The Transit of Atlantis and the International Space Station Before the Sun

The coolest thing you'll see all day.

[Via Infocult.]

Comments

[Pro Libertate]

Wow, nice image. We don't get many opportunities to get a good view of the ISS from Florida, but I keep meaning to take out the 8" Dobsonian to give it a shot.

There are some other cool astronomical photographs on that site as well.

[Larry A]

Way cool.

[jcavar]

Since the sun is the background, it's actually the hottest thing we'll see all day.

[Bubba Zanetti]

Reminds me of that Ray Bradbury short story about rockets that can fly in to the sun, b/c the interiors are frozen to -5,000 degrees fahrenheit.

[Mr. Nice Guy]

Does that cool telescope-thing run on milk?

[dbcooper]

Slashdotted already. Or should that be reasoned.

[lunchstealer]

I'm gettin' a DNS failure when I try to check it out. Anybody know of a mirror?

[John]

That kicks ass. I don't care if it does waste billions and the ships blow up half the time, I still love the space program.

[Look Out!]

What's not so cool is the "cybermonitor" cookie that that site installs on your computer.

[Evan!]

Ah, yes, first there was tang and freeze-dried ice cream. Now this. Not a bad deal...billions and billions of tax dollars, in exchange for those three things. Sweet.

[dbcooper]

Now, if I may be so bold as to reference another recent Hit & Run post, has anyone read Oriana Fallaci's book If the Sun Dies?