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One of the Best Time-Lapsed Videos of Earth From Space Yet

Spectacular New Time Lapsed Video Over Earth

Unlike the time-lapsed video over Earth we posted a couple months ago, this one seems even closer to the surface giving you an even more spectacular visual experience.

Take a ride:

 

As Gawker points out, there is so much flying by in this video that you might not know quite what to focus on: the green film that is the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis; the thin yellow line over Earth is the ionosphere; or the webs of light are illuminated cities, to name a few. Check out the full list of locations in order of appearance here.

The video was created from 18 time-lapsed photos from August to October 2011 taken 240 miles up from the International Space Station and put together by  Michael König.

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  • rdietz7
    Posted on November 14, 2011 at 12:45am

    Thanks blaze. Awesome post and a good reminder to start the week.

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  • mrbuff1959
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:11pm

    There are way to many people on the blaze that think the bibel was writen by god. It was writen by primitive man.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:29pm

      The bibel? What’s that? Is that the thing you put on an Infant to keep the dribble from getting on its shirt? I’m not the best speller but I can do better than that when it comes to spelling Bible.

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    • mcmxl22
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:50pm

      You are right mr buff the bible was written by men guided by God.

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    • mwhaley
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:15pm

      Yep, The Bible was written by man, but God is the Author. Man was just doing dictation. Jesus stated that heaven and earth will pass away, but the word will always be for ever. The Word, as known The Bible.

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    • 408 CheyTac
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:32pm

      proof read lest you sound like a jack-a$s.

      or if in fact you are (it’s rather obvious), just don’t prove it to the whole world.

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    • HYPNOTOAD
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:35pm

      And your comment was written by an ignorant person who can’t spell.

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    • black9897
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:44pm

      If that’s what you think, ok. What do you care what we believe? I‘ve always been amazed why atheists or ppl who don’t believe in God feel the need to try and “disprove” it to those who do. Makes no sense.

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    • rdietz7
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 12:38am

      Mr Buff you know in your heart your soul belongs to death and destruction. Your choice. Good luck with your ignorance.

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    • paperpushermj
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 12:39am

      If you are making light of something have the courtesy to know how its Spelled. That one error made your words sound like you are a duffus.

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    • Curious Visitor
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 12:56am

      @PAPERPUSHERMJ

      It’s spelled doofus. You also capitalized the word “spelled” unnecessarily.

      @BLACK9897

      I would never try and convert someone to my belief system but there is a reason why people do it and I think it’s useful to acknowledge that. Generally speaking a religious person tries to convert an atheist because they believe in an everlasting soul and think they are doing God’s work by helping people get into heaven. Atheists generally would try and dissuade somebody from religion because they think it’s an antiquated superstition that impedes rational, scientific thinking.

      Again, it’s not my bag to try and convince people to be like me, but I understand why people do it.

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    • keithh1981
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 1:13am

      It is a funny thing, if evolution happened, why is there still apes? They say things evolve, but if we came from apes there would be no more apes. The logic of atheists astounds me, since everyone of them on their death bed is always doing the same thing every time. Crying out to God for forgiveness. There is no such thing as a atheist in a foxhole. All atheists are just egomaniac people who hate there is someone better than them. Too bad they are all crying out his name. There is a reason why all kids growing up have a sense of creation but it it is the misguided parents who confuses the child into their evolution theories. I find it amazing kids before they know anything have creation/reality burnt into their genes already.

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    • Big Book Harry
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 1:42am

      There are way to many people on the blaze that think the bibel was writen by god. It was writen by primitive man. — wow now this is out of left field, must be a paranoid athiest. Although I must admitt I looked at the stars more than the surface in wonder. God of wonders — amazing is an understatement.

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    • TEXASGRANNY73
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 1:50am

      The gospel according to John 1.In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2. He was in the beginning with God.3. All things came into being by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. 4. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
      @Cofemale Agree. “and the darkness did not comprehend it” explains. This video was awesome and aren’t we the “lucky ones” who get to see it ?

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    • colt1860
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 2:42am

      @mrbuff1959 Ah, yes. The modern day liberal notion that only a primitive man would have been able to write the best selling book in the history of printing. The same book that would have the most impact and influence in our Western Civilization. And where you alive during that primitive time period, my friend, so that we can take your word as fact and testimony?

