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Cow_tipping Prince
Joined: 19 May 2002 Posts: 2420 Location: On the run
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:46 am Post subject: Cities photographed from space |
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Currently in the ISS is Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi.
And you know what Japanese people do when they go on holidays?
Yes! They bring their cameras.
Here are his pictures of world cities and landmarks seen from space:
http://twitter.com/astro_soichi
For instance: http://twitpic.com/17kgzx
I wonder where they hid Sloppy Joe's on this Key West picture. _________________ SAVE THE WHALES. Collect the whole set.
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mohrorless Mail Order Goat Bride
Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 11206 Location: NYC
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Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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Cool! He took a pic of NYC! I can see the park and cemetery my house is between in the pic
http://twitpic.com/19bka0 _________________ Fetch me the Holy Hand Grenade!
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Cow_tipping Prince
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Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 6:48 am Post subject: |
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This park?
_________________ SAVE THE WHALES. Collect the whole set.
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A Shrubbery Prince
Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 1861 Location: Pacific NW
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Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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That golf course has some funny shaped sand traps. _________________ A Shrubbery for Prez. Let's put more bushes in the whitehouse.
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mohrorless Mail Order Goat Bride
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Mildew KWSN ArchBishop
Joined: 13 Oct 2002 Posts: 2617 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 3:51 am Post subject: |
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I thought you were from New York |
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mohrorless Mail Order Goat Bride
Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 11206 Location: NYC
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Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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Mildew wrote: | I thought you were from New York |
I am. The link I posted puts you a few blocks from my house. It is in Queens. One of the 5 Boroughs of NYC. linky
My specific neighborhood The picture of the park on the Middle Village link is he park near my house. _________________ Fetch me the Holy Hand Grenade!
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Mildew KWSN ArchBishop
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 2:56 am Post subject: |
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mohrorless wrote: | Mildew wrote: | I thought you were from New York |
I am. The link I posted puts you a few blocks from my house. It is in Queens. One of the 5 Boroughs of NYC. linky
My specific neighborhood The picture of the park on the Middle Village link is he park near my house. |
Hehe, I was trying to imply that Queens isn't the "real" New York, in case that was a sensitive issue over there.
I guess that taunt was a big fail...
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John Galt 007 Prince
Joined: 31 Dec 2007 Posts: 1206 Location: Wisconsin
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mohrorless Mail Order Goat Bride
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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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Mildew wrote: | mohrorless wrote: | Mildew wrote: | I thought you were from New York |
I am. The link I posted puts you a few blocks from my house. It is in Queens. One of the 5 Boroughs of NYC. linky
My specific neighborhood The picture of the park on the Middle Village link is he park near my house. |
Hehe, I was trying to imply that Queens isn't the "real" New York, in case that was a sensitive issue over there.
I guess that taunt was a big fail...
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Sorry I thought you did not realize (just like our mayor) that NYC is comprised of more than the borough of Manhattan. The outer boroughs (Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island all refer to Manhattan as "the city", as in "I'm going in to the city". Not sure how it started, it's always been that way.
Anyway now you have seen pictures of my neighborhood. _________________ Fetch me the Holy Hand Grenade!
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A Shrubbery Prince
Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 1861 Location: Pacific NW
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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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Not much different here or anywhere else. Eastern Washington refers to 3/4 of the state to people living in Pugetropolis. As far as people not living in Seattle are concerned, it's all Seattle. If you can't see open space between cities or don't realize that you left one city and entered another, it's the same city.
Reminds me of a discussion I was having with my mother-in-law. She was showing me a picture of "Eastern Washington" and I said, no, that's north central Washington, that other picture is south eastern, and this one is south central. Can't you see the difference? Lost cause at best, I say. _________________ A Shrubbery for Prez. Let's put more bushes in the whitehouse.
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