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minus-squareameancowlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months 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-squareInnerScientistlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoBut that’s boring, doing it with light is way better. Also the governments already do that and don’t want to share.
minus-squareameancowlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months 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·edit-22 months 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-squareameancowlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoGoogle maps is one of the only applications that has literally made cry. The other is excel for entirely different reasons.
minus-squarepotoooooooo ✅️linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoGoogle Earth/Maps in VR is pretty wild for visiting memory places.
minus-squareameancowlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months 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.
Google Earth/Maps in VR is pretty wild for visiting memory places.
As if we’re not already doing that
Exactly, you can go on Google Earth right now and view the past.