232
Earth… just 5 minutes ago (himawari8.nict.go.jp)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/science@lemmy.world
23 comments fedilink hide all child comments

all 23 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 59 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Fake. This is just a picture of earth. You could never fit the real earth into a jpg because it's made of rocks and dirt and stuff.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 9 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    You know how Quantum Field Theory suggests that everything is a field at the smallest possible levels? The idea that everything exists “on average,” because quantum fluctuations are constantly… well, fluctuating?

    What if that evidences the idea that you don’t need solid matter in order to produce solid matter? What if you can just simulate emergent relationships from the bottom all the way up? At the bottom, it’s just bits. Kind of like how, at our bottom, it’s just fields.

    Then, in that reality, maybe you can put the Earth in a jpg. To its human occupants, they’d have no way of knowing.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    This suggests that the magic bag of holding may be possible too

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    What about black holes? The event horizon’s area scales with mass (∝ M2), but don’t some modern theories posit that the internal space can behave very differently over time and produce more space?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    True, black holes might also be possible.. I'm learning a lot

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Do you think it would be fair to argue that the universe itself is such a case, too, given entropy? If you can start with the big bang, with time as your function, you’re producing more space within a closed system that started with the singularity. Not sure that’s fair though, because maybe entropy is a constant? I don’t know.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
    • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Can confirm, I was there and am in this image

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
    • [–] 35 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    How did the satellite take this picture? We should send another satellite to take a picture of how the first satellite took this picture to confirm the validity of the image.

    Edit: my dumb sleep deprived ass tried to rotate the earth on that satellite website 🤦‍♂️

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Don't worry I tried to rotate it too and I'm not sleep deprived. But yeah it seems to be in a geostationary orbit so it always shows the same side of the Earth.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
    • [–] 7 points 6 months ago*

    Bullshit piefed says this post is almost an hour old youre a liar

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
    •
    [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Neat. The thumbnail seems to update, too. The card view was different than the thread header. Almost feels unreal to see the cloud flow because I haven't seen such an image set before.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
    •
    [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Site does not load without JavaScript

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
    •
    [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    see? It's flat!

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
    •
    [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Hmmmm, can't even get New Zealand in a satellite photo

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •