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Old 07-21-2012, 05:16 PM
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Quite possibly the coolest view of Earth from space you'll ever see! (Time-lapse video from the ISS)
http://vimeo.com/45878034

Amazing, ain't it?
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Old 07-21-2012, 06:18 PM
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That totally fucking rocked!
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Old 07-21-2012, 06:51 PM
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That totally fucking rocked!
Yup!
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Old 07-21-2012, 06:56 PM
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That's neat!
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Old 07-21-2012, 07:04 PM
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If it left you wanting more, follow some of the links in the comments for some more stunning stuff.

This one is particularly good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47ydg...ature=youtu.be

Same video as youtube link above, but with different soundtrack (so as not to play out "Surface of the Sun"):
http://vimeo.com/32001208
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Old 07-21-2012, 09:34 PM
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Was that wavy green glow the aurora?
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Old 07-21-2012, 10:15 PM
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Very cool. And yes, Malleus, that was an aurora.
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Old 07-22-2012, 02:55 AM
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Oh wow...
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Old 07-22-2012, 01:14 PM
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How come there isn't a live webcam in the ISS? Or is there? Seems like a trivial engineering project nowdays.
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Old 07-23-2012, 08:57 AM
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Does anyone know what the bright white flashes are?
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Old 07-23-2012, 10:50 AM
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How come there isn't a live webcam in the ISS? Or is there? Seems like a trivial engineering project nowdays.
Bandwidth, maybe? The astronauts can email, tweet and web surf, but I'm not sure if it's continuously available, how fast it is, etc.

I agree, that'd be pretty cool.

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Does anyone know what the bright white flashes are?
Lightning.
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Old 07-23-2012, 04:41 PM
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Does anyone know what the bright white flashes are?
If you mean the bright flashes on the ISS itself, that's the sun. Remember, these are a bunch of sequential still photographs stitched together into a time-lapse video. So, what appears as a quick flash of light would have been a much longer period of light to someone sitting on the ISS observing in real-time.
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Old 07-23-2012, 09:57 PM
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Amazing, my hometown is brightly lit at 1:55.
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