Awesome Pictures of Earth and Rivers

Wired Magazine posted one of their slide shows a few months ago of some of Earth's rivers taken from space. At right here is Niagara Falls.

As I looked at the pics they have posted I was struck by the similarities as much as by the differences. But even more than their similarities to each other, there is a commonality to them than might remind us of many other designs in nature. Fractals and chaos theory can give us some understanding of it from a scientific point of view.

But from an aesthetic view- they are just plain unbeatable.

LINK to Wired Magazine's gallery of rivers.