Welcome to the secret room. One thing I've always wondered about is what the Earth reeaally looks like from space. I mean sure, we've got plenty of photos and all, and they do present us with some magnificent views. But you know how much better it is in person. There is, however, a partial solution: stereo photography. While I know of no stereo photographs taken from space, I've been able to take some sequential photos from a terrific Space Shuttle photo site, then stretch, rotate, and otherwise sync them up into a reasonable semblance of stereo pairs. The way to view them, while it may be difficult to pick up, is easy once learned. Remember those weird stereo posters that came out a few years back, the ones that looked like a random mish-mash of color and pattern? The ones where you had to stare at them like you were "looking through the wall" at something behind them? Well, most stereo photography works the same way. And if you didn't get it then, try this now: Pretend that you're looking through the monitor at something behind it, as if you were gazing through a window, lost in some distant thought; your eyes relaxed (with Karloff accent: "you are now getting sleeeepy..."). At the same time notice, don't yet focus on, just notice, the unfocused image pairs overlapping on the screen. To view them, the trick is to master the distance your eyes are focused at. Kinda like as if you were focusing up and down the length of a railroad track stretching into the distance away from you. You get the images to line up and overlap perfectly, and then you'll "see" the image as if it were real! Try it with the two letters below for practice, then enjoy the images!