The photograph attached was taken by the crew on board the Columbia during its last mission, on a cloudless day. The picture is of Europe and Africa when the sun is setting. Half of the picture is in night. The bright dots you see are the cities lights. The top part of Africa is the Sahara Desert.
Note that the lights are already on in Holland, Paris, and Barcelona, and that's it's still daylight in Dublin, London, Lisbon, and Madrid. The sun is still shining on the Strait of Gibraltar. The Mediterranean Sea isalready in darkness.
In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean you can see the Azores Islands; below them to the right are the Madeira Islands; a bit below are the Canary Islands; and further South, close to the farthest western point of Africa, are the Cape Verde islands. Note that the Sahara is huge and can be seen clearly both during Daytime and night time. To the left, on top, is
Greenland, totally frozen.



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Cool pic, but it's fake: http://www.snopes.com/photos/sunset.asp

huh!

do you know anything about big bit Hubble tel pics ?

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Blunt smoking warning in London

Check the snopes link dude.

Re: "Hubble view" Oh and LOOK! You can see the Bismark on the botton of the ocean a couple of miles down!!! Oooookay.
Les;)

easter's been canceled
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Heidi Klum is not fake.

lol I like that rabbit one

Check out this VP in action
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exactly. it's not possible to see the continental shelf, etc. through a standard, optical-type camera. the curvature of the edge of night is a little off too, along with a bunch of other things

Any French-speaking people that can translate the VP pic?

VERY rough translation:
"Ludo Defern, VP of Business Development: "Every year, each division of Inec convenes for a strategic meeting, at which the principles explain their ideas with the intent afterward of bringing a concensus which will keep the projects moving."
My French 101 prof is probably spinning in his grave right now.;)
Les

What what... couldn't that be a first generation IR system.... but the guy looks like he knows what he is doing.

Happy Halloween!!!
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bath time in CANADIA EH!

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good times await us!

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My eyes....my eyes!!!

Here's a couple...

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WHAT THE HELL ARE THOSE THINGS?!?!?!?

They look a little TOO MUCH like the face-hugger from ALIEN...

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