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- majorbabu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14http://www.theunion.net.nyud.net:8090/lindberg/Pretty%20Planet/Pretty_Planet.htm
- aplusplus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Earth is my favorite planet.
- mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Meh, I've been to better.
- Wamzlee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8LOL! I get it!...BREATHTAKING...pictures from SPACE! lawl!
:- Okay...maybe there wasn't a joke there. - retral, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Some of these seem fake (mostly the full-planet night shots) ...but the one where you can see the border of day and night is really cool (the coolest imo).
- betonethernet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"Earth rules!!!!" - red vs blue
- euth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Ha ha, pictures from space are guaranteed to make it to the front page, along with bad Photoshop tutorials and articles on Apple, Nintendo, Linux and Google.
- Goodsoup, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Not to nitpick your comment, but that actually is Iceland, in the winter. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16443
- jarcoal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8i always say this when some nice photos are posted on digg, but then i get in my car and feel like an ***** for ruining it....
- Blah_Blah_Blah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Thes pictures are really great. Makes me appreciate nature more. ^_^
- lykedoctor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Personally, I think these images are not that great; in fact I would say they suck when I realize that they made the homepage of Digg. Before you bury me, here is my justification: most of them are either inaccurate or photoshop composites (thanks for the snopes links koick), half of them are out of focus, and I have no clue how people expect to use these as wallpaper--that is unless people are using 800x600 monitors (please excuse the latter comment if you are).
I can offer these links to images that, in my opinion again, are in a completely different ballpark. And before I do, I should state that I have previously submitted these links, which only received a couple of diggs. I have no clue how that was possible after seeing the number of diggs to these pictures. Furthermore, I posted these links in response to the overwhelmingly popular image of the infrared satellite photo of Malaspina Glacier (one of my favorite images ever--I've had it on my wall for the last year), which was actually a LOW resolution picture, compared to the 20-75mb files available in the following links...
NASA: Earth As Art
gallery 1: http://edcw2ks15.cr.usgs.gov:8090/ImageGallery/SilverStream/Pages/pgImageDisplay.html?CollectionID=33
gallery 2: http://edcw2ks15.cr.usgs.gov:8090/ImageGallery/SilverStream/Pages/pgImageDisplay.html?CollectionID=36
In the context of this post, I hope Digg doesn't become a repository of links to images that can most likely just be found using a google image search. You might say after reading my comment that I'm just jealous that my original post never received attention--I'm not. However, it makes me disappointed (as in when a parent catches their child doing drugs etc.) when I see this kind of sub-par quality representing Digg.
I hope a couple of people are able to read my comment and d/l some of the photos before I'm buried.
~my ¢2
ps... if anybody wants a real wallpaper of the earth at map with the lights, here's a 2400x1200px image:
http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov//1438/earth_lights_lrg.jpg
If you insist on printing it out for a poster, here's a 16,384 by 8,192 pixel 40mb tiff:
http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov//1438/land_lights_16384.tif - Arramol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yes, Greenland is icier than Iceland. That does not mean that there is never ice in Iceland.
- npdcrazypyro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It might take a little more than 2 seconds to do that...
- Linkage155, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Thanks for the post, old images, but still awesome looking.
Here's the best I can do, a pretty fast (personaly hosted) mirror: http://thegtaspot.com/digg/diggmirror.html
(Sorry about the few images missing, could not get those) - mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Can anybody tell me if the link is dead? I mean, I'd click it and everything but I thought it would be better to take some time to come in here and read all the comments so I didn't waste my click. You also can't really trust one person saying it's dead, so I guess if more than ten people say it, it really must be dead. And then eventually when it's fine again, we can wade through the myriad of "dead" comments just for the nostalgia.
- mediamanbkk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5and FemBots
- cazamova, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5mirrored for you guys: http://url123.com/5928r
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4so...
A story about www.earth.google.com will make it to front page? - Carv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The night time views are sweet. Digg.
- alxdman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4No, he's right, it is Iceland,
From and ealier comment .... http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16443
This is Greenland ... http://www.fvalk.com/images/Earth_hrpt/Winter/Greenland-10!.gif - euth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5DIGG EFFECT!
Wait, what? - viper233, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Obligatory quote:
"Dude, I can see my house from here!" - koick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3-"Night arrives over Europe and Northern Africa":
http://snopes.com/photos/sunset.asp (fake)
-"Hurricane off the coast of Florida":
http://snopes.com/katrina/photos/satellite.asp (snopes doesn't say, but it's enhanced)
-All the darkness ones at the end are serious composites (where are the clouds??).... - drizek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I remember seeing a pic by the space shuttle crew of the smog layer over NYC as they were passing through. pretty disgusting...
- zaclohrenz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How awesome would it be to be an astronaut and get to see this every day?
- aplusplus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, I thought a lot of the views seemed very rendered / simulated. Especially the night shots... don't look real at all. I've seen 3D models which looked better.
- markos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3better yet:
http://www.theunion.net.nyud.net:8090/lindberg/Pretty%20Planet/Pretty_Planet.htm - mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3An Alka-Seltzer meteorite hit it?
- koick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3djblast:
it's called desktop earth (and is VERY cool): http://codefromthe70s.org/desktopearth_dl.asp - Artifez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I doubt they're rendered they have to be mosaics due to the lack of clouds.
- sixlocal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Except NYC actually doesn't have that bad of a smog problem...
What would LA look like? - awfulshot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3all of the night time ones are rendered.. (look at stars if you dont believe)
- gahal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You managed to view the entire earth at once? Both the side you are looking at and, you know, the other side.
Impressive to say the least. - djblast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2the last pic reminds me of that program that sets the current view of the earth as your wall paper...anyone have the link please?
- jjk5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The night ones look like Google Earth with the night map projected over a sphere.
- yoshihama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Can't say for sure, but those night shots look like someone used that big flattened night pic as a texture map on a sphere in a 3D app, and the rendered it over a star background.
- theOster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3not all the time, just at night...
- NinjaJedi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, these are great. Seen them before though. Viral email around the office about 4 months ago. Still worthy of a digg, though.
- supergwiz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2digg + dugg website with 8 hi-res images = web server go byebye
- Zjm7891, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Earth: Mostly Harmless
- pkulak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why does the ocean look like it has releif in some of those shots?
- bkbarrett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah the stars are the same.
- bjtitus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What about the stars. I'm not entirely disagreeing with you, the pictures look awfully crisp, but I'm no expert on space photography. If you're saying that you can see no constellations, there are MANY more stars seen from space, and of course, if you're saying they're too bright, I'm not sure anyone really knows.
- xciton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes, some of these have been touched. Take a look at the night/day one over Europe. The transition band is much larger in real life than what they are showing in the image. The transition band should be about 1500 miles at least, not the few hundred that they have shown.
Someone has been mucking around. - eclipseCDN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If earth was a chick...I'm ending that annolgy there.
- 7diesel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.theunion.net.
:( - copeland3300, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Reported as lame. Half of these pictures are fake or composites of real pictures.
My favorites are the ones where the entire earth is dark Because, you know, that happens all the time - arnar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'ts Iceland, and it's not covered with ice, it's snow.
It's a bit tiresome when you tell people you're from Iceland, and the one thing they know is that "Greenland is covered with ice but Iceland is green!" :o) - pratman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1wow
- ghostdogg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1great pics
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