_params[key] && default_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				base_url += '&' + key + '=' + default_params[key];
			}
		}

		return [
			'<iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0"',
			(' allowtransparency="true" src="' + base_url + '"'),
			this._makeAttributes(attributes),
			'</iframe>'].join('');
	};

	this.frameLogin = function(opt_attributes) {
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/login.html';
		var attributes = opt_attributes || {};
		attributes['class'] = 'dsq-post-login';

		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameReply = function(post_id, extra_params, attributes) {
		// Returns the HTML for a reply iframe. Called by Dsq.Iframes.setReplyIframeToContainer
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY;
		var params = {
			'def_email'		: disqus_def_email,
			'def_name'		: disqus_def_name
		};
		if(extra_params) {
			for(var key in extra_params) {
				if(extra_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					params[key] = extra_params[key];
				}
			}
		}
		if(_meta) {
			params['parent_post'] = post_id;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			params['per_page'] = disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			attributes['class'] += '-authenticated';
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameEdit = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/edit.html';
		var params = {
			'p' : post_id
		};
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, {'class': 'dsq-post-edit', 'name': 'dsq-edit_' + post_id + '-frame'});
	};

	//
	// Menus
	//

	this.menuMore = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: "Remove post" button should hide menu.
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')">Link</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Profile</a></li>'
	+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
		? '	<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>' + (_meta.email ? '<li class="dsq-admin-email">' + _meta.email + '</li>' : '')
		+ '	<li class="dsq-admin-ip">' + _meta.ip + '</li> \
			<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>'
		+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
			? ' <li class="dsq-admin-edit"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
			: '')
		+ ' <li class="dsq-remove"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Remove Comment</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-report-spam"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-block-user"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li>'
		: '');
	};

	this.menuMedia = function(post_id) {
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(this, ' + post_id + ', \'seesmic\'); return false;">Record video</a></li> \
		';
	};

	this.dropProfile = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};


		var menu = '<li class="dsq-drop-showlnk"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Expand &#8663;</a></li>';
		var pointsMessage = '';
		if (userData['registered']) {
			pointsMessage = 'with ' + userData['points'] + ' points (more points are better).';
		}

		if (userData['is_remote']) {
			var domain = userData['remote_domain_name'];
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' is a ' + domain + ' user ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
			menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-' + domain.toLowerCase() + '">' + domain + '</span></li>';
		} else if (userData['registered']) {
			if (userData['verified']) {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a verified commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span></li>';
			} else {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a registered, but unverified, commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span></li>';
			}
		} else {
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has not claimed this commenter profile." onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()"><span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span></li>';
		}

		menu += _includeServices();
		return menu;
	};

	//
	// Popups
	//

	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-top"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-body" class="clearfix"> \
				<div class="dsq-popup-body-padding"> \
					<div class="dsq-popup-header"> \
						<a class="dsq-close-link" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/modal-close.png" alt="" /></a>'
						+ content['header']
					+ '</div>'
					+ content['body']
					+ '<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
				</div> <!-- padding --> \
			</div> <!-- body --> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-bottom"></div> \
		</div> \
		';
	};

	this.popupProfile = function(user_key) {
		var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(user_key, null);
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var html = '';
			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == 0
					? '<h4>Connections</h4><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li> \
					<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" title="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" /> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>'
				+ (i+1 == userServices.length ? '</ul>' : '');
			}
			return html;
		};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<table> \
				<tr> \
					<td> \
						<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><img class="dsq-popup-profile-avatar" src="' + userData['avatar'] + '" alt="" /></a> \
					</td> \
					<td> \
						<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user"> \
							<h3>' + userData['display_name'] + '</h3> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats" id="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + user_key + '">Loading...</div> \
						</div> \
					</td> \
				</tr> \
			</table> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-state"> \
				This is a&nbsp;<span class="'
					+ (userData['registered']
						? (userData['verified']
							? ' dsq-badge-verified'
							: (userData['is_remote']
								? ' dsq-badge-' + userData['remote_domain_name'].toLowerCase()
								: ' dsq-badge-registered')
							)
							: ' dsq-badge-guest') + '">'
			+ (userData['registered']
				? (userData['verified']
					? 'Verified'
					: (userData['is_remote']
						 ? userData['remote_domain_name']
						 : 'Registered')
					)
				: 'Guest')
			+ '</span>&nbsp;commenter profile.'
			+ '&nbsp;<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><strong>View more comments </strong></a>'
			+ (!userData['points']
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice">If this is you, <a href="http://disqus.com/profile" target="_blank">claim it now</a> to manage your comments.</p>'
				: '')
			+ ((userData['registered'] && !userData['verified'] && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username == userData['username'])) && !userData['is_remote'])
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice"><strong>Alert</strong>: You have not verified this account. <a href="http://disqus.com/verify">Verify it now.</a></p>'
				: '')
			+ '</div> \
			<div id="dsq-profile-status-' + user_key + '" class="dsq-popup-profile-status" style="display:none"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-snapshot"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td> \
							<div id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Most active sites</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
						<td>'
							+ _includeServices()
							+ '<div id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Moderator of</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupReblog = function() {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<cite><span>Reblog this comment</span></cite> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div id="dsq-reblog-form" class="dsq-reblog-form"> \
			</div> \
		';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupModal = function(title, message) {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<h3>' + title + '</h3> \
		';

		bodyHtml = message;

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.alertContent = function(name, post_id) {
		var alert = {
			'post_not_approved': {
				'title': 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator',
				'message': 'Thanks for posting. Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.'
			},
			'post_has_profile': {
				'title': 'Use your existing commenter profile',
				'message': 'You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> commenter profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a>'
			}
		};
		return alert[name] || false;
	};

	//
	// Actions
	//

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {
		// Update number of points
		Dsq.$('dsq-points-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.';

		// Update link text
		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.';
		}
	};

	this.subscribed = function(status) {
		var title, message;

		if(status) {
			title = 'Subscribed!';
			message = 'You have subscribed to this comment thread. New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox, where you may read and respond by email.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">Unsubscribe</a> \
			';
		} else {
			title = 'Unsubscribed';
			message = 'You have unsubscribed to this comment thread. New comments will no longer be sent to your email inbox.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a> \
			';
		}

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);

	};
	
	this.highlighted = function() {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('This comment has been highlighted.', 'Highlighted comment');
	};

	//
	// Media
	//

	this.mediaSeesmic = function(id, thumb) {
		return ' \
			<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_preview" class="dsq-seesmic-preview"><a href="http://www.seesmic.com/video/' + id + '" target="_blank" class="see_link">&nbsp;</a> \
				<div style="display:block;width:160px; height:120px; border:none; background-image:url(http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/' + thumb + ')"> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_hide" class="seePlayOverlay" style="display:none;"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',false)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/stopOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_show" class="seePlayOverlay"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',true)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/playOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; border:none; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			<div id="' + id + '_content" style="display:block; width:100%; padding-top:5px"></div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Callbacks
	//

	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(parent_post_id) {
		// Increment post count
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');
		
		if (num_posts) { 
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) { 
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
	};
};
// Dsq.Templates


/**
 * Dsq.Post
 */
Dsq.Post = new function() {
	this.openedMenu = {};
	this.menuEventListener = null;
	this.stateReplyToggled = {};
	this.stateEditToggled = {};
	this.stateRecordLink = {};

	/**
	 * Inserts a new post into the document.
	 *
	 * @param after_id {Number}	Insert a post before specified id.  If after_id
	 *							evaluates to false, then post in the front.  If
	 *							after_id is -1, post at the end.
	 */
	this.insert = function(after_id, id, message, author) {
		// Skeleton template from thread_posts.html.
		var skeleton = ' \
			<li id="dsq-comment-%(id)s"> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-header-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-header"> \
					<cite id="dsq-cite-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-cite"> \
						<a id="dsq-author-user-%(id)s" href="%(author_url)s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">%(author_name)s</a> \
					</cite> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-body-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-body"> \
					<div id="dsq-comment-message-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-message">%(message)s</div> \
				</div> \
			</li> \
		';
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var _user_meta = Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key];
		var markup = Dsq.Utils.interpolate(skeleton, {
			id: id,
			message: message,
			author_url: _user_meta.blog,
			author_name: _user_meta.display_name
		});
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		markup = markup.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
		div.innerHTML = markup;

		if (after_id === -1) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').appendChild(div);
		} else if (!after_id) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').insertBefore(div, Dsq.$('dsq-comments').firstChild);
		} else if (Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + after_id)) {
			// Get next node after "after_id", so we can insert before it.
			// If "after_id" is the last comment, the target node is the
			// last node.
			
			// var append_post_id = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(after_id).replace('<div id="','').replace('"></div>', '');
			var append_post_id = 'dsq-append-post-' + after_id;
			var node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			while (node = node.nextSibling) {
				if (!node || node.nodeType == 1) { // 1 == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
					break;
				}
			}
			if (!node) {
				node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			}
			node.parentNode.insertBefore(div, node);
		}
	};

	this.incrementPostCount = function() {
		
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');

		if (num_posts) {
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) {
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
	}
	
	this.outlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className += ' dsq-comment-outline';
		setTimeout("(function () { Dsq.Post.clearOutlineComment(" + post_id + ") })()", 3000);
	};
	
	this.clearOutlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className.replace('dsq-comment-outline', '');
	};

	this.showMenu = function(el, id, name) {
		var anchorPos = Dsq.Utils.findPos(el);
		var menu = document.createElement('ul');

		if(this.openedMenu) {
			if(this.openedMenu.linkClicked) {
				this.openedMenu.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		switch(name) {
			case 'more':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMore(id);
				break;
			case 'media':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMedia(id);
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}

		// Add menu to document body
		menu.id = 'dsq-menu-' + id;
		menu.className = 'dsq-menu';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(menu);

		// Position and show
		anchorPos[1] += 15;
		menu.style.left = anchorPos[0] + 'px';
		menu.style.top = anchorPos[1] + 'px';
		menu.style.display = 'block';

		// Set global reference
		this.openedMenu = {
			'el' : menu,
			'id' : id,
			'name' : name,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};

		// Set listener
		this.menuEventListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._hideMenu);
	};

	this._hideMenu = function(e) {
		var el = e.target || e.srcElement;
		var openedMenu = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el;
		var id = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.id;

		if(!id) {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link';
		} else {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link-' + id;
		}

		if(!openedMenu) {
			return;
		}

		if(!Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, openedMenu.id)) {
			openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Post.menuEventListener);
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(openedMenu);

