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Earth as Art
bravehamster writes "There's a new exhibit at the Library of Congress displaying images taken of earth by the Landsat satellites. The exhibit displays satellite photos that have an intrinsic aesthetic quality, showing the beauty of Earth as seen from really far away. There's an article about it on MSNBC here, and don't forget to check out those fjords!"
Someone give Slartybartfast a prize...
Those Icelandic fjords have nothing on Norway's award winning fjords.
imagine a Beowulf cluster of those?
earth... imagine a beowulf cluster of those.
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals."
Earth art is lame. Give me some good old-fashioned rock porn any day!!
As with abstract paintings, any viewer can choose a meaning -- no human artist has designed them.
good, that means i see jesus and/or the devil in every one of the photos.
I get the Slartybartfast reference. I guess what you're really trying to say is that, recognizing the Earth as art would make the Magratheans proud.
:-P )
On second thought, they probably wouldn't care since the program's already cocked up since we're from Golgafringam.
Hey that explains Slashdot! (Re: useless 1/3, self included.
Furry cows moo and decompress.
...don't panic. It's art!
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
Like the Earth would just happen to be that nice looking from space. This just goes to prove that we didn't land on the moon because we didn't even make it into space because if we did we would have ordinary ugly pictures of the earth rather than these that were obviously done by an artist. Now excuse me but my tinfoil hat is starting to get smelly and it's tiem to change it. Now don't think I'm paranoid or anything but I don't think the government is spying on me with satellites I mean they didn't even make it into space! I need it to protect me from cancer due to the radiowaves randomly bouncing off clouds the government filled with metals and chemicals to control the weather and bounce off signals to simulate satellites (they can't launch anything into space of course). Well goodbye I hope the intelligent immortal mainframes at the FBI logging my keystrokes don't decide this is unamerican or anything and steal my heart to put into Dick Cheyney!
I stole this Sig
I don't like to be a conspiracy theorist, but the moral community holds that the Earth is a fixed point in space, and much of the secular astronomical community holds that there is no "special" reference frame and that the Earth rotates the Sun. Personally, I would hate for the USGS and NASA to be attacking the Lord. I am not convinced that these pictures are real.
Well forget about a manned missioned to mars, NASA just spent the last of it's budget on bandwidth.
/Laugh it's funny
Thank you slashdot!
Oh, well done. Find the biggest image files on the site and post the URLs on slashdot. What are you, a sadist? At least you didn't make 'em hyperlinks...
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
That's your Norwegian Blue, see, he's pining for the fjords.
Fifty posts old, and nobody else misquoted the obvious Python reference. And you call yourselves nerds...
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In other news today, Hong Kong is currently celebrating the fifth anniversary of its move from Europe to Asia. The project was an incredible feat of tectonic engineering, ripping up an entire city from the English east coast and shipping it halfway around the world to a prepared harbour in southern China.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Somebody always gets their finger in the way!i rlpool .html
http://astroboy.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthasart/wh
Those pictures are out of this world
from the page: Namib-Naukluft National Park is an ecological preserve in Namibia's vast Namib Desert. Coastal winds create the tallest sand dunes in the world here, with some dunes reaching 980 feet (300 meters) in height.
::spits out milk:: *pfff!!* 980 feet??