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Animated Aurora Borealis, from Orbit

As You Remember It: The Lift-Off of APOLLO 11

Mir Collision

MIR Space Station collision

MIR Space Station fire

NASA | First Images of the Sun in 3-D

Progress: Mar 23

Space Shuttle Discovery Launches Beginning the STS-128 Mission

Space Shuttle STS-121 External Tank Falling
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Time Lapse

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Eyjafjallajökull 20.4.2010 - vodafone webcam

Life - Timelapse of swarming monster worms and sea stars - BBC One

Mirror lake (HD 720p)

Paul Newson's Time Lapse Flower: Amaryllis (explicit lyrics)

Reno Balloon Race 2006

Snowlapse 2010.wmv

Time-Lapse of Milky Way over Idaho

TRAPPED IN AN ELEVATOR FOR 41 HOURS
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Melodrama Moon Timelapse

The Phoenix Mars Lander

The Return Of Endeavour
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Jules Verne

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ATV: DDay 2

Jules Verne ATV docked

Jules Verne ATV docking :Replay
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Kibo & Dextre

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"Dextre" :Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator

Endeavour landed: safely shut down systems

Endeavour undocked

ISS Today Mar 24, 2008

STS-123: 3rd Spacewalk Complete

STS-123: 5th EVA

STS-123 Endeavour night landing

STS-123: Endeavour Rendezvous and Docking (time lapse)

STS-123 Flight Day 14

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On the thirtieth of April, 1941, along with the sugared cake I allowed myself to add a bottle of Argentine cognac. Carlos Argentino tasted it, pronounced it "interesting," and, after a few drinks, launched into a glorification of modern man.
"I view him," he said with a certain unaccountable excitement, "in his inner sanctum, as though in his castle tower, supplied with telephones, telegraphs, phonographs, wireless sets, motion-picture screens, slide projectors, glossaries, timetables, handbooks, bulletins..."
He remarked that for a man so equipped, actual travel was superfluous. Our twentieth century had inverted the story of Mohammed and the mountain; nowadays, the mountain came to the modern Mohammed.
So foolish did his ideas seem to me, so pompous and so drawn out his exposition, that I linked them at once to literature and asked him why he didn't write them down. As might be foreseen, he answered that he had already done so -- that these ideas, and others no less striking, had found their place in the Proem, or Augural Canto, or, more simply, the Prologue Canto of the poem on which he had been working for many years now, alone, without publicity, with fanfare, supported only by those twin staffs universally known as work and solitude. First, he said, he opened the floodgates of his fancy; then, taking up hand tools, he resorted to the file. The poem was entitled The Earth; it consisted of a description of the planet, and, of course, lacked no amount of picturesque digressions and bold apostrophes.
I asked him to read me a passage, if only a short one. He opened a drawer of his writing table, drew out a thick stack of papers -- sheets of a large pad imprinted with the letterhead of the Juan Crisóstomo Lafinur Library -- and, with ringing satisfaction, declaimed:
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Mine eyes, as did the Greek's, have known men's towns and fame,
The works, the days in light that fades to amber;
I do not change a fact or falsify a name --
The voyage I set down is... autour de ma chambre.
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from: Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph (El Aleph, 1945)

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