		} else {
			// Hide the menu if a link was clicked inside the menu.  We can't
			// completely remove the menu until the onclick event on the link
			// fires, but the menuEventListener will prevent multiple menus
			// from polluting the DOM.
			if(el && typeof el.href != 'undefined') {
				openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el = null;
			}
		}

		if(Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Post.openedMenu.linkClicked = true;
		}
	};


	this.getUserServices = function(user_key, id) {
		if(!user_key && id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
			user_key = _meta.user_key;
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var userServices = [];

		// Keep a full list of supported services. This is the order they will display in the drop-profile.
		// Each service must have a corresponding case in _buildServiceUrl()
		var supportedServices = ['blog', 'twitter', 'facebook', 'tumblr'];

		function _buildServiceUrl(serviceName) {
			var data = userData[serviceName];
			var services = {
				blog:		function(d) { return d; },
				twitter:	function(d) { return d; },
				facebook:	function(d) { return d; },
				tumblr:		function(d) { return 'http://' + d + '.tumblr.com'; }
			};
			return services[serviceName](data);
		}

		for(var i = 0; i < supportedServices.length; i++) {
			if(userData[supportedServices[i]]) {
				var serviceUrl = _buildServiceUrl(supportedServices[i]);
				userServices.push({'name' : supportedServices[i], 'url' : serviceUrl});
			}
		}
		return userServices;
	}

	this.dropProfile = function(id) {
		var dp = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-profile-' + id);

		// IE6 needs JS to display/hide. All other browsers use CSS.
		if(dp) {
			if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) dp.style.display = (dp.style.display == 'inline') ? 'none' : 'inline';
			return false;
		} else {
			dp = document.createElement('ul');
		}

		dp.id = 'dsq-drop-profile-' + id;
		dp.className = 'dsq-drop-profile';

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) { dp.style.display = 'inline'; }

		var container = Dsq.$('dsq-header-avatar-' + id);
		dp.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.dropProfile(id);
		container.appendChild(dp);
	};

	this.dropProfileMore = function(el, id) {
		var hiddenItems = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-hidden-' + id);

		hiddenItems.style.display = 'inline';
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
	};

	this._updateReplyLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "reply / cancel" links based on state.
		var displayDict = {};

		if(id) {
			if(this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				el.innerHTML = 'Cancel';
				displayDict['media'] = 'inline';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'none';
			} else {
				el.innerHTML = 'Reply';
				displayDict['media'] = 'none';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'inline';
			}
		}

		for(var key in displayDict) {
			if(displayDict.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var	linkEl = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-el-' + id),
					spacer = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-spacer-' + id);

				if(linkEl) {
					linkEl.style.display = displayDict[key];
					if(spacer) spacer.style.display = displayDict[key];
				}
			}
		}
	};

	this._updateMediaLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "use media / cancel" links based on state.
		var appendId = (id) ? ('-' + id) : '';
		var link = Dsq.$('dsq-media-link' + appendId);

		if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			link.innerHTML = 'Cancel Media';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(link, id); return false; };
		} else {
			link.innerHTML = 'Use Media <small>&#9660;</small>';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.showMenu(link, id, 'media'); return false; };
		}
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(el, id) {
		// Create reply IFrame
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			if (!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				// Create IFrame if it doesn't exist.
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-frame-' + id), id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].init();
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].setState(id, _meta.depth);
				}
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
			}
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			if(!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				// Reply toolbar
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id), id);
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Iframes.hideAllInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id));
				if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
					// HACK: Cancel media before canceling self.
					this.toggleMediaReply(Dsq.$('dsq-media-link-' + id), id);
				}
			}
		}

		this.stateReplyToggled[id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[id];
		this._updateReplyLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-reply-' + id); }

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[id]
		});
	};

	this.toggleMediaReply = function(el, id, xtype) {
		id = id || 0;
		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(!this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id, {xtype:xtype}, 'dsq-post-video');
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id);
		}
		this.stateRecordLink[id] = !this.stateRecordLink[id];
		this._updateMediaLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};

	this.edit = function(el, id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.frameEdit(id);
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-comment-message-' + id); }
	};

    this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
                Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
            }

            Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/vote.js'
                + '?post_id='    + id
                + '&vote='        + vote);

		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login(Dsq.Strings.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN);
		}
    };

	this.report = function(id, confirmed) {
		if(confirmed) {
			Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/what_made_me_cry_microsoft8217s_world_wide_telescope/post_report/', {'post_id': id});
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Thank you. This comment has been flagged for moderator attention.', 'Successfully flagged');
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$('dsq-post-report-' + id));
		} else {
			var title = Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT;
			var message = Dsq.Strings.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR + '? \
			<br /><br /> \
			<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.NO + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.NEVER_MIND + '</button>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + id + ', true);"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.YES + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT + '</button><br /><br />'
			+ Dsq.Strings.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION + '. \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, id);
		}
	};



	this.showAlert = function(id, msg) {
		var msgEl = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id);
		var alert = '<div class="dsq-comment-alert">' + msg + '</div>';

		msgEl.innerHTML = alert + msgEl.innerHTML;
	};

};
// Dsq.Post


/**
 * Dsq.Thread
 */
Dsq.Thread = new function() {
	this.fc = null;
	this.ff = null;
	this.ac = null;

	
	this.adminIsOn = false;

	
	
	

	this.hlComment = null;
	this.hlCommentClass = null;

	this.getNextComment = function(el) {
		var start_id = el.id;
		while(el = el.nextSibling) {
			if(el.id && el.id.indexOf('dsq-comment-') != -1 && el.id != start_id) {
				return el;
			}
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.getActiveCommentId = function() {
		if (document.URL.indexOf('#comment-') >= 0) {
			var anchor = document.URL.slice(document.URL.indexOf('#') + 1);
			return anchor.replace('comment-', '');
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.highlightAnchor = function() {
		var i = this.getActiveCommentId();
		if (i == null) return false;
		var id = 'dsq-comment-' + i;
		var hash = window.location.hash;

		// Toggle the hash incase the comment isn't available when the page loads
		// for WebKit-based browsers.
		if (Dsq.Utils.webkit) {
			window.location.hash = '';
			window.location.hash = hash;
		}

		this.hlComment = Dsq.$(id);
		// Adding this conditional guard pending #289
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlCommentClass = this.hlComment.className;
		this.hlComment.className += ' dsq-hl-anchor';

		setTimeout("Dsq.Thread.highlightClear()", 3000);
	};

	this.highlightClear = function() {
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlComment.className = this.hlCommentClass;
	};

	this.login = function(toggle) {
		// toggle id is #dsq-reply-login-[id]
		var postId;
		if(toggle.id.indexOf('dsq-reply-login') != -1) {
			postId = toggle.id.slice(16);
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + postId);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(toggle) {
			if(toggle.className == 'dsq-login-active') {
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(container, postId);
				toggle.className = '';
			} else {
				Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
				toggle.className = 'dsq-login-active';
			}
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
		}

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};


	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked, per_page) {
		// Use extra_params to pass any override parameters that we need to persist.
		var extra_params = '';

		// "Per page" can either be overriden by providing it as an argument
		// (per-call) or setting the disqus_per_page override variable (global).
		if(typeof per_page == 'undefined') {
			per_page = null;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined' && per_page === null) {
			per_page = disqus_per_page;
		}

		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}
		if(per_page !== null) {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + per_page;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			el_clicked.style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'what_made_me_cry_microsoft8217s_world_wide_telescope'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};

	this.sortBy = function(sort) {
		var disqus_script = document.createElement('script');
		var disqus_date = new Date();

		if (location.hash != '') {
			location.hash = '#disqus_thread';
		}

		if(typeof(disqus_url) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_url = disqus_href;
		}
		disqus_script.type = 'text/javascript';
		disqus_script.src = 'http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'what_made_me_cry_microsoft8217s_world_wide_telescope'
			+ '&sort='	+ sort
			+ '&title='
			+ '&'		+ disqus_date.getTime();

		Dsq.$('dsq-comments').innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif">';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(disqus_script);
	};

	this.subscribe = function(status, email) {
		// `status` is an int -- 1 to subscribe, 0 to unsubscribe
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || email) {
			// If authenticated user OR anonymous email provided

			if(email) {
				Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
			}

			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/subscribe.js'
				+'?status=' 	+ status
				+ '&slug='		+ 'what_made_me_cry_microsoft8217s_world_wide_telescope'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

		} else if(!email) {
			// If anonymous user and no email has been provided yet, prompt for email

			var title = 'Subscribe to this comment thread';
			var message = ' \
				New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox! \
				<div class="dsq-subscribe-submit"> \
					<p><strong>Enter your email address below.</strong></p> \
					<input type="text" id="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
					<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1, Dsq.$(\'dsq-subscribe-email\').value)">Subscribe</button> \
				</div> \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
		}
	};

	this.showSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return;
		}

		/* The form has to be re-designed when more options will come out. */
		var html = 'Automatically close comments after <input size="3" id="dsq-thread-days-alive" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.days_alive + '" type="text" /> days. Existing comments will still be displayed.<br /><br />(Using 0 days will disable this feature)<br /><br />'
								 + '<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.updateDaysAlive();" class="dsq-button-small"><span>Save</span></button>'
								 + '<span id="dsq-thread-settings-status" class="dsq-options-status"></span>';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Settings');
	};

  this.showModeratorActions = function() {
      if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
          return;
      }

      var html = '<div class="dsq-moderate-options"><table><tr>' +
                 '<td>' + Dsq.Strings.ACTIONS + '</td><td><ul>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleClosed(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.closed ? Dsq.Strings.OPEN_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.CLOSE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleKilled(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.killed ? Dsq.Strings.RESTORE_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.REMOVE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '</ul></td></tr></table></div>' +
              '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate-threads/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
      Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, Dsq.Strings.MODERATE_OPTIONS);
  };

	this.updateDaysAlive = function() {
		  var days = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-days-alive').value;
		  var status = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-settings-status');
		  Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		  status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		  window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};

  this.toggleClosed = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/toggle_thread_closed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };

  this.toggleKilled = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/toggle_thread_killed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };
};
// Dsq.Thread

