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- expatcatalyst, on 04/28/2008, -2/+135No matter how much turmoil is going on down here, it still looks so peaceful from out there!
- diabolicdiablo, on 04/28/2008, -6/+95For the record: anyone that thinks NASA is a wast of money, I would like to point them in the direction of http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/spinoffs2.shtml !!! Spending $700 billion + on war is not conducive to a well balanced economy.
- yellowfish04, on 04/28/2008, -0/+45as cool as that second shot is, imagine how amazing it would have been to see that first image back in 1960.
- vroom101, on 04/28/2008, -2/+391. Large version for the photo on the right -- sunburst over Earth as seen from NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour, STS-77 mission, May 1996: http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-2006102 ...
via 23 at http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20061021.htm
STS-77: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-7 ... (science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-77/mission-sts-77.html)
2. Thunderclouds + sunset over the Western Pacific Ocean, July 21, 2003: http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-200702- ...
via 49 at http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-200702.htm - erkokite, on 04/28/2008, -0/+34This photo is even older:
http://www.airspacemag.com/space-exploration/16045 ...
Taken from a V2 in 1946. - Hobbes24, on 04/28/2008, -2/+34i had no idea the world was so grey and fuzzy in the 1960s!
- demodawid, on 04/28/2008, -3/+33Guy 1: "Just nuke the bastards"
Guy 2:"Wait, have you thought how BAD that would look like from space?" - airwalkery2k, on 04/28/2008, -0/+17Yep. Camera technology has come a long way.
- jaxontyler, on 04/28/2008, -2/+18Just imagine how far we could be if we spent all that money in that useless war on space programs. We could establishing colonies and floating towards other solar systems.
- erkokite, on 04/28/2008, -0/+13Don't feel bad. They say if you remember the 60's, then you weren't there.
- desuexmachina, on 04/28/2008, -1/+13Just to be the Devil's advocate, the cold war certainly helped us get up there in the first place. It would be nice if we had that kind of competition again, maybe not adversarial but certainly if somebody was competing with us again.
- Pake, on 04/28/2008, -0/+10Wish they had a picture showing the differences between 1996 and 2008. Even better would be ~10 year intervals between the pictures from 1960 till now. Definitely cool as crap though to see how far we've come.
- Nougat, on 04/28/2008, -2/+12Actually, it would probably look about the same.
- doyoumrjones, on 04/28/2008, -0/+9Beautiful.
- NSResponder, on 04/28/2008, -1/+10It does not follow that because bigger wastes of money exist, that NASA is not a waste of money.
If we want to get off this planet, we've got to get the government out of the space business.
-jcr - Providence, on 04/28/2008, -1/+10"Look the pale blue 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. "
-Dr. Carl Sagan - pyrotix, on 04/28/2008, -2/+10Buried as inaccurate, the earth is flat :P
- inactive, on 04/28/2008, -0/+8My God, It's full of lens flare!
- wild, on 04/28/2008, -1/+9"The Earth will be fine. Its the people that are *****."
-Carlin - NoobSaibot, on 04/28/2008, -1/+9while I agree, you cannot deny that many, many new things have also been invented due to wars.
just a shame that as a race, we seem to be at our most inventive when planning new ways to shoot the hell out of each other. - mijelh, on 04/28/2008, -0/+7You can bet in the 60's all the world felt fuzzy
- Sabretou, on 04/28/2008, -1/+8It's because of global warming!
- Lyght, on 04/28/2008, -0/+6Pretty sure a major website isn't going to go down.
- bamafun, on 04/28/2008, -3/+9Over 40 non friends voted it up and after 24 hours of being at the top of images it still didnt go - gotta love that one =) and I didnt shout it or share it with one person lol
- bmystry, on 04/28/2008, -0/+6I don't think we've come all that far in certain areas unless you focus on our picture abilities. If there was a war with aliens but it was a picture war then we would be pretty damn good.
- Mansellisme, on 04/28/2008, -3/+9War, famine, poverty, mass death, murder, greed, adultry. And yet anyone could pass by and comment on how damn good we look.
- misterteenwolf, on 04/28/2008, -0/+5some days i just wanna go chill in space
- displacednomad, on 04/28/2008, -0/+5Remember this: Tang was not a NASA invention. Tang was made before NASA took it into space- NASA merely popularized it. Much the same way Spielberg's ET popularized Reese's candies.
- OneLess, on 04/28/2008, -0/+5I think you've got that switched around. God happened because a bunch of ***** just stuck together.
- erkokite, on 04/28/2008, -0/+5It was an American launch. Despite whatever you may think, the space programs of the Americans (and the Russians too) owe a lot to the Nazis. The Nazis were still awful and did horrific things. History is what it is. Let's not try to politicize or sanitize it.
- RSS14, on 04/28/2008, -1/+5The human race is ***** epic!
- funkyjunk3, on 04/28/2008, -0/+4I am just itching to find the photo archives from those missions
- abben, on 04/28/2008, -1/+5im sorry i meant cottage cheese
- spikespikespike, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3eh, this was taken in 1961 (by a goshdarn commie no less), looks pretty damn good to me:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080412.html - mijelh, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3In any case, it was either God or the Flying Spaghetti Monster
- Thrilltone, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3I remember a few years ago when Lou Dobbs bought space.com and quit his job on MSNBC.
He thought he was gonna be the next Google. - Atomic05, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3You aren't helping.
- inajeep, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3Yep, can't hear the screams from up there.
- WRXFiles, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3It's the Canadian arm in the second picture, and a picture of Eastern Canada (Nova Scotia) in the first
- NSResponder, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3It was the drugs. Apparently, quality has improved in the meantime. ;-)
-jcr - 1807, on 04/28/2008, -1/+4for other instances of how far we've come...see the documentary Planet Earth In 1080p HD
- maybeishould, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3"They spend too much."
We don't spend enough on NASA! We spend more on video games and bottled water every year for crying out loud! - DJSPin047, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3Earth just gets better looking with age.
- lintmonkey, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2Maybe you have chicken pox. Or the clap.
- Diderotten, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2And China's suing us. Well, actually it's CNN, but they feel like they're suing us.
- dimplemonkey, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2That was a great article. Props to you erkokite for digging that one out. Too bad that didn't make FP.
- limpits, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2i never knew the equator was so visible..
but seriously, what is that line in the second picture? - gwellington, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2"your retarted"
That was a nice touch. - pedo, on 04/28/2008, -1/+3uh, the pics are nice, but how does this show "how far we have come" other than the fact that we can take better pictures now?
- bamafun, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2use adblocker
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