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Date Posted: Wednesday, April 25, 09:47:24am
Author: Lij
Author Host/IP: adsl-99-31-12-85.dsl.bltnin.sbcglobal.net / 99.31.12.85
Subject: Walking On Air



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This video features a series of time lapse sequences photographed by the Expedition 30 crew aboard the International Space Station. Set to the song "Walking in the Air," by Howard Blake, the video takes viewers around the world, through auroras, and over dazzling lightning displays. The sequences are as follows:

:01 -- Stars over southern United States
:08 -- US west coast to Canada
:21 -- Central Europe to the Middle East
:36 -- Aurora Australis over the Indian Ocean
:54 -- Storms over Africa
1:08 -- Central United States
1:20 -- Midwest United States
1:33 -- United Kingdom to Baltic Sea
1:46 -- Moonset
1:55 -- Northern United States to Eastern Canada
2:12 -- Aurora Australis over the Indian Ocean
2:32 -- Comet Lovejoy
2:53 -- Aurora Borealis over Hudson Bay
3:06 -- United Kingdom to Central Europe

Song lyrics:

We're walking in the air
We're floating in the moonlit sky
The people far below are sleeping as we fly

I'm holding very tight
I'm riding in the midnight blue
I'm finding I can fly so high above with you

Far across the world
The villages go by like dreams
The rivers and the hills
The forests and the streams

Children gaze open mouth
Taken by surprise
Nobody down below believes their eyes

We're surffing in the air
We're swimming in the frozen sky
We're drifting over icy
Mountain floating by

Suddenly swooping low on an ocean deep
Arousing of a mighty monster from its sleep

We're walking in the air
We're floating in the midnight sky
And everyone who sees us greets us as we fly



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[> Love it. -- AurraSing, Wednesday, April 25, 10:34:31am (d99-199-122-58.bchsia.telus.net/99.199.122.58)

This vid makes me think of Amelia Pond, her sense of wide-eyed wonder at the universe around her with 11 at her side. Plus I've been listening to so much Classic FM after work hours, I have become a sucker for boy choirs.

Does the ISS have a live-feed camera stream? That would be interesting....


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[> [> Yes.... -- Lij, Wednesday, April 25, 09:32:23pm (adsl-108-67-95-63.dsl.bltnin.sbcglobal.net/108.67.95.63)

In related news, you may soon be able to view a streaming video from the ISS live.

Via Mashable:

http://mashable.com/2012/04/24/urthecast-earth-live-streamed/

If a startup called Urthecast has its way, you’ll soon be able to replicate that experience from your computer, thanks to HD cameras mounted on the station to stream near real-time video of Earth 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It will be the first-ever HD streaming video feed of Earth from space, and will let viewers discern objects as small as one meter wide.

The company’s cameras are being built right now, says co-founder Scott Larson, and will be completed in early summer. Then they’ll be shipped to Russia, where the Russian Federal Space Agency will schedule them for transport to the station. Larson says the system should be fully up and running early next year.

The cameras will continuously film Earth as the station orbits the planet about 15 times per day. Footage will be downlinked to ground stations, then immediately streamed via Urthecast.com. Larson expects to provide footage every second for five to ten years.

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[> [> [> Excellent to hear. -- AurraSing, Wednesday, April 25, 10:30:59pm (d99-199-122-58.bchsia.telus.net/99.199.122.58)

I shall keep my ears and eyes open for it.


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