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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...
See if you can find the large 3/4 circle that is eating the smaller circle in the Garden City, KS plot. This is probably the only one that looks more interesting now than it would have before man changed it.
Earth art is lame. Give me some good old-fashioned rock porn any day!!
It's really nice that they are providing poster size prints for download...r eenland_hires.jpg k patok_hires.jpg (I wonder what the red stuff in this one is?)r aq_hires.jpg
Most other places would give you a small thumbnail and ask you to pay for the full size version.
These one's are pretty cool:
http://astroboy.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthasart/images/g
http://astroboy.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthasart/images/a
http://astroboy.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthasart/images/i
?Who controls the past now, controls the future.
Who controls the present now controls the past.?
*imagining* Wow, with that you could calculate the value of 42 in near-realtime.
Money for nothing, pix for free
Don't forget the exhibition Earth from above by Yann Arthus-Bertrand! Yes, I admit it's in another league - the photos in EFA are taken from planes, but there are some really nice gems in there.
...don't panic. It's art!
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
Nice pictures, although the colours appear to be a bit artificial in some of them, in particular the green in the Brazilian shot. It would have been nice to see an un-enhanced photo for comparison.
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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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The Lena Delta, Russia:/ images/le na _hires.jpg
http://astroboy.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthasart
As for the red stuff, I think I came across one photo with red that indicated vegetation of sort. But I doubt that colors always mean the same thing.
The article makes note that some colors [are] "assigned arbitrarily to represent data -- such as levels of heat -- not visible to the human eye."
Earth From The Air
It is the same photograhper but the exhibition is on in London. I highly recommend it. The photos are absolutly mind blowing. The prints are about 12ft x 6ft.
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Well forget about a manned missioned to mars, NASA just spent the last of it's budget on bandwidth.
/Laugh it's funny
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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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Check out the Blue Marble pictures. A resolution of 1 pixel/per kilometers for the whole of the planet, which makes the full pictures 40000*20000 pixels big =) They are available in different views (cloudless, with or without the sea floor relief, at night...) and are truly amazing.
I'm probably going to get a -1 for promoting my own soft, but if your computer cannot handle a 2 gb file in RAM, check my website. I made a soft (approved by the guy who made the picts) for viewing them without much RAM. Only works on macs and PCs, though I'm thinking of a linux version.
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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.
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This contains load of images taken by the space shuttle. Well worth a look... Earth From Space
A short time ago the chief chicken-littles of the International Association of Environmental Alarmists and Extreamists (IAEAE) were collectively diving under their beds over a study showing how nearly every sq. inch of the planet has been hideously despoiled by nasty ol' humanity. Well, now comes a counter-study (partly funded by Gordon Moore) which claims "46 percent of Earth is still wilderness" - a salve sure to sooth the conscience of dollar sign-blinking land developers and construction workers everywhere.
Thus proving that, like statistics, politicians can pick a study to prove any damn thing they want. Meanwhile the truth continues to elude the media manipulated public.
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