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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)
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)
What could possibly go wrong?
The suspense is killing me.
Maybe that's why one night in Bangkok can make a hard man humble?
Citizens Against Plate Tectonics