      No such thing called the bibel was written by God. However, a major event in world history was began by God, that resembles the word Babel.

      And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. Genesis 11:5-9.

      Perhaps, you are from this time period whereof this “primitive man” originates and are still confused about how to spell the word “Bible” in the English Language?

      (No need to respond, I’m just pulling your leg)

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    • DRB
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 4:53am

      Huh?

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    • BehindBlueEyes
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 5:26am

      @Steve
      Thanks for the video. I had a good laugh. It could be used for just about any of JZS posts. If the profile picture he uses is him then I understand why he says the things he does.

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    • t00nces2
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 6:36am

      keithh1981… Evolution is fact. It may or may not be the way humans arrived on the scene (I believe we evolved), but evolution occurs. Your question would be analogous to asking, “If evolution occurs, why are there so many different types of finches on the Galapagos Islands?” The answer is that evolution can take different paths to design and adapt different lines of the same animal to best cope with a different set of needs.

      We needed to adapt to use computers and apes didn’t.

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    • Charlie Justice
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 7:00am

      MrBuff…you are ignorant and in much need of a serious and unfiltered education. Your complacency is destroying your potential and you are in serious danger of irrelevance. Your claim shows a severe case of intellectual impotence (you have a brain but can’t seem to be able to use it properly)

      Your belief or faith in Jesus Christ is not a prerequisite for His existence. The sooner your arrogance gives way to obedience and the sooner your irrationality gives way to accountability then the sooner you will be free to live a life you have yet to imagine.

      One day, whether you anticipate it or not, you will face Jesus Christ on bended knee on have an opportunity to explain your ignorance to Him. Until then please take some advice: It is far better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. Good luck MrBluff & God Bless you.

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    • beenaroundyaknow
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 7:32am

      Primitive man did not write the Bible. Only several thousand years ago, except for the advances of technology and scientific knowledge, man has not changed spiritually or how it deals with its fellow man.

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    • TRUTHSENSE
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 8:18am

      They couldn’t have been as primitive than you, MRBUFF1959. The Bible mentions the “circle of the earth”. How could they have known that if they were so primitive?

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    • Gorp
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 8:33am

      Come on now people! MRBUFF is right. The bibel was written by Primitive man.

      The Bible however, was written by God through man’s hand.

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    • schmite123oh
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 8:38am

      @Toon Sorry, evolution is not fact, reason me this, why is it called The Theory of Evolution? Use your reasoning. It’s Theory, and highly flawed.

      18For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

      19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

      20Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. 22For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: 23But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; 24But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. 25Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

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    • Joe Schmuck
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 8:55am

      Amazing how this video made you think of God.

      It just confirms what He has written in Romans 1.

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    • HADEN0UGH
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 9:09am

      My question on evolution is if we evolved, why did we stop in this form? We should at least have super human strength or wings by now. Or a second penis.

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    • broper
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 9:18am

      Brother… you need to read the Bible. It is superbly written, and gives us God’s insights and his love for his creation. Your writing skills are no where close to those “primitive” writers found in the Bible.

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    • Jamesjim
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 10:22am

      Yeah, but what about us Bibels?

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 10:26am

      Primitive man doesn’t write 66 books, broken down to 1,189 chapters, 31,173 verses, or 807,361 words on three continents over about 1800 years without even one error, major or minor.

      Yes, the Holy Bible was written by the hands of men, but it was written by God Himself.

      I guess one could argue that editors could have changed it over time, if it wasn’t for those Dead Sea scrolls and Bibles left over from the earliest days of Christianity which prove that with the exception of translation, the Bible is essentially unchanged over at least the last 2900 years.

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    • scudster
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 10:34am

      There are way to many people in America that deny GOD and take no time to study his written word which bares itself out and withstands the test of time. He sets before you this day life and death blessing or cursing along with the right to choose for yourself. You choose to bring his judgments on yourself when you deny him to others.

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    • jzs
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 11:14am

      keithh1981, no evolutionist, including Darwin, has ever said human evolved from apes. When anyone says that, you can be sure they don’t know a thing about evolution. Humans and apes have a “common ancestor.’

