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Now here's a decent desktop wallpaper

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Beach Comber
#2
Awesome! Looking at that will really remind you how small and insignificant we are. Humbled!
Beauty hunter avatar
Beach Fanatic
#3
Planet earth- most cool :wub:
Beautiful :biggrin:
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FunnChef - AlisonCooks.com
#4
Those are just so beautiful! What a lovely planet we occupy. I would love to have some 24 x 24 glossies of those
ASH avatar
Beach Fanatic
#5
I was glad to see that man had nothing large enough to be visible in the photos.
Teresa avatar
SoWal Guide
#6
isn't she beautiful?
scooterbug44 avatar
SoWal Expert
#7
I was glad to see that man had nothing large enough to be visible in the photos.

Yep, to date there is no manmade object visible from space. I like it that way. :biggrin:
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AdminAuthor
#8
Yep, to date there is no manmade object visible from space. I like it that way. :biggrin:

Great Wall of China is. Lots of them visible at night.
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Beach Fanatic
#9
Thanks, kurt, for a much-needed dose of beautiful perspective.
scooterbug44 avatar
SoWal Expert
#10
Great Wall of China is. Lots of them visible at night.

No, per NASA, you can't see anything man made once you leave the Earth's orbit.

You can see many things in low earth orbit with the naked eye, but not from space.

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/workinginspace/great_wall.html

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Minnie avatar
Beach Fanatic
#11
It must have been amazing to the first men in space to know that the map makers got it right so many years before.
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Beach Comber
#12
wow :)
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got any pics?
#13
Very cool :cool:

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