04/22/2009
It's Earth Day
It's Earth Day today. One billion people are expected to participate.
NASA: "The Apollo 16 crew captured this Earthrise with a handheld Hasselblad camera during the second revolution of the moon. Identifiable craters seen on the moon include Saha, Wyld and Saenger. Much of the terrain seen here is never visible from the Earth, as the command module was passing onto what is known as the 'dark side' of the moon. Apollo 16 launched on April 16, 1972 and landed on the moon on April 20. The mission was commanded by John Young; Thomas K. Mattingly II was the command module pilot and Charles M. Duke, Jr. served as the lunar module pilot."
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Some gorgeous views of Earth from the International Space Station, a tour of the Cryosphere, and a video of two space shuttles on two launch pads for the final time, AFTER THE JUMP...
Posted 9:24 AM EST by Andy Towle in Global Warming, News, Space | Permalink
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AAAUUUGGGHHH! It's the pic of the sideways Earth!
Posted by: B | Apr 22, 2009 9:56:47 AM
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
The 1st pic proves democritus, epicurus, and lucretius right on 4 more of their postulates of the many proven right while 4 more of socrates, plato, and aristotle are proven wrong yet again of their many proven wrong postulates
ironically the first 3 were condemned by all 3 monotheistic religions and the latter 3 embraced = dark ages in science for all 3 monotheistic religions
Happy earth day on our round world that orbits the sun and the natural state is constant motion and not being at rest while the reason we can not see stellar light in the pic is explained by democritus whom plato hated and wanted to burn all of his works
:-)
Posted by: jimmyboyo | Apr 22, 2009 11:29:50 AM
Whao, those are some cool videos, thanks for the post Andy. Here are some suggestions on what you can do to help the Earth: http://www.toptentopten.com/topten/things+to+do+on+earth+day, you can add your own suggestions.
Posted by: Vince | Apr 22, 2009 5:15:52 PM
I love Earth.
Posted by: Nathan | Apr 22, 2009 8:56:35 PM