Starship Asterisk*

"Formless protoplasm able to mock and reflect all forms and organs and processes — viscous agglutinations of bubbling cells — rubbery fifteen-foot spheroids infinitely plastic and ductile — slaves of suggestion, builders of cities — more and more sullen, more and more intelligent, more and more...

Unfortunately, I don't run Windows, so I can't see it. For crying out loud, what is a site like APOD doing using platform specific media? Same here, so I looked at the page source. A direct link to the movie is: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0612/sunaction_hinode.mpg which plays fine in Sa...