Dsq.Events = function() {
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var handlers = {};
	var getHandlers = function(event) {
		if (handlers[event] === undefined) {
			handlers[event] = [];
		}
		return handlers[event];
	};

	// Public
	// Value keys : postId, node, xtype
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED = 1;
	// Value keys : postId, opened
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED = 2;
	obj.fire = function(event, opt_value) {
		if (!event) {
			throw new Error('Unknown event');
		}
		var value = opt_value || {};
		for (var i=0; i<getHandlers(event).length; i++) {
			getHandlers(event)[i](value);
		}
	};
	obj.addHandler = function(event, callback) {
		getHandlers(event).push(callback);
	};

	return obj;
}();

/**
 * Dsq.Realtime
 */
Dsq.Realtime = new function() {
	var initialized = false;
	var interval = null;
	var last_checked = Dsq.jsonData.request.timestamp;
	var new_posts = [];
	var ongoing_request = false;
	var prev_script = null;

	function updateNewPostCount() {
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-alert').style.display = new_posts.length ? 'block' : 'none';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-queued').innerHTML = new_posts.length
		+ ' new '
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, 'comment', 'comments')
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, ' was', ' were')
		+ ' just posted.';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.SHOW + ')';
	}

	function insertNewPosts() {
		var post_id = null;
		var after_id = Dsq.$('dsq-sort-select').value === 'oldest' ? -1 : null;

		for (var i=0; i<new_posts.length; i++) {
			post_id = new_posts[i];
			Dsq.Post.insert(after_id, post_id, Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id].message);
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		}
		new_posts = [];
	}

	this.enableInterval = function() {
		interval = setInterval(Dsq.Realtime.check, Dsq.jsonData.context.realtime_speed);
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.ENABLED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.PAUSE + ')';
	}

	this.disableInterval = function() {
		if (interval) {
			clearInterval(interval);
			interval = null;
		}
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.PAUSED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.RESUME + ')';
	}

	this.toggleInterval = function() {
		if (!interval) {
			Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
		} else {
			Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
		}
		return false;
	}

	this.initialize = function() {
		if (!initialized) {
			initialized = true;
			Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').onclick = this.toggleInterval;
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').onclick = this.show;
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
			if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.realtime_paused) {
				Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
			} else {
				Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
			}
		}
	}

	this.show = function() {
		insertNewPosts();
		updateNewPostCount();
		return false;
	}

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/18354875/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

	this.update = function(timestamp, posts, users) {
		ongoing_request = false;
		last_checked = timestamp;

		if (users) {
			for (var user_id in users) {
				if (users.hasOwnProperty(user_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id] = users[user_id];
					}
				}
			}
		}

		if (posts) {
			for (var post_id in posts) {
				if (posts.hasOwnProperty(post_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] = posts[post_id];
						new_posts.push(post_id);
					}
				}
			}

			if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				insertNewPosts();
			} else {
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
		}
	};

}();

// DEPRECATED
Dsq.Iframes = function() {
	// Different style of object from the above. Hoping to switch to this for some reason.
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var showIframeInContainer = function(container, id, markup) {
		// Look through container for iframes, hiding them, except show one that matches id
		// If none of them matched id, create a new iframe using markup and insert it.
		// Returns the iframe node if and only if it was newly created.
		var found = false;
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				if (child.id == id) {
					child.style.display = 'block';
					found = true;
				} else {
					child.style.display = 'none';
				}
			}
		}
		if (found) {
			return;
		}
		// The iframe wasn't found, so construct it and add it to the container.
		// Don't use innerHTML because it might reload iframes
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		div.innerHTML = markup;
		var iframe = div.childNodes[0];
		div.removeChild(iframe);
		container.appendChild(iframe);
		return iframe;
	};

	// Public
	obj.makeReplyIframeId = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var id = 'dsq-post-add-iframe';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			id += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			id += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return id;
	};
	obj.makeLoginIframeId = function(opt_postId) {
		if (!opt_postId) {
			return 'dsq-login-iframe';
		}
		return 'dsq-login-iframe-' + opt_postId;
	};
	obj.makeReplyIframeName = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var name = 'dsq-reply-frame';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			name += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			name += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return name;
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId, opt_extraParams, opt_className) {
		// Construct the id so we can check if it's already present.
		// Hide any other iframes we find, and show this one if it's found.
		var params = opt_extraParams || {};
		// use xtype in the id and name so we can distinguish media replies from text replies:
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeId(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var name = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeName(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var attributes = {
			'id': id,
			'name': name,
			'class': opt_className || 'dsq-post-reply'
			};
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameReply(opt_postId, opt_extraParams, attributes);
		var iframe = showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
		// It was newly created
		if (iframe) {
			Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED, {
				postId: opt_postId,
				node: iframe,
				xtype: params.xtype
			});
		}
	};
	obj.showLoginIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId) {
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeLoginIframeId(opt_postId);
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: id});
		showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed = function(container, opt_postId) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			obj.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, opt_postId);
		} else {
			obj.hideAllInContainer(container);
		}
	};
	obj.hideAllInContainer = function(container) {
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				child.style.display = 'none';
			}
		}
	};

	return obj;
}();

Dsq.Twitter = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startTwitterConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._twitterWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/twitter/begin/', 'twitterWindow', popupParams);
		that._twitterInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeTwitterConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeTwitterConnect = function() {
		if (that._twitterWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._twitterInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Yahoo = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startYahooConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._yahooWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/yahoo/begin/', 'yahooWindow', popupParams);
		that._yahooInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeYahooConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeYahooConnect = function() {
		if (that._yahooWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._yahooInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.OpenID = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.requestURL = function() {
		var message = '<table class="dsq-openid-form"><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;" rowspan="2"><img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url + '/images/openid-icon-100x100.png" /></td>';
		message += '<td><label for="dsq-openid-url">OpenID URL:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-url" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td><label for="dsq-openid-username">Display name:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-username" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td class="dsq-openid-submit" colspan="3"><input type="button" value="Sign in" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.startConnect();" /></td></tr>';
		message += "</table>";

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sign in using OpenID');
	};

	this.startConnect = function() {
		var isblank = function(str) {
			return /^\s*$/.test(str);
		};

		var openid_url = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-url').value;
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-username').value;

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=500';
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/openid/begin/' + '?url=' + encodeURIComponent(openid_url) + '&username=' + encodeURIComponent(username);
		that._openidWindow = window.open(url, 'openidWindow', popupParams);
		that._openidInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeConnect = function() {
		if (that._openidWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._openidInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Reaction = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.hide = function(id) {
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/hidereaction.js?' + 'reaction_id=' + id);
	};

	this.reportMissingReactions = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled) {
			return;
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.queued) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Your report has been received. The system will automatically search for new reactions; if any are found, they will be displayed on this comment thread.<br/><br/>Thank&nbsp;you.',
												 'Reported missing reactions');
			return;
		}

		Dsq.Utils.execScript(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/forums/scobleizer/queueurl.js');
	};
};

Dsq.CNN = function() {
	var obj = {};

	obj.authenticate = function() {
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + "/saml/cnn/try/";
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl(url, {'target': document.location}, true);
	};

	return obj;
}();


if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
	(function() {
		DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE = /<div class="dsq-header-avatar"(.*?)>/gim;
		Dsq.Templates.registerFilter('postPrependHeader', function(html, post_id) {
			// Add "onmouseout" for dsq-header-avatar for dropProfile
			// functionality since IE6 cannot use :hover.
			function _headerAvatarReplace(content, inner, _unused, html) {
				return '<div class="dsq-header-avatar" '
					+ inner
					+ ' onmouseout="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')">';
			}
			html = html.replace(DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE, _headerAvatarReplace);
			return html;
		});
	})();
}





	// TODO: Move Seesmic code outside of the main script.  Don't let this script clobber the global namespace.
	if(typeof seesmic == 'undefined') { var seesmic = {}; }
	seesmic.widget = new function () {
		this.callback = function (data) {
			playerVersion = data.disqusplayer;
		};
	};

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://seesmic.com/version.js?callback=seesmic.widget.callback');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://media.disqus.com/javascript/library/swfobject.js');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	function see_play_video(_videoUri, _add) {
		var swf = !!playerVersion ? playerVersion : 'http://seesmic.com/embeds/StandalonePlayer.swf';

		flashcontentDiv = Dsq.$(_videoUri + '_content');
		previewDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_preview');
		hideDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_hide');
		showDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_show');
		if(_add) {
			// push flash widget
			var so = new SWFObject(swf, 'sotester', '300', '270', '9', '#000000');
			so.addVariable('video', _videoUri);
			so.addParam('allowFullScreen', 'true');
			so.addParam('allowScriptAccess','always');
			so.useExpressInstall('swfobject/expressinstall.swf');
			so.write(_videoUri + '_content');

			previewDiv.style.display = 'none';
			hideDiv.style.display = 'block';
			showDiv.style.display = 'none';
		}
		else {
			flashcontentDiv.innerHTML = '';
			previewDiv.style.display = 'block';
			hideDiv.style.display = 'none';
			showDiv.style.display = 'block';
		}
	};





(function() {
	//
	// Load theme.  This overrides the base templates with template functions
	// from the respective themes.
	//
	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		var theme = 'narcissus';
		// HACK: Set variable on window to use post message.
		window.disqus_use_postmessage = true;

		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Themes[theme]) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Templates[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Post) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Post[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
	}

	//
	// Register templates.  This must be done after all themes are loaded.
	//
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('authPost', Dsq.Templates.authPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('header', Dsq.Templates.header);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('footer', Dsq.Templates.footer);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('trackbacks', Dsq.Templates.trackbacks);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('reactions', Dsq.Templates.reactions);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('prependPost', Dsq.Templates.prependPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('appendPost', Dsq.Templates.appendPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postPrependHeader', Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postAppendHeader', Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('preBody', Dsq.Templates.preBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBody', Dsq.Templates.postBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postFooter', Dsq.Templates.postFooter);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('_popupGeneric', Dsq.Templates._popupGeneric);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('voted', Dsq.Templates.voted);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('popupProfile', Dsq.Templates.popupProfile);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBox', Dsq.Templates.postBox);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('pagination', Dsq.Templates.pagination);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postComment_onSuccess', Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess);

})();

Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9701530">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701530" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701530" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701530" href="http://ryanmartinsen.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ryan M</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701530" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701530" class="dsq-comment-message">Awesome, I can\'t wait!  I was into astronomy years ago, but have fallen out of it.  Perhaps it\'s time to sell my old telescope and get a new fancy one to hook up to this software.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9701531">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701531" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701531" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701531" href="http://christianburns.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Christian Burns</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701531" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701531" class="dsq-comment-message">When looking at my little boys and their sense of wonder, this would make me cry too. Go explore kids.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701550" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701550" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701550" href="http://crueltobekind.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nicole Simon</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701550" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701550" class="dsq-comment-message">Seeing how much fun and excitement I already had with Google maps satellite view, I can only wonder how it will be zooming around in the universe. :)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701568" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701568" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701568">Jamie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701568" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701568" class="dsq-comment-message">This sounds fantastic! What I need now, is a giant screen stuck on my ceiling, so I can lie on my back and zoom in and out of the stars I\'m staring at.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701567" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701567" href="http://fav.or.it/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">nick halstead</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701567" class="dsq-comment-message">The one thing I always found with owning a telescope was however much I spent I was never satisfied with the results, this sounds like every astronomers dream come true.<br><br>sent from: fav.or.it [FID7844]</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701566" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701566">davidarno</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701566" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701566" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey, tell us something new! We all knew it was the World Wide Telescope a week ago! See <a href="http://www.davidarno.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.davidarno.org/</a> for example.<br><br>It\'ll be interesting to see if it\'s better than Google\'s already-available and works-on-all-machines telescope app.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701565" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701565" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701565" href="http://ron.outcrop.org/blog/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ron Schott</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701565" class="dsq-comment-message">Not to put a damper on your excitement, which I\'m sure is genuine, but how does this significantly differ from the <a href="http://earth.google.com/sky/skyedu.html" rel="nofollow">Sky View</a> in Google Earth?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701563" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701563">Wanderley</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701563" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701563" class="dsq-comment-message">It sounds great. Can\'t wait to see it.<br><br>But Robert, how does what you saw compare to Celestia?<br><br><a href="http://www.shatters.net/celestia/" rel="nofollow">http://www.shatters.net/celestia/</a><br><br>I think it\'s a different proposition, but I think it\'s pretty inspirational too.<br><br>Thanks.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701562" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701562" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701562" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701562" class="dsq-comment-message">Wanderley: it\'s different than Celestia, but I agree with you that Celestia is pretty cool too.<br><br>Ron: Far better integration than Google\'s Sky View. A lot more telescopes. More inspiring. Hard to explain until I get to show you the video. Google\'s Sky View is pretty cool, too, though. The Microsoft Researchers found a better way to stitch together all the databases and display them than Google\'s team has.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701561" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701561" href="http://mrontemp.blogspot.com/2008/02/i-didnt-find-my-voice-in-worldwide.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ontario Emperor</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701561" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701561" class="dsq-comment-message">Perhaps I\'m parochial, but what excites me about Google Maps and Google Earth is the personal connection that I have, or want to have, with the places I\'m viewing. When I look at a Google Earth view of Mikkeli, Finland, I get excited because our Finnish exchange student is studying there. When I look at a Google Earth view of Itajai, Brazil, I get excited because I spent a wonderful weekend in a nature preserve in the area several years ago.<br><br>When TechCrunch spilled the beans on WorldWide Telescope on February 18, my first thought was a "so what"? Again, this view is probably parochial, but I probably won\'t be leaving this galaxy in my lifetime, so I don\'t see how I can form a personal connection with a zoomed view of another galaxy.<br><br>Then again, I have not seen WorldWide Telescope yet. It may be possible that when I see it, I (like others that you have mentioned) will be transported to another dimension, musing on the vastness of the universe and (if I may say this) on the truly awesome nature of God\'s creation.<br><br>We\'ll see.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701560" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701560" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701560">Neal</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701560" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701560" class="dsq-comment-message">A desktop planetarium. It\'s nice to look up occasionally.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701559" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701559" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701559" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701559" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701559" class="dsq-comment-message">Ontario: you\'re right. I find that usage to be similar to mine, too. But humans look at the sky and wonder "what is out there?" This gives us a new way to see that and it does inspire by the vastness of the universe and its awesome nature. I\'ll leave whether a God created that or not to the religious folks, but it is inspiring, no matter what your beliefs are.<br><br>And, who knows, in a few years it might just be possible to go out into space as a tourist, or take a the last years of your life to go work on Mars (they won\'t send young people there due to the radiation dangers you\'ll face).</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701551" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701551" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701551" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701551" class="dsq-comment-message">Neal: it\'s far cooler than any planetarium I\'ve ever been in. Planetariums don\'t let you zoom or pan you way across the sky. And they don\'t let you switch views instantly between lots of different telescopes.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701598" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701598" href="http://www.towerone.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Andy</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701598" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701598" class="dsq-comment-message">Ah so thats what it was - I guess you needed to be there ;0)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701597" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701597" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701597" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701597" class="dsq-comment-message">Andy: if you read my original post, I told you exactly that. On Monday you WILL be there! :-)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701596" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701596">Larry</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701596" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701596" class="dsq-comment-message">I hope I never look into a telescope and see Beetlejuice. Now if I saw Betelguese, that would be okay, but I really don\'t want to see Michael Keaton. :)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701595" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701595" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701595" class="dsq-comment-message">Larry: good catch. You can tell I\'m not an astronomer.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701592" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701592" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701592">warren</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701592" class="dsq-comment-message">sounds awesome!  now, to go look up companies that make telescopes like the one you described that can work with the software.... remember the telescope buying craze that ensued during the last pass of Haley\'s comet?  Do you think this will inspire such a frenzy if marketed properly?  I mean people DO spend $2,000 on a lot of far less cool shit.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701593" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701593" href="http://jburg.typepad.com/future" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jon Burg</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701593" class="dsq-comment-message">Will NASA be recognized as a partner in this project?<br><br>For an agency in need of a PR lift, this could certainly help generate some buzz - if they were to use this platform properly.<br><br>On that note, will Microsoft be enabling third party mash-ups within the platform?  Will historians be able to insert historical information around wars fought based on information they read of the stars?  Will users to be able to visit stars who\'s names they have purchased?  Will brands be able to create mini-games, ARG campaigns and scavenger hunts by having users surf the skies for clues?<br><br>Or will this be relegated to a first time WOW factor we experienced with Google Earth only to see usage drop to a core enthusiast audience thereafter?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701594" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701594" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701594" href="http://carlomaglinao.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Carlo Maglinao</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701594" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701594" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks, Robert. I\'m moved by the possibilities. Growing up I learned that the future of humanity is to explore galaxies. This kind of technology will facilitate the ambitions and actions of future generations.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701591" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701591" href="http://wikumentary.googlepages.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mike Nutt</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701591" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, sorry, but right now I agree with davidarno: sounds like Google Earth in sky view. Last week I saw Google\'s Chief Technology Advocate Michael Jones demonstrate it live, and he was practically dancing all over the universe, switching back and forth from Hubble images and observatories in Hawaii that Google has made deals with. It WAS very cool, but I\'m curious to see if it\'s better. As I understand it, all the Hubble pix are already on Google Earth.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701589" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701589">Prasoon</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701589" class="dsq-comment-message">Correct me if I am wrong - can you get addicted to such a thing? I mean like how often you post videos to qik kinda thing? Its still a hobby kinda thing 0 lives for a few days n then dies down because someone does something better. Google obviously won\'t sit quiet after this I am sure.<br><br>Well, I agree - it could still have been the most amazing thing at Microsoft you ever saw - they do nice thing very very rarely ;-)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701590" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701590" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701590">Christopher Coulter</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701590" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701590" class="dsq-comment-message">Umm wrong on #6. Didyah catch my "sky" reference before? "Pulling a talk-about-it, while-not-talking-about-it" Scobleism. ;) No great secret, least to the usual Press guns, but I gave my word. But these things that pass for "journalists" need serious help.<br><br>But I told yah it wouldn\'t live up to the hype, you gotta stop being a blubbery emotional-roller-coaster. It\'s just a gee-whiz consumer tool, closed beta at that, not exactly on the level of finding a Dark Matter particle, there.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701588" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701588">Mr Happy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701588" class="dsq-comment-message">Its odd that people have to see something in order to be awed by it. If your imagination is so limited by what you can see you have a larger problems then not having this software.<br><br>It oddly reminds me of the torture chamber in "Life the Universe and Everything". (Or was it "So long and Thanks for the Fish" ?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701587" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701587" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701587" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701587" class="dsq-comment-message">Christopher: the folks who\'ve seen it say it DOES live up to the hype.<br><br>Mike: Google\'s Sky isn\'t nearly as well integrated and doesn\'t have as many telescopes.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701583" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701583" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701583" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701583" class="dsq-comment-message">Mr. Happy, if I told you about this cool movie called Star Wars, would my text have been able to do it justice before you saw it? No.<br><br>Some things you need to see and experience to get.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701582" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701582" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701582" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701582" class="dsq-comment-message">Christopher, for instance, read what Rahul Dave wrote about it: <a href="http://scobleizer.com/2008/02/14/microsoft-researchers-make-me-cry/#comment-1973155" rel="nofollow">http://scobleizer.com/2008/02/14/microsoft-rese...</a><br><br>Rahul is a lot more credible than you are.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701581" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701581" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701581" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701581" class="dsq-comment-message">warren: heh, I remember Halley\'s Comet very well. I sold 60 Celestron $2,000 telescopes in a year that year. I sold two the next. Keep in mind that such a telescope was totally inappropriate for looking at the comet. Every one of my customers knew that, they just used it as an excuse to buy the telescope they were dreaming about for years.<br><br>I would expect this will get people more interested in astronomy and will lead some to spend big bucks on a motorized telescope, but most people live where they can\'t see the sky so such a purchase wouldn\'t make much sense.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701580" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701580" href="http://mickeleh.