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    • Bearfoot
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 12:05pm

      Joe Schmuck, “Amazing how this video made you think of God.”

      Indeed! Everything always comes back to our Creator.

      Revelation 4:11 – “You are worthy, Jehovah, even our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, because you created all things, and because of your will they existed and were created.”

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    • blondenblueeyed
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 3:13pm

      Mr Buff 1959…..There are lots of other places to read and post if you don’t like The Blaze. Besides I‘m sure you will find your ’primitive man’ friends elsewhere.

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    • Tom K
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 3:29pm

      @MRBUFF1959: We poot da‘ bibel on da’ beebee wen’ day dwibble. Thanks to THE-MONK ( Love your TV show ) MCMXL22 is quite correct; God’s Holy word was recorded by man. By the way, everything you see on this amazing video was made by God our Creator. You don’t have to accept the truth but THE Truth is eternal. Read all about it in God’s Bible.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 4:17pm

      @ jzs
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 11:14am

      keithh1981, no evolutionist, including Darwin, has ever said human evolved from apes. When anyone says that, you can be sure they don’t know a thing about evolution. Humans and apes have a “common ancestor.’
      ——————————————————————————————————————————-
      I actually agree with your interpretation of species, but it’s also true that man and ape shared a common ancestry about 8 million years ago according to “Aesop’s fables” (theories of evolution). The unfortunate part for evolutionists is that the empire of uniformity has long since been proven to be false. Just as when Darwin postulated the warm pond creating life out of nothing (spontaneous generation) is completely ignored by biological evolutionists now because it’s not simply wrong, but preposterously wrong. Just as natural selection creates a self defeating paradox when witnessing the diversity of species today.

      The fossil record claimed by neo darwinites has also been shot full of holes all through every theory of evolution, including Goulds’ Punctuated Equilibrium.

      Intelligent Design is the only theory that is borne based on the unchanging, and extraordinarily complex genomes of all species.

      Intelligent Design is God calling all things into being simply by and thru his word.

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    • The Jewish Avenger
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 4:45pm

      @mrbuff1959

      You speech good!

      Thanks for trolling! (Dbumsas)

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    • blackwingA520
      Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:02am

      We‘re suppose to take you seriously when you can’t even spell?? Hope you don’t go out in any lightning storms today, sure would hate to see you get struck down.

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    • Falcon67
      Posted on November 15, 2011 at 1:02pm

      BIBEL probably was.

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    • Black Manta
      Posted on November 16, 2011 at 5:01pm

      @ MCMXL22 is 100% correct….know what your talking about before you speak or type…

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  • hudent
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:20pm

    did they run out money to play that awful scratched up record as background music,come on clean it ,otherwise a very interesting video of EARTH

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  • jzs
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:59pm

    Cool video. One thing to think about is that if the world was the size of the globe in your living room, the atmosphere would be thinner than the paper on the outside of that globe, where all the oceans and continents are printed. That vanishingly small layer of the Earth, supports life on Earth, and keeps the Earth from freezing into a solid block of ice like Mars. Without that paper thin atmosphere, life wouldn’t exist on Earth.

    But it works the other way too. If that layer retains too much heat, the Earth would become a furnace like Venus. How does that happen? When greenhouse gasses are pumped in this tiny, tiny layer over the Earth.

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    • TRVTH
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:40pm

      And what exactly is the correct temperature of the earth, what it was 3000 yrs ago? Or the warming over that 3000 yrs, with the warmest 1000 yrs ago?

      Until you can answer that question, and then, develop an accurate computer model to predict all the changes in the atmosphere, solar radiation, magnetic fields and cosmic rays, then maybe we can determine if man is effecting the climate, until then we should stay the hell out of it, and let it be.

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    • 1casawizard
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:40pm

      @JZS. The atmosphere the size of a globe would be more along the line of 3/16 of an inch from the surface of the globe. The biggest influence of our temperature on Earth is the Sun which gets a little moody at times when it flips magnetic poles. We have recently discovered another type of emission which can influence our temperature. The ball we live on has many yet unknown devices that can influence desirable and undesirable effects on its inhabitants.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:57pm

      Well, it’s JZS to the rescue again for his scientific analogy of the Universe. I suppose that JZS will tell us the green in the horizon is OWS Green? Don’t you have a life JZS? The background music made as much sense as you do! Scratchy and incoherent. Ever see the short film, “Red Ballon?” JZS? That’s you. JeZuS….

