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Atlantis over Hawaii (I believe). Simply Stunning [3,473px × 2,307px] (i.imgur.com)

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[–]Twirrim 55 points56 points ago*

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Beautiful picture, but it's not Hawaii. None of the islands in the chain have that shape.

edit: Between TinyEye and Google was able to track down the original: http://www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/5927528805/ NASA says that's a photo of Atlantis over the Bahamas, taken from the ISS :)

[–]Crazyspaceman 8 points9 points ago

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I came here to get that answer, reddit did not disappoint.

[–]chiburaska[S] 8 points9 points ago

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Thank you for this clarification! No way to edit the title?

[–]lotictrance 2 points3 points ago

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Sadly, no. You can only edit the content of a self-post, not the title.

[–]Cougar_babe88 7 points8 points ago

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Man can someone get that space ship out of the way? I'm trying to see the bahamas here!

[–]CommanderCooper 9 points10 points ago

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In Soviet Russia, Atlantis is above water.

[–]XaeTae -3 points-2 points ago

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Before it was sunk, right?

[–]austenw 4 points5 points ago

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That island formation looks a lot like teradactyl bones to me.

[–]charli_bell 3 points4 points ago

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And I was thinking it looks like a raptor laying on its left side.

[–]TwoGreenThumbsUp 1 point2 points ago

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i wonder who broke its nose

[–]hollywoodbob 1 point2 points ago

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I was thinking it looked like a dragon.

[–]kequila 2 points3 points ago

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What a sight!

But how was this picture taken?

[–]GenTso 3 points4 points ago

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Probably from the ISS ... and the space shuttle is delivering a module.

That's just a guess. It could be some other satellite.

[–]ohbarf 1 point2 points ago

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I always think that they orbit so much further away and I' always surprised when I see how close they actually are. I know it's far but not as far as I think. I guess I'm a little slow at times. Great picture though.

[–]fry_hole 0 points1 point ago

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I know what you mean. It's very hard to comprehend or visualise distance once you leave the planet. Beautiful picture :)

[–]jakenichols 0 points1 point ago

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Looks more like Indonesia.

[–]TaranulScaryns 0 points1 point ago

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Dude, it's a flying Dragon down there.

[–]Katy246 1 point2 points ago

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No dude, it's a running Velociraptor.

[–]RouseHouse1013 0 points1 point ago

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I think you meant Atlantis over Atlantis.

[–]sylvrtortus 0 points1 point ago

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They found ATLANTIS???