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Michael Markman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701580" class="dsq-comment-message">Completely inappropriate, juvenile image coughed up from my inner depths:<br><br>Remember those old gag shop telescopes where the ring around eye piece was coated in black makeup... and you\'d trick your friends to look into them and they\'d come away looking like they had a black eye?<br><br>How about a telescope where the eye piece is coated in onion juice? You could trick your friends to look into them and they\'d com away crying like an A-lister.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701579" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701579" href="http://www.activewords.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Buzz Bruggeman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701579" class="dsq-comment-message">As the guy who suggested to Robert that he check out what Curtis was doing, I am not sure that I have a vocabulary to describe the brilliance of the product. My humble take is that it is going to change forever how people think about the sky/astronomy, etc.<br><br>It is dazzling...find a way to see it, check it out and, and just marvel.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701578" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701578" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701578" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701578" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701578" class="dsq-comment-message">Buzz: I agree and anyone who\'s cynical should really be quiet until they\'ve had a look.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701577" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701577" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701577">fear</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701577" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701577" class="dsq-comment-message">"As a taxpayer who’s helped pay for some of these telescopes it’s the first time I’ve seen the results of my and your, investments in our scientific research"<br>the land we are standing is burning, shaking, melting, oceans are getting angry and so on. So many things have higher priority…........but we are trying to catch stars. Priorities are disordered?<br><br>to microsoft, i want to check my emails in 5 seconds.....vista is loading loading and loadinggggg....fix this first then you show the heaven...anyways its an one time excitement.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701576" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701576" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701576" class="dsq-comment-message">fear: if we don\'t continue to strive to understand our universe why does fixing all those other problems matter?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701575" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701575" href="http://dovellas.spaces.live.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dovella</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701575" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701575" class="dsq-comment-message">beta? demo?<br>its possible or this in future?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701574" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701574" href="http://www.BillionDollarBaloney.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">BillyWarhol</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701574" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701574" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m Running out to Buy my SEGWAY Scooter Now!!<br><br>SNORES*<br><br>Ironically I went into the origi Post + even tho apparently it\'s not PhotoSynth it sounds Identical with Zooming + Panning + Multiple Cams*<br><br>Yeah it\'s c0ol + so are Colourized Hubble Images*<br><br>What a Supreme Disappointment*<br><br>Crying in my BEER!!<br><br>;PPP</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701573" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701573" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701573" class="dsq-comment-message">Billy: like I said, you\'ve gotta see it. Then you\'ll believe. It\'s pretty clear you haven\'t seen it yet. Why do I put up with people like you here? I expect this kind of comment on Digg, not here.<br><br>Dovella: it\'s working. Not sure when it\'ll be released, though. I imagine that they need to get the servers ready for a pretty sizeable number of people who\'ll all want to try it out at once. Not an easy scalability problem to solve.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701572" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701572" href="http://www.geise.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">PXLated</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701572" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701572" class="dsq-comment-message">Might be nifty and better than Google Earth but I can get that on my Mac so Google Earth wins hands down.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701571" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701571" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701571" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701571" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701571" class="dsq-comment-message">PXLated: now you know why I wanted VMWare on my Mac. :-)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701570" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701570" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701570">Sandmax</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701570" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701570" class="dsq-comment-message">I think its very impressive as a well executed idea. Kudos to Jum Gray for his vision and MSR for building a "WOW thats cool" product.<br><br>I can see why it has to be Windows only (lock-in) or  Windows Vista only (Ultimate Extras perhaps) but... (insert imaginary rant of your choice) :-)<br><br>If it encourages kids to learn more about Physics and Astronomy or actually helps real researchers discover new things, or creates a massive enthusiast community dedicated to studying the night sky the way people go  over google maps, or find us some UFOS ;-), now that would really be amazing.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701520">fear</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701520" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, We have “well known” local problems. Just see the death records all over the world year over year, the rate is doubling.<br><br>Yes I understand the relationship with universe(We should explore(slowly) the footprints of bigbang), I read lot of astronomy books and exited lot. But you know at the end of the day, to proof small small things, we need huge investment. In my opinion, we should slow down. speed up the research and solve the well known local problems…somepart of the world doesn’t have food, water…that’s an another story.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701476">sdf</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701476" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701476" class="dsq-comment-message">still don\'t see what makes this special. it\'s what every free little astonomy program does, with the added benefit of having lots of data that comes with ms-funds.<br><br><br>(yes, this point has probably come up dozends of times in commentary, but i couldn\'t care less to read all those)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701519" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701519" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701519" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701519" class="dsq-comment-message">sdf: if you think this is what every free little astronomy program does then you are particularly clueless. Sorry, but nothing out there does what World Wide Telescope does.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701518" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701518" href="http://blog.hanfordlemoore.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">hanford</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701518" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701518" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, how does it compare to WikiSky? ( <a href="http://www.wikisky.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.wikisky.org</a> ) Sounds very similar, but again, I haven\'t seen it in action.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701517" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701517" href="http://geekswithblogs.net/tmurphy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Tim</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701517" class="dsq-comment-message">I had the same reaction as many of the others that this is just another planetarium until you started talking about viewing things in different wave lengths.  I am guessing since it is free that means that the data requires a internet connection.  This tends to be a problem if you want to take it with you to a dark site.  Beyond that I think I will alway prefer to go out to one of our club sites, enjoy the universe with friends and make my own images.  They may not be of the same quality, but this type of program will only wow me for a couple of day.  The real thing is much more enjoyable.<br><br>My astrophotography album:<br><a href="http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/168994856LXByfn?vhost=outdoors" rel="nofollow">http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/168994856LXB...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701479" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701479">thomas</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701479" class="dsq-comment-message">So this is the BIIIGGG thing everyone has been so secretive about?<br><br>I am not a big Astronomy kind a guy... I always like the Google Earth style application because I am into ocean sports and it allowed me to have a bit of a poke around to find new surf breaks without actually driving around in a car.<br><br>... as I said I am not big on Astronomy and while this is sounds interesting I don\'t think it will change my world. I guess I\'ll have a look and form my own judgement.<br><br>Although, remind me again where there is a business model in this?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701584" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701584" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701584" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701584" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701584" class="dsq-comment-message">thomas: please go back and read my original post. I told you that there was no business model here. Why does something need a business model to be inspiring?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701498" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701498">Yul</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701498" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701498" class="dsq-comment-message">You are becoming an old man, my grandfather also cries easily. ;-)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701480" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701480" href="http://www.activewords.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Buzz Bruggeman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701480" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701480" class="dsq-comment-message">To echo what Robert just said, I asked the same question, e.g. how are going to charge for the WWT, and the answer was that Microsoft was giving it to the world, so that people could build upon it. For those of you above who have indicated even a drop of cynicism or skepticism about the WWT, wait until you see it, there is nothing out there that I have seen that even comes close. It is an order of magnitude better, and simply dazzling...and really so much fun to experience. When I saw it, the people in the room were blown away.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701488">Diego</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701488" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701488" class="dsq-comment-message">The WOW! starts now?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701489" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701489" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701489">James Schmidt</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701489" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701489" class="dsq-comment-message">OK, so the client is in C#/.NET? Then why not make it the Silverlight Killer App and make it available as a Windows Live service? Anyway, I hope the project makes it out of research.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701490" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701490" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701490">tim</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701490" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701490" class="dsq-comment-message">"if you think this is what every free little astronomy program does then you are particularly clueless"<br><br>Aw, don\'t be so mean.  It\'s always hard to describe how cool something is without even a picture, and from your description, it *does* sound like one of the good free astronomy programs but with more graphics.<br><br>P.S., I love how you sneak in pejorative words like "little" to describe mature, portable 100,000-line programs.  But I won\'t call you "lame", even though you specifically asked for it.  :-)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701491" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701491" href="http://www.juixe.com/techknow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">TechKnow Juixe</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701491" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701491" class="dsq-comment-message">Enough crying already and let\'s see it.  I\'ll be honest, whenever I see video of \'peoples reactions\', I think of 2 girls and 1 cup!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701492" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701492" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/kfarmer" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Keith J. Farmer</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701492" class="dsq-comment-message">Spring 2008, it says?  This may well save me my subscription to Starry Night. :)<br><br>I\'ll just sit back and speculate about the tech they\'re using underneath, or just ask them next week...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701493">Finnish Flash</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701493" class="dsq-comment-message">Microsoft introduced the World Wide Telescope in TechFest 2007!<br><br>A year ago nobody didn\'t care about this telescope, so Microsoft paid you to blog about this, right?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701494" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701494" href="http://www.s-consult.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Wayne Schulz</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701494" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701494" class="dsq-comment-message">Great, another product that won\'t run outside of Internet Explorer. I wonder what other Microsoft product will be required in order to run it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701487" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701487" href="http://ri.ms/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mattie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701487" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701487" class="dsq-comment-message">Please, please. Someone do this the opposite way. Down.<br><br>I want the same thing for a microscope. Zooming around in a cell, molecular perspectives, etc.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701486" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701486" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701486">eusman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701486" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701486" class="dsq-comment-message">"He clicked a button and we saw a completely different view of the same colliding galaxies."<br>Although I haven\'t seen what Microsoft did, I can understand his reaction. I reacted in a similar way when I\'ve been at Futuroscope (it\'s in France).(http://www.futuroscope.com/eng/attraction-cosmos.php)<br><br>The screen is a huge shpere taking you through a journey in cosmos. It\'s really really breathtaking.<br><br>Imagine experiencing what Microsoft did with a set of VR glasses and especially if what they did was in true 3D.<br><br>Watch the video, maybe it could set you in the mood to understand<br><br><a href="http://www.futuroscope.com/eng/video.php?video=destination_cosmos" rel="nofollow">http://www.futuroscope.com/eng/video.php?video=...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701485" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701485">Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701485" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701485" class="dsq-comment-message">@robert:<br><br>I find it a little odd that you have been dangling the "it made me cry!" mystery product/experience in front of people for some weeks, finally let everyone in on the "secret", and then criticise those who find it less than overwhelming, and tell you as much.