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Title: Earth flyover -- very cool
Post by: Midway on November 14, 2011, 09:14:34 PM

http://www.businessinsider.com/earth-time-lapse-view-from-flyover-in-space-2011-11 (http://www.businessinsider.com/earth-time-lapse-view-from-flyover-in-space-2011-11)

watch it in full screen mode.

 :cool: :aok

Title: Re: Earth flyover -- very cool
Post by: USRanger on November 14, 2011, 09:23:40 PM

Now that's the coolest thing I've seen in awhile.  The Northern lights & lightening storms are breathtaking.  Great find!

Title: Re: Earth flyover -- very cool
Post by: Dichotomy on November 14, 2011, 09:30:56 PM

Nice Midway..

The music gave me a headache though.  Turn the sound down and play something that doesn't make you think you're stuck in an elevator full of fat people.

Title: Re: Earth flyover -- very cool
Post by: MachFly on November 14, 2011, 09:43:10 PM

Thanks for posting

Title: Re: Earth flyover -- very cool
Post by: IrishOne on November 14, 2011, 11:35:54 PM

very profound.   imagine, on a cosmic scale, how little it would take to disrupt such a fragile thing as our atmosphere.   seeing it from this perspective makes me contemplate just how very lucky not only as species, but as a life bearing planet, we truly are.  great post.   :aok

Title: Re: Earth flyover -- very cool
Post by: Midway on November 15, 2011, 11:05:05 AM

http://vimeo.com/32001208

High Def version.   :cool: :cool: :aok

Title: Re: Earth flyover -- very cool
Post by: curry1 on November 15, 2011, 02:59:23 PM

If you could put the universe in a tube, you'd end up with a very long tube. Probably extending twice the size of the universe, because when you collapse the universe, it expands, and it would be, uh...

You wouldn't want to put it into a tube.