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Life In Space, In More Than 12,000 Photos
CNET is one of many sources carrying the stunning time-lapse photography of astronaut Alexander Gerst. Gerst assembled into a 6-minute movie 12,500 still images taken by cameras set up to document things like ISS docking procedures, but which ended up capturing quite a bit more: Images of auroras abound in the video below, as do spellbinding shots of humming cities at night, storms and flashes of lightning, all captured as the space station sailed overhead, traveling as fast as 17,000 miles per hour. Also keep an eye out for the eye of a tropical storm, a few fascinating docking and detachment operations with visiting spacecraft, as well as a nice token outward-looking time lapse of the Milky Way.
Produce one knowledgeable breakdown of the few interesting photos...otherwise it's like a time-lapse weather radar clip.
Are you a dude or a chick? Either way that's kinda fucked up...
quit invading my skies.
Yeah, everyone should listen to you on what's relevant or not.
Use your brain.
This is what is exactly wrong with the world today - narrow minded people with a very short sighted vision of the future. People would prefer receiving 10$ now than 100$ in a year. You are not living life for yourself but for the next generation and so-forth, this is the goal of life. You very likely will not see any star ships, space colonies or other Space Nutter dreams come to fruition in your lifetime.
tl;dr: Think of the children!
If you find something better, then submit it.
That's To BOLDLY go where no man has gone before.
Ok, so I watched the video twice, enjoying it immensely both times. It shows just how fragile that little slice of atmosphere is which shields us and allows us life. The soundtrack was was appropriate to the visuals, providing a sense of awe. And then, I come back to Slashdot, expecting to see respectful comments. Silly me, being surprised to find a bunch of wankers posting drivel. Come on, the video provides a sense of how humanity has impacted the viewing of our planet (note the nighttime shots which shows population density based on how we illuminate the night sky). How wonderful the aurora is, viewed from an angle few will ever see. Based on the existing comments, I weep for the future of our species. Based on the video, there is still hope.
I'm an individual! Just like everyone else!
hee haw!
Stupid meat carcass only good for paying taxes.
I can't even watch a video this morning because my WISP is shitting itself, you insensitive clod! Since the USA is apparently the third world, and can't manage to maintain its infrastructure, I have nothing to say about the video itself.
It would be really fucking nice if we would spend half the effort on terrestrial communications in this country that we do on communicating with spacecraft.
It's time for us to put the screws to the government and make them put the screws to the telecoms, god knows they won't do it without being forced.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Frankly I've been bored with the ISS for quite a while. First, it's not a very exciting "space" project, compared to more adventurous missions. By comparison, it's a pretty low-tech bunch of connected containers. Necessary research, but not exciting. But the second point is the endless amount of social marketing by the astronauts. I think it is sad that the astronauts are used to sell the mission and to market for their budget. Astronauts are not marketeers, it says a lot about the state of NASA. We've seen your endless videos and photos of the same thing. We've seen your cyclic videos of personal making "personal" videos, in many languages for many markets. We've seen you sing pop songs. This is the state of NASA. Personally, I rather want them to work on their scientific projects.
Images of auroras abound in the video below, as do spellbinding shots of humming cities at night, storms and flashes of lightning, all captured as the space station sailed overhead, traveling as fast as 17,000 miles per hour.
traveling as fast as 17,000 miles per hour? So, it's de-orbiting. How long ago did it crash?
Ok, so I watched the video twice, enjoying it immensely both times. It shows just how fragile that little slice of atmosphere is which shields us and allows us life. The soundtrack was was appropriate to the visuals, providing a sense of awe
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Earth from space is always pretty cool, but there is an abundance of images out there. The Milky Way from space is awesome
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Won't the free market solve this? Isn't that the basic premise of the US?