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Dear some very-rich person, please send a selfie-camera to the space! Yes, all that effort so we can keep looking at ourselves on a planet scale.
by egeozcan 6mo ago
Dear some very-rich person, please send a selfie-camera to the space! Yes, all that effort so we can keep looking at ourselves on a planet scale.
- MengerSponge 6mo agoGood news! We already have that! If you pay taxes to the US that's one of the thing you've helped pay for: https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/imagery/satellite-maps https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/imagery/satellite-maps For reasons that are unexplainable if you're the NYTimes, polluting industries have been trying to kill these missions for decades.
- egeozcan 6mo agoI'm not a US resident but I'm immensely disappointed in myself because I didn't know this existed. I guess the rich person who was just planning to respond to my request needs to find another thing to spend their money on :)
- TimByte 6mo agoIt sounds trivial, but perspective shots like this are part of why public support for space programs exists at all