Pictures: I would spend all my time in the ISS cupola

[Ichingcarpenter]

London?





Moscow

[Dead_Parrot]

1. The comment by the fourth one makes me sad...

(And it's not London. )

Edit: Isn't it the Eastern seaboard, looking west? Long island on the right, then NY, Philly, Baltimore & DC in a chain to the left, with Cleveland and Detroit at the top, separated by Erie.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. I didn't see the location when I found the photo

That's why I put a question mark. And that makes you sad? How Sad.....LOL

[Dead_Parrot]

3. Not your comment...

...the one at the side, circled in red - "I thought it was the surface of the sun at night". I weep for our future.

(Unless that was your comment too)

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. Didn't see that

I was looking for this photo and its the only one I found that wasn't too big... didn't notice the comments on the side... Your'e right... Sad.

[tclambert]

7. "The sun at night." That's hilarious.

And disturbing.

The clouds made it tricky for me to identify the location. At first, I thought they were bodies of water. But Long Island has such a distinctive shape plus Delaware Bay and Chesapeake Bay a little further left, it had to be East Coast, USA., looking west.

[Duppers]

4. But there are so many wise-cracking FB posters

This may have been just tongue-in-cheek comment. Some of my friends will post things like this just to be funny and yank my leg, of course.

But on second thought, there are people that stupid who some how manage set up a computer and a FB acct.

[Dead_Parrot]

6. I hope so...

...It's damn hard to tell some days. :s

[pokerfan]

11. The light pollution makes me sad

We could illuminate so much more efficiently (full cutoff fixtures for a start), save some of the dark skies and some money at the same time.

[quakerboy]

16. Agreed.

Although my first instinct isn't sad, its incredulous. The lights are pretty, in an orangy incandescent kinda way. But its just sooo much.

Heck, even Target has their lights set on motion sensors now(it kinda makes me want to run up and down all their grocery isles. I don't shop there, but there is one seasonal product I have been completely unable to find anywhere else). Surely we could do that with street lights. Among, as you say, other things.

[JHB]

8. 'London?' is the US Mid-Atlantic & Midwest, and parts of Canada

Last edited Tue Apr 10, 2012, 07:39 AM - Edit history (1)

Rightmost big cluster of lights is New York, the one to its left is Philadelphia, near center are Baltimore and Washington.

On edit: adding photo with cities marked

[SamG]

9. Great picture !!! It's a small world..

I haven't been to half these cities, I've got to get moving!!!!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

10. cool. thanks for posting these. n/t

[pokerfan]

12. Large version of Tracy Caldwell photo

Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tracy_Caldwell_Dyson_in_Cupola_ISS.jpg

[Odin2005]

13. I did not know London is on the US East Coast!

Moscow is very symmetrical.

[bananas]

14. The London Bridge is in Arizona

It was taken apart brick by brick and transported to Arizona.
Each brick was numbered so it would go in the exact same place.

The 1831 London Bridge was the last project of engineer John Rennie and completed by his son, also named John Rennie.[3] By 1962, the bridge was not sound enough to support the increased load of modern traffic, and was sold by the City of London.

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Mr. Robert I Plumer (deceased) was a real estate agent and salesperson for Mr. Robert P. McCulloch. Originally, the deserted Lake Havasu Vacant land was given to the State of Arizona by the Federal government. The federal property was an abandoned landing strip for the military. Mr. McCulloch made a deal with the State of Arizona and received the property for free with a promise to develop the land. The problem was that that the real estate agents could not bring in prospective buyers because the land was in the middle of no-where and very arid and hot. Mr. Plumer, who worked for Mr. McCulloch, learned that the "London Bridge" was for sale. Mr. Plumer convinced Mr. McCulloch to buy the London Bridge and bring it to the area to attract potential land buyers. The initial response from Mr. McCulloch was "That's the craziest idea I have ever heard." Then, after consideration, Mr. McCulloch decided to go ahead with the purchase. Mr. Plumer then arranged with a cargo shipping company which was going to sail a newly built ship from Great Britian to the US without any cargo. Mr. Plumer said they would pay for all operating costs of the sailing, which was far less than the going rate shipping costs. The bridge arrived in pieces at the Port of Houston and then was overland transported to Lake Havasu City. After it was reconstructed as described below, new prospective land buyers were interest in coming to see the "London Bridge" and take a tour of properties for sale. Land Sales improved and Mr. McCulloch recouped all of his expenses for the purchase and shipping of the bridge. Since the cost of the land was nothing, the sale of the properties paid for the bridge and more. Mr. Robert Plumer died in 2007 in Colorado Springs, CO after a long illness.

After relocation to America, the bridge was reconstructed in Lake Havasu City, a developed community on the east shore of Lake Havasu, a large reservoir on the Colorado River. The bridge was not reconstructed over a river, but rather it was rebuilt on land in a position between the main part of the city and Pittsburgh Point, at that time a peninsula jutting into Lake Havasu. Once completed, the Bridgewater Channel Canal was dredged under the bridge and flooded, separating Pittsburgh Point from the city, creating an island. The bridge thus now traverses a navigable shortcut between the Thompson Bay part of Lake Havasu south of Pittsburgh Point, and the remainder of Lake Havasu to the north.[4]

The bridge facing stones were disassembled and each was numbered. After the bridge was dismantled it was transported to Merrivale Quarry where 15 to 20 cm was sliced off many of the original stones. These were shipped to the bridge's present location and re-assembly began in 1968. The original stone was used to clad a concrete structure, so that the bridge is no longer the original after which it is modeled.[1] The reconstruction took slightly over three years and was completed in late 1971. Today, it serves as a popular tourist attraction for the city.

Recent years have seen a large amount of development in the area of the bridge to increase tourist interest. The original "English Village", a quaint English-style open-air mall with hedge maze and historical museum, has deteriorated, with sections leveled.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_(Lake_Havasu_City)

[quakerboy]

17. Maybe they meant

The London

http://www.thelondonnyc.com/

[bananas]

15. "Talby spends most of his time in the ship’s observation bubble, just staring at the stars"

Your subject line made me think of the movie Dark Star:

http://cinematiccatharsis.blogspot.com/2011/12/once-over-twice-dark-star.html

As the crew’s sanity erodes, each member deals with the boredom of deep space exploration in his own way. Lt. Doolittle (Brian Narelle) is currently in command of the Dark Star, but doesn’t particularly relish his duties. He pines away for his surfing days and plays music on his bottles. Talby (Dre Pahich) spends most of his time in the ship’s observation bubble, just staring at the stars. Sgt. Pinback (Dan O’Bannon) tends to an alien mascot that he brought on board to liven things up. John Carpenter effectively captures the monotony of confined life in a spacecraft for a prolonged period of time, managing to make it amusing without eliciting boredom from the audience – not an easy task.