What Does Your Desktop Wallpaper Say About You?

economy · Oct 28, 2015

Take a screenshot of your desktop and post it here!
If you're feeling kind, include your wallpaper separately too.

https://www.nasa.gov/content/hubble-s-high-definition-panoramic-view-of-the-andromeda-galaxy/

Enigman · Oct 28, 2015

We have a picture of the same thing. Mines in IR.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap051020.html

Infrared image of the Andromeda Galaxy seen edge-on, with glowing orange and yellow dust lanes forming a ring-like disk around a bright central bulge against a dark starry background.

EDIT: All right this is mildly creepy. You have the same avatar as I do on another forum. ALL HAIL CAFFEINE!

jtbell · Oct 28, 2015

I have a rotating series of backgrounds on the same general theme. Here's one of them:

lisab · Oct 28, 2015

A photo of one of our local volcanoes, Mt St Helens, very similar to this:

Photo of a volcano with a broad, partly collapsed summit and grey, barren slopes, with a thin plume of steam rising from the crater under a clear blue sky.

davenn · Oct 28, 2015

Desktop screenshot with a dense field of file and folder icons over a starfield wallpaper showing a red and blue nebula with a bright central bubble-shaped structure.

my work computer
it and the home one pretty much always display either astro or storm images
This one is the bubble nebulaDave

Garlic · Oct 29, 2015

Illustrated scene from Darkest Dungeon: a ruined gothic castle tower on a hilltop under a rust-red sky, with bare dead trees, dense shrubs and a cobblestone path in the foreground.

It's a wallpaper from the game "Darkest Dungeon"

phinds · Oct 29, 2015

Have to double this one up because the original is ~square. It's a giant solar flare. In just the 2D area enclosed by the flare, you could fit 100 Earths.

Two side-by-side copies of an orange ultraviolet image of the Sun, with a large looping solar flare arching off the upper right edge of the disk.

davenn · Oct 30, 2015

lisab said:

A photo of one of our local volcanoes, Mt St Helens, very similar to this:

Sweet, lisab, I really love that NW part of the USA and into Canada
Have been to Mt St Helens a couple of times 2000 and 2006

2000

Snow-streaked volcanic peak with a broken crater rim above a barren, eroded landscape of gray ash and gullies in the foreground under a hazy sky.

2006

Snow-covered volcano with a jagged, eroded crater rim on the left and a smooth snowy cone on the right, a thin plume of steam rising under a clear blue sky, barren gray terrain in the foreground.

Dave

DrClaude · Oct 30, 2015

Satellite view of North America at night-free daylight with snow cover across Canada and the northern United States, the Great Lakes visible, and green unsnowed land in the eastern and southern United States.

newjerseyrunner · Oct 30, 2015

http://blog.al.com/space-news/2009/04/pleiades_aao_big.jpg

Pythagorean · Oct 30, 2015

Digitally composited scene of a white spacesuited astronaut standing waist-deep in bright green grass under a dark blue night sky with a full moon and a flock of birds.

berkeman · Oct 30, 2015

Riding bikes along the Alameda Creek Trail headed for Niles Canyon (back when the hills were green)...

Photo of a shallow creek winding through a wide sandy and gravel bed, with grassy green hills and scattered trees under a pale blue sky.

Silicon Waffle · Oct 30, 2015

I used to decorate my desktop with colorful wallpapers but after leaving college I have always been using a solid black color, even for the computers at work.

berkeman · Oct 30, 2015

DrClaude said:

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@DrClaude -- Yikes! What year would that correspond to?

DrClaude · Oct 30, 2015

berkeman said:

@DrClaude -- Yikes! What year would that correspond to?

2001-02. You can find the details here: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002400/a002487/

Edit: I found another link: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=2657
It specifies that this was in February 2002.

It doesn't say here, but I remember that the oceans and Great Lakes were kept blue in the picture even if they were covered with ice.

StevieTNZ · Oct 30, 2015

<3 The View, so

Matejxx1 · Oct 30, 2015

had this one for a while now

Desktop wallpaper of blurred white mathematical equations on a black background, including partial derivatives of ln L(x, θ), integrals over R_n of T(x) f(x, θ) dx, and a density expression with σ² in the denominator.

Sid Collins · Oct 30, 2015

Desktop screenshot with a black-and-white photo wallpaper of a black Tesla Model S sedan drifting and leaving tire smoke on a road, with a crowded column of desktop icons on the left.

Gotta get in some Tesla Motors love! :)

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