Tag: Earth
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RIP Vanity and Maurice
Dead at 57? So sad. She was the original Nasty Girl. RIP Denise Matthews. Also a sad warning sign to all about drugs and the music industry. Surprised to find this online, I thought The Purple One had scrubbed all Vanity 6 from the Interwebs, he had done so when I did a mashup with…
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NASA Space Travel Posters
Love these retro-themed space travel posters from NASA/JPL. Also fascinating is the text with them, from “Jupiter’s auroras are hundreds of times more powerful than Earth’s” to “Like Luke Skywalker’s planet “Tatooine” in Star Wars, Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars.” Fact-y AND beautiful? Nice! More over at their site called ‘Visions of the Future’…
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The view from the space station
This one you need to crank up large as possible and watch…it’s amazing NASA footage from the International Space Station showing the world at night, massive electrical storms, aurora borealis, and the lights of the world whizzing by set to music from Sunshine. The beauty of this small blue dot moved me to tears –…