Peer hard. It's the space shuttle on its way up as photographed from the space station. See, once you've spotted it, the tininess of that little ship? Warren Ellis received several of photos like this from a friend—the man has amazing friends!—and you can see them on this page. (Ignore yucky blog title, I think he's trying to channel George Carlin and doesn't need to. Or, what the hell, maybe he likes yucky. I was about to say, It's a free country, but that's a discussion for another day.) (Makes it a little harder for me to wax poetic about that which these photographs bestir.)
Something about how very dear we all are, tiny, vulnerable, and straining, always trying very hard, with our toys, to excel beyond our reach—in the immeasurably vast and indifferent beauty of all that space.
26 October 2006
So Big And So Very, Very Small
4 comments
So looking at the microscopic technorati badge was probably good training for looking at these images.
It is a cool image.
Is it just me, but does it not look like quite the right altitude to have been taken from the space station. I mean it's high up, but doesn't quite look like orbit to me. Of course I have no idea what orbit looks like. Very cool either way.
actually, that's a fairly witty remark. pretty high-level stuff. would you just please go look at warren's piccies, there's a better one showing the curve of the space station window but somehow i ended up using this ... alright, i'll email you the other, jeesh.
now as to the second part of your comment? was it your intention to cause head pain, or is that just a lucky by-product.
(i don't think i can read my own word verification. because it is NOT A WORD. speaking of head pain.)
Head pain is always just a lucky by-product.
re photo:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/space/shuttlelaunch.asp
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