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Topic: Photo of the week 159 (November 17)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 11-17-2007 03:04 AM
   
 This photo was suggested by Joel Powell and shows a stone age cutting tool, known as an adz or adze, floating in the cockpit of Shuttle Columbia during STS-52 in October 1992. It is framed by the forward and side windows and on the Earth below, the big island of Hawaii can be seen through the window. STS-52 mission specialist Lacy Veach, who grew up in Honolulu, took this tool into space as a reminder of the great strides that technology has taken since mankind used such tools for survival. Ed Hengeveld |
gliderpilotuk
Member Posts: 3398
From: London, UK
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 11-17-2007 06:12 AM
Somehow reminds me of that brilliant image in 2001 A Space Odyssey where the ape throws a bone into the sky and it transforms into a spaceship, showing the transition of time and technology.Paul |
kyra
Member Posts: 583
From: Louisville CO US
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 11-17-2007 02:06 PM
It is a very poetic pic. However I can't get the thought out of my mind they are one small transitional RCS firing away from a chipped/scratched inner pane. |
1202 Alarm
Member Posts: 436
From: Switzerland & France
Registered: Nov 2003
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posted 11-17-2007 04:34 PM
Fabulous photo.I've got the same emotion each time I see my flown A-12 memory cell along a prehistoric silex that I chose to display together. Some thousands years ONLY between these two items, how amazing what humans did in such a short period. In the same time, we still kill each other for the same idiot reasons, it's weird... |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 11-18-2007 08:22 AM
Hawaii is indeed an amazing place. Thanks to its location, Astronomers have chosen the high mountains to place the world's best telescopes. From Hawaii, You can see the Northern and part of the Southern night sky! |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 11-18-2007 10:42 AM
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Originally posted by 1202 Alarm:
Some thousands years ONLY between these two items, how amazing what humans did in such a short period.
It's even more amazing to consider that most of the advancements in human technology have happened over the past 100-150 years. Or, at least, the explosion of new technology in this period far outweighs any other period in human history. It still is incredible to think that only 66 years separated the Wright Brother's first flight and the first moon landing. |
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