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True Odds of Airborne Terror

Venture Free — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:37:51 +0000

Update: I decided to put a link to the graphic instead in the name of fairness (it’s not cool for me to post the image in full). You can find it here: The True Odds of Airborne Terror Chart – Odds of Airborne Attacks – Gizmodo.

In the meantime, some numbers to wet your appetite:

Analyzing data from Oct 1999 to Sep 2009
Over 99 Million Flights, traveling over 69 Billion miles.
That’s one attack per 11.5 Billion miles
or one attack per 3,105 years of air time

Amazing Satellite Photos of Earth

Venture Free — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:17:42 +0000

I’ve found some new favorite wallpaper for my computers. These are absolutely amazing satellite images of Earth! From the site:

The images in this compilation are from the Landsat 7 satellite and were created to introduce the general public to the Landsat Program.

Various combinations of the eight Landsat 7 spectral bands were selected to create the vivid RGB composites that we have featured.

Go here or click on the image to see for yourself. I highly HIGHLY recommend it.