fuck missed it by an hour
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Ran out without my tripod... I woke up just a few minutes before.
home, from my back porch
home, from my back porch
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That last one is trippyKmarion wrote:
Ran out without my tripod... I woke up just a few minutes before.
http://i40.tinypic.com/t8kok2.jpg
http://i44.tinypic.com/15iaw5z.jpg
home, from my back porch
http://i40.tinypic.com/2ywe1js.jpg
There was a ring left over above the trail (from the srb separation). It was glowing.. sorta incandescent, dark light'ish. Very cool and a bit eerie. The camera didn't catch it very well.
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found on flickr sts-131
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I appreciate the second one also. A shot like that is extremely hard. Seeing the shuttle at all in the night with the trailing flame is near to impossible.
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Moon filter?Kmarion wrote:
I appreciate the second one also. A shot like that is extremely hard. Seeing the shuttle at all in the night with the trailing flame is near to impossible.
m - o - o - n spells moon
Really, didnt know that. but alas i dont know much about photography, especially at night..Kmarion wrote:
I appreciate the second one also. A shot like that is extremely hard. Seeing the shuttle at all in the night with the trailing flame is near to impossible.
the other pics are cool but the first is the best imo.
Let's hope they find money on the moon to fund this fucking bullshit.
Viva la recession!
Viva la recession!
Fucking bullshit. lol.Chou wrote:
Let's hope they find money on the moon to fund this fucking bullshit.
Viva la recession!
http://uppix.net/3/1/0/560f1bd8d35f4257 … 231a69.jpg
I'll leave this one to Kmar...
First pic is awesome, looks like it was just some tiny but massively powerful firework that launched from the near side edge of that lake
they said the last launch would be the last god damn night launch (ever), fucking liars
they said the last launch would be the last god damn night launch (ever), fucking liars
6am is not night, Mok.Mekstizzle wrote:
First pic is awesome, looks like it was just some tiny but massively powerful firework that launched from the near side edge of that lake
they said the last launch would be the last god damn night launch (ever), fucking liars
lol, I'm imagining that first one as being launched extremely fast and off-course cartoon style, like a Wiley Coyote rocket
Third is epic though.
Cleaned out some rubbish ...
Wait behind the line ..............................................................
Discovery arrives..
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The Shuttle is going to cross North America when/if it re-enters Monday.
A somewhat unique event.
Shuttle to streak across America during re-entry
A somewhat unique event.
Shuttle to streak across America during re-entry
wut does it all mean?.. anyone near the line^ should be able to see it.Discovery's return is the second so-called "descending node" entry since 2003.
"The vehicle will be about (43 miles up) at that point, traveling at a speed of about Mach 23, moving very fast, very high," Lunney said. "We took a quick look at the weather forecast and we think the western side of the United States will be relatively clear. So hopefully folks there will get a view. The eastern side might be a little bit more cloudy, so hopefully you'll get a hole and you can see it through the clouds."
With the shuttle surrounded by superheated plasma as atmospheric friction reduces its 5-mile-per-second orbital velocity, viewers in the west will see a "streak of white light way up high," Lunney said. "When it's down lower, it's going to be more the glowing cloud plowing through. I think both will be clearly visible if the clouds allow it to be."
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dam, i'm just outside . . . by about 1,000 miles.
The second would prolly be a lil bit better for you.
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It'll be 127 miles away from me on the second opportunity when it goes by Tulsa, so I'll hope for that
I'm sitting here with some nasty weather in Central Florida.. so I'm betting on second opportunities.. Tuesday.TravisC555 wrote:
It'll be 127 miles away from me on the second opportunity when it goes by Tulsa, so I'll hope for that
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Space Travel/Engineering isn't my thing but from just looking at it from a scale perspective it is pretty impressive when we manage to get build platforms as large as that to get an object as large as the shuttle into space. Just a thought.
It truly is Beth. Look at the weight and the speeds needed to escape. An unimaginable amount of thrust. thats wut she said
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