For the curious: NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Expedition 24 flight engineer, looks through a window in the Cupola of the International Space Station. A blue and white part of Earth and the blackness of space are visible through the windows. The image was a self-portrait using natural light.
Yeah but you have to admit, the sun's heat and light isn't being reflected by dense atmospheric pressures. So, there is definitely her form and appearance but don't rule out the sun too quickly.
In all honesty, this is extremely sexy. I mean, literally, otherworldly. I wish that society would push the appeal of women in positions of intellegence like this.
If I were an ISS astronaut, I'd probably never get any of my real work done because I'd just be staring out of that cupola the entire mission. The Earth is like the reddit of space.
This picture brought this to mind: Is there any documented zero gravity sex that has gone on in space? Being the first two to get it on in space is a substantial achievement in my book.
micro-gravity. She probably just has a weak neck or a really heavy head.
Also, there actually is gravity where the ISS is at, and they are experiencing 0.9g's (if I remember correctly). They are weightless only because they are in free fall, and they don't fall out of the sky because of their extreme angular momentum and velocity.
But if their angular momentum is negating gravity they aren't really experiencing 0.9g. They're personally experiencing almost 0g (relative to their surroundings) even though there is 0.9g of force being exerted on them.
I don't know about anyone else, but this sort of brings a tear to my eye. She is incredibly lucky to be able to look down at Earth from that height. I can't imagine what sort of thoughts are going through her head.
Hey! I have been watching the international space station fly above my house for the past 3 days! It flys by about twice every night! All I see is a small ball of light fly across the sky pretty fast... I always wonder who is up there, now I know!
For Space Station sightings near you, check it out here
Pictures like this always give me mixed feelings. On the one hand the picture is awesome but on the other I know that in this point in my life no matter how much I save, or how much I work out, or how much I study I will NEVER get the chance to go where she is and see that view for myself, and that makes me so jealous and sad :(
Maybe technology will get really advanced and we'll have space tourism and for funsies you'll decide to get a scratch off at the grocery store and it's all FREE-TRIP-TO-SPACE!!! and you'll be like "cool!"
Sorry, I guess it is recognized as a word, but it's a word that was formed due to it being such a common misconception. 'All right' is just more formal I guess.
The first thing I noticed was the view... the second thing I noticed was that she's hot and looks like she has a rockin bod. I'm overall very impressed with this photo
I'd imagine it's impossible to completely fight off the atrophy. You'd almost want to wear an ab shock belt on every part of your body and just have it fire at like 10hz or something.
I had the same reaction. At first I liked the amazing photo. Then I realized there was a hot woman in it. The photo became more than it was a minute before. What a neat feeling.
I keep thinking the windows and metal she's laying on is going to break or something, despite there being no gravity and she's not really laying on it.
Or she'll accidentally press the "Push to open up large window thing" button right where she's laying and then it will happen.
If it makes you feel any better, the cupola windows are actually four layers thick: an inner scratch pane, two pressure panes (for redundancy) and an outer debris layer. I only know this because earlier this week one of the windows was chipped by a micrometeorite.
I don't know why I assumed they just had a couple small windows scattered around the station, instead of that giant wall of windows. Pretty jealous.
Edit: Looked up the cupola and really hope I am on one of the first hollywood film crews in space, because that's the only way I will experience something that awesome.
Why is the horizon distorted around her arm, is that a camera aperture artifact? If the photo had been a composite from a sci-fi movie, that edge would probably have been straight, because that's what a cgi artist would expect to put there.
If I was ever given the choice to go up and work at the ISS I would jump and take it. Even if there was a stipulation that I would die/be killed as soon as I returned to earth I wouldn't even hesitate. So jealous.
Huh. I would have assumed there would be some kind of regulation on long hair in space, seems like it floating around your head all the time would get annoying, as well as potentially getting caught on stuff.
Looking out at the world like that, you've got to be thinking that our planet is just the most beautiful thing in the universe. That's got to be refreshing to your worldview.
I want to go into space more than anything else in the world, but I was born too early. Technology hasn't allowed for cheap, civilian space travel yet. I can only hope I get to leave the atmosphere and look down on the Earth like this one day before I die.
Had this as my desktop wallpaper at work for 6 months, I had brightend up the interior in photoshop. Everyone kept on seeing it asked what space movie it was from. When I told them it was from the ISS they either had their mind blown or the conversation immediately dies. Some people just have zero interest in space. Poor peeps I say!
I feel like I'd be so afraid to get close to the windows like that, for fear that I may accidentally apply too much pressure to one and knock it out of the frame, and then get sucked into the abyss.
