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24 Apr 2014, 11:42 am

Why are so pretty from up there yet so ugly down here.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/trave ... -2013.html



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24 Apr 2014, 2:00 pm

the rest of god's creation is lovely, it's us humans that are the fly in the ointment.



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24 Apr 2014, 2:30 pm

very interesting. i like to feel the sensation of distance above the earth that is hard to fathom in a video that is always at the same height.
i have searched for shuttle cams etc that show the continuous passage into space from take off to orbit (pointing at the ground), but i have found none.
i decided to take the jupiter 2 into space from heathrow at an initial acceleration of 3 g's. the sound fades out as the atmosphere thins.
it helps to convey the immensity (relative to me) of the size of the earth.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASm5GPfv7vU[/youtube]



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24 Apr 2014, 3:35 pm

I so want to be able to take that trip.



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25 Apr 2014, 11:05 am

b9 wrote:
very interesting. i like to feel the sensation of distance above the earth that is hard to fathom in a video that is always at the same height.
i have searched for shuttle cams etc that show the continuous passage into space from take off to orbit (pointing at the ground), but i have found none.
i decided to take the jupiter 2 into space from heathrow at an initial acceleration of 3 g's. the sound fades out as the atmosphere thins.
it helps to convey the immensity (relative to me) of the size of the earth.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASm5GPfv7vU[/youtube]


Earth is not all that large. There are much larger planets. Even among the rocky exoplanets, Earth is not that big.

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25 Apr 2014, 11:23 am

compared to little ol' man, earth is humongous.



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28 Apr 2014, 11:57 am

auntblabby wrote:
the rest of god's creation is lovely, it's us humans that are the fly in the ointment.


To us humans, humans seem like "the fly in the ointment"; but we're so involved; it's difficult to see us from inside.

We could say: "Just another animal, we take what we think we need." or perhaps: "People are like snowflakes?"

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28 Apr 2014, 12:06 pm

khaoz wrote:
Why are so pretty from up there yet so ugly down here.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/trave ... -2013.html


you miss most of the small details.



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28 Apr 2014, 12:10 pm

ZenDen wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
the rest of god's creation is lovely, it's us humans that are the fly in the ointment.

To us humans, humans seem like "the fly in the ointment"; but we're so involved; it's difficult to see us from inside. We could say: "Just another animal, we take what we think we need." or perhaps: "People are like snowflakes?"

we are like snowflakes in that every now and then there is a doppelganger.



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28 Apr 2014, 12:37 pm

ruveyn wrote:
b9 wrote:
very interesting. i like to feel the sensation of distance above the earth that is hard to fathom in a video that is always at the same height.
i have searched for shuttle cams etc that show the continuous passage into space from take off to orbit (pointing at the ground), but i have found none.
i decided to take the jupiter 2 into space from heathrow at an initial acceleration of 3 g's. the sound fades out as the atmosphere thins.
it helps to convey the immensity (relative to me) of the size of the earth.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASm5GPfv7vU[/youtube]


Earth is not all that large. There are much larger planets. Even among the rocky exoplanets, Earth is not that big.

ruveyn


Larger exo planets are easier to detect. While there are larger rocky planets out there, it's reasonable to assume that like "our" rocky planets, most of the rocky exo planets are also smaller than the Earth. The largest known rocky planet (Gliese 436 c) has 1.5 times the Earth's radius.


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28 Apr 2014, 12:57 pm

a slightly larger cooler earth might as well be a mirage.