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AlbertCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-11 10:47 AM
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Amazing photos of Earth....for Earth Day!
Edited on Fri Apr-22-11 10:54 AM by AlbertCat
From AOL News.... and NASA

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/21/the-earth-from-above-images-from-nasa-gallery/?ncid=webmail





And here's another site to check out.

http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/


ENJOY!


Now that you've seen the photos of Earth from space.... check out these images of Mandelbrot Sets. Hmmmmmmm...

http://www.mandelbrotset.net/gallery.html
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-11 10:53 AM
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1. I have a fantastic piece of software that shows the earth with realtime clouds on my desktop.
It looks amazing spread across both of my Mac's monitors.

EarthDesk 5:

http://www.xericdesign.com
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Motown_Johnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-11 12:44 PM
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3. Hmm.... I had a TV channel like that for a while
on Dish Network.

But I canceled that service.

It was pretty cool when you could see well, many times you couldn't see anything.
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-11 01:21 PM
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4. You can tweek the settings to make the Earth more visible.
In the nighttime portions of the map, city lights are visible. Very pretty.

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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-11 12:41 PM
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2. K/R
!!
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BrendaBrick Donating Member (859 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-11 03:44 PM
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5. Ohhhhh Cool!
I had a video about the Mandelbrot set and his fractals and loaned it out...and it was never returned :-(

Cool images...especially when you close your eyes sometimes...and can see the EXACT same things!!!!

I dunno about you...but sumthin' sumthin' is UP with that!!!!

Thanks for sharing some great "Earth Day" pics!
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