geekosystem

The International Space Station is regularly taking a lot of pictures of the planet, which would be kind of creepy if it weren't already so knock-your-socks-off beautiful. This set of time-lapse photos takes a wide-ranging gander at all the lights the Earth has to offer, from city lights to auroras to lightning storms, which when viewed from space look unnervingly like the planet is being invaded by aliens. There are also some pretty spectacular and impressive shots of the sun rising over the planet. If those don't make you want to be in space, man, I don't even know what to say.

This hotel was built in Changsha, China over the course of less than a week. Now, before you make plans to never stay there ever, it was put together out of prefab pieces that had been built off site and simply needed to be put together. It's soundproof, insulated, and earthquake proof, although if you have changed your mind by now, you might want to wait at least a little bit. The Yahoo! News article says nothing about interior furnishings, much less beds.

YouTuber amandareckonwith has made a beautiful, even haunting time lapse video of the punishing fallout from the so-called "Snowmageddon" or "Snowpocalypse" blizzard in the Washington, D.C. area from February 5-6. According to the video description, it was taken with a "Nikon D200 set to make an exposure every 5 minutes. 328 frames at 12 fps."