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Amateur Astronomer Grabs Amazing ISS Picture
The Bad Astronomer writes "Ralf Vandebergh is an amateur astronomer, and using a simple telescope with a video camera attached to it, he took an incredibly detailed picture of the International Space Station. You can easily see the recently-installed truss and solar panels, as well as the Space Shuttle Discovery docked to the station."
IT DOES EXIST!!
Does it mean that the moon landing happened too?
Is it sad that I am more likely to recognize you and your posts by your sig than your name or UID?
Thats no moon,it IS a space station give the man some geek points!
On a clear disk you can seek forever.
"To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
most observatories are on top of mountains.
Not an easy thing to find in the Netherlands.
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If you run it through the image processing software they use on 24, you can actually make out the license plate number too.
I've seen a pair of really nice mountain in the Netherlands belonging to a girl named Hope.
You can't take the sky from me.
Any sign of that bat?
This time it was not a cromulent word to use.
"I just can't sit while people are saying nonsense in a meeting without saying it's nonsense" J Watson, Sci Am 288:(4)51
I can't believe the government are allowing people to take these sorts of images. This is just a gift to the terrorists, they'll be able to see exactly which parts of the space station to target and may even be able to bring the whole thing down on a major population centre.
Unbelievable !
And you're complaining because you can't see their tits clearly.
Well, duh. Wouldn't you?
This is obviously a fake. If you look closely, you can see the wires holding up the space station! The only rational conclusion is that the space station was filmed in front of a live studio audience under strict NDA. Quick! Somebody notify Fox News! They'll do one of their award winning exposes. They'll probably even be able to get Geraldo to unmask the perpetrators!