Earth as Art

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Posted by michael on Wednesday December 4, 2002 @06:50PM from the we-trace-the-wide-design dept.

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!"

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Mmm.. fjords.. by Asmodean451 · 2002-12-04 18:55 · Score: 5, Funny

Someone give Slartybartfast a prize...
Sissy. by jonny-mt · 2002-12-04 19:03 · Score: 5, Funny

Earth art is lame. Give me some good old-fashioned rock porn any day!!
The next time a hurricane hits Florida... by Quaoar · 2002-12-04 19:27 · Score: 5, Funny

...don't panic. It's art!

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Aww com'on by quantaman · 2002-12-04 19:35 · Score: 5, Funny

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!

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Look what you did. by jchawk · 2002-12-04 19:56 · Score: 5, Funny

Well forget about a manned missioned to mars, NASA just spent the last of it's budget on bandwidth.

Thank you slashdot! /Laugh it's funny
Re:They need geography lessons ! by meringuoid · 2002-12-04 21:37 · Score: 5, Funny

Greenland is governed by Denmark which makes it part of Europe.
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.

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