just cycled to thames and swam around in circles for a while. the water now warm enough to stay in pretty much indefinitely. cows, ducklings, saturday walkers, piper cherokees buzzing lazily overhead. i love this place.

very nice photo from joanagps' photostream on flickr under creative commons.

   

nasa earth observatory. i stumbled on this via a recent satellite image of the flooded mississippi (above left). a whole archive of images of the earth. true colour, false colour, photographic, diagrammatic. obviously they're crammed with nutritious scientific facts but i love the look of them, especially the way they hover on the border between representation and abstraction.

the apollo 11 capsule. thomas stafford, john young and eugene cernan went round the moon and back in this thing (preparing for the moon landing several months later). this was 1969. that's the year before we got pocket calculators. absolutely breathtaking.

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