Despite all the crap, this is still a beautiful country

Iwannahurl

This is a great photo of Ireland as seen from the International Space Station, taken March 2010 by ace space photographer Soichi Noguchi.

samsemtex

just looked through a load of those photos and couldnt see anything about Ireland. So unless you are posting from Japan I cant see "this country".

Iwannahurl

I included the link to his photo on Twitpic, so don't know what happened.

Here's the photo itself:

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Kelda09

Really nice!! It's lovely, but wouldnt it be great if just for once, there were no clouds!!! :D

loobylou

Nice pic, but "ace space photographer"????
Gimme a break.
1. Point camera downwards.
2. Click.
3. Post on internet.

bleg

Class picture but I don't get what's so inherently beautiful about Ireland from space. Is it the shape or what? Most temperate land masses would look the exact same.

My name is URL

Here's a great image of Ireland from space - http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/EarthObservation/images_of_the_week/IrelandBloomMERFROrbit22250_H.jpg

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Duggy747

THIS is a good picture of Ireland at night.

Nozebleed

which one of those little islands did charlie haughey buy?

finnegan2010

Heres a nice one too of the west of ireland taken from I S S not sure how the moon got in there also though!:D

CrazyRabbit

Iwannahurl wrote: »

I included the link to his photo on Twitpic, so don't know what happened.

Here's the photo itself:

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Cool I can see my house.

af_thefragile

It a very flat country which makes it a little boring too...
I'ld prefer if there were more mountains. Higher mountains. Also would be nice if there were more forests and not just bogs and fields...

GizAGoOfYerGee

af_thefragile wrote: »

Also would be nice if there were more forests and not just bogs and fields...

Most of our forests are in Britain in the form of Georgian doors and window frames.

Augmerson

af_thefragile wrote: »

It a very flat country which makes it a little boring too...
I'ld prefer if there were more mountains. Higher mountains. Also would be nice if there were more forests and not just bogs and fields...

Before the Ice Age, Ireland might have had mountain ranges on par with those found in Scandinavia, but the huge ice sheet covering most (I think the entire country at one point) would have just ground them down. Also, Ireland was once covered in forest, but man cut them all down. Some of the bogs found in Ireland are also man-made, they came about from us cutting down forests to farm on the land, but the land becoming swamped with water and just turning into bog if I remember rightly.

af_thefragile

Augmerson wrote: »

Before the Ice Age, Ireland might have had mountain ranges on par with those found in Scandinavia, but the huge ice sheet covering most (I think the entire country at one point) would have just ground them down. Also, Ireland was once covered in forest, but man cut them all down. Some of the bogs found in Ireland are also man-made, they came about from us cutting down forests to farm on the land, but the land becoming swamped with water and just turning into bog if I remember rightly.

Yup remember studying that in Geography in school.

Its pretty annoying why you'ld cut down all the forests so that you'ld just left with bogs. The government should plant more trees so that Ireland can get its forests back. There needs to be reforestation projects. Its gonna be better for the environment, better for the wildlife and also would be better for recreational purposes. Like who'ld want to go camping on a bog?!

ScumLord

My name is URL wrote: »

Here's a great image of Ireland from space - http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/EarthObservation/images_of_the_week/IrelandBloomMERFROrbit22250_H.jpg

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Wow that's all plankton?

Is mise le key

I fixed the original pic to be more contemporary,