ripple effect
January 15th, 2009 | Published in general
(not to be confused with the Mad Ripple effect, which apparently causes spontaneous hoonenannying)
From the Big Picture blog, a stunning series of photos of the earth from astronauts and satellites. I love this one (click for the proper large version):
In mid-December 2005, the diminutive Amsterdam Island made waves – not in the Indian Ocean where it resides, but in the clouds overhead. The MODIS instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image on December 19, 2005. The island itself is almost too small see in this image, but it serves as the starting point for the clouds that flow toward the northeast in a giant V shape. (NASA/Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC)
There’s a metaphor in there somewhere, if only it were painfully obvious…