When I was a little one, a wee lad, I wanted to be an astronaut, as is the stereotype of all boys. (Other stereotypical career paths for little boys: firefighter, police officer, Chuck Norris.)
Except I suck at science. Or, rather, I suck at math, and math is just the homely mistress of science.
So career paths change. Math is brushed aside in favor of books and words and language, and my only liaison with science is to live vicariously through documentaries and Youtube videos, like the one below.
It's a video by a gentleman named Michael Konig. He spliced together an absurd amount of individual photos taken by the International Space Station as it looped around Earth, with those photos showing everything from the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis to night passes over major metropolises and thunderstorms.
No colors were changed, nothing was added. All he did was fix technical issues (deflickered, denoised, timing issues) and added some musical soundtrack that sounds like a computer having a seizure. Otherwise, Earth is as the Earth was.
The same video on Vimeo.com breaks down what each segment of video is showing, in case you're wondering what the hell you're looking at or trying to find where you live.
Except I suck at science. Or, rather, I suck at math, and math is just the homely mistress of science.
So career paths change. Math is brushed aside in favor of books and words and language, and my only liaison with science is to live vicariously through documentaries and Youtube videos, like the one below.
It's a video by a gentleman named Michael Konig. He spliced together an absurd amount of individual photos taken by the International Space Station as it looped around Earth, with those photos showing everything from the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis to night passes over major metropolises and thunderstorms.
No colors were changed, nothing was added. All he did was fix technical issues (deflickered, denoised, timing issues) and added some musical soundtrack that sounds like a computer having a seizure. Otherwise, Earth is as the Earth was.
The same video on Vimeo.com breaks down what each segment of video is showing, in case you're wondering what the hell you're looking at or trying to find where you live.
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