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minus-squareameancow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 days agoAlternatively, and slightly cheaper, put a satellite into orbit and just record everything on the ground it looks at, hang onto recordings for 10 years.
minus-squareInnerScientist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 days agoBut that’s boring, doing it with light is way better. Also the governments already do that and don’t want to share.
minus-squareameancow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 days ago But that’s boring, doing it with light is way better. I get that it seems cooler, but you would be looking at recordings with gathered light either way.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 days agoI can get nostalgia looking at my previous address on Maps because it shows my old Jetta (my first car) in the driveway :D
minus-squareameancow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 days agoGoogle maps is one of the only applications that has literally made cry. The other is excel for entirely different reasons.
minus-squareTaldan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 days agoAs if we’re not already doing that
minus-squareameancow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 days agoExactly, you can go on Google Earth right now and view the past.
Alternatively, and slightly cheaper, put a satellite into orbit and just record everything on the ground it looks at, hang onto recordings for 10 years.
But that’s boring, doing it with light is way better.
Also the governments already do that and don’t want to share.
I get that it seems cooler, but you would be looking at recordings with gathered light either way.
I can get nostalgia looking at my previous address on Maps because it shows my old Jetta (my first car) in the driveway :D
Google maps is one of the only applications that has literally made cry. The other is excel for entirely different reasons.
As if we’re not already doing that
Exactly, you can go on Google Earth right now and view the past.