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Old 12-02-2008, 10:35 PM
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Just got a new tattoo

Design is based on the Pioneer Plaque. So super nerdy. But super tight. Symbol on wrist is hyperfine translation of hydrogen.

Then 8 planets of solar system, and the symbols bellow them are their measurements from the sun using the hydrogens spin-flip as a measurement.


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Pretty cool. It's about time the nerd world and the tat world met. I take it you read a lot of xkcd too?

Btw - for the sake of all that's holy don't get the naked dude tattooed on yourself.
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now you are totally prepared for first contact.
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pretty cool if thats what your into, I just cant stand when people get dumb **** that doesnt mean anything to em
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Originally Posted by kotomile

Btw - for the sake of all that's holy don't get the naked dude tattooed on yourself.


Nice tat! You will get questions about it all the time I guess! From distance people will wonder "wtf is this"?
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Is that your leg? Can't tell if that's your shoe or not.
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I'd say it's his right arm
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It's either a semi-beefy arm or a chicken leg.
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By the hairs on it, I definitely say it's an arm!
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Originally Posted by kotomile
It's either a semi-beefy arm or a chicken leg.
Jeeze make me feel like a fatass.

My arm ************. Welcome to what a man looks like.

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I take it you read a lot of xkcd too?
Never before but now I am a fan now that I looked it up. Its funny, but there is a whole genre of hot girls who find nerdiness attractive.

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pretty cool if thats what your into, I just cant stand when people get dumb **** that doesnt mean anything to em
I've been damn near obsessed with Astronomy since I was 4 y/o. If I wasn't so terrible at math, I might have majored in it.

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All I can say is...do something unique to your character. Something that you as an individual person can appreciate. Don't get a "trendy" tattoo like some tribal **** or a chinese symbol. This dude I know has a chinese letter on the side of his neck, I'm like "that's cool...I have never seem that before (sarcasm), what does that mean?" He's like "it means strength." It looks like a funny looking R C, so we call this dude RC Cola neck. I told him that there is a conspiracy where chinese letters don't mean what the tattoo artists think, and your RC Cola chinese symbol is a proverb for "I like ***** all over my face."
But hey if you're into hydrogen and the solar system, then that's cool in my book...
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What if you like ***** on your face? I want to know the chinese symbol for that
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Now you can look at your anus without taking your pants off.

Good job.

But seriously, I like it.
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Could use it as a ------- gauge. Which planet can YOU take.

Cool concept.
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Originally Posted by jayc72
Could use it as a ------- gauge. Which planet can YOU take.

lol. Good one.

He left out the arrow with the words "YOU ARE HERE" next to the 4th one.
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Pretty cool.
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Originally Posted by Loki047
What if you like ***** on your face? I want to know the chinese symbol for that
I'm sure Hustler can help you out with that one.
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lol you could name the freckle at the far right of all the planets "the planet formerly known as pluto"
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How great did Neptune feel? I just got my pit done and it was less than comfortable.
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Originally Posted by georgefury1
How great did Neptune feel? I just got my pit done and it was less than comfortable.
Neptune was a little bad, but its so tiny. It was the sun that was a problem. He was holding my wrist at a funny angle which popped that tendon up and kept coloring it and recoloring it. Became annoying after round 2-3.

Originally Posted by mazda/nissan
lol you could name the freckle at the far right of all the planets "the planet formerly known as pluto"
Pluto was originally part of the whole sketch, I decided he was more of a protoplanet :-D

My plan is to accurately depict the kuiper belt somewhere else on my body :-P
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