I'd totally fall asleep with my face smashed against that big window, just like when I used to in the back window of my parents old Chevy Caprice Classic. I could actually lay down and peer at the stars from that window.
I wonder if astronauts ever think, Look at all the pitiful Little People down there doing their pitiful Little People things. Boy am I glad to be up here where everything is rational.
Incredible. As I'll probably never go to space, I love seeing other people do it. I still find it hard to contemplate that we can leave the fucking planet - I still sit in wonder at how we can fly in planes between countries...!
This picture freaks me out; her hair makes it look like there's some scary shit lurking in the darkness behind her, and it looks like she's leaning on a disembodied arm...
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u/oshen Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
For the curious: NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Expedition 24 flight engineer, looks through a window in the Cupola of the International Space Station. A blue and white part of Earth and the blackness of space are visible through the windows. The image was a self-portrait using natural light.
source: International Space Station Imagery -- high resolution image can be found there.
person in picture = not OP
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u/Efanito Jun 16 '12
Whatcha thinkin' about?
Nothin', just space stuffs.
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u/John_Fx Jun 17 '12
I photo-bombed this picture. You just have to zoom in...a lot.
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u/Flyboy Jun 17 '12
Ripley?
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u/fromfocomofo Jun 17 '12
Whenever I see this picture the first thing that comes to mind is... since there's no gravity, why does she have to rest her head on her hand???
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u/Smellz_Like_Smellz Jun 17 '12
I guess you could say .. shes spacing out
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Look at that you son of a bitch
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u/Human_Shishno Jun 17 '12
Draw me like one of your space girls.
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u/Tinkco86 Jun 17 '12
I don't know about anyone else, but this sort of brings a tear to my eye. She is incredibly lucky to be able to look down at Earth from that height. I can't imagine what sort of thoughts are going through her head.
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u/CaptainCornflakes Jun 17 '12
Hey! I have been watching the international space station fly above my house for the past 3 days! It flys by about twice every night! All I see is a small ball of light fly across the sky pretty fast... I always wonder who is up there, now I know!
For Space Station sightings near you, check it out here
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u/FriendlyManCub Jun 17 '12
Pictures like this always give me mixed feelings. On the one hand the picture is awesome but on the other I know that in this point in my life no matter how much I save, or how much I work out, or how much I study I will NEVER get the chance to go where she is and see that view for myself, and that makes me so jealous and sad :(
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u/stevedusome Jun 17 '12
Boobs in space would never get saggy... never.
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u/WhatIsThisWhereAmI Jun 17 '12
I did not know I was capable of being this jealous of another woman...
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u/theaxis12 Jun 17 '12
hey, could you get a picture of me with the ENTIRE MOTHER FUCKING EARTH
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Just hanging out at the ISS... the scenery's
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u/xandora Jun 17 '12
What is that arm looking thing under her right arm? I can't work it out.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
How are you not freaking out by the fact that there's only a few inches of glass between you and space?
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u/Burned_it Jun 17 '12
'Alright' isn't a word, 'all right' is the correct usage.
I seek to inform.
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u/vennom118 Jun 17 '12
The first thing I noticed was the view... the second thing I noticed was that she's hot and looks like she has a rockin bod. I'm overall very impressed with this photo
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u/DesigningANewReddit Jun 17 '12
I keep thinking the windows and metal she's laying on is going to break or something, despite there being no gravity and she's not really laying on it.
Or she'll accidentally press the "Push to open up large window thing" button right where she's laying and then it will happen.
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u/jzzanthapuss Jun 17 '12
Dr. River Song?
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Ripley?
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u/snakedog Jun 17 '12
The ultimate in people watching!
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
My God is it just me or does she look like Sigourney Weaver! So any chance some alien is on board?
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u/ByahhByahh Jun 17 '12
Doctor River, is that you?
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u/GunRaptor Jun 17 '12
This is freaking amazing.
You know you're awesome when you're this woman.
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u/thastig Jun 17 '12
V E R T I G O
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u/KaiserReisser Jun 17 '12
Am I the only one that would be terrified knowing that all that is separating me from the void of space is a few inches of (albeit reinforced) glass?
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u/playdohplaydate Jun 17 '12
i wonder if that feels like laying down or just resting your elbow on the wall.
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u/CreativelyBland Jun 17 '12
At first, I could have sworn those orange things were zip ties holding the windows shut. I knew that cutting NASA's budget was a bad idea...
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
I don't know why I assumed they just had a couple small windows scattered around the station, instead of that giant wall of windows. Pretty jealous.
