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It looks like someone hung a circuit board out to dry, but that’s the freshly powered International Space Station passing the limb of the Earth a few days ago. The ISS was resupplied by the space shuttle Discovery, which brought a set of giant solar arrays and, rumor has it, a twelver of tallboys and the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs disk pirated from mininova.org.

In addition to new solar panels, which extend the space station to the length of a football field and provide a total 120 kilowatts of power, the NASA crew brought a present the ISS folks couldn’t wait to open: a urine-to-drinking water converter. None of my jokes about the previous converter being installed backwards were very funny when put onto the screen, so I’ll skip to the goods and let you check out these badass pictures from up above.

Oh, and the Discovery landed safely with the empties on Saturday.

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