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NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition

ibelli — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:14:26 EDT

"So here is earth. Looking good... Rotating on its axis nicely. Ooh! ooh! Looks like we have a storm system coming up over the amazon. Nice. More clouds. Thunderstorms over Peru. -- When we come back: Namibia. Stay tuned!"

ibelli

NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition

SpyderMS — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:08:26 EDT

@dave the wet sprocket: My thoughts exactly :P

SpyderMS

NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition

JordyT — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:59:22 EDT

Edited? Oh right, gotta remove the alien craft flying around in the foreground.

JordyT

NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition

bryanarr — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:16:25 EDT

where's the iphone?

bryanarr

NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition

Valicious — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:04:19 EDT

@NoStyle: UFOs can edit themselves out.
who needs UFOs tho or view of earth when there's high-res milkdrop visualization for any compatible player.
pixel shademe, fractalities better than titities.
but i do very much enjoy view from plane , kingdomes o' giants and gnomes in the cloudsks.

Valicious

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ChromiumSwitch — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:58:32 EDT

@Cygni: Word. Twenty-six channels of friggin NASCAR, and no tax-funded-totally-awesome-space-stuff channel. sigh

ChromiumSwitch

NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition

EQC — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:47:53 EDT

what the hell is the NASA channel? or NASA TV? is that on cable?

soo....NASA uses my tax dollars to record video, then expects me to buy cable to see it?

how about a free, OTA broadcast on PBS?

EQC

NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition

TendoMentis — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:00:15 EDT

AWESOME!!

Record, edit, and voila, my new Dreamscene wallpaper.

It'll hold me over until I have my space-house (at which point I'll have such views from my deck).

TendoMentis

NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition

LastVigilante — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:05:47 EDT

I have to agree, not that many people get NASA TV through their regular television service. I wish I did, because the only thing I can do is watch the web stream at 96kbps and send it over to my TV to watch in the background. Its a government agency, for Pete's sake, it should be made availiable to everyone, like C-SPAN and C-SPAN2.

LastVigilante

NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:01:16 EDT

@Slartibartfast: In sapce, no one can hear you narrate.

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

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Cygni — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:23:00 EDT

@draconis2941: The NASA channel has some awesome stuff. Dont be a maroon.

A 24 hour 'pictures of awesome nature stuff' channel, with NO VOICE OVER would rule. Someone get on that. Considering the number of absolutely horrid channels I get already, this should have been done years ago.

Cygni

NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition

draconis2941 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:01:47 EDT

How many people actualy get the NASA channel though. I get it on DirecTv but I don't think it's in HD. Whoopie!

draconis2941

NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition

minjae0810 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:49:57 EDT

@Papsky: lol yea..

minjae0810

NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition

Papsky — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:37:23 EDT

We should send this HD camera to Uranus...

hehe

Papsky

NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition

Slartibartfast — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:25:42 EDT

Too bad they didn't use a microphone. That would've sounded awesome.

Slartibartfast

NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition

berbar — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:59:47 EDT

This are the broadcast times I found on Nasa TV:

Broadcast Times:
6 - 8 a.m. EDT, Mon., Apr. 21
6 a.m. - 8 p.m. EDT, Tues., Apr. 22 (Earth Day)

berbar

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smeee — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:25:03 EDT

Crickey, that is one big fella, im just going to try and get a little bit closer. Look at that eye, gorgeous the pressure must have dropped a few hundred bars.

:D i hope it's nothing like that.

smeee

NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition

beyondthetech — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:16:28 EDT

Fake!!! We've never left the planet, all the footage since the 60's is doctored. I think they're just getting really good with Photoshop.

beyondthetech

NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition

ltcmurray — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:11:50 EDT

If I want an earth view in High-Def...

I'll walk outside.

get away from the keyboard once in a while.

ltcmurray

NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition

wingbatwu — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:55:48 EDT

Not live eh.

So I guess the UFOs will be edited out?

wingbatwu

NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:19:44 EDT

Finally, something tops Tang. This brings a tear to my eye.

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition

metalhaze — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:15:30 EDT

CREEPY!!! I JUST WATCHED THAT EPISODE OF FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS LAST NIGHT!!

GET OUT OF MY BRAIN!!!!

metalhaze

NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition

phantam — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:02:19 EDT

my question is this... we've got communication between the station and earth... we've got japan with a satellite that can do 1tb internet... why dont we have a decent downlink from the satellite to stream 24/7 HiDef video of the earth?

phantam

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NoStyle — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:46:00 EDT

Someone, somewhere will masturbate to that footage. Intentionally and otherwise. Trust me.

Also, I volunteer to be the UFO footage removal editor.

NoStyle

NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition

strider_mt2k — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:15:59 EDT

@dave the wet sprocket: Hey good idea!
I can use that pic for my desktop and put the recycle bin in that big ol' hole!

Nice.

strider_mt2k

NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition

dave the wet sprocket — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:08:53 EDT

i have to admit- i really appreciate that nasa is spending millions of dollars to upgrade the screensaver on my ps3.

dave the wet sprocket

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FritzLaurel — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:00:16 EDT

Why broadcast it MOS? Don't people know how to turn the volume down on their own?

FritzLaurel

NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition

Slappy McSlapp — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:54:28 EDT

Actually, that's where the debate was held the other night. The dark lord thing, you know...

Slappy McSlapp

NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition

strider_mt2k — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:36:07 EDT

It's the ozone hole!

Right there!
Right there!

(Flight of the Conchords FTW)

strider_mt2k