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    • KAdams
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:40pm

      I was always given to understand that thousands of years ago, the atmosphere was different than it is today. More CO2 and higher humidity, much warmer.

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    • Your Sensie
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:41pm

      Jzs, I’m jealous of you. I am an idiot but your the master of misguided misinformation.

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    • Big Book Harry
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 1:48am

      Actually everthing on earth would encounter two extreems, either frozen or fried, in 12 hour intervals.

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    • Steve
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 3:58am

      jzs

      WOW! I’m mean really WOW! I’m… I can‘t even tell you what I’m feeling right now. I think this video pretty much sums it all up.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0&feature=youtu.be

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    • jzs
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 11:12am

      1casawizard, wrong again. 3/16″ would be 150 miles. The heat retaining layer of the atmosphere is closer to 7 miles. And if you think the biggest factor in the changes in Earth’s temperature is sun, I wouldn’t know where to start in a discussion with you. Without an atmosphere containing greenhouse gasses, the Earth would be a block of ice. If we had an atmosphere like Venus, Earth would be an oven. The primary cause of changes in Earth’s temperature is attributed universally by scientists to changes in the composition of the atmosphere.

      That is, unless Rush Limbaugh is the source of your science.

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    • jzs
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 1:23pm

      MONK, as I was conferring, conversing and other hobnobbing with my fellow monks, we quickly reached the conclusion that you aren’t actually a monk, unless that is short for monkey. Since all your posts are insults – and not overly clever ones at that – one can only assume you don’t have any wisdom of your own to impart. In your case that’s a safe assumption. And streams of insults toward people you disagree agree with really isn’t in the monk tradition, which emphasizes harmony.

      However, you can feel secure here, beinging among your kind.

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  • 1casawizard
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:41pm

    Check out nasa.com

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  • hightide
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 7:46pm

    Signs and wonders in the Heavens..

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  • UlyssesP
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 7:30pm

    Obvious CGI work.
    “The video was created from 18 time-lapsed photos”.
    Extrapolating this much video form 18 photos is impossible.
    I suppose everyone will fall to their knees when they show the Jesus descending from the heavens video as well.

    Just kidding. The 18 photos is an obvious mistake. They meant 18 LOCATIONS.
    It looks great.

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    • EViLCoNsErVaTiVeINC
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:33pm

      There are 18 different segments in the 5 minute video. I counted, how sad is that?

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    • Thewayiseeit
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:52pm

      Time lapse photos are actually groups of photos.
      An example would be the time lapse photo of the Twinkies
      to see how long it took to decompose.
      They took a picture every hour and made each a frame in a movie.
      That movie was “A” time lapse photo. I can’t remember how long it took but
      over 60 days until they STARTED to change comes to mind… I wonder…
      Ah yes, here is one of them! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=588hZ-kU10U

      So, each of the 18 shots called time lapse photos, is correct.

      Really quite breath taking though, don’t you think?
      I really enjoyed the lightning sections…

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    • foobear
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:18pm

      Yes, UlyssesP, this video is obviously a hoax, just like everything that comes out of “science”.

      :P

      Gar, all you people please STOP trying to give conservatives a bad name.

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    • Big Book Harry
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 2:01am

      Exactly I suspect they ran the camera over the three month period, ended up with 18 segments of video that were really cool, increased framerate with video enhancing and spliced them into the video we are seeing.

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  • flatbroke
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 7:17pm

    Cool! i can see my house! hahahahaha

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:31pm

      I can see Russia from the reflection off of the Green Flash from Sunset Point, Fl.

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  • tankyjo
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 6:54pm

    BTW, Lloyd Drako, not a prayer. Sorry dude, even the best mathematician can’t make odds on that.

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  • tankyjo
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 6:50pm

    The heavens declare.

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  • Unix
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 6:49pm

    Now THAT is cool…

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  • WORD_WARRIOR
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 6:40pm

    Whoa.. did I see military activity caught in there?

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    • Salamander
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 6:56pm

      Probably thunderstorms? Did anybody notice all the meteors and metor showers?

