Comments on: Moon over Afghanistan

By: Luna menguante sobre Afganistán : vooLive.net

Luna menguante sobre Afganistán : vooLive.net — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:48:29 +0000

[...] Fue conseguida por el astronauta Ron Garan desde la Estación Espacial Internacional y vista en Bad Astronomy. [...]

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:58:57 +0000

Beautiful.

From above all of Earth – and our largest natural satellite – are so gloriously splendid.

Shame about the war and some of the horrible things happening below in that Taliban and warring tribes plagued failed state. If you hadn’t said this was over Afghanistan I’d never have guessed.

By: Astrofiend

Astrofiend — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:39:27 +0000

6. Brian Too Says:
August 25th, 2011 at 5:29 pm

Shouldn’t it be:

[Click to afghanate.]

The term ‘afghanate’ is already taken – the Oxford dictionary defines it thus: ‘to cause something to go completely to sh_t’.

On the photo – incredibly beautiful picture. It is mind-bendingly frustrating to contrast the ethereal beauty of this image with the incredibly violent, ignorant and petty feuding on the ground. Afghanistan – beautiful from far, yet far from beautiful.

By: Brian Too

Brian Too — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:29:43 +0000

Shouldn’t it be:

[Click to afghanate.]

By: shanoboy

shanoboy — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:56:28 +0000

As soon as I saw that I said, “Oh my God what a picture!”

By: Wzrd1

Wzrd1 — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:27:21 +0000

Funny how it looks JUST like the Moon over Miami (OK, less a certain hurricane right now).
It puts life into perspective.

By: Keith Bowden

Keith Bowden — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:25:01 +0000

Shouldn’t be over Parma?

By: kuhnigget

kuhnigget — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:00:39 +0000

I like it when they shoot with long lenses that don’t exaggerate the curve of the Earth. Gives you a better sense of scale.

But yeah, in my head it’s “pew! pew! pew-pew!”

By: Gareth

Gareth — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:43:14 +0000

Kinda expecting a great big Star Destroyer and some TIE Fighters to go flying past…