Horde of space GIFs

4chan's worksafe GIF board– a treasure trove of excellent content before it hits the social media tracts –has a great thread of space GIFs up now. I've selected a few of the best here.

There are a couple hundred more in the full thread. Put your face to the GIF firehose that is my Tumblr.

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http://maggiekb.com/ Maggie Koerth-Baker

My god. It’s full of space gifs. There. I said it because you refused.
- http://deansli.st/ Dean Putney
  
  I’m sorry, Maggie, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
- euansmith
  
  That’s something… wonderful
http://www.facebook.com/postelwait Cameron Postelwait

thanks for posting some gifs on boingboing, my work filter thinks this work safe site is porn!
- http://deansli.st/ Dean Putney
  
  Finally, we join their lofty ranks!
- TWX
  
  Based on many of the posts that have hit the front page over the years, this is not a work-safe site. Which is frustrating to me since I would like to look at Boing Boing at work due to many of the interesting things on here.
  - awjt
    
    Use your phone. And take a break every once in a while. It’s good for you.
    - http://www.facebook.com/postelwait Cameron Postelwait
      
      best advice all week :)
http://twitter.com/MrAaronSwainEsq Aaron Swain

There should be some sort of internet law requiring that animated GIFs be at least a close approximation to a perfect loop.
- MrKahuna
  
  GIF pedantry… who would have guessed? ;-)
- NotThePostYouAreLookingFor
  
  You may enjoy http://www.reddit.com/r/Cinemagraphs
feetleet

Alas, those pesky banners. Tentacle (g)rape isn’t going to go over too well in-office. And planets? Pshh. They’re totally just salting your goatse PTSD with those circles, you know. And lo, the frontier was rugged.
theophrastvs

ah this posting is why boing-boing is currently taking forever to load (over admittedly not-the-fastest pipe) ..maybe.
TWX

I don’t care if 4chan claims to have a safe-for-work subforum, I’m not going to go there at work, if at all.
zuludaddy

Lovely stuff, but horde or hoard? Hmmm…
- OgilvyTheAstronomer
  
  This is one of the few instances where either word works…
  - Blinkers
    
    Not really. Horde is used in reference to a group of living things, not items.
http://www.jjsaul.com Jim Saul

“Pump Up The Volume” by MARRS should be playing in the background.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9gOQgfPW4Y
vrey_oneida

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
noah django

OP is a … space enthusiast.

if you follow the timeline of this post and compare with the timestamps in the /wsg/ thread, (bearing in mind BB is US west-coast times and 4chan is east-coast) there is acknowledgement of BB, a plea for OP to delete the thread, and two–three in the time it took to write this–ham-fisted spam ads (not usually seen on 4chan), but most importantly NO MORE GIFs. lol, way to derail the thread, yo. not mad, though. it’s pretty funny.
http://www.facebook.com/Simon.Papon.Jousset Simon Papon-Jousset

How is the second one done? I mean, it looks like the camera is traveling through space, in a very, very far away space. I don’t think this as ever been done, or did it?
- euansmith
  
  One of the guys on the ISS took up a disposable camera and threw it at the stars.
daneyul

This 4chan place is pretty cool–the kids are mesmerized! Can’t wait to explore what other great stuff this site has with them!