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.
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?
Quote from: Ideologue on November 15, 2011, 04:00:26 AM
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. :P
Quote from: Ideologue on November 15, 2011, 04:00:26 AM
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.
After seeing the thread title, I was wondering what Pakistani intelligence service would be videotaping. Then I realized my mistake. :Embarrass:
Quote from: Martinus on November 15, 2011, 08:34:02 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 15, 2011, 04:00:26 AM
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. :P
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. :P
Quote from: Ideologue on November 15, 2011, 09:15:38 AM
Quote from: Martinus on November 15, 2011, 08:34:02 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 15, 2011, 04:00:26 AM
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. :P
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. :P
They would freeze, though.
Best place to see aurora borealis: space!
Quote from: dps on November 15, 2011, 12:18:54 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 15, 2011, 09:15:38 AM
Quote from: Martinus on November 15, 2011, 08:34:02 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 15, 2011, 04:00:26 AM
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. :P
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. :P
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.
Some SF RPG told me that you can survive say a minute in vacuum, if you empty your lungs immediately.
Quote from: The Brain on November 15, 2011, 02:17:58 PM
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.
I believe they used a low light camera, so it only looks like that if you have low light vision.
Quote from: Ideologue on November 15, 2011, 04:00:26 AM
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.
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fapod.nasa.gov%2Fapod%2Fimage%2F0011%2Fearthlights2_dmsp_big.jpg&hash=f65bbca01d84ee934a23f1992ddee78e7ea798a7)
Wow, it's so cool to see India's northern border so well defined just by the lights.
Tim, you realize that photographs do not always faithfully replicate the appearance of an object to the naked eye, right?
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.macworld.com%2Fimages%2Fhowto%2Fgraphics%2F142209-desert_original.jpg&hash=c0deb691d9dab498216f0069f56479c8808f1db9)
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.
Quote from: JacobI believe they used a low light camera, so it only looks like that if you have low light vision.
Whereas this is helpful. Merci.
Quote from: DGuller on November 15, 2011, 05:16:30 PM
Wow, it's so cool to see India's northern border so well defined just by the lights.
Check out Korea's northern border.
Quote from: DGuller on November 15, 2011, 05:16:30 PM
Wow, it's so cool to see India's northern border so well defined just by the lights.
Is that what the ribbon of light is at 3:48 and again at 4:38? I couldn't quite place it.
Quote from: Razgovory on November 15, 2011, 05:26:10 PM
Quote from: DGuller on November 15, 2011, 05:16:30 PM
Wow, it's so cool to see India's northern border so well defined just by the lights.
Check out Korea's northern border.
:XD:
Striking how the lights track human development, and darkness tracks, well, darkness.
Another cool thing is seeing how Trans-Siberian Railway is being lit up by the development it spurred.
Quote from: DGuller on November 15, 2011, 05:39:13 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 15, 2011, 05:26:10 PM
Quote from: DGuller on November 15, 2011, 05:16:30 PM
Wow, it's so cool to see India's northern border so well defined just by the lights.
Check out Korea's northern border.
:XD:
Striking how the lights track human development, and darkness tracks, well, darkness.
Another cool thing is seeing how Trans-Siberian Railway is being lit up by the development it spurred.
Also Puerto Rico compared to Haiti and Cuba.
I read a paper once about how the Soviet policy of developing the Siberian cities was utterly retarded, in that they seriously warped the internal market by increasing transportation costs and cost more per capita to maintain habitability than they were worth, at least in comparison to the "real" cities that sprang up organically.
Lake Baikal's shoreline, if stretched out, would extend from Washington, DC to somewhere in Texas.
And the Aral Sea's shoreline would extend from one end of my bathtub to the other.
Quote from: Ideologue on November 15, 2011, 05:49:03 PM
And the Aral Sea's shoreline would extend from one end of my bathtub to the other.
:XD:
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 15, 2011, 05:46:26 PM
Lake Baikal's shoreline, if stretched out, would extend from Washington, DC to somewhere in Texas.
Further. Shorelines are infinitely long.
Quote from: Razgovory on November 15, 2011, 07:12:06 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 15, 2011, 05:46:26 PM
Lake Baikal's shoreline, if stretched out, would extend from Washington, DC to somewhere in Texas.
Further. Shorelines are infinitely long.
:hmm: Never thought about that, but it does make sense now that I did.
Raz: Making Russians think.
Quote from: Razgovory on November 15, 2011, 09:24:22 PM
Raz: Making Russians think.
I guess someone was bound to sooner or later.
My eyeballs froze/exploded when I clicked on the link. Can someone describe it to me?
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on November 16, 2011, 12:06:25 AM
My eyeballs froze/exploded when I clicked on the link. Can someone describe it to me?
Infinite wonders of the earth.
Those are fakes, clearly made digitally in NASAs special effect lab.
Totally gfake@@@@22222
ooopds, wrong key .
It suppeesd to say "Tatolly Fake!!!!111", not "totslly fake@@@@222".
Quote from: Siege on November 20, 2011, 07:09:51 AM
ooopds, wrong key .
It suppeesd to say "Tatolly Fake!!!!111", not "totslly fake@@@@222".
You mean, like your various "war" stories that you post here?
Quote from: Jacob on November 20, 2011, 03:04:16 PM
Quote from: Siege on November 20, 2011, 07:09:51 AM
ooopds, wrong key .
It suppeesd to say "Tatolly Fake!!!!111", not "totslly fake@@@@222".
You mean, like your various "war" stories that you post here?
You wish.
Sometimes even I wish that.