<br><br>To say, "you don\'t know what you\'re talking about - you\'ve got to wait and experience it" is a bizarre response; either don\'t write the "cry!" post in the first place and just show us the video when ready, or expect caustic comments on the way you overhype products. You cannot have your galaxy and eat it.<br><br>All that said, it looks nifty.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701484" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701484" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701484">mitch</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701484" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701484" class="dsq-comment-message">And the WorldWide Telescope isn\'t using SILVERLIGHT??!!??<br><br>What a missed opportunity for Microsoft to show off their other great new technology.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701483" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701483" href="http://www.corank.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">RBA</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701483" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701483" class="dsq-comment-message">I wonder if WWT will render the sky as nice as desktop apps such as Starry Night, TheSky6, etc. Those (especially Starry Night) are really really nice too.<br><br>BTW Robert, in my spare time (huh, what\'s that?) I\'m an amateur astrophotographer, and you\'re welcome to join us in one of our Star Parties :-) Not quite a photowalk because well, rather than walking you\'ve got to stay put :-) but might be a fun experiece for you as well :-) Just drop me a line if interested!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701482" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701482">thomas</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701482" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701482" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert,<br><br>Of course it doesn\'t need a business model... however, they way you talked it up here in your blog and over on your QIK videos I expected something as big as the web itself.<br><br>Yeah I know it will look great but unless you are really into astronomy this will be no more than a brief "yeah nice" for most people. So unless there is no other application for the technology I don\'t know what the big fuzz is about.<br><br>Remember, it\'s about the content not the technology. There aren\'t a lot of people reading your blog because they like the blogging technology.<br><br>BTW, personally I thought QIK and the way you use it to deliver raw interviews is much more revolutionary than gazing at the stars Microsoft style...<br><br>QIK to me is like a News Reality TV style... sometimes it seems to be better to see the whole raw story rather then the sanitised version Fox News wants you to see... actually, you probably should watch Fox News in first place.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701481" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701481">thomas</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701481" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701481" class="dsq-comment-message">meant to say SHOULDN\'T WATCH FOX NEWS</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701499" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701499">TW Wood</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701499" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert,<br><br>Thank you for letting everyone know about this.<br>This is the kind of technology that can change our future by educating our children.<br>It takes a visionary to recognize this and be moved by it.<br>Thanks for being one.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701500" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701500" href="http://netcropolis.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">W. Ian Blanton</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701500" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, I\'ll admit full on that I suspect that burst of rage I felt when I saw the description and then got to the "Windows Only" part, is probably the same one that Windows users must feel when Apple rolls something incredibly cool out with "Mac Only" attached to it. That means that this _does_ sound incredible.<br><br>Not surprised by the "Windows only" option, because the cynicism centers in my brain had been whispering "MS=Win Only" at me from about 10 seconds in.<br><br>It does sound _Very_ impressive. Or at least all those kids looked pretty impressed. But, admittedly, all I can think is: "Microsoft-Wide Telescope" Rather than "World Wide Telescope".<br><br>And Fear: Sure, this isn\'t addressing earthquakes, drinking, dogs and cats living, Climactic change, or gingivitis,  but it\'s a possible tool or inspiration for the next generation of people who will. And I would suggest to you that the people who are going to work on such things, already are, or are trying to, and those that aren\'t are not going to start because MS releases "Microsoft\'s World Wide Litter/Carbon Emissions/Drunk Driver Detector".</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701558" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701558" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701558" class="dsq-comment-message">Go and watch the videos for other people\'s opinions: <a href="http://wwtelescope.com/" rel="nofollow">http://wwtelescope.com/</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701557" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701557" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701557" class="dsq-comment-message">Finnish: I was at the TechFest last year. It wasn\'t even close to what they showed me this year. I not only wasn\'t paid by Microsoft but Fast Company paid all my expenses to the trip up to Microsoft.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701556" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701556">Tom Burke</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701556" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701556" class="dsq-comment-message">"I think it might have been infrared, or maybe a look at radiation being kicked out."<br><br>Ouch! As if anyone needed another example of the failure of basic science education in this country...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701564" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701564" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701564" class="dsq-comment-message">Ethan Zuckerberg, who saw the demo at TED today, said "amazing." <a href="http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/02/27/pat-burchart-explained-the-96-of-the-universe-we-cant-see/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/02/27/p...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701555" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701555" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701555">William McKnee</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701555" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701555" class="dsq-comment-message">This certainly is a giant step towards virtualization and augmented reality. What we are seeing right now is how data gets structured within its context. 5 years from now and you\'ll have a kind of sixth sense. No keyword entering on your cell phone, but point and click. Whatever you are pointing at, whatever properties, whatever context you are looking for, or even weren\'t aware of: whatever is known, thought, said, recorded or imagined about the subject or its certain part/property will be available in the appropriate way.<br><br>These are exciting times. Virtual reality and reality are merging.<br><br>By the way, there are virtual microscopes available.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701554" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701554" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701554" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701554" class="dsq-comment-message">Tom: sorry, that stuff went by so fast I don\'t remember it all. I\'d like you to watch something for an hour and then try to recall everything you saw.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701553" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701553" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701553" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701553" class="dsq-comment-message">More reports from TED: <a href="http://www.lunchoverip.com/2008/02/ted2008-what-is.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.lunchoverip.com/2008/02/ted2008-what...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701552" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701552">jackjack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701552" class="dsq-comment-message">WHAT???!<br><br>Ever heard of Stellarium? Free and open source, detailed view of sky with full context and everything. Easy navigation, zoom, view from anywhere on earth or other planets, at any time... man... How could that make you cry? wuss</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701549" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701549" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701549">Christopher Coulter</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701549" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701549" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>expect caustic comments on the way you overhype products</i>.<br><br>Glad to be of service. ;)<br><br>The BEST way to hype up something, is to let the product hype itself, as the "I am important, and you aren\'t" closed beta\'s won\'t do that, just creates resentment, and people will dismiss on emotional grounds themselves. Plus, this "demo" isn\'t even a real product. And, if it were a real product, for all but a small niche, it\'s just a nice gee-whiz thing with no applicational use whatsoever. Plus, it\'s from Microsoft, which as we all know, won\'t go anywhere, be that as it may be, cool as all out.<br><br>1. It made me cry.<br>2. You must agree with me, even though you haven\'t seen it. You must trust me.<br>3. If you don\'t agree, you aren\'t credible, nor human, and barely fit to live. Plus you haven\'t seen it.<br>4. These people (important as they are) all agree. So obviously you are defective.<br>5. You can agree, without having seen. But if you disagree, not having seen is bad. Your faith can only go in one direction.<br><br>Man, with that one-sided temper-tantrum pouting argumentative style I woulda been kicked out Jr. High Debate. ;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701548" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701548" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701548" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701548" class="dsq-comment-message">Christopher: you misrepresent my words. I\'d call you an idiot, but that\'s going to be apparent to anyone who sees this software.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701547" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701547" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701547">anon</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701547" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow.  You\'ve really outdone yourself this time, scoble.  It\'s total vaporware.<br><br>The "official site" is nothing but a 30-second commercial.<br><br>You know what\'s so amazing about Google maps?  I can actually use it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701541" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701541" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701541">Anon</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701541" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701541" class="dsq-comment-message">Well when you see this when it comes out for once Google will be outdone, they have nothing that will ever come close to this</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701539" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701539" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701539">Tom Burke</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701539" class="dsq-comment-message">“I think it might have been infrared, or maybe a look at radiation being kicked out.”<br><br>Ouch! As if anyone needed another example of the failure of basic science education in this country…<br><br>"Tom: sorry, that stuff went by so fast I don’t remember it all. I’d like you to watch something for an hour and then try to recall everything you saw."<br><br>Well, I do recall from primary school that "infrared" IS radiation. The line I quoted is an example of either abysmal comprehension of science, or abysmal grammar. Which of those do you wish to claim, mister "geek"?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701537" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701537" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701537" class="dsq-comment-message">anon (85): you have a point. But it\'ll be out soon enough. Did you watch all the astronomers fawning over it in the video on the official site? Think that\'s really just vaporware? Got it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701538" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701538" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701538" class="dsq-comment-message">Tom: OK, OK, I get your point. Yeah, I guess light is radiation, but it\'s not the kind of radiation I was thinking of (like gamma rays or X rays). Infrared\'s entry on Wikipedia says it\'s electromagnetic radiation: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared</a><br><br>Sorry for not being clearer.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701525">Dave</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701525" class="dsq-comment-message">Nice. Fantastic concept - I think.<br><br>Robert, care to link to something that *directly* deals with this? Both of your links end up at what I guess MS thinks should be the "main" site....<br><br>Which yields:<br><br>(1) A very nice description of whatever this is.<br><br>(2) A real nice &lt;del&gt;H2&lt;/del&gt; sorry, TD element with the text "Reactions to Worldwide Telescope".<br><br>So far? Not much help. No clarity. And yes, certainly - nothing remotely close to tearjerking.<br><br>(3) A lovely flash player... or is that SVG or Quicktime? Whatever. Yet something else I have to click on - and patiently watch and listen to - about the "kid reaction".<br><br>This would be about the time I\'m no longer looking for something cool (much less tearjerking) but am wondering if they realize how little the "get it".<br><br>Let\'s &lt;del&gt;go below the fold&lt;/del&gt; dig a little deeper....<br><br>Ah shit - coming in Spring 2008. Sigh. Face it Robert, you blew it with your usual hyperbole - AGAIN.<br><br>Want to make a fool out of me? Post a link to the cool stuff... to something that delivers on the concept you so easily had tears over.<br><br>And do it without a defensive post like this. Oh yeah, and without a 1000 word hyperbolic post like that other one.<br><br>Just simple DO it. No hype. No filler. Simply DO IT.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701546" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701546">underivy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701546" class="dsq-comment-message">I can understand why people are skeptical, particularly since MS is involved.  If MS managed to eradicate world hunger, there are some people would still find reason to be cynical about it.<br><br>I\'ve messed around with a few planetarium-type apps, and I\'ll be much pleased if MS can improve upon what\'s already out there.  I\'ve been interested in astronomy since I was a little girl, and this kind of thing would have really thrilled me when I was a kid.<br><br>The official website is currently lacking in content somewhat, but that\'s no big deal to me.  They just announced it.  It\'s too early to call it vaporware!  The release date is fairly vague and hasn\'t even come and gone yet anyhow.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701545">simon</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701545" class="dsq-comment-message">Place your bets.<br><br>5 to 1 - Robert never installs it.<br>2 to 1 - Patrick would rather play WoW<br>even money - Robert will tire of it by the time its publicly released, just like Kyte, WetPaint, Bug Labs...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701544" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701544" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701544" class="dsq-comment-message">simon: Bug Labs? Hardly tired of that. Wetpaint? You\'ll see me use it again and again. I haven\'t given up on that. Kyte? Well, Qik is live streaming. When Kyte gets live streaming maybe I\'ll be back.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701543" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701543" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701543" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701543" class="dsq-comment-message">underivy: the official announcement of the WorldWide Telescope was supposed to be March 4th. That\'s when you\'ll have a lot more details.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701542" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701542" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701542" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701542" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701542" class="dsq-comment-message">Dave: you\'ll have what you want next Monday.