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Composite of a Series of Images Taken From Space Aboard the Station

 
This is a composite of a series of images photographed from a mounted camera on the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, from approximately 240 miles above Earth. Space station hardware in the foreground includes the Mini-Research Module (MRM1, center) and a Russian Progress vehicle docked to the Pirs Docking Compartment (right). Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit said of the photographic techniques used to achieve the images: "My star trail images are made by taking a time exposure of about 10 to 15 minutes. However, with modern digital cameras, 30 seconds is about the longest exposure possible, due to electronic detector noise effectively snowing out the image. To achieve the longer exposures I do what many amateur astronomers do. I take multiple 30-second exposures, then 'stack' them using imaging software, thus producing the longer exposure." A total of 47 images photographed by the astronaut-monitored stationary camera were combined to create this composite. Image Credit: NASA
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I was flying to the east coast the other day, non-stop from San Francisco to Washington Dulles. I had taken my seat and was settling in (“feathering my nest,” as I like to think of it). A women with her two children, about 12 or 13 and about 8 or 9, arrive at a nearby row. The woman asks the flight attendant if there was a way the three could be seated together: they had been unable to reserve contiguous seats, and one would be in the row behind. The flight attendants looks at the boarding passes, surveys the area, and sees she has an aisle and a middle together, and an aisle in the row behind (2-3-2 seating on this plane).

“I don’t expect anyone will switch with you, since it would mean changing from an aisle seat to a middle. And then, this gentlemen would have to be willing to move back a row.”

Pause for a moment, and consider: what would you do if you were in one of those two aisle seats surrounding the lone middle seat?

Really think about this. It’s a five hour flight, and you’ll be stuffed into a middle seat for the journey.

What would you do?

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