July 25, 2011: Final shuttle return to Earth - Page 2

glatt · 07-25-2011, 10:12 AM

It's interesting to me that the stars are visible in the shot and so is the strong blue color of the oceans. Is it daylight? Is it dusk? You would think that for the stars to have the proper exposure, the Earth would be completely washed out. There is a bit of motion blurring in the clouds, so it's a fairly long exposure. Possibly a couple seconds long. I don't really understand this photograph.

Spexxvet · 07-25-2011, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by BigV

glatt's right at the rate of about $63 million dollars a ticket.

Don't worry, we'll be able to by tickets from the Cinese at the dollar store in a couple of years.

Pete Zicato · 07-28-2011, 05:12 PM

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infinite monkey · 07-28-2011, 05:26 PM

That's great!

Griff · 07-30-2011, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

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Amen.

ZenGum · 07-30-2011, 07:28 PM

According to this privateers are just about ready to begin visiting the space station:

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Musk was confident that, with NASA's approval, the Dragon spacecraft could fly directly to the space station on its next test flight, which he imagined could occur as early as mid-2011.

glatt · 07-30-2011, 07:39 PM

I saw that space craft!

SPUCK · 07-31-2011, 04:54 AM

Cool Glatt!

You should've interrogated them. They'd probably have liked some intelligent questions.

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07-25-2011, 10:12 AM	#16
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	It's interesting to me that the stars are visible in the shot and so is the strong blue color of the oceans. Is it daylight? Is it dusk? You would think that for the stars to have the proper exposure, the Earth would be completely washed out. There is a bit of motion blurring in the clouds, so it's a fairly long exposure. Possibly a couple seconds long. I don't really understand this photograph.

07-28-2011, 05:26 PM	#19
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	That's great!

07-30-2011, 07:39 PM	#22
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I saw that space craft!

07-31-2011, 04:54 AM	#23
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	Cool Glatt! You should've interrogated them. They'd probably have liked some intelligent questions.

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