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 6:25pm

    “Captain, this is a class M planet; able to sustain human life. Shall we organize a landing party?”

    I kinda like the audio sfx. VERY COOL FOOTAGE!

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    • Salamander
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 6:36pm

      The thunderstorms were really neat!

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    • SHOOTnCRASH
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 6:54pm

      What a nerdo.
      8?p

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    • BenInNY
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 7:23pm

      @TRON “I kinda like the audio sfx.” Check into Aphex Twin (Richard James) A lot of his music is similar to that.

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  • willbedone
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 6:09pm

    MY God is AWESOME!!!

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  • V-MAN MACE
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 5:58pm

    I saw Cleveland!

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  • 2SENSEWORTH
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 5:50pm

    April 12, 1961 – Yuri Gagarin was a Russian cosmonaut, a member of the Russian Orthodox Church and the first human in space.

    When he returned to Earth, there was a huge reception in his honor. As his close friend and cosmonaut colleague Alexei Leonov tells it, then-premier Nikita Khrushchev cornered Gagarin “So tell me, Yuri,” he asked, “did you see God up there?” After a moment’s pause. Gagarin answered, “Yes sir, I did.” Khrushchev frowned. “Don’t tell any one,” he said. A few minutes later the head of the Russian Orthodox Church took Gagarin aside. “So tell me, my child,” he asked Gagarin, “did you see God up there?’“ Gagarin hesitated and replied ”No sir, I did not.“ ”Don’t tell anyone.”
    …Yuri Gagarin – Wikipedia

    Watched the video. There is a God up there and I believe he is down here too.

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    • Salamander
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 6:48pm

      Great story! And, we can’t see over the divide! I lost a friend this week! But, I know she’s passed from this life to something we cannot comprehend.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umQCgaZnO0o

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    • Unix
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 6:55pm

      Funny and deep story, and it has such profound meanings – most of the left is under this spell unfortunately.

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    • 1casawizard
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:49pm

      Ya might be right with your last sentence. I know it to be true.

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  • rcw_68
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 5:38pm

    How can one look at this and say there is no God is beyond me. Earth is perfectly placed, not too far, not too close. There is a perfect atmosphere to hold heat and air in, but not too much or too little. Our planets and sun work off of each other. If one was misaligned or simply not there, everything would fall apart. There is TOO MUCH PERFECTION for all of this to be coincidence or random.

    “Our God is an awesome God……………..”

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 6:01pm

      Golden Ratio.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 6:42pm

      What “perfection?” Over the last 4 billion years, the earth has frozen over several times, been hit by comets and asteroids, often with devastating impact, and at least once been enveloped in a gaseous atmosphere fatal to almost all extant life. Entire continents have been swallowed under other continental plates, the magnetic poles have flip-flopped numerous times, and volcanic eruptions have blotted out the sun for years at a time. I see no perfection there! In a universe that probably contains literally trillions of planetary bodies, at least a few million will harbor intelligent life. Not a miracle, just a statistical probability.

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    • Unix
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 6:53pm

      Oh but Drago, it is perfect for humans now isn’t it…humans have a narrow window of tempartures that will allow us to survive – the past set up the present so God gave us our nature, our world and our RIGHTS!!

      God Bless America

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    • COFemale
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:16pm

      Lloyd you need to get out of that basement once in awhile; you view of the world is dark and dank. If you could not see the beauty in that video then I feel sorry for you. The earth can be pretty spectacular; sometimes it is the people who make it look ugly. God did make a perfect earth, it is the people who let him down.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:18pm

      @Lloyd Drako
      Thank you Lloyd Drako… you just gave the prefect analogy why Al Gore is so wrong about Climate Charge.

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    • Curious Visitor
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:41pm

      It’s debatable that the Earth is perfect, but let’s say it is. Why do you think chance can not produce perfection? If I go to a roulette table in Las Vegas and put all of my money on black, there is a 50% chance of a “perfect” outcome, i.e. I win. I can play numbers or place other types of bets and lower my chances while increasing the payout on my reward, but I there would still be a chance for a “perfect” result.

      You might say, “What an idiot! The odds of the Earth forming the way it did is a like lower than winning on black” and you’re absolutely right. But what you’re saying is that there is 0% chance of it happening, and I just don’t know where you draw that conclusion from.

