NASA Puts the Earth Up For Adoption (cnn.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Wondering how to show that special planet some affection this Earth Day? Adopt it. NASA has sectioned off 64,000 individual pieces of Earth to be "adopted" by supporters on their website. The pieces are about 55 miles wide and assigned randomly. Similar to adopting a highway or naming a star, participants do not get legal or property rights to their section. So whether you get the 55-mile section that contains the Taj Mahal or the one that is square in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, you benefit the same.

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Actual link to NASA Page.......

[ZiakII]

Actual link to NASA Page.......

Re:Actual link to NASA Page.......

[Anonymous Coward]

The real actual link to the NASA website... https://climate.nasa.gov/adopt...

Do all US companies overbook?

[Anonymous Coward]

Once the adoptions fill up, they will be reassigned to allow everyone the opportunity to celebrate their own little corner of the Earth.

Just hope that your randomly assigned slot isn't double-booked with a NASA employee or else you could end up being beaten up and forcibly removed from the Earth.

Re:What's the carbon cost of this "initiative"?

[TWX]

I donno about the cost, but I expect that a lot better return on that cost will be borne by this initiative than your post will generate, both in relative and absolute terms.