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We should pop up a mirror facing away from Earth as a service for anyone who wants to look at their past. Hopefully someone else did that for us, just need to f
by yreg 4y ago
We should pop up a mirror facing away from Earth as a service for anyone who wants to look at their past. Hopefully someone else did that for us, just need to find it.
It's a common courtesy.
- klyrs 4y agoBe the change you want to see in the galaxy...
- gfodor 4y agoThis is kind of a fascinating idea - wouldn’t it be kind of an amazing “public service” to just deploy a large reflective perfect sphere into space at the galactic restful reference frame?
- macintux 4y agoUpdate: April Fools joke that won’t die. Mea culpa. Reminds me of the Dr. Who episodes recovered via Arecibo. https://dailypop.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/lost-doctor-who-episodes-found-in-deep-space/ https://dailypop.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/lost-doctor-who-ep...
- yreg 4y agoDid they actually recover any lost episode this way? Do we know which one(s)?
- macintux 4y agoNow that I look more closely it was an April Fools joke. Whoops. See the small note at the end: > I just realized that this story was hosted on a blogger’s site, not the Beeb… and it was loaded on Wednesday, 1 April 2009… well done. You got me over two years later.
- yreg 4y agoI thought it looked suspicious, but didn't notice it's a joke either. And there are multiple articles retelling it.