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- sonixinos, on 04/23/2008, -1/+36"It's the nicest weather the Earth has ever had!"
- DickyT83, on 04/23/2008, -1/+19So the Earth is flat!
- EpicSelekta, on 04/23/2008, -0/+15"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." - Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot, 1994)
- rentmitchum, on 04/23/2008, -3/+16I keep a blue marble in my pocket at all times, because it makes me realize that's basically all we are, a speck of dust from my pocket on a giant marble. Why do that? It helps when people are ***** to each other, or people wrong me. I realize "Well we're all just ***** up animals on a big marble and when I die none of this will matter".
I also keep a piece of hematite.. and an old button with weird markings that looks like it fell off some official uniform. I'm kinda OCD about keeping things in my pockets. Maybe the marble isn't significant. - ZiggyDaZigster, on 04/23/2008, -1/+12Almost doesn't even look real, until you like zoom in on the picture, then it looks like Google earth.
- vroom101, on 04/23/2008, -0/+11Earth as seen by...
1. Apollo 17, 7 December 1972: http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-2006102 ... (medium), http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-2006102 ... (large)
2. Apollo 11, 16 July 1969: http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-2006102 ... (medium), http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-2006102 ... (large)
via photos 10 and 27 -> http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20061021.htm
3. Unmanned Apollo 4 (20) Mission, 9 November 1967: http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-2005012 ... (medium), http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-2005012 ... (large)
via photo 16 -> http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20050129.htm
4. Apollo 11, July 1969: http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-200702- ... (medium), http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-200702- ... (large)
via photo 85 -> http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-200702.htm - noob09, on 04/23/2008, -0/+6Does indeed make you feel insignificant... I wish I could live forever so that I could see it all.
Dugg! - scootercrunch, on 04/23/2008, -0/+5This is very similar to Tom Van Sant's 'Geosphere' project (it might be, he collaborated with NASA). It apparently took him over a year to acquire enough imagery to create a cloud-free view of the earth. Interestingly, he said that his aim was to show the earth 'as it truly is'
- Apoy, on 04/23/2008, -0/+4One of the nicest earth view I've ever seen.
- kakwakas, on 04/23/2008, -1/+5Big blue marble? Psh.
I prefer pale blue dot. - rivalius13, on 04/23/2008, -0/+3And Europe is just a myth, dreamt up by the liberals!
- dmolsen, on 04/23/2008, -0/+3More "blue marble" images plus some background info can be found on NASA's Earth Observatory site at:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarb ... - EpicSelekta, on 04/23/2008, -1/+4Not really. No clouds means no evaporated water, so it's not hot. Similarly, tundra levels are pretty much what they are now. In the words of Kirsty Hawkshaw, "it's a fine day".
- rentmitchum, on 04/23/2008, -0/+3I like that Google Earth is dictating to us what looks real nowadays.. I guess it's better than thinking the Earth is flat.
- inactive, on 04/23/2008, -0/+3Galapagos islands
- jorisb, on 04/23/2008, -0/+2The Ocean's should always appear blue, although the color may appear darker depending on the camera settings. Blue marble is supposed to be 'true' color.
Secondly, this is not an actual photograph. Notice that there are no clouds anywhere? Nasa's blue marble is a collection of satellite images that anybody can download. When you render all these images onto a 3d representation, you end up with what you see here.
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/features/blue_mar ... - infinityofnever, on 04/23/2008, -0/+2it's 2d
- EpicSelekta, on 04/24/2008, -0/+2Knowing that water evaporates when it's warm and freezes when it's cold makes me a nerd? You took 2nd grade over again, didn't you?
- vroom101, on 04/23/2008, -0/+2Big Blue Earth as seen from...
5. Russian Federation Mir Space Station during NASA's STS-71 mission, 2 July 1995: http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-2005112 ... (medium), http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-2005112 ... (large)
via photo 4 -> http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20051129.htm - SIant, on 04/23/2008, -1/+3A good day for a nice game of Where's Waldo.
- rentmitchum, on 04/23/2008, -0/+2Sweeet, I'm getting one.
- rentmitchum, on 04/23/2008, -0/+2I'm Rent Mitchum, doctor of science.
- asus2000, on 06/30/2008, -3/+5Brought to you by, the Arabs and the Africans who... wait wrong period of time, they haven't done anything positive since Algebra and Egypt.
- pyrotix, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Further to rentmitchum's comment, I actually carry a blue marble with the continents painted on it in my pocket. You can get them here, among other places:
http://www.spacetoys.com/proddetail.php?prod=GLB37 - i22yb, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Would be cool if it were magnetic, with accurate north & south poles :-)
- kakwakas, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1"Deep oceans are not included in the source data; the creator of the Blue Marble uses a uniform blue color for deep ocean regions, and this value has not been completely blended with observations of shallow water in coastal areas. The lack of blending may, in some cases, make the transition between shallow coastal water and deep ocean appear unnatural."
- rentmitchum, on 04/23/2008, -1/+2We'd all be boiled alive. lol.. or boiled dead, depending on if you wanna be a jacksauce about it.
- unusualbob, on 04/23/2008, -2/+3Holy gigantic image batman!
- InitialDMP5, on 04/23/2008, -1/+2You must also think you are Andy Rooney.
- kiwimonk, on 04/23/2008, -1/+2I didn't realize Baghdad was so close to Canada.
- scallon, on 04/23/2008, -1/+2You can bury me for being stupid all you want, but someone tell me the name of that group of islands west of South America. Google Maps doesn't have a name and i don't have Google earth installed on this machine.
- nicholassouza, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1This comment is deep.
- rentmitchum, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNC117UYsHs
Bitches don't know bout my round earth. - somedirtbag, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Dugg for the MST3K line.
- kero552, on 04/23/2008, -1/+2Try NASA World Wind, virtual globe, but its goal are not streets but clouds, rain and other stuff. Nice globe images.
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
Screens http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/screenshots-bm.html - MrCrispyChicken, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Surely the Earth should be mainly grey due to all the concrete buildings etc. Or is it that overcrowding isnt actually that bad.
- inactive, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego!?
- rivalius13, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1I wanna see the other side.....
- EpicSelekta, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Beautiful observation!
- NanoStuff, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1I wish Google maps was so continuous. At low zoom levels it looks like someone threw up and tried to clean it up.
- nemodot, on 04/23/2008, -0/+0Hey, i can see my house. Right there on the south of South America. In between peninsula Valdez and Buenos Aires.
- Ockniel, on 04/23/2008, -1/+1I was about to say the same thing, should it be that you zoom in and it looks like earth?
- Xcrion, on 04/23/2008, -0/+0I found the "Lost"-Island... Look to the North of Cuba...
- EpicSelekta, on 04/23/2008, -1/+1What about Seal?
- mojoface, on 04/23/2008, -0/+0omnomnomnom
- Towelie, on 04/23/2008, -2/+2i can see my house!!
- quamb, on 04/23/2008, -1/+1How come in some photos of Earth the oceans are black though this one it is blue?
Secondly, why are the stars blacked out in Nasa photos? Or is this just a camera exposure issue? -
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