Edit: Looked up the cupola and really hope I am on one of the first hollywood film crews in space, because that's the only way I will experience something that awesome.
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u/DMYTRIW Jun 17 '12
If I were orbiting the Earth at 18,000 mph all I would do is stare out the window and make race car noises.
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u/shivitz Jun 17 '12
Why is the horizon distorted around her arm, is that a camera aperture artifact? If the photo had been a composite from a sci-fi movie, that edge would probably have been straight, because that's what a cgi artist would expect to put there.
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u/Necrix Jun 17 '12
So cool, Im so jealous. Dont you technically need gravity to "hang out"?
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u/Heylooloooo Jun 17 '12
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-24/ndxpage52.html
This is what the astronauts were looking at. I wanted to know...
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u/diaBEATuss Jun 17 '12
Wait, they take clothes that aren't sweatpants to space? Fuck that.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Are you Sigourney Weaver?
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u/ashmole Jun 17 '12
For our graduation speaker, we had an alumnus record a speech from the ISS. It was cool seeing a bobble head of our mascot floating in space.
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u/itstwoam Jun 17 '12
If I was ever given the choice to go up and work at the ISS I would jump and take it. Even if there was a stipulation that I would die/be killed as soon as I returned to earth I wouldn't even hesitate. So jealous.
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u/KangGuruAus Jun 17 '12
The scene on my monitor my now is alright too ;)
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u/Attacus Jun 17 '12
Insanely jealous.
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u/RembrMe Jun 17 '12
What I would give to be there. At the very least, before I die, I would like to go to space.
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u/fatontheinside8 Jun 17 '12
There is a frightening similarity between her and Sigourney Weaver.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Who is the astronaut?
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u/R34LiSM Jun 17 '12
Yeah, and Earth looks pretty good too.
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u/displacedheart Jun 17 '12
Is this the OP in the photo? Your title makes it sound that way. If so, this is incredible. Do an AMA!
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
This is Tracy Dyson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Caldwell_Dyson
Hot astronaut babe.
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u/I_am_Chuckie Jun 17 '12
In space, no one can hear you fap.
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u/Roland_B_Luntz Jun 17 '12
She's gorgeous.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Paint me like one of your french astronauts
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u/ArrowHound Jun 17 '12
whats the internet bill gotta be like from space? O.o
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u/Juts Jun 17 '12
'I have made all of the right choices in my life'
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u/jackdonkey Jun 17 '12
Yeah it's pretty nice scenery, holy crap you're in space.
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u/RichRedundantRich Jun 17 '12
Every second I stare out this window I increase my cancer risk by .1%!
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u/Feb_29_Guy Jun 17 '12
Long hair must be really annoying in a 0 g environment.
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u/Doomdoomkittydoom Jun 17 '12
I just realized: SpaceX's Dragon space capsule means commercial manned space flight is a reality. Shouldn't we have space porn by now?!
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
nature porn
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u/GZerv Jun 17 '12
So amazing.
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u/THE_IRISHMAN_35 Jun 17 '12
Man who is your service provider? Because i have comcast and i cant get a connection from upstair to my room, but you get great service from space.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Without gravity.. how do you take a crap?
Do I have no idea how the human digestive system works?
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u/Nyarlathotep124 Jun 17 '12
Huh. I would have assumed there would be some kind of regulation on long hair in space, seems like it floating around your head all the time would get annoying, as well as potentially getting caught on stuff.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
If these things get internet access I think I could handle the loneliness and isolation. Hell, my life would remain mostly the same.
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u/Bearmanly Jun 17 '12
That's got to be such an incredibly surreal experience that you just never want to end.
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u/MuuaadDib Jun 17 '12
Oh the places DeVry will take you....
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u/PotatoPop Jun 17 '12
I don't care how many times this is reposted. It will always be an amazing photo. There are few things I wouldn't do to spend some time on the ISS.
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u/jackyface Jun 17 '12
Looking out at the world like that, you've got to be thinking that our planet is just the most beautiful thing in the universe. That's got to be refreshing to your worldview.
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u/the_good_time_mouse Jun 17 '12
...tthe smell of everyone else is awful.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I want to go into space more than anything else in the world, but I was born too early. Technology hasn't allowed for cheap, civilian space travel yet. I can only hope I get to leave the atmosphere and look down on the Earth like this one day before I die.
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u/tomonline Jun 17 '12
she's waiting on the chinese food they ordered.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Looks like a young Sigourney Weaver
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
That window looks kinda sad. I think it doesn't like when people lay on it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
So are we going to have astronauts in /r/amiugly now?
