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If I was a billionaire, I’d commission a lidar survey of the entire planet. The amount of stuff that seems to be hidden beneath forest and snow and mud and oce
by spaceman_2020 4y ago
If I was a billionaire, I’d commission a lidar survey of the entire planet.
The amount of stuff that seems to be hidden beneath forest and snow and mud and ocean is absurd.
- bahador 4y agoi think ted is overrated but i saw this recently: https://youtu.be/B6rIUxHZ9f4 https://youtu.be/B6rIUxHZ9f4
- BoxOfRain 4y agoIf I was obscenely wealthy I'd do the same for the seas and oceans, there's got to be so many fascinating wrecks out there as well as natural formations we know nothing about yet that sonar could pick up. Shipwrecks often have a limited lifespan for things to be preserved too, for example there's very little left of Lusitania's wreck that resembles a ship any more just a rusty debris field.
- rrival 4y agoSaw Sarah Parcak speak on this at her book launch @ The Explorer's Club (https://www.amazon.com/Archaeology-Space-Future-Shapes-Past/dp/1250198283 https://www.amazon.com/Archaeology-Space-Future-Shapes-Past/...). The current, viable remote observation approach for shipwrecks is to use satellite photos of sand plume disturbances near beaches to hint at underwater features worth further exploration.
- mcdonje 4y agoIf I were tetrazzinily wealthy, I'd lidar the solar system. There's no telling what we'd find in the asteroids alone.
- GordonS 4y agoAny napkin figures for how much that would cost, and how long it would take? The results could be incredible...
- maxerickson 4y agoOne way to sort of do it would be to poke at how much 3dep has cost so far and extrapolate from there. Hard to figure that though, with it being an aggregation of a bunch of other programs.
- heliodor 4y agoAnyone know how much LIDAR surveys cost? Would love to hear some numbers!
- speed_spread 4y agoIf you were to discover an alien spaceship laying under the ice in Antartica, for god's sake don't tell anyone and _don't dig it out_.
- account42 4y agoResistance is futile.
- kcartlidge 4y ago> If you were to discover an alien spaceship laying under the ice in Antartica A fair few things this could reference, but I'll use it as an opportunity to recommend reading the least likely option which is the book Ice Station by Matthew Reilly.
- nopassrecover 4y agoWhat would it take to leverage Starlink?