Posted on 10/05/2015 9:31:37 AM PDT by Republic_Venom
NASA posted a photo of the border between India and Pakistan as seen from outer space on Facebook on Sunday. The photo was taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station and shows the familiar outline of the north-western segment of India picked out in glowing lights.
The astronaut who took the photo was "looking north across Pakistan's Indus River valley." The thread of orange that separates the two countries is lit by security lights that glow orange. The brightest spot visible is Karachi which faces the Arabian Sea. The Indus Valley is also dotted with lights.
This is one of the few international boundaries visible after dark. The Facebook post has been liked almost 50,000 times and has nearly 9,000 shares.
According to Nasa, "More than two millennia ago, Alexander the Great entered the Indus plains in 327 BCE from the northwest. He then spent many months leading his army and navy down the length of the Indus valley shown in this view. From near Karachi, he then began the desert march back to Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). By contrast, it takes the space station just three minutes to travel this distance".
The photo was taken on September 23 with a Nikon D4 digital camera using a 28 millimetre lens.
A similar picture was shared by NASA in 2011, which shows the border zone as seen southeast from the Himalayas.
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I notice that the lighting is on the far side so as to back light any illegal border crossers.
And our democrat politicians and democrat press corpse and “catholic” Mexian church politicians DEMAND that “we” return to an open-border 7th century cattle drive across the southern border.
For THEIR democrat votes in every future year. For THEIR church pews.
Washington politicians agreed that we could/can afford to send our military to defend Saudi Arabia and send billions in foreign aid to India - but the same pols say we can't afford a wall/fence to defend our border while those countries can border walls/fences.
Picture below! /sarc
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Why would India want to keep the Pakistanis out?
On a similar note, I believe that zombie movies are a reflection of our nation’s suppressed, rational fear of Mohammedanism.
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