For anyone that might have missed it on the various blogs and feeds, check this out:

Home From Above (from Astronomy Picture of the Day)

Absolutely stunning!

Madeleine Robins (writer) called it “the perfect cover for the perfect unwritten/unread SF novel I wanted to read when I was thirteen”, which I liked.

bastards… 😉

Really? No one else, out of all the STW sic-fi geeks, thinks this is mind-blowing?

thats pretty cool, 6 inches of technology built by the lowest bidder keeping her safe.

looks like the front of a tie-fighter.

awsome! literally.

It’s a good pic. Kind of dumb struck really..

It’s princess Leia isn’t it. And that’s more like the front of the Millenium Falcon IMO.

Other than that, yes, I think it’s a stunning picture.

Some flash on that camera to light up earth like that.

it’s a scene from firefly isn’t it?

Dr. Dyson is a lead vocalist in the band Max Q.

Challenge

it’s a scene from firefly isn’t it?

I think it looks more like:

Jodie Foster in Contact

Contact, yeah. I have to say that film didn’t immediately come to mind. Maybe because it was so shee-ite.

What’s so cool about the photo though? Over say…the photos from the Apollo missions e.g. the earthrise shot?

Contact? Shite?

Are you completely insane?

You take that back right now, Mr!!!!

The Earthrise shot was actually rotated 90 degrees from its side on original to make it look better…
Geek? Yup!!!!

It was shite. Hey, nice concept. Ideas based SciFi – nothing wring with that but the execution was poor.

I’m telling my mum about you.

Still a good shot. I hit the “rotate left” button plenty of times in iphoto to make my photos look better. There’s no up or down in space is there. “earthrise” sounds so much better than “earthslide” or “earth-enter-stage-left/right”. 🙂

What’s so cool about the photo though? Over say…the photos from the Apollo missions e.g. the earthrise shot?

Because it just looks like something out of a CGI sci-fi film – until you realise that it is real.

Also it has a lady in it – who looks foxy and pensive.

(also, I quite liked Contact)

hats pretty cool, 6 inches of technology built by the lowest bidder keeping her safe.

Despite the challange of getting stuff up there, actualy building stuff in space must surely be fairly straightforeward, think about it, theres a 1 bar pressure drop accross that window. A divers mask has 3 bar, a £8 wrist watch can cope with 5 bar.

great pic, wish it was sigourney weaver etc etc

Ok fair enough. If you liked Contact, you’re easily pleased 😛

Really? No one else, out of all the STW sic-fi geeks, thinks this is mind-blowing?

NASA do some excellent pictures. It’s worth swinging by their site from time to time. This is good, but in terms of ‘mind-blowing’ it’s a drop in the ocean for them.

Saw it yesterday, too – god I’d love to be an astronaut, that looks amazing.

And it looks like the window in the Emperor’s throne room.

Contact was OK as a film but the book was excellent.

Do you think they shelled out for triple glazing to retain the heat or just standard double?

Really? No one else, out of all the STW sic-fi geeks, thinks this is mind-blowing?

It is one of the world’s greatest photos I reckon.

It is one of the world’s greatest photos I reckon.

You’ve taken that too far now.. 🙂

I can’t see how anyone can top a photo of the earth from space to be honest. The ultimate in perspective I reckon.

It’s a studio in the desert in Utah or somewhere…..

It is one of the world’s greatest photos I reckon.

You can’t even see her underwear in it.

S’alright! Nuffink speshul.

*new desktop*

Some fan bloody-tastic-photos from ISS in the past year.

http://twitpic.com/photos/Astro_Soichi

http://twitpic.com/photos/Astro_Wheels

Pics of girls on spaceships?

THREAD CLOSED.

Slight hijack: Does NASA allow astronauts to errr… y’know… er… do the deed?

Buzz:
NO 🙁

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7858388/International-Space-Station-sex-ban.html

On which note, this :-

is on ITV4 tonight at 23.20

Not quite up to the std of the last two photo’s but I reckon this thread need mentioning again:

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/nasa-apod

“Despite the challange of getting stuff up there, actualy building stuff in space must surely be fairly straightforeward, think about it, theres a 1 bar pressure drop accross that window. A divers mask has 3 bar, a £8 wrist watch can cope with 5 bar. “

It’s the specs of dust / paint doing 200km/hr which it has to cope with rather than the pressure drop!

When I was young, I thought I would be seeing earth from that viewpoint by now.