Via a reader who explains “taken from NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-124) after Space Shuttle Discovery and the ISS (International Space Station) undocked on 11 June 2008.”
The full sized photos are completely worth the time to download them. Large, Medium
Another image here: Large, Medium.
Many more here.
That’s just so beautiful.
Breathtaking doesn’t do the pictures credit.
More science… less war…
more for the NSF and NASA.. less for the pentagon.
Here are some more space images, for those interested:
http://www.opti-grab.ca/FarOut/album/index.html
More settled science… less terrorism…
more for the NSF and NASA.. less for the UN.
Remember some of the imaginary space vehicles on Star Wars and Star Trek?? Amazing resemblances! Imagination is indeed the driving force that controls future events?? So try not to ponder on Stephane Dion in the PMO’s office!!
For those who don’t follow the ISS assembly closely: what you’re looking at is the aft side of the ISS, with mainly Russian components in the foreground of the picture. The side with the two sets of solar panels is the Port truss, the side with one set is the Starboard truss. In the center of the picture you can see a small satellite dish poking up above the truss assembly; just beyond the truss and to the left of that satellite dish is the Japanese KIBO (Hope) module. The part of KIBO which is visible above the trusses (the Japanese logistics module) was added to the ISS in March, and had been mounted above the american Harmony module since that time. On the STS 124 mission the pressurized section of KIBO was attached, and the logistics module moved from Harmony to its present, permanent position.
Video of the latest mission, including three spacewalks and the installation of the KIBO pressurized module, is available here.
What is striking about many of the photos that are of the earth from a short distance (not so much here but in similar others) is that you really cannot see any evidence of man. Man that is supposedly radically altering earths climate.
times for sightings can be found in the box on the left.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/
“Alberta’s HRC: breeding the next generation of complainers
Yesterday I mentioned the new propaganda document circulated by the Alberta human rights commission. It’s disgusting to begin with, but the fact that it is deliberately targetting new immigrants is downright vile. The Alberta human rights commission — in other words, the Government of Alberta — is trying to persuade newcomers to Alberta to support their grievance industry, and become little race hustlers, little Al Sharptons, just like Khurrum Awan of the Canadian Islamic Congress. It makes sense; complaints are down 15% year over year in Alberta; if all of those professional race hustlers in Ed Stelmach’s government are going to keep their jobs, they need new complaints, and fast.
I read through the propaganda brochure again, and I thought I’d highlight a few bits.
Let’s start with this one, called “Maria’s story”.”
http://ezralevant.com/2008/06/albertas-hrc-breeding-the-next.html
Niper’s story:
Niper works in a government office. His great-great-grandparents came to Canada in 1819 from Scotland; they were on the lam from the Irish. The office boss makes fun of/jokes about his legal hobby of hunting legally. She says Niper kills Bambi. She even says Niper is cruel. Where can Niper place a complaint for this discrimination? Call us. We are the HRC.
Just discovered that this is the wrong thread for the above.
Delete same.
Well then, I’ll be political.
This is what the scientific method and western liberalism are capable of doing.
Of course we must defend our values against ignorant medievalists. All cultures are not equally valid.
I work in the Canadian space industry (yes, there is one).
If people cared more about our industry, and our world-class engineers, they would worry more about how much funding we give to the CSA.
I remember lying on the chesterfield with a raging nosebleed, waiting impatiently for the television test pattern to give way to the national anthem (accompanied by suitably patriotic images), followed by footage of the 25-pounder gun/howitzers conducting avalanche control, then — finally — being able to watch the latest Apollo launch.
Despite the beauty of the images and the astonishing achievements of the space programme (both manned and unmanned), I don’t know if it has the same emotional impact on the youth of today. It certainly commands far less attention from the MSM.
Incredible. Thanks.
Space, the final frontier…
… to boldly go forth and apologize about Captain Kirk.
/joking there btw
…like Nikita Khrushchev’s said, “Gagarin flew into space, but didn’t see any God there”.
Poor fellow, couldn’t see the obvious.
‘Nikita Khrushchev’s said, “Gagarin flew into space, but didn’t see any God there”.’
If Gagarin said any different, he would’ve gotten a bullet in his head while lying on the Kazakh steppe and we would never have heard of him.
Simply amazing!