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Neuro Fuzzy
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2011 15:50 Edited at: 8th Oct 2011 00:26
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I can't believe it but I've actually never sen a time lapse video of the earth from outer space! However... I've seen three recently, and they're amazing.

All I can think of is how unrealistic movies have portrayed planets. In the video you can see earth's ionosphere, the aurora lights, lightning storms, and of course man-made light. All of those effects are way more pronounced, detailed, and awesome than I've ever seen them portrayed through CGI. Possibly just because the CGI developers weren't aware of how awesome and apparent these effects were!




Some of you may be saying "old news", but this is the first time I've heard of it!

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KeithC
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2011 16:00
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Wow; that's pretty awesome! Like the lightning storms throughout too.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2011 16:41
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Awesome videos.



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Posted: 23rd Sep 2011 16:54
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Cool videos. I don't think it'd actually appear that bright to the human eye though. I think they probably shot that with really long exposures to get as much detail as possible. Love the lightning storms though. It makes you realise how pathetic we are!

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KeithC
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2011 16:59
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I think you mean insignificant?

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Darth Kiwi
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Wow, that's amazing! I've obviously seen photos of the earth from space but I've never seen anything which makes me comprehend how our planet is covered in living things and has such breathtaking weather and atmospheric phenomenae.

Also, even if it does look like this to the human eye and doesn't use long exposure as Fallout suggests, film directors will probably not depict the earth as it actually looks simply because it will defy expectations and people will think it's wrong, in the same way that no film has been made where space is actually silent.

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Posted: 23rd Sep 2011 19:33 Edited at: 23rd Sep 2011 19:33
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Darth Kiwi: Firefly?

The first video is jaw dropping to say the least. Darth Kiwi is also right, movies don't depict nature accurately. Take for instance 'night time' scenes. Most films make nighttime look blue, even have a blue main light source when actually this is not true.

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Red Eye
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2011 20:12 Edited at: 23rd Sep 2011 20:15
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Love it!

@Universe&Matrix: The offer still stands:
- I will see earth from outer space and enter new dimmensions while going faster than the speed of light (just need to be a big ass scientist).
- And then, universe, only then matrix!, you may erase me, and I may die.

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Posted: 23rd Sep 2011 20:20 Edited at: 23rd Sep 2011 20:22
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Quote: "Take for instance 'night time' scenes. Most films make nighttime look blue, even have a blue main light source when actually this is not true."


I think (and I'm just guessing here) that they do it for photographic purposes. Blue is the least "harsh" colour in the spectrum, as we have the least receptors for blue in our retinas, yet we can still perceive the brightness variation. So perhaps they make night time blue so it seems dark, yet you can still make out the scene with all it's contrast.

BUT, perhaps I'm over thinking this, they're not that clever, and they're just arty fools who make it blue cos they think it looks cool (most probable I reckons!)

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CoffeeGrunt
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2011 21:52 Edited at: 23rd Sep 2011 21:52
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I think that we should take the leader of every country in the world, stand them on the ISS, and point at this.

This is what you're in charge of, gentlemen. This is what it's your job to protect.

How could anyone, after seeing such a beautiful sight, seeing how microscopic their warring nations are. How could they ever want to march into battle when their sprawling cities are like tiny, glowing embers on a massive canvas?

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This is definitely the first time I've ever seen videos like this. Seeing the storms pretty much blew my mind lol.

Quote: "How could anyone, after seeing such a beautiful sight, seeing how microscopic their warring nations are. How could they ever want to march into battle when their sprawling cities are like tiny, glowing embers on a massive canvas?"

Because that's entirely relative.

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Quote: "How could anyone, after seeing such a beautiful sight, seeing how microscopic their warring nations are. How could they ever want to march into battle when their sprawling cities are like tiny, glowing embers on a massive canvas?"


They would probably just take over a continent instead of a city instead then.


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Posted: 24th Sep 2011 01:43
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Why, when you could see it would mean absolutely nothing?

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Neuro Fuzzy
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Quote: "I think they probably shot that with really long exposures to get as much detail as possible. "

If they shot it with a really long exposure then it would be blurry. The ISS moves super fast. I guess 30-45 seconds of exposure time max (which still is a lot)


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Posted: 24th Sep 2011 11:16 Edited at: 24th Sep 2011 11:17
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Quote: "I guess 30-45 seconds of exposure time max (which still is a lot)"


You can capture an angel's halo in 25 seconds, so I reckon 30-45 is long enough to capture dim light from the earths surface.

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Neuro Fuzzy
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Posted: 24th Sep 2011 12:07
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Aha!
Quote: "MODEL: NIKON D3S
Exposure Program: Manual
Shutter: 1.3 - 1.6s
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO Speed: 12800
Focal Length: 24.0 mm
Lens ID: AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED
DOF: 2.10 m (1.84 - 3.95)
Focus Mode: Manual
Focus Distance: 2.51 m
Noise Reduction: Off
Whitebalance: Auto"

so 1.3-1.6 seconds. I have no idea what that means though, honestly xD


Why does blue text appear every time you are near?
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Posted: 24th Sep 2011 16:09
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That doesn't mean much to me either, but 1/60th of a second gives me good images on my video camera. Low light I get that up to 1/25th. So that's a lot more, but still less than I expected. I'm guessing you can probably see that pretty well with the naked eye then.

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Quote: "Why, when you could see it would mean absolutely nothing?"

Because there are big rocks outside of the Earth, it means nothing? That doesn't make any sense to me. As I've already said, it's entirely relative. Just because land someone would want is small compared to a planet a trillion late years away, doesn't make it small to us. You're basically saying there is no purpose to live as well.

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Posted: 25th Sep 2011 00:26 Edited at: 25th Sep 2011 00:27
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Quote: "Because there are big rocks outside of the Earth, it means nothing? That doesn't make any sense to me. As I've already said, it's entirely relative. Just because land someone would want is small compared to a planet a trillion late years away, doesn't make it small to us. You're basically saying there is no purpose to live as well."


While his statement came from an emotional feeling, yours is now turning the wrong way and making a false comparison. Yet indeed, if we had fighting spaceships we would have been batteling for planets a long time ago, till we figure out how to get into other universes...

People often forget that most research is enforced and motivated and invested by War itself. If you want to know more, you need to maintain War. And the "i want to know everything" often carrys a bag full of "i want everything".

I would say... find the good gradient between "War(money making)" and "research" while optimizing "research", they need to keep investing in us now dont they!?
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Hmmm, the thing is, we're getting to the point where projects are too big, too expensive for one nation. CERN, ITER and the like aren't born of war, it's debatable whether they'll birth anything worthwhile themselves.

ITER's an International project, and if it delivers what it claims, it'll be a new era of energy. Something that seems to be the focus of everything nowadays at least.

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