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Wow!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/S126e006925.jpg

I wonder what caused the damage to the silver panel?

This is pretty interesting too, shots of the space station taken from the ground using a telescope and DSLR:

http://www.martin-wagner.org/raumstation_durch_das_teleskop_mit_WebCam.htm

To get some sense of the scale of this thing, here’s a page on which it is placed side by side with a Boeing 747:

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/I/ISS.html

• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics
• He can speak Spanish
• His favourite book is Moby-Dick
• He uses an Apple Mac laptop
• He has read every Harry Potter book
• He keeps on his desk a carving of a wooden hand holding an egg, a Kenyan symbol of the fragility of life

More here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3401168/Barack-Obama-The-50-facts-you-might-not-know.html

Awesome picture. Go Obama! (The world’s most popular doughnut ;))

View “Full Screen” for the full effect.

If you think the earth’s atmosphere is in a bad way, you should try playing for the Manchester United first team at Old Trafford. Seriously, how long will it be before football’s corporate suits introduce ‘canned’ cheering during games? I’m not being facetious, I really think they’re going to do something like this.