Astronaut Tweets Beautiful Earth Images From Space

One of the astronauts currently in residence on the International Space Station is using Twitpic to send some spectacular imagery of our home planet back down to us Earthlings (that’s Mt. Kilimanjaro as seen from space at right).

It’s the next logical step now that the first real-time tweet from space milestone has been passed. Flight engineer Soichi Noguchi is now sending back images via his Twitpic account as the ISS orbits the Earth.

Check out a selection of some of the pics below, and you can find more at Astro_Soichi’s Twitpic. Astronaut Jose Hernandez, who flew on the Shuttle Discovery mission STS-128, has also posted some imagery from his mission to Twitpic as well.

Maldives Islands, Indian Ocean.

Port-Au-Prince, as of Feb 3. Three weeks after the earthquake.

Mount Fuji, Japan. 3,776m. The highest mountain in Japan.

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LaCie Internet Space

Everyone is always talking about the “cloud” and syncing up your data across multiple platforms so that it is accessible from anywhere. LaCie has obviously listened to this cloud talk and have come out with the Internet Space, which looks nice and provides a valuable function at the same time.

One thing that must first be noted about this LaCie model is that is good looking. It’s so simple that it could easily act as a companion to any of the newer notebook or desktop set ups that have come out of the gates boasting style as a feature.

But beyond its exterior, the LaCie Internet Space features a 500GB hard drive. But the real beauty of it is that you can sync up your computers and mobile devices with the device. Then, you can access your information from any computer from anywhere, just by visiting their website at www.homelacie.com. It will cost you $205 and five minutes to set up, but that seems pretty worth it to put all of your data within a browser’s reach.

-slashgear.com