Off topic: Space travel, time-lapse travel, data as a verb, tall people

In this undated file photo made available by Google shows the campus-network room at a data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. With the cooperation of foreign allies, the NSA is potentially gaining access to every email sent or received abroad, or between people abroad, from Google and Yahooâ s email services, as well as anything in Google Docs, Maps or Voice, according to a series of articles in the Washington Post. (AP Photo/Google, Connie Zhou, File)

By Mercury News | themerc@bayareanewsgroup.com

PUBLISHED: May 18, 2015 at 11:42 p.m. | UPDATED: August 12, 2016 at 2:55 a.m.

An oldie but goodie: Explore space by zooming and clicking at 100,000 Stars. Time-lapse video from 86 million photos of some of the world s most photographed places. Presented without comment: Proposing data as a verb, as in I data you, you data me. They data us, we data them. And the financial and other advantages of being tall, according to some studies.

Photo: Google data center. (Associated Press archives)