      Considering the Infinite Monkey Theorem helps here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem). You might say that it’s impossible for a chimpanzee to sit at a typewriter and produce, perfectly with no errors, the complete works of William Shakespeare. But given infinite time that is exactly what would happen, eventually. This is why being true to the burden of proof is important because despite how much it may feel right to say that chance could not produce a perfect Earth, if you really reflect on it you will realize that it’s a completely dishonest conclusion.

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    • ThankBabyJesus
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 12:53am

      @Drako

      And global warming?

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    • emty44
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 1:10am

      @ curious visitor….chance is no thing, chance cannot produce anything, that monkey will never produce the works of Shakespeare…ever……the statistical probabilities make it impossible.

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    • Captain Crunch
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 2:52am

      @Curious Visitor

      “Infinite Monkey”….that wouldn’t be Obama would it? lol

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 9:36am

      Yes, the universe is beautiful, and earth has been a beautiful home for us humans–so far. But neither is perfect, if by perfect you mean manifestly designed, especially for us, by a beneficent God. The physical universe itself gives no clue as to who the Author of it all might be, if there is one, or what it all means. If you choose to have faith in a God, by all means do so, but stop deceiving yourself that there is any proof to be found in the distance of earth from the sun, or the precise chemical balance of the atmosphere, or anything else in nature that seems tailor-made just for us.

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    • SimpleTruths
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 1:54pm

      That is a classic circular argument. We’re here because everything is right for us to be here. Well duh! How does that ‘prove’ God? How do you know there aren’t countless other planets in the Universe that have life as advanced or more advanced that humans? If they didn‘t have the same Bible as we do would that prove that there isn’t a God?

      The answer is that you CAN’T “prove” God’s existence one way or another. That‘s why it’s called ‘faith”.

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  • Secessionista
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 5:19pm

    Could they have chosen more annoying music for this? Great video, really really bad music.

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    • Ookspay
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 5:29pm

      Agree, lame music, and the speed of movement was way too fast. Clicked off after a few seconds, my brain hurt.

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  • ThankBabyJesus
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 5:13pm

    I wish I could live up there.

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  • B-Neil
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 5:06pm

    No rush to the next life. I know it’s going to be wonderfull. It’s time we started moveing full bore to space exploration. That is the future of Human kind. God does work oin very mysterious ways. CARRY ON McDUFF

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    • loriann12
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 5:33pm

      I’m of the Star Trek generation (original series in the 60′s). I fully believed that by now, I’d be among the colonists on the moon. What a shame we have no space program anymore.

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    • Salamander
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 6:40pm

      Yeah, our ‘space’ program was ‘housing for all’ by Chris Dodd and Barney Frank! “One small step for a mind, one giant bleep for mankind!”

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    • rdietz7
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 12:43am

      That’s because the thugs in Washington, who have no imagination and sole purpose is to gain money and power, have killed the dream of mankind.

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  • NOBALONEY
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 5:01pm

    Wow!

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  • BrandyWilson
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 4:56pm

    The LORD God is simply wonderful….and He has allowed man the knowledge to capture a glimpse at what He sees at a whim!

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  • TheGreyPiper
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 4:43pm

    Stunning. Be nice if that could slow down and overlay a map. I recognized Cyprus and the eastern Med but that was about it.

    Hey, any envirowhiners want to p1ss n moan about all that dreadful electricity used to light up the night?

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  • TXBODYBUILDER
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 4:43pm

    “Solar winds stream away from the sun at speeds of about 1 million miles per hour. When they reach the earth, some 40 hours after leaving the sun, they follow the lines of magnetic force generated by the earth’s core and flow through the magnetosphere, a teardrop-shaped area of highly charged electrical and magnetic fields.” IF THAT’S 100% ACCURATE THEN WE CAN WATCH THE NORTH AND SOUTH POLE COLORING TO SEE IF THEY MOVE NEXT YEAR THE WAY SOME PREDICT ON 12/21/2012.

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  • ADNIL
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 4:36pm

    totally mesmerizing! THANKS!

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  • Hephzibah
    Posted on November 14, 2011 at 9:23am

    Haha! Crack me up!

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