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Unique View of the World Trade Center Towers After They Were Hit

by Michael Wade Moss

With the many different views during and after the attacks on the World Trade Center, I truly thought I had seen every angle, view, video, etc. However, recently I was made aware of a much different view of the attacks on the World Trade Center: From The International Space Station:

Amazing that it looks so very small from up there and yet is one of the worst disasters in world history.


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Photos and Video of the December 21, 2010 Lunar Eclipse

December 21, 2010
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Well folks, last night I reported that a lunar eclipse was going to occur a few hours ahead of time. Hopefully everyone in the North American area was able step outside and observe it for a while. I sat out there for hours and it was magnificent. I took some photos of the event, though [...]

Get Ready for a Total Lunar Eclipse TONIGHT – December 21, 2010!

December 20, 2010
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In about 3 hours, the last lunar eclipse of the decade is going to occur, and it’s going to be a good one! According to the Griffith Observatory: It is also the highest in the sky that a totally eclipsed Moon has appeared from Los Angeles in 1,591 years and it will not be this [...]

Time Lapse Video of the Space Shuttle Discovery

June 2, 2010
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Thanks to Mitch over at Planet5D for finding this little gem… Six weeks, and over 100 hours of footage shot on several Canon EOS 5D Mark IIs culminate in this remarkable, 4-minute time lapse of the second to last Space Shuttle Discovery launch. With the help of everyone from shuttle technicians to crane operators to [...]

A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything Flipbook Animation

May 11, 2010
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This is a very cool little video animation that someone created. I can’t imagine how long it took to draw every page of this flipbook, but if you ask me without YouTube it wouldn’t have been worth it! Actually I can imagine what it took because the author said… It’s something like 2100 pages long, [...]

The Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster Reconstructed

February 1, 2009

Six years ago, at exactly this moment, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated above the skys south of Dallas, TX in a catastrophe that shocked the world. I think it’s appropriate that we honor the memory of those fallen astronauts who gave their lives in the quest to expand human knowledge. Chris Valentines produced the following [...]

The Fertile Crescent – Mesopotamia as Viewed From Space

June 6, 2008

I thought this was cool, so just wanted to share this true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image of a cloud-free view of the Middle Eastern countries surrounding the Fertile Crescent. (I got the image from NASA.) Arching along the Eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea from the Red Sea through modern-day Syria, and then [...]

Cities at Night, an Orbital Tour Around the World

June 5, 2008

The description from this fascinating video is: As part of the Saturday Morning Science program by Don Pettit during Expedition 6 to the International Space Station, his video “Cities at Night; an Orbital Tour Around the World” is a video made from digital still images. This video was made for educational presentations. You can see [...]

Photosynth Space Shuttle Demo

January 10, 2008

Almost a year ago I wrote about the new Microsoft Photosynth technology, calling it The coolest photo technology I’ve ever seen. I still think that. Dammit! How much longer do we have to wait for a public release? Seriously this is Microsoft’s main problem – they… take… too… long… to… do… anything. Let’s have it [...]

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