Terrifying New Pictures of Planet Earth

[Sexy Celebrity]

NASA has released new photos of Planet Earth.

They are TERRIFYING.

The next time I'm even thinking about all my silly life problems, I must remember these pictures so I'll realize that I have much bigger problems -- I'm trapped in this surreal nightmare where I'm living on a giant blue ball surrounded by darkness and stalked by a gray, lifeless smaller ball.

HELP.

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[MovieGal]

Your threads are terrifying.

[Sexy Celebrity]

Your threads are terrifying.

I learned from the best -- our home planet.

[Captain Steel]

Don't know if it's an illusion or what, but in those pictures, it looks like So. America is on the other side of the planet.
I always think of it being directly below us (us as in U.S.), but it's like way WAY to the east of us.

[Captain Steel]

This always fun - I ask people if the moon rotates on its axis.

A lot of people don't get this, especially when you remind them that we only ever see one side of the moon. They end up thinking, since we only see one side of the moon, then it can't be rotating on it's axis (if it was, they reason, then we'd see all it's surface at different times).

The answer is: yes, the moon rotates on its axis, but the phenomenon we observe (seeing only one side of our satellite) is because the moon's "year" (or the time it takes to go around the Earth) is the same length of time as its "day" (the length of time it takes to complete a full rotation on its axis).

Using a piece of fruit (with the stem end representing the side of the moon that we see) helps to explain it.

[foster]

In before "that's no moon"

[BoxOfficePoison]

Here, put it in perspective and it's slightly less terrifying.


http://www.wineandbowties.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/pale-blue-dot-wide11.jpg


See what I mean? If you can't make out the spooky gray ball, you can pretend it's not there.