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Seeing the Earth Almost Live
arobic writes "European Space Agency (ESA) is putting recent pictures of the Earth (taken 2 hours before) online using Envisat. To avoid filling up their disks too quickly, only the bmp of the last 30 days are available but jpg are kept. Also, only region receiving light can be seen, which explains why no recent pictures of Thailand are available."
...see naked people ?
(If not, this thing is not useful at all).
-- Rastignac was here.
There's no light in Thailand? Have they fallen afoul of the sun or something?
'No light for you! Come back one summer solstice!'
Karma: Excellent Birds (mostly as a result of listening to Laurie Anderson)
Also, only region receiving light can be seen, which explains why no recent pictures of Thailand are available.
Did I miss something? Did some devious Thai overlord deploy a sun-blocking device recently?
This guy's the limit!
As usual, we keep aspiring countries in the dark to have access to cheap labour.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Not available for Thailand and parts of Soviet Russia, where as we all know, light receives them.
[alk]
"I don't get the joke on Thailand."
I read somewhere that the Earth exists in a state commonly referred to as 'round', so sometimes there are parts of the planet that light while others are dark. It's an interesting theory but I cannot claim to be an expert on the topic because I haven't looked out the window to observe this myself.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
We've slashdotted the whole earth!
This sig isn't original enough, it's time to come up with something witty...
Suggestion: call Google.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
No, it means we were almost dead two hours ago.
The Internet is generally stupid
I think I just spotted WMD in Iraq and North Korea. Quickly, someone get me through to Bush.
OMG...I almost missed that! PONIESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSs
What could possibly go wrong?
Wait, you mean to tell me that Al Gore invented the Triana Satalite? This is better than the internet!
To the Press Department!
Demented But Determined.
I kind of like the older Google satellite pictures better. I got laid off a couple of years ago, but the satellite picture of my bus stop still shows my car parked there so I can still feel like I have a job.
The suspense is killing me.
Oddly enough, yes.
Though I do have fond memories of Billy Quan, The Lame List (or, "What's Weak This Week"), and the super-hero SPEED-WALKER! Plus you can see Bill Nye in his pre-Science-Guy days.
---GEC
I'm but the humble pupil, seeking to snatch the scratchbuilt pebble from the master's fully articulated hand
Two words:
Wardrobe Malfunction.
"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry.'" -Gary Larson
Maybe that's why one night in Bangkok can make a hard man humble?
Citizens Against Plate Tectonics
"My whole house could disappear as a JPEG compression artifact."
Holy crap, have you ever seen that 3d-animated show Reboot? I just got this really vivid image of a neighbourhood being destroyed as though it was whipped up in some kind of digital tornado, and sucked up into whatever unknown void... "AAhhhhh shit THEY USED JPEG!!!!!!! Run for your lives!!"
Now I'll be able to see pictures of the earth and it will be almost like I'm there!
What are all these other places I see apart from America?
Un, no. Its 'state' is more or less 'spherical'.
w00t