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701529" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701529" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701529">Tim Lee</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701529" class="dsq-comment-message">Google Search -- Live Search<br>Google Earth -- after a few years.. Microsoft Virtual Earth<br>Google Maps - Live Maps (a few years later)<br>iPod -- Zune (released many years later after the iPod, in direct competition)<br><br>And that\'s just the yesteryears (Let\'s not talk about Netscape or MacOS or Excel)<br><br>Seriously, your tears, a video of some children\'s awestruck faces and some ecstatic blog posts aren\'t selling me anything at all.<br><br>Even if the Telescope were worth every bit you say, I\'d always have a funny nebulous thought in the back of my mind about Google Sky and a company that built its entire product line based on their adversaries\' popular products.<br><br>So much for innovation.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701536" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701536" href="http://msftandthefuture.spaces.live.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Michael</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701536" class="dsq-comment-message">@Tim Lee : Live Hotmail - Gmail<br><br>Microsoft Office - Google Docs<br><br>Windows Media Center - Apple TV<br><br>Live Maps Traffic Feature - Google Maps Traffic Feature<br><br>Live Messenger - Google Talk<br><br>IE - Safari<br><br>Keyhole - Google Earth<br><br>Where2 - Google Maps<br><br>So much for innovation there.<br><br>But seriously, this will be great. Some of the WinLive stuff Microsoft has is actually better than Google, and I can\'t wait to see this WWT.<br><br>Oh, and the Zune for the most part beats the iPod Classics and all the other iPods below the Classic level.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701521" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701521" href="http://www.animalu.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jeff Alu</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701521" class="dsq-comment-message">Can\'t wait to see it.  I\'m wondering about 3D capabilities, that is z-axis movement.  Is the viewer pinned down to a single location when zooming?  Well, I guess I\'ll just have to wait and see :)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701477" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701477" href="http://ganesh.jaju.googlepages.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ganesh Jaju</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701477" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701477" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow! It\'s a great news. I am highly impressed with the innovation shown by Microsoft.<br><br>Also, because of this software, common people would get access to mysterious universe.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701478" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701478" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701478">Larry</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701478" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701478" class="dsq-comment-message">"The official site is up"?  All I see is a "coming soon" site.  Nice link bait, though.<br><br>Wait!  Sorry, coming in Spring 2008.  You say "wait until March 4th".  For what?  More hype?  Or is MS declaring March 4th the beginning of Spring?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701535">Larry</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701535" class="dsq-comment-message">"Why does something need a business model to be inspiring?"<br><br>A question Ballmer seems to asking MS investors to swallow every day.  Don\'t know how much money was invested in this project, but I would venture a guess that some MS investors would be questioning the value of it relative to the bottom line.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701506" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701506" href="http://g2007.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">garazy</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701506" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701506" class="dsq-comment-message">I expected to see you at the end of their promotional video crying your eyes out :)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701507" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701507">anon</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701507" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701507" class="dsq-comment-message">scoble (re: 88): fair enough, I\'ll judge it when it gets released.  I think you\'ve already done a disservice to Microsoft by overhyping it.  NOTHING they do is really any good.  I\'ll make a prediction: it\'s a graphics demo to numb weak minds and on closer inspection the inaccuracy of the mapping will be the talk of REAL astronomers.<br><br>I notice you linked to MSN Maps but not to Google Maps.  Any reason for that?  Personally, I think Yahoo! maps are the best - especially their traffic and accident overlays.  But technologically, Google\'s maps are still the most exciting because they use regular image files and AJAX.  The engineering behind that is awesome, even the javascript dragging.  They were cutting edge, even as we\'re seeing stuff like that appearing on shopping sites like bluefly (much smaller scaling problems, though - Google was simultaneously low-tech and brilliant).<br><br>Yahoo! and Microsoft\'s maps, by comparison, are boring because they use Adobe flash as the middleware provider for the interface.<br><br>I\'m sure you\'ve seen this, but here\'s a really informative site:<br><a href="http://www.google.com/moon/" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/moon/</a><br>I always lose hours going over this.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701534" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701534">Prokofy Neva</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701534" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701534" class="dsq-comment-message">Can you take the telescope and look not at the sky, but into my window from your house?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701586">tim</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701586" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701586" class="dsq-comment-message">#104: I can\'t ever seem to get useful information out of Yahoo! maps, but they are most definitely "regular image files and AJAX".  It\'s really just like Google Maps but not as polished.  Oh, and obtrusive ads: "30 days of freshness or my money back" -- woohoo!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701585" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701585" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701585" class="dsq-comment-message">The TED video is already up: <a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/224" rel="nofollow">http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/224</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701533" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701533">TomC</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701533" class="dsq-comment-message">Gushy piece, how could the writer possibly have<br>missed Google Sky View.  As usual little or no<br>innovation from MS...just tired borrowings.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701532" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701532" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701532" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701532" class="dsq-comment-message">TomC: I did NOT "miss" Google Sky View. Where did you get that idea? It is lame compared to the WorldWide Telescope.<br><br>I really hate people like you who just come here to troll with absolutely no facts behind them. Geeesshh, go back to Digg.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701528" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701528">Drew</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701528" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701528" class="dsq-comment-message">A telescope???? Amazing - if it falls over I\'ll cry.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701527" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701527" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701527" href="http://blntechie.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Lakshmi Narayanan</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701527" class="dsq-comment-message">This appears real cool..."Google Skyview" didnt impressed me as "Google Maps" or "Microsoft Live MAps" .."Worldwide Telescope" may..I was always interested in the universe of which we are a minuscule part of...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701526" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701526" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701526">Dave</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701526" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert(@96),<br><br>If I can have it Monday, why *this* post? To generate hype? Again, just simply DO it. Its one thing to tease the world with a preview that brings a tear to an A-lister\'s eye, it another thing to either put up a stupid tease of a site or post about the afore-mentioned tease.<br><br>This post could have waited until Monday. The site could have waited until Monday.<br><br>That said, I\'m looking forward to checking it out.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701523" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701523" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701523">Tom Burke</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701523" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701523" class="dsq-comment-message">"Yeah, I guess light is radiation, but it’s not the kind of radiation I was thinking of (like gamma rays or X rays). Infrared’s entry on Wikipedia says it’s electromagnetic radiation:"<br><br>Ouch redux! Visible light, infrared, gamma rays, x-rays, radio waves, etc., etc. are ALL electromagnetic radiation, varying only in wavelength.<br><br>When I was growing up (in the 50s and 60s), this was primary school stuff. Now, apparently, even college graduates don\'t understand it, hence my caustic remark about the state of American education. How are we going to compete with the Chinese in the marketplace if our self-styled "geeks" can\'t even understand, let alone articulate, the differences between, say, an IR and an RF remote control?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701522" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701522">thomas</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701522" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701522" class="dsq-comment-message">ok... so I watched the TED presentation... yeah nice... already lost interest by the end of the video.<br><br>I guess I\'ll have a play around with it when it comes out.<br><br>I am just wondering if perhaps the whole star gazing thing is a North American geeks wet dream. It sure didn\'t make me cry.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701516" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701516">Jarno</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701516" class="dsq-comment-message">All the (over)hype for something Google already released in august of last year? Have you ever even heard of Google Sky?<br><br>I am curious though: what will be the same and what will be different in WWT?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701515" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701515" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701515">Christopher Coulter</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701515" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701515" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>ok… so I watched the TED presentation… yeah nice… already lost interest by the end of the video.</i><br><br>Yeah, TED presentations always have that elitist self-evident swarmy tact, never doing much in way of rigid persuasion or data-analysis. They just assume that if you remain emotionally distant (to their pet topics of the moment) that you aren\'t of the "cult", i.e. people that "get it". It\'s not exactly peer review, but then none of the celebrity-styled Davosish conferences ever are. Watched a slew of TEDs for an editing project, and was half dead at the end.<br><br>But something I noticed...<br><br>You gotta wonder about the kooks at some of those conferences, San Franish liberal-hippie weenies that end up supporting what they hate, as the other side adopts a few of their pet projects. Facist dictatorships murdering half their population, are A-OK, if said dictatorship is helping global warming or \'bridging the digital divide\' by handing out few wind-up laptops.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701514" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701514" href="http://toddsieling.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Todd Sieling</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701514" class="dsq-comment-message">It sounds like a cool project. Unfortunately the official site is just what MS does best, which is to make self-aggrandizing videos set to trashy dance music talking about how great something is instead of showing it. This isn\'t to detract from your experience, Robert, but I just get so sick of MS marketing icing being 90% of the cake.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701513" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701513" href="http://toddsieling.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Todd Sieling</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701513" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701513" class="dsq-comment-message">&gt; Yeah, TED presentations always have that elitist self-evident swarmy tact<br><br>Kind of like your comment. WTF, switch to decaf.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701512" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701512" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701512">Greg Evans</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701512" class="dsq-comment-message">This is that new technology that will change our lives.  This is that all elusive software that makes us think and see.  This is that next big thing!  The English language does not have the words to describe what this technology means to me and what I believe it will mean to our tiny grain of sand that we live on.  It is such a shame that Carl Sagan didn\'t get to see this.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701508" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701508" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701508">sharifisher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701508" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701508" class="dsq-comment-message">Ithink it sounds pretty cool.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701509" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701509">everythingimnot</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701509" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701509" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://everythingimnot.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://everythingimnot.wordpress.com</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701510">Mike</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701510" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701510" class="dsq-comment-message">This whole "it made me cry" business is pure hype.  Yes, the WWT is a really neat idea, but everything that it claims to do has been done on a smaller scale in other astronomy software.... just not on the web.   Don\'t get me wrong, I\'m really looking forward to seeing this... just stop it with the crying business.  We all know it didn\'t.  You\'re just attracting attention and hype.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701511" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701511">Arjun</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701511" class="dsq-comment-message">Did the kid\'s reactions remind anyone else of 2 girls 1 cup?<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guZq3cWGRcE" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guZq3cWGRcE</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701505" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701505" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701505">Tom Burke</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701505" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701505" class="dsq-comment-message">"It is such a shame that Carl Sagan didn’t get to see this."<br><br>But he saw billions &amp; billions of other things. :-)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701504" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701504">your daddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701504" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701504" class="dsq-comment-message">Come on man, these galaxies are millions of light years away.. this information is very outdated.<br><br>P.S. You are the Joan Rivers of the Internet!