What if we aimed the Hubble Telescope at Earth?
What if we aimed the Hubble Telescope at Earth?
Tl:dw Hubble is designed to look at objects really far away and isn't calibrated for Earth or fast enough to track a single spot long enough for good exposure, so the earth would be blurry.
28 0 ReplyNow, if we had the ability to focus at earth distance with proper stabilization, what would we see?
5 0 ReplyApparently you spinning in a chair if you have a skylight over it
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I'm glad Randall has taken up the mantle of the great Cecil Adams. Someone had to.
5 0 ReplyBut who will take the mantle of the terrible Scott Adams?
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Oh cool, there's an XKCD YouTube? Consider me subscribed!
Because I just did.
5 0 ReplyThe CIA literally gave NASA two satellite telescopes that are very powerful but aimed at earth.
3 0 ReplyNASA haven't launched them yet, have they? Last I heard they were sitting in storage.
2 0 ReplyThey were retired from CIA use and thus I figured in orbit, it I need to Google it.
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I didn't know there was a YouTube channel for this series, I really enjoyed the book so this is a pleasant surprise
2 0 ReplySomewhat tangentially related but DSCOVR sits at a Lagrange point between the Sun and Earth and took pretty neat photos:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Climate_Observatory
1 0 ReplyThose time lapse animations are super cool!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Climate_Observatory#Animations
2 0 ReplyI had to read that, after an earlier thread today claimed Gore did nothing for the climate until after he lost his presidential bid ….. that would have been great to post
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What a comforting note to end on...
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