This was tweeted five days ago by Dr. André Kuipers, twirling around up there on the International Space Station.
Boy, from this perspective, San Francisco looks like it's practically begging to be snapped off from the continent.
Also, I really need to clean my windows. That's embarrassing.

More incredible photos from Dr. Kuiper here:
- Southwestern U.S.
- Scandinavia
- Balearic Islands
- Paris by night
- Johannesburg at night
- Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul
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- The Sahara
- Southern Lights
- More...
And by all means, check this out. It's a "series of time lapse sequences photographed by the Expedition 30 crew aboard the International Space Station."