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701502" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701502" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701502" href="http://www.stellarium.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Stellarium Lover</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701502" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701502" class="dsq-comment-message">I cried as well in 2003 when I first downloaded Stellarium. I\'m sure you would have known this freesoftware project earlier, you would not have this reaction for microsoft\'s product: their demo at TED give me the impression nothing is new with this product.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701503" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701503" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701503" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701503" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701503" class="dsq-comment-message">Stellarium Lover: Stellarium is cool, but it\'s not the World Wide Telescope. You really need to watch the video on Monday before you try to hype up Stellarium on the WWT\'s back.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701501" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701501" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701501" href="http://www.elumenati.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">David McConville</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701501" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert - check out screenshots of the Uniview visualization platform at <a href="http://www.scalingtheuniverse.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.scalingtheuniverse.com</a>. It was developed through the Hayden Planetarium initially along with Partiview, and is installed at numerous digital planetariums and portable dome around the world. It visualizes the NASA Digital Universe Atlas, enabling interactive representations of the entire observable Universe out to the Cosmic Microwave Background. Unfortunately there\'s no downloadable version, so you\'ll need to head to one of their installations to see it.<br><br>I give Tours of the Universe with this platform within portable immersive domes regularly - as do numerous others - and the response always includes gasping and crying front wide-eyed and slackjawed observers.<br><br>Does WWT provide true 3D + Time for the objects? The TED video looks like zooming and panning, but is it a navigable 3D space? Trying to understand the distinctions.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701497" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701497" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701497" href="http://mdblog.68kmac.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mark Benson (MDBlog)</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701497" class="dsq-comment-message">I watched the demo from TED and I can totally see why it brought tears to your eyes man. There\'s nothing more beautiful than the universe itself, and to have such a powerful and simple way of bringing it to everyone really is just wonderful...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701496" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701496" href="http://blog.macb.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">macbeach</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701496" class="dsq-comment-message">"2. It runs only on Windows. It’s coded in C#/.NET, you’ll meet the developer in our video and you’ll hear more about that then."<br><br>I\'m shocked.  Totally shocked.<br><br>I think I tried Celestia around 2000, but I see the copyright on the web site dates to 2001 so it might have been as late as that.<br><br>I tried it on Linux.  It didn\'t require any special software or hardware.  Faster video cards were nice, but not essential.  Maybe if you had seen it back then you would have cried.<br><br>But there was no PR for it.  No flashy video released months in advance hyping it up.<br><br>Think how much sooner the kids of the world would have had something like this were they not waiting for Microsoft to release it.<br><br>That\'s what makes me cry.<br><br>I remember being able to switch from one point of view to another (on Earth or elsewhere).  Being able to fly anywhere in the visible galaxy at light speed or beyond, improving your intuition about starting and stopping in space as opposed to earthbound vehicles.<br><br>Will the MS version do some new things?  Probably.  Is the concept essentially new?  No.  Is there any reason it should require Vista?  Yes, it\'s less a Research product and more a Marketing tool.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701599" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701599" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701599">Christopher Coulter</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701599" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701599" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, 167 comments...<br><br>Crying worked for Hillary too, when in doubt, pout.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701600">SlickJen</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701600" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701600" class="dsq-comment-message">Wait till Monday till you see the demo! Then you\'ll know<br>OH, you don\'t believe??...Wait till April till you see the beta version! Then you\'ll know<br>OH, you still don\'t believe?? Wait till June for the proper release! Then you\'ll know<br>OH, you still don\'t believe??.... You\'re a dumbass and don\'t understand!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9701495">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701495" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701495" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701495">jeffman</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701495" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701495" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>HEY!!!</b><br><a href="http://www.stellarium.org/screenshots.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.stellarium.org/screenshots.html</a><br><br>Open source is better than Microsoft.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9701601">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701601" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701601" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701601" href="http://www.entremaqueros.com/bitacoras/memoria/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">juandesant</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701601" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701601" class="dsq-comment-message">Both Microsoft World Wide Telescope and Google Sky are possible by a running international effort, the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (<a href="http://www.ivoa.net" rel="nofollow">www.ivoa.net</a>). What Microsoft and Google have done is build massive multi-resolution caches of that data, so that wide sky queries are handled by the wide-angle cache, and the narrower queries are handled by the services themselves.<br><br>The good thing is that these visualization tools are very good in themselves for diffusion and vulgarisation, while scientific tools such as the Aladin Sky Atlas (<a href="http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/" rel="nofollow">http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/</a>) also become available to anyone… with data accesible by everyone.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9701602">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701602" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701602" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701602">B. Brewer</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701602" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701602" class="dsq-comment-message">What makes me cry are all the wintards that think Microsoft is capable of anything but monopolistic business, stealing, ripping-off other\'s work, etc...<br><br>Windoze only?   You\'re kidding, right?   Where is the pathetic version for \'other platforms\' (as if more than one survived them?)  As if anyone in their right mind ever used I.E. in the first place, let alone now.<br><br>There is absolutely no reason for this to be windows only.   It is yet another instance of Microsoft taking (from the likes of NASA this time) and using it to push their monopoly.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9701569">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701569" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701569" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701569">Dm</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701569" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701569" class="dsq-comment-message">What a joke. Typical Microsoft Hype. Once everyone has it downloaded I\'m sure they will start charging for it as usual. Very poor resolution. We are only 250,000 miles from the moon and in planet view that is the best they can do ? Google would let us look at all the debris we left in the Sea of Tranquility.  The resolution of Earth isn\'t 1/100th as good as Google Earth. I am not impressed at all.....Thanks for nothing Bill !!</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9701603">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701603" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701603" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701603" href="http://www.magnetcoverocks.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">david</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701603" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701603" class="dsq-comment-message">Try Slooh.com.......much better. It\'s not free like this one is, but it\'s also LVE images, not archived from other scopes. And for the price ($100/year unlimited usage), it\'s an unbeatable telescope investment. Trust me, I know. I\'ve been an astronomer for almost 25 years &amp; thr latest scope that I bought cost 10X as much as Slooh &amp; isn\'t NEAR what Slooh offers. The same set-up would have run me about 15,000-20,000 $$$.<br><br>Best part too is that you can control the scopes PERSONALLY &amp; tell them what you want to look at, then snap pics. Second best part is that you getcontrol of MULTIPLE scopes withthe yearly unlimited package. Right now we have 2 off the coast of Africa. An observatory has been rented already in Australia &amp; the scope will be added soon. And there\'s 1 more, soon to be 2, getting ready to come on-line in Chile.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9701605">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701605" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701605" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701605">Sceptic Observer</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701605" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701605" class="dsq-comment-message">Trust me, you don\'t see what Nasa see\'s. That resolution of the moon is a slam dunk for me. Although I\'m sure the unaware are sufficiently lulled.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9701606">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701606" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701606" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701606">Rafael Valdez Ley</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701606" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701606" class="dsq-comment-message">Muy Interesante que tengo que hacer para obtener el programa y poder utilisar este telescopio</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9701607">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701607" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701607" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701607">Stress</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701607" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701607" class="dsq-comment-message">I cry too because ms make things that look "beautiful" and then do sweet fuckall. Yay. For once, a complete product would be nice. Feel free to start with XP and move on to everything else. Notepad is ok.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9701608">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701608" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701608" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701608" href="http://www.moogr.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">byron</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701608" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701608" class="dsq-comment-message">WWT is absolutely fantastic.  I think what people are missing is it puts the data into the hands of everyone - even the scientific FITS images can be pulled down without having to know apis/integrations or which website to go to at what time of day and whom to request them from.<br><br>As an amateur astronomer having a tool like this for free has finally put the universe into the hands of many more people. I hope the scope manufacturers quickly embrace it as a tool to not only allow scope controls but integrate their learning, training and user experiences into it so people can share them.<br><br>Google sky doesn\'t compare, doesn\'t have the astronomy, astrometry, photometry or science aspect to allow one to do research and publish research and access everyone elses research at the same time.<br><br>People are terrible naive about the functionality of this app. TERRIBLY.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9701610">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701610" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701610" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701610" href="http://www.all-creatures.org/ach" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Bernard J. Coombs</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701610" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701610" class="dsq-comment-message">Further to my book "All creatures do go to Heaven, especially Pets - proved from the original languages of the Holy Bible." on:<br><a href="http://www.all-creatures.org/ach" rel="nofollow">www.all-creatures.org/ach</a> I wish to send you the first chapter of my book "Beyond the beyond." which is hardly believable.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9701609">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701609" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701609" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701609">Cynic</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701609" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701609" class="dsq-comment-message">This is late, but...<br><br>@Tom Burke: When Scoble wrote "radiation", he was probably referring to "ionizing radiation", which is the most common use of the word "radiation" according to Wikipedia.<br><br>I agree that it is a very sad commentary that he doesn\'t seem to understand that gamma rays and X-rays are EM radiation, just like infrared.<br><br>This is what happens when the mass media dumbs down science.  "Ionizing radiation" simply becomes "radiation", and everyone forgets about non-ionizing radiation.  As another example, power (measured in watts) and energy (watt-hours or joules) are often confused in the mass media.  For example, this article<br><a href="http://www.forbes.com/2001/04/02/0330power.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forbes.com/2001/04/02/0330power.html</a><br>claims that a clothes dryer uses "100 watts an hour".  That\'s kind of like driving 60 MPH per hour, isn\'t it?</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9701612">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701612" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701612" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9701612" href="http://www.siyonizm.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Kabala</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701612" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701612" class="dsq-comment-message">thank you</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9701611">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9701611" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9701611" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9701611">anthony</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9701611" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9701611" class="dsq-comment-message">i have microsoft worldwide telescope and i saw 2 tihngs that must be flawed or a mystery of the world...on search type in:<br>RA:14h31m30s<br>DEC:+20:15:03<br>also<br>RA:23h08m23s<br>DEC:-29:49:07</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-15324191">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-15324191" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-15324191" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-15324191" href="http://www.ikinciel.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anton</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-15324191" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-15324191" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks  Microsoft’s   <a href="http://www.ikinciel.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ikinciel.org/</a></div>\
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