I bet you’ve been on a plane, flying over some amazing landscape, when you whipped out your cameraphone or digital camera and snapped a few shots of the amazing sight. And I bet you felt like a champ because you have this stunning, once in a lifetime, photo.

Well International Space Station resident Soichi Noguchi has spoiled it all for us. With the recent installation of a viewing deck on the station, and Noguchi signing up for a Twitter account, he’s been tweeting beautiful pictures of the earth everyday that outdo any of our cramped aeroplane efforts.  Which kind of ruins the only good thing about flying to Europe with Ryanair.

There’s no pictures yet of Ireland, but next to his picture of London he says “first time that I saw the whole city without any cloud”, which kinda rules out any pictures of the auld sod I think.

Hold your mouse over the picture for details of that picture. Oh and by what I can tell from the exif data on his pictures, he’s using a Nikon D2Xs with a massive 800mm lens…gravity is for losers you know.