NASA Satellite Takes “Extremely Rare” Cloud-Free Picture of Ireland

Ireland Ireland Satellite Photo NASA Satellites St. Patrick's Day

by Robert Quigley | 8:56 am, March 18th, 2011

Here’s a belated St. Patrick’s Day present courtesy of NASA: The space agency recently took this beautiful image of the Emerald Isle using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on its Aqua satellite. NASA says the picture is “extremely rare” because there’s not a single cloud above the island: Ireland is cloudy at least somewhere almost all of the time, and according to the Irish Meteorological Service, “the sky is entirely cloudy more than 50 percent of the time.”

(NASA via NetworkWorld via Slashdot)

http://twitter.com/MuscleX_Edge scottharriss

Awesome!! I wish I were there to watch it live from the sky.
http://musclexedgesite.com/
http://placko.tumblr.com straylight

is that why everyone there is so pale?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001024198090 Scott Mccormick

yet the republicans just said global warming was fake and the earths climates not changing at all….
Flywiththechris

How is this related to global warming?
http://twitter.com/timberspine timberspine

you could say … they got lucky, eh?
http://twitter.com/zachstortini Zach Stortini

I will kick your repeatedly in the balls until I guarantee you cannot reproduce Timberspine.
Caffeine

Only 50% of the time? It feels like more.
dc

some forestry, but mostly fields

The Unintentional Hilarity of Twitter Spam Bots

Back Alley Internet is a recurring column in which we explore some of the weirder corners of the Internet and see what we can drudge up for your amusement and education. This week: We study the legions of Twitter bots that trawl the trending topics and spit out some unintentionally hilarious tweets.

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Eric Limer I need trephination like I need a hole in the head.
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Max AIM CHAT: I like you, too. *belushis*
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Eric Limer Listening to Call Me Maybe and cropping screengrabs of Twitter bots. It's times like this that I really love my job.
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James Plafke Popular rapper Ladies Love Removed Eyes.
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Eric Limer I am genuinely enjoying using So.cl to make weird picture mash-ups. I just made a collage of becks. http://t.co/ulGbDbwn
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Eric Limer This Facebook IPO coverage needs to stop cuz I'm seriously sick of seeing Zuckerberg staring creepily at me from the top of every story.
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Max Put on your poodle skirts and choose your favorite syrup because we're gonna have a sock-hop at the iHop.
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James Plafke I just threatened my mom to email me something by telling her I'd discuss with her all the lady celebrities I'd have sex with.
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Max New Hallmark Card: "I held an extended conversation with you without being able to remember your name" Inside: "I'm sorry."
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Eric Limer To any of you bros who might like to ice me, I encourage you to act on that urge, bro.
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Eric Limer If anyone is looking for some totally garbled, nigh-incomprehensible ad copy, I'm your man.
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Eric Limer What? None of my Facebook friends are on So.cl? How can this be?!
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Eric Limer "Does this mustache look creepy? Experts are blind; can't tell."
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Rollin Bishop Lin Beifong is suddenly one of the best things about Legend of Korra.
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James Plafke I just taught someone what TIL means. There's some kind of poetry to that.
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Max Preparing some mails.
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James Plafke A porn spambot named "toothsex" just spammed me.
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Eric Limer Walking my sister through the finer points of PS2 emulation as something of a birthday gift.
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Max Whoever just had The Strand pull a copy Of the Prose Edda: We should be Viking nerd friends.
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Eric Limer "That Spacex launch last Saturday was an absolute abortion."
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