The Blue Marble - It's all about Perspective.

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I was browsing Wiki this AM and came across this photograph, to my amazement. In a way, we are all passengers aboard this Spaceship Mother Earth hurdling through space....fascinating stuff.

an excerpt:

The Blue Marble is a famous photograph of the Earth taken on 7 December 1972 by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft at a distance of about 45,000 kilometers or about 28,000 miles.[1] It is one of the most widely distributed photographic images in existence. The image is one of the few to show a fully lit Earth, as the astronauts had the Sun behind them when they took the image. To the astronauts, Earth had the appearance of a child's glass marble (hence the name).

more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_blue_marble

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[john70t]

That's a "before" picture right?
Stay the course.

[kach22i]

Al Gore used that picture in his movie.

[azasadny]

Hey, I can see my house from here...!

[cashflyer]

It's fake.

[creaturecat]

upon closer inspection....... say, China

[trekkor]

I like the earth...I think I'll stay.


KT