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1. Ah. That is clearly a phenomenon known as The Nexus of Ubertramp.

2. Close. But this can’t be real. It has to be an artists rendering because if it’s what I think it is, it is impossible to take a picture of it. No camera or probe would survive the gravitational forces involved. This looks like what happens when two unstable worm holes collide. Or, even worse, a cross current between two intersecting gravity waves…which could theoretically happen if two ships came out of hyperspace into the same point in n-space. Not a pretty picture.

3. Drink umbrella from below.

4. You may be right, Lex. Especially for a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.

5. Dang I missed this yesterday. Not looking at the other guesses, I figure it to be some sort of Japanese paper umbrella?

6. Yup. Farley got it. Now lets pull back a little bit…
   http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/2NZG1QP52AgRaze_oBtxBg?feat=directlink

7. Aha. A photographic sneak attack… the Adorable Alert has now gone to Level Purple.

8. That was at the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival, by the way:
   http://www.cdbf.org/

9. So I was right! I had always heard that the Dragonboat Gods live in a gravitational vortex, but here is proof!