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Friday, February 3, 2012

Science Africa: Centre of the Human World

Posted by Charles Mudede on Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:54 AM

People wanted more than USA...

So NASA gave them everything that is to be human: Africa.

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Love this, Charles. Love it. Thanks for putting a smile on my face this morning!

Posted by Confluence on February 3, 2012 at 9:08 AM

This is cool.

@ 1, who are you and how did you access Confluence's account?

Posted by Matt from Denver on February 3, 2012 at 9:12 AM

Hah! I noticed that too: The original Apollo image showed Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. The new imaged put North America front-and-center, just like every old 50's grade-school wall map. The ones that broke the Soviet Union in half, one half on each side, just because, well, " 'Murrica, fuck yeah!"

Thank you NASA, for releasing the new image.

Posted by Dr_Awesome on February 3, 2012 at 9:28 AM

HMMMM NYAAA- YA HENYAAAAA

Posted by matt! on February 3, 2012 at 9:50 AM

B-b-b-ut I was told that the United States was on the FRONT of the globe!

Too bad they couldn't have scootched it just a scounch and let Morocco, Western Sahara, Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau, etc. in on the glory.

Posted by Fnarf

on February 3, 2012 at 10:38 AM

AFRICA

Posted by venomlash on February 3, 2012 at 11:11 AM

@5--I'm pretty sure that this image is meant to invoke comparisons to the original "Blue Marble" picture from Apollo 17--which was taken from an almost identical angle...

(And, if you look at the two together--granted, the original Blue Marble picture was taken from about 4x further away than these images--it's astonishing how much less prominent the antarctic polar ice cap is...)

Posted by pg13 on February 3, 2012 at 12:28 PM