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Pic: This is what Dublin looks like from space

We’re not half bad looking from far away…

THIS BEAUTIFUL IMAGE of Dublin, taken on the International Space Station, was tweeted in the early hours of this morning by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.

Hadfield was at first unsure which port town featured in the image which was taken through a gap in our seemingly constant cloud cover, but his Twitter followers quickly chimed in that it was Ireland’s capital city. Isn’t that lovely?

(Image: Chris Hadfield/Twitter)

Related: Check out this incredible photo of night-time Ireland from space>

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    Sep 19th 2014, 10:33 PM

    just like the .com boom of the 90s. Everybody paying big for a company’s thats not worth all that. a bit like Facebook actually : )

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    Sep 19th 2014, 10:41 PM

    The IPO seems large but I would invest in shares in this company way quicker than tinder, snapchat whatever. Those companies haven’t even turned over a penny yet this company is a trading platform similar to ebay & is turning over a large annual figure, and you need to see the amount of sellers/products the site offers. This is a business site, selling to both individuals & traders, I would imagine the average purchase is way bigger than ebay

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    Sep 19th 2014, 11:04 PM

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    Sep 22nd 2014, 7:28 PM

    This man Jack Ma is an inspiration. Check out his Ted Talks.

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    Sep 19th 2014, 10:26 PM

    All,these Tech companies are over valued, a crash in the US equities will happen sooner or later and a lot of people will loose there shirts.

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    Sep 19th 2014, 10:46 PM

    Anyone with a pension needs to check where their money is being invested, loads of hedge fund managers are getting rich investing pension funds into these tech companies.
    This companies probably not a bad investment tho

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