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- Anrkist, on 10/12/2007, -7/+364It's a nice place to visit but I'd hate to live there.
- KnightMareInc, on 10/11/2007, -18/+270photoshoped, everybody knows the earth is flat.
- LarianLeQuella, on 10/11/2007, -6/+76One of my favorite pictures of all time. Should put crap into perspective for folks, but instead they all just seem to gloss over it.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+46A direct link - thanks! makes me believe in humanity again...!
- oldschoolrulez, on 10/11/2007, -4/+37Earth is nothing compared to Omicron Persei 8.
- vroom101, on 10/11/2007, -1/+31History of the Blue Marble
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/BlueMarble_history.html - macsimusprime, on 10/11/2007, -1/+24As far as wallpapers go, I like my blue marble with Aurora Borealis: http://www.thethinkingblog.com/2007/06/aurora-nature-lights-up-skies.html
- h3ndrix, on 10/11/2007, -5/+21I know its supposed to be high res, but does it get blurry for anyone else when blown up to full size?
- K4P741NxKRUNCH, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9It should have been taken with a 1 terapixel camera so we could zoom in and see peoples faces.
Now THATS high res! - nikkesen, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10Breath taking. I envy those who have seen the stars from above and many nations at once.
- Adgeman, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10It's pretty 'color' too for 1907's :)
- Unremarkable, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Circular anyways. I see no proof that it isn't flat.
- thewump, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Hmm.. not so much a high res version of this, but more the normal one stretched until it looks grainy
- ideapower, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9that's hardly "very high resolution" but nice pic anyway
- interiot, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9Yeah, well, it's not necessarily good internet etiquette to link directly to images, at least give some credit to the guys who are paying for the bandwidth. In this case, we all know that it came from Wikipedia, which takes much of its money through donations, but still, the image has a whole article written about it, it wouldn't hurt to link to that instead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble
- 98acura, on 10/11/2007, -12/+18Every time I've tried to goto wikipedia.org today, I keep getting server not found. Anyone else having this problem?
...and PLEASE get rid of these ***** up comments! - 4eon, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9Madagascar...i like to move it move it...
- jimbobaii, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5It's coincidental, not ironic.
- jmpeagle, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7why the hell does this site not have a pic section yet
- jimbobaii, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6I'm struggling to resist the urge to try and rotate the thing.
- danakin, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6It isn't. It's just awesome. Which is why it's been Dugg to the frontpage.
Welcome to Digg. - ajchavar, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5myabe i'm not up on my astronomy photos, but did anyoen else think of the carl sagan "pale blue dot?"
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/4/41/350px-PaleBlueDot.jpg - theOster, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8are you using "photoshoped" rather than "photoshopped" as the new Adobe Workaround?
Me likes... - gann, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7I wonder... is linking the image this way an abuse of wikipedia's bandwidth? It's 6.3MB!
- andregriffin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Sometimes life is more important than news.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6beautiful planet filled with morons.....
- elementfire, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Yes, it's very blurry. I think it's being blown way past it's original resolution.
- gene, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5This isn't the Blue Marble image. Blue Marble is the composite that is the entire earth without any cloud cover.
- Wizer04, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Yeah same here dude
- uwjames, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I'll bite. I'm certainly a critic of current American policies, but quite frankly your an idiot if you don't think America has made the world a better place in the last couple centuries. There are too many innovations to list, but I think cars, airplanes, computers, the internet, the polio vaccine, jazz and blues, and the Bill of Rights, are decent starting points. If you still disagree then put your money where your mouth is and eliminate anything in your life with American ties. Better yet, move to North Korea.
- fr0mundacheese, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5It looks different than Google's version.
- Asianwaste, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I've always wondered where does the water go once it goes off the edge.
- Ndiggnation, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4BIG does not = Hi-res. Still nice looking though, once it's scaled down a bit.
- Junkey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4BLERN!!!!!!!!!!!!
- EXreaction, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3It's really grainy and fuzzy...
- EXreaction, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4NASA World Wind is far better than google earth for high quality pictures.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5if the comments dont force them to temporarily shut it down,
the digg effect should finish the job - Typhoon2009, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Still fuzzy.
- theOster, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Speaking of perspective, i love this from sagan:
http://obs.nineplanets.org/psc/pbd.html - killerofkiller, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3" We succeeded in taking that picture, and if you look at it, you see a 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.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
Carl Sagan - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3probably because they don't spell so well...
- DiggzDE, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I've passed larger kidney stones than that.
- tippmann1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3@tacs
wow your an idiot. keyword "innovation" not "invention" (although the airplane was invented in the US [not the concept of flight but really a practical means of doing so]) I'll give you that cars, and the internet weren't invented in the US (and maybe computers if you can prove it) but they were most certainly innovated incredibly far by Americans. I have to give you a retard card if you think that America has not contributed at all to making the world a better place (think about WWII and how we helped out a hell of alot)
good day to you dumbass - chimaera2005, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Did we really kill wikipedia this morning?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Exactly. All these people, and only this small globe of territory/resources to fight over. Bring on the competition!!
- eggloaf, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3aww hellz yeah dawg! this is straight up *****! im gonna go watch some mtv, that ***** where its at!!!!!!1111
- sonu27, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Why not try two updated images of the Blue Marble.
East: http://www.flickr.com/photos/amarjeetrai/91885403/
West: http://www.flickr.com/photos/amarjeetrai/91885404/ - alky, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Are those stars or just noise in the black areas?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3more like in resized amirite?
- flashback99, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Our lovely giant blue ball of ignorance.
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