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[–]MrDanger 11 points12 points ago

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Awesome image. Notice the properly tethered tool bag.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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I have a bit of a fear of heights... I think I'd rather be the one tethered.

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[–]unripegreenbanana 4 points5 points ago

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New Zild.

[–]shniken 2 points3 points ago

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New Zealand

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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Between russia and alaksa?

[–]cfabbro 4 points5 points ago*

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No snow on the mountains and no Aleutian islands.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:STS-116_spacewalk_1.jpg

The landmasses depicted are the South Island (left) and North Island (right) of New Zealand.

[–]vampireface 4 points5 points ago

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I can see my birthplace from there

[–]thunder_rob 5 points6 points ago

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I can see the orcs, too

[–]alphabeat 0 points1 point ago

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High above New Zealand and Cook Strait, astronauts Robert L. Curbeam and Christer Fuglesang work to attach a new truss segment to the ISS and begin to upgrade the power grid on December 12th, 2006. (NASA)

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/the_international_space_statio.html#photo30

[–]hatekillpuke 3 points4 points ago

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Every time I see a photo like this I immediately go, "fuck yes! space is so rad!"

Thanks, NASA!

[–]jcmcbeth 2 points3 points ago

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I knew the world was flat.

[–]Cavorticus 2 points3 points ago

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Fantastic!

[–]aphedox 1 point2 points ago

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Is that a langmuir probe towards the top of the picture?. It makes sense that they would have them; I suppose I just never thought about it.

[–]microsofat 1 point2 points ago

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I just saw 2001: A Space Odyssey, so this spacewalk picture has me a little nervous.

They can't trust that urine-to-drinking water machine any more, they must disable it!

[–]eks 0 points1 point ago

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Be on space must be like hoover above a gigantic Google Maps.

[–]jdickinson 2 points3 points ago

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except you wouldn't really want to zoom in to street view

[–]mnic001 0 points1 point ago

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I wonder what it feels like to be orbiting the earth?

[–]zac79 0 points1 point ago

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Good for the back!

[–]zed857 0 points1 point ago

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If feels like you're constantly falling.

[–]huntingwhale 0 points1 point ago

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Now THAT is a cool picture!