Time lapse video from the ISS

[Jacob]

This is pretty cool: http://vimeo.com/32001208

I spotted Italy, the US Eastern seaboard, the Great Wall of China and the Red Sea/ Suez/ Sinai. The rest was a bit of a blur.

[Ideologue]

This is actually really cool.  Jesus, Earth looks like Coruscant, except with worse weather.

Are cities really that bright from space, or does that have anything to do with the exposure of the frames?  I.e., if you shot me into space, would populated areas look as glittery to my naked eye as depicted here?

[Martinus]

This is actually really cool.  Jesus, Earth looks like Coruscant, except with worse weather.

Are cities really that bright from space, or does that have anything to do with the exposure of the frames?  I.e., if you shot me into space, would populated areas look as glittery to my naked eye as depicted here?

Your eyes would probably explode in the vacuum, so no.

[Razgovory]

This is actually really cool.  Jesus, Earth looks like Coruscant, except with worse weather.

Are cities really that bright from space, or does that have anything to do with the exposure of the frames?  I.e., if you shot me into space, would populated areas look as glittery to my naked eye as depicted here?

I think they are pretty bright.

[DGuller]

After seeing the thread title, I was wondering what Pakistani intelligence service would be videotaping.  Then I realized my mistake.   

[Ideologue]

This is actually really cool.  Jesus, Earth looks like Coruscant, except with worse weather.

Are cities really that bright from space, or does that have anything to do with the exposure of the frames?  I.e., if you shot me into space, would populated areas look as glittery to my naked eye as depicted here?

Your eyes would probably explode in the vacuum, so no.

Doesn't really happen.  The body surfaces are more than tough enough to withstand a 1 atmosphere difference in pressure.  Like, when you go to the bottom of a swimming pool, your eyes don't implode, right?  But I take the point.

[dps]

This is actually really cool.  Jesus, Earth looks like Coruscant, except with worse weather.

Are cities really that bright from space, or does that have anything to do with the exposure of the frames?  I.e., if you shot me into space, would populated areas look as glittery to my naked eye as depicted here?

Your eyes would probably explode in the vacuum, so no.

Doesn't really happen.  The body surfaces are more than tough enough to withstand a 1 atmosphere difference in pressure.  Like, when you go to the bottom of a swimming pool, your eyes don't implode, right?  But I take the point.

They would freeze, though. 

[Lucidor]

Best place to see aurora borealis: space!

[Ideologue]

This is actually really cool.  Jesus, Earth looks like Coruscant, except with worse weather.

Are cities really that bright from space, or does that have anything to do with the exposure of the frames?  I.e., if you shot me into space, would populated areas look as glittery to my naked eye as depicted here?

Your eyes would probably explode in the vacuum, so no.

Doesn't really happen.  The body surfaces are more than tough enough to withstand a 1 atmosphere difference in pressure.  Like, when you go to the bottom of a swimming pool, your eyes don't implode, right?  But I take the point.

They would freeze, though.

Eventually.  As I understand it, the water on the surface would actually boil due to lack of pressure.  Vacuum being a poor conductor of heat, the freezing process would take significantly longer than it would take to run out of oxygen (btw, lungs are apparently the one aspect of the body where pressure differences could do significant harm, due to the pressure inside abruptly changing as air's sucked out can severely damage them, but I don't think it's particularly photogenic damage).

Depending on location, you may also get blasted by radiation and die from that.  Still, I suppose the usual case would be asphyxiation.

The point is, you'll be long dead by the time your eyes freeze or your body swells.

[The Brain]

Some SF RPG told me that you can survive say a minute in vacuum, if you empty your lungs immediately.

[Ideologue]

Some SF RPG told me that you can survive say a minute in vacuum, if you empty your lungs immediately.

45-90 seconds is the figure I usually see bandied around.  You lose consciousness quickly though.

[Jacob]

I believe they used a low light camera, so it only looks like that if you have low light vision.

[jimmy olsen]

This is actually really cool.  Jesus, Earth looks like Coruscant, except with worse weather.

Are cities really that bright from space, or does that have anything to do with the exposure of the frames?  I.e., if you shot me into space, would populated areas look as glittery to my naked eye as depicted here?

Cities are pretty bright.

[DGuller]

Wow, it's so cool to see India's northern border so well defined just by the lights.

[Ideologue]

Tim, you realize that photographs do not always faithfully replicate the appearance of an object to the naked eye, right?



That's a 10 second exposure, aperture of F 2.8, at 1600 ISO.  The local time is midnight.  The light source is a full moon.  It does not look like that really.

I believe they used a low light camera, so it only looks like that if you have low light vision.

Whereas this is helpful.  Merci.