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Author Topic: A Wondrous Image  (Read 22148 times)

Kridian

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« on: November 16, 2010, 01:53:49 pm »
For the Outerra crew.


Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson staring out the window of the ISS
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« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2010, 04:24:06 pm »
And people complain our atmosphere is too foggy.
Although the picture is more about Tracy than about the Earth :P
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« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2010, 10:12:58 pm »
Hands down, that has to be the sexiest image of any astronaut in the space program ever taken.  This image looks like a screenshot out of a Hollywood blockbuster movie.
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« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2010, 04:23:38 am »
Quote from: cshawnsmith
This image looks like a screenshot out of a Hollywood blockbuster movie.

Next alien movie?  she does have a bit of sigourney weaver in her...;o)

great shot!
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« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2010, 01:39:03 am »
And just for fun, this little Photoshop retouch of the photo, and taking some tag lines from another thread:



Was going to try to paint in the orbital view from the engine, but I couldn't get the image to fit properly.  But I think the logo on her shirt sells the shot ;).
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« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2010, 02:54:30 pm »
I laughed when I saw the logo!  :D

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Next alien movie?  she does have a bit of sigourney weaver in her...;o)

I thought her name was Ripley.
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« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2010, 04:11:57 pm »
Her movie name was Lieutenant Ellen L. Ripley.  Sigourney Weaver played the role.  But she'll always be Ripley to me :D.

A very talented actor, and still sexy after all these years.  Tracy Dyson does resemble her in this photo, but if you look her up on NASA.gov, she looks very different (still wonderful to look at, but not in the same manner as this image).  I think she's also credited with the longest space-walk.  Looking at her biography is very impressive.

By the way, for those of you who don't know her, she's married to George Dyson, who is the son of Freeman Dyson (you may know him best as the man who first brought the 'Dyson Sphere' to the world).  Look it up if you don't know what that is ;)

She's also the first astronaut to have been born after the first moon landing.  Very interesting young lady, and by all accounts, a very thoughtful and pleasant person to speak with (yeah, unfortunately I make it a habit of researching the people behind images I see :)).

*Edit* And when I wrote the bottom tagline, I wasn't considering the context of the photograph, and what it might potentially mean ... :blush:
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« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2011, 06:06:46 am »
Pff don't just photoshop the image, rerender it with Outerra =D
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« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2011, 01:03:23 pm »
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*Edit* And when I wrote the bottom tagline, I wasn't considering the context of the photograph, and what it might potentially mean ... :blush:

Oh dear.

 :lol:
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