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Naked Snake

Member

• Dec 8, 2013

• #1

Taken from the Space thread (which hasn't been getting much love since it moved to Community)

Comet ISON approaches the Sun as seen by STEREO Ahead

We humans, intelligent apes, casually sitting back and clicking a random button on the internet to virtually gaze at a window that looks over our planet's neighborhood in the solar system.

And if the above was too "Low-Fi" for your sensibilities (and let's face, it is a bit geeky), here's a different vantage point on our home planet, this time in up to 4K resolution!

Watch in 1080p full-screen if you can. I can't imagine any human not being awed by this:

The World Outside My Window - Time Lapse of Earth from the ISS (4K)

 

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Stinkles

Clothed, sober, cooperative

• Dec 8, 2013

• #2

Space is dumb.

 

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Aim_Ed

Member

• Dec 8, 2013

• #3

Not everyone can share this privilege.

 

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Like the hat?

Banned

• Dec 8, 2013

• #4

Oh man, that's why I haven't seen that thread around.

Thanks for the link and the heads up.

 

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Dega

Eeny Meenie Penis

• Dec 8, 2013

• #5

Stinkles said:

Space is dumb.

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Especially games in space.

 

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jerry1594

Member

• Dec 8, 2013

• #6

Stinkles said:

Space is dumb.

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Yeah

 

Tesseract

Banned

• Dec 8, 2013

• #7

what if like oh man, the sky is the ground. the ground is spaces.

 

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blame space

Banned

• Dec 8, 2013

• #8

space is cool

 

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Dega

Eeny Meenie Penis

• Dec 8, 2013

• #9

blame space said:

space is cool

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Especially games in space.

 

Lamel

Banned

• Dec 8, 2013

• #10

Dega said:

Especially games in space.

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Dega said:

Especially games in space.

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Vesmir

Banned

• Dec 8, 2013

• #11

Space is space.

 

Lamel

Banned

• Dec 8, 2013

• #12

Really effing cool video though, thanks for sharing OP.

 

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Stinkles

Clothed, sober, cooperative

• Dec 8, 2013

• #13

blame space said:

space is cool

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prove it!

 

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akachan ningen

Member

• Dec 8, 2013

• #14

I thought this thread was going to be about this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyPO9N0M1qo

 

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Secret Fawful

Member

• Dec 8, 2013

• #15

What's the object crossing the comets path in the video?

 

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daffy

Banned

• Dec 8, 2013

• #16

Meh

 

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User 100115

Banned

• Dec 8, 2013

• #17

Secret Fawful said:

What's the object crossing the comets path in the video?

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I don't think it was crossing paths. Looked to be something farther away. My guess? Another planet too far off to really make out, or metor/comet or something in the distance.

 

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Naked Snake

Member

• Dec 8, 2013

• #18

Secret Fawful said:

What's the object crossing the comets path in the video?

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Another comet.

 

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ncsuDuncan

Member

• Dec 8, 2013

• #19

Naked Snake said:

Comet ISON approaches the Sun as seen by STEREO Ahead

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Obviously fake. Everyone knows Mercury is closer to the Sun than Earth is.

 

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fallout

Member

• Dec 8, 2013

• #20

Watching comet ISON approach the Sun and come out the other side via all of these spacecraft was such an amazing experience. I love that we have these things out there watching the Sun 24/7 and this just becomes a nice side benefit of it. Incredible.

Secret Fawful said:

What's the object crossing the comets path in the video?

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That's comet Encke: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Encke

It goes around the Sun once every 3 years. It made for quite a nice coincidence that it was timed around comet ISON's approach.

 

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Mondy

Banned

• Dec 8, 2013

• #21

Watching that time lapse of the planets moving in real time relative to each other is fascinating.

 

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slit

Member

• Dec 8, 2013

• #22

Stinkles said:

prove it!

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It can do this to your head.

 

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slit

Member

• Dec 8, 2013

• #23

Mondy said:

Watching that time lapse of the planets moving in real time relative to each other is fascinating.

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It really is. It's a shame more don't appreciate the awe and beauty of outer space.

 

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Vulcano's assistant

Banned

• Dec 8, 2013

• #24

Stinkles said:

prove it!

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Fire and explosion are cool, even cooler when they are not in tiny scales.

 

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WorldStar

Banned

• Dec 8, 2013

• #25

Secret Fawful said:

What's the object crossing the comets path in the video?

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alien spacecraft

 

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maquiladora

Member

• Dec 8, 2013

• #26

Awesome video.

 

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daniels

Member

• Dec 8, 2013

• #27

god its soo strange stupid everyday there is a big fireball in the fucking sky and no one says anything about it or thinks is stupid of rucked up i mean a fireball in the sky wtf

 

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PaperFlame

Member

• Dec 8, 2013

• #28

daniels said:

god its soo strange stupid everyday there is a big fireball in the fucking sky and no one says anything about it or thinks is stupid of rucked up i mean a fireball in the sky wtf

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Oh yea I forgot the sun was made out of fire and stuff.