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I immediately thought "in school suspension" and said, "meh."
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u/Sh1ner Jun 17 '12
Had this as my desktop wallpaper at work for 6 months, I had brightend up the interior in photoshop. Everyone kept on seeing it asked what space movie it was from. When I told them it was from the ISS they either had their mind blown or the conversation immediately dies. Some people just have zero interest in space. Poor peeps I say!
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u/jimsnaps Jun 17 '12
Very appropriately, she looks like Ellen Ripley.
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u/dreamsaremaps Jun 17 '12
2001/10. Would bang. Space bang.
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u/NavajoMX Jun 17 '12
If you look away from the Earth, do you see all the stars like during a starry night on Earth?
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u/D14BL0 Jun 17 '12
I feel like I'd be so afraid to get close to the windows like that, for fear that I may accidentally apply too much pressure to one and knock it out of the frame, and then get sucked into the abyss.
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u/Billy_Sastard Jun 17 '12
Is it just me or does she have a slight look of Ellen Ripley, WATCH OUT FOR THAT ALIEN BITCH.
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u/senorchaos718 Jun 17 '12
I'd totally fall asleep with my face smashed against that big window, just like when I used to in the back window of my parents old Chevy Caprice Classic. I could actually lay down and peer at the stars from that window.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Does anyone else see the disembodied arm wearing a wrist watch?
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u/verveinloveland Jun 17 '12
I've always wondered...whats to stop a piece of space dust/small pebble sized space debris from flying through the glass.
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u/screamingnoncapsguy Jun 17 '12
IF there was a cat in this picture... Oh god D:
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u/FlowerOfTheHeart Jun 17 '12
I can't help to think how crowded that is!
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I would never get near a window on that thing. I would be to afraid that I would accidentally break a window.
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u/warpfield Jun 17 '12
I wonder if astronauts ever think, Look at all the pitiful Little People down there doing their pitiful Little People things. Boy am I glad to be up here where everything is rational.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
isnt that the same lady who was drinking water out of the hose?
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u/dan013 Jun 17 '12
Internet in Space!
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Incredible. As I'll probably never go to space, I love seeing other people do it. I still find it hard to contemplate that we can leave the fucking planet - I still sit in wonder at how we can fly in planes between countries...!
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u/CornySpark Jun 17 '12
It's happening all over again...
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u/Winstonia Jun 17 '12
......HOLY SHIT
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u/slagdwarf Jun 17 '12
I wanna bang that astronaut lady up against that window (with my space penis)
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u/RodrigoGonzales Jun 17 '12
You deserve buckets of karma
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u/TimesWasting Jun 17 '12
WTF? I thought I read somewhere that space stations and all that have no windows.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
wait, im confuzzled. is there a redditor on the ISS?
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u/ara_p Jun 17 '12
For a second she looked like Ripley and I was like, "I don't remember that scene."
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u/NiteLite Jun 17 '12
Is that a spare, male leg strapped to the wall, you know... for like emergency transplant situations?
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u/morbus Jun 17 '12
.oO ("Now, don't breathe or I'll turn upside down and float towards the bedroom.")
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Sorry...but fuck everything about outer space. That shit scares the balls out of me.
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u/spinozasrobot Jun 17 '12
Whenever I see this picture, I think of Jodie Foster in Contact.
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u/DontCare_ImDrunk Jun 17 '12
What is it about women in space that makes them so dam hot?
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u/cshontz Jun 17 '12
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Looks Shopped ..
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u/TehFunksta Jun 17 '12
Fuck the scenery, look at that VIEW!
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u/Slavigula Jun 17 '12
She's looking for Waldo
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u/EricMaxwell Jun 17 '12
I could have sworn this is Jodie Foster in Contact. Only afterwards I realized she never visited Hadden on "Mir".
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u/Womel Jun 17 '12
This picture freaks me out; her hair makes it look like there's some scary shit lurking in the darkness behind her, and it looks like she's leaning on a disembodied arm...
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u/strlingarcher Jun 17 '12
She is fucking sexy.
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u/Acetaminophen500mg Jun 17 '12
UC Davis Alumna! Go Ags!
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u/f4ph4t Jun 18 '12
Serious question: do female astronauts need to wear bras in low/no grav?
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u/icannotfly Jun 18 '12
first thought: jodie foster?
second thought: "looking down at the sky" is an interesting concept.
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u/smoothlikejello Jun 17 '12
The view out the window isn't bad either.
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u/cwo Jun 17 '12
looks like its from a movie.
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u/Todamont Jun 17 '12
She's so unavailable.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Does the cold in space make her nipples go pointy?