Popular Science shows us... from space.

In the immortal words of Agent Smith, "Humanity is a virus." At least, from space, we look like an infestation.

Chris

From: [identity profile] queza7.livejournal.com


That is crazy and awesome.

And also a little bit scary...

From: [identity profile] pointoforigin.livejournal.com


It does kind of make my skin crawl . . . and yet, those little bug-like specks somehow developed the ability to put a camera in space so it could take their pictures as they went about their speck-ulative activities. Strange that there could be so much mind inside something so small . . . .

From: [identity profile] mckitterick.livejournal.com


Yes! I know exactly what you mean!

Reminds me of that powerful image of the "pale blue dot," Earth among the blackness, taken from Voyager:

From: [identity profile] kalimeg.livejournal.com


The thing I like about this site is that one of the pictures is from the stand where he took the oath, looking toward the Washington Monument -- and it is a seemingly solid carpet of people as far as you can see:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/01/the_inauguration_of_president.html

From: [identity profile] theoneinblue.livejournal.com


The word that comes to mind is "swarm"...what a cool photo...
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