Tag: Earth
Because there’s never a bad time for a reminder of how lonely and insignificant our lives are in this vast cold universe we call home, here are two brand new photos of Earth, taken from Saturn and Mercury, respectively. The Saturn photo, above, is fucking breathtaking and beautiful and heart-stopping and makes you want to […]
Today, Google released the latest in a slew of nifty maps-related toys: a set of HTML5-powered timelapses that show how our planet’s landscape has changed since 1984. Google’s people apparently sifted through 2 million satellite images to find the clearest photos possible, then assembled them chronologically into these looping animations. Watch Las Vegas spreading like a virus […]
Sometimes, it’s easy to forget about all the things in outer space that could easily destroy us. We’re so preoccupied with the potential harm in our proximity–shootings, hurricanes, diseases–that we overlook the fact that asteroids could annihilate entire cities and unless we have at least a year’s notice, we’re fucked. To be fair, someone getting […]
