truly amazing pics from the international space station

John F. Kerry · 11-18-2010, 08:44 PM

Astronaut Douglas Wheelock Shares Photos of Earth From Space on Twitter

Lloydy · 11-19-2010, 06:30 AM

Amazing photos. I think if I could choose to have one experience in my life it would be to see earth from space, I don't think anything you could ever do would compare to that.

m0rb1d · 11-19-2010, 06:47 AM

oh my god, that aurora borealis is ridiculous.
what a beautiful, mindwarping experience seeing the earth like that must be.

John F. Kerry · 11-19-2010, 08:12 PM

NASA - Cities at Night: An Orbital Perspective

heres a really interesting article on cities from space at night. same kinda idea

fenderbender · 11-19-2010, 10:26 PM

Yeah a dream of mine is to see the earth from space. It is one of those crazy dreams that still falls in the kinda realistic area. Like you can pretty much get into space if you have enough money now... i feel like in a couple decades average joe should be able to do it.

amazing pictures

fenderbender · 11-19-2010, 10:28 PM

also i never knew how lit up the earth is at night. it is fucking awesome looking

catastrophe · 11-20-2010, 01:28 AM

i love the one of venice italy

Cerpin Taxt · 11-20-2010, 09:02 AM

Incredible. Love the 'at night' pictures.

Man in Black · 11-20-2010, 12:25 PM

the last one of the deforestation of the amazon is a little sad. literally puts it in a new perspective.

FourtySecondRip · 11-20-2010, 03:03 PM

everyone itching to go to space in this thread was all gung-ho for slashing constellation, the ares rockets and nasas budget lulz

John F. Kerry · 11-20-2010, 10:09 PM

hell yea fortysecond. i feel like YOU AND ME ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE IN THE FUCKING WORLD who still care about project constellation.

i was so excited and inspired by it, and it seemed so cheap compared to so many stupid useless things we do, that i just cant believe people have basically stopped carring about it.

i think there should be riots in the streets like they had in london and paris from people who are pissed about that.

how was it not a campaign issue this time? the loss of constellation is the loss of thousands of jobs and the potential for any new ones from it is totally destroyed

how were stewart and colbert so oblivious to that in their rally- if they wanted something that most americans do support and could rally behind, its space exploration and leading the world in space tech.

fuckin eh. neil fucking armstrong the man who first stepped on the moon and miraculously this happened in our lifetimes or near enough to them that that man is still alive today told congress what an ass backward idea it was to abandon that amazing program, and still nothing changes.

it will probably be looked at as the biggest blunder of our generation, even worse than the near collapse of the global financial markets.... who cares about the financial markets on THIS GLOBE... when there are thousands of other globes out there that we will now never get to or be delayed by 40 years and have the chineese do it instead because we dropped the fucking ball and took all our knowledge from iss and 20 years of running joint us - world missions in low earth orbit and instead of taking it to the next logical step and building a long term base on the moon we just said FUGETABOUTIT.

thats the single reason why i hate obama more than any other... ill say flat out right now if he turns around and restarts it i would vote for him in 2012.

osirus2020 · 11-21-2010, 06:03 AM

AOL news?

They still around?

John F. Kerry · 11-22-2010, 09:01 PM

damn i gotta post more space shit this is by far my most thanked post ever

people like space much more than politics evidently

11-19-2010, 06:30 AM	#2 (permalink)
Lloydy KTF Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: England Posts: 11,976 Thanks: 533 Thanked 2,478 Times in 1,139 Posts	Amazing photos. I think if I could choose to have one experience in my life it would be to see earth from space, I don't think anything you could ever do would compare to that. __________________ Keep the red flag flying high

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m0rb1d Analord Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Wu-sconsin Posts: 1,759 Thanks: 226 Thanked 141 Times in 95 Posts	oh my god, that aurora borealis is ridiculous. what a beautiful, mindwarping experience seeing the earth like that must be. __________________

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catastrophe intuēri Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Minnesotaaa Posts: 1,235 Thanks: 727 Thanked 226 Times in 155 Posts	i love the one of venice italy __________________ “Liƒë Is a Drëam, From Which Wë First Must Wakë Bëƒorë Wë May Drëam Again…” RIP Gov “To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.”

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Cerpin Taxt Yahookan Zealot Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 7,213 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 843 Thanked 1,919 Times in 1,011 Posts	Incredible. Love the 'at night' pictures. __________________ Step Back. Evaluate. Recognize. "All memory is really a form of regurgitation of undigested experience." -Alan Watts

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Man in Black willie d Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: dayton,ohio Posts: 4,817 Thanks: 3,200 Thanked 1,348 Times in 896 Posts	the last one of the deforestation of the amazon is a little sad. literally puts it in a new perspective. __________________ When I was arrested I was dressed in black.

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FourtySecondRip ECS Join Date: May 2002 Location: Emerald City Posts: 820 Thanks: 25 Thanked 107 Times in 87 Posts	everyone itching to go to space in this thread was all gung-ho for slashing constellation, the ares rockets and nasas budget lulz __________________ ..,,,O,,,.. <\FSR/> .,._/\_.,

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