Love is in the air over a Mexican island
Posted on 06/21/2008 8:23:47 AM PDT by yankeedame
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 4:02 PM on 21st June 2008
This is what earth looks like from above. And the spectacular pictures taken from 200 miles...
Astronauts on the International Space Station took the snaps while travelling at 17,000 miles per hour during one of its 15 daily orbits....
Love is in the air over a Mexican island
They show the complex meterological systems from an angle seen by a select few.
Images include towering clouds, dust storms, lightening and a host of other meterological occurances.
Astronauts are trained to make weather observations from space.
Thunderclouds caught on camera over the US Midwest
Cumulonimbus Cloud over Africa
Every day on the International Space Station astronauts take pictures of the earth below them
Simushir I Zavaritzki volcano, in Russia
The images taken show the earth's complex meterological system
A view only a select few ever get to experience
Anvil clouds seen at sunset
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“I see mushroom clouds and think to myself, “’What a screwy world’...”
Well, all that aside, those were awesome pictures. I especially like the thunderclouds over the Midwest.
Amen
and I see the hand of God & think
how could anyone not believe??
Do not try to launch the Space Shuttle through anvil clouds.
Jeez, those pictures nearly brought a tear to my eye. They’re so beautiful
Then again, I was trying to imagine myself what Earth would look like from a few hundred miles up, screaming by at 17,000mph.
***“I see mushroom clouds and think to myself, “’What a screwy world’...”***
Now that’s funny
ping for later
The Gorical loves his clouds, even those that thunder and cause him to run to his limo.
Stunningly beautiful from a great vantage point.
I always sit in the window seat on flights. I would really love a chance to see the Earth from this altitude.
Impressive! Pic #4 reminds me of the pic shown in “The Day After Tomorrow.”
Just beautiful. Can’t imagine how you could look at this earth and not know that God loves us.
I had sent [ a friend ] my small book that treats religion as an illusion, and he answered that he entirely agreed with my judgment upon religion, but that he was sorry I had not properly appreciated the true source of religious sentiments, This, he says consists in a peculiar feeling, which he is never without, which he finds confirmed by many others, and which he may suppose is present in millions of people. It is a feeling which he would like to call a sensation of 'eternity', a feeling as of something limitless, unbounded - as it were 'oceanic'. This feeling, he adds, is a purely subjective fact, not an article of faith; it brings with it no assurance of personal immortality, but it is the source of religious energy which is seized upon by the various Churches and religious systems, directed by them into particular channels, and also doubtless exhausted by them. One may, he thinks, rightly call oneself religious on the ground of this oceanic feeling alone, even if one rejects every belief and illusion.
Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
How great was his loss.
for later reading
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