70℅ of cartographers: Fake news! No such place exists!
I literally got to be a part of a group that got to chat with astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson on the ISS yesterday afternoon. It was a really cool, candid, behind the scenes experience as she did a little mini-tour through the space station.
The craziest part for me was when she took her phone to the observatory and we watched the sun vanish behind the horizon of the earth. It happened so quickly and so brilliantly that it took my breath away and nearly brought me to tears. It was spectacular.
It was almost two hours with lengthy breaks as we lost contact a few times. But what an amazing experience.
How does an opportunity like that present itself?
It’s very much a factor of right place and right time.
For their mental health, the astronauts are required to have calls with people down here. Tracy is an acquaintance of someone my wife knows, so when the call was set up, we made the invite list.
We have no personal connection, we just managed to sit in the room while others talked. Tracy did put out an offer to come visit her at Johnson when she’s back, so you better believe we’ll follow up on that.
It almost looks like a map for a game, with distinct zones to unlock and explore
I’d love to see the wildlife there in person someday
The greenlands on the bottom would be the starting area and you could either go for the mountain range for a steeper challenge next or progress normally through the area towards north.
Big legendary enemy is on that huge bright blue lake in the middle left with a puzzle quest leading through a maze towards the smaller lake right above it.
has nearly all of Valheim covered. Maybe missing ashlands…
Greetings, traveler. This server owner is waiting for the proper Ashlands patch instead of selecting the public test branch, is all
Lol nice try, I’m not going to get fooled into believing New Zealand is real
New Zealand = Not real
Ohio = Not real
=>
New Zealand = Ohio
Unimpeachable logic!
You forgot the non-existant city Bielefeld.
Ohio is for lovers; New Zealand is for life.
Come back to Texas!
Or else!
Doesn’t look very new. Are you sure this isn’t old Zealand?
Maybe OP mistook it for New Old Zealand.
I’ve never in my life felt the compulsion to jump from high places - the call of the void, as it were. But this photo confirms I just haven’t been at a high enough altitude. My brain just started chanting “jump! jump! jump!”
I guess if a space agency was looking for a middle ager with no aeronautical knowledge or experience, I’d have to turn them down.
If it makes you feel better, you would be long dead before you ever hit the ground. Jumping from that point, you would still be in an ever so slightly declining orbit around earth. I am not sure how long it would take you to reenter but you would have died from the lack oxygen long before then. When you do get there, you will most likely burn up in the atmosphere spreading your ashes over whatever continent or ocean happens to be below you at the time. A great way in my opinion to do cremations with maximum spread.
Getting to space is a bit prohibitively expensive for a cremation.
What we need is an incredibly high speed corpse cannon. With a gentle enough acceleration curve and a high enough muzzle velocity, it’ll get whole corpses cremated for a prohibitively expensive cost - but less expensive than launching the corpse into space. At least until someone screws up the acceleration curve and accidentally makes a people soup cannon and the government pays me a visit for posting such weird comments online.I like the way you think! I think we could do it cheaper though. You know how we have that spinney thing at NASA for the astronauts? Well what if we stand that straight up and accelerate it even faster to launch them into orbit? They will already be dead so the G’s taken on by the body should be fine.
I wonder what kind of lens they use to make the horizon curve like that…
/s obviously
I feel like it’s hard to truly comprehend the scale of pictures like this. They always make the world look so small.
This is Houston Control. Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It’ll be spring soon, and the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. And they’ll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields. And they’ll be eating the first of the strawberries with cream. Do you remember the taste of strawberries?
No, Houston. I can’t recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass. Instead, I’m… naked in the dark. There’s nothing. Only cold empty space between me and the world.
This is Houston control…why are you naked in the space station again Mr. Frodo? We’ve had complaints.
NZ is fucking huge. Look at how tiny Africa is, as seen right below in the picture.
Very pretty!
Kinda looks like Ohio…
Bruh, have you ever seen Ohio?
Christ…
Is there a word for a fear/discomfort when seeing those and similar mountain patterns from space?
Spaceophobia
No, that’s the feat of space itself, starts, etc. I love starts, galaxies, planets, asteroids and nebulae.
Post this to every flat earth group everywhere
