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.
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2026
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You can tell because of the way it is.
Thats pretty neat!
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.
This suggests that the magic bag of holding may be possible too
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?
True, black holes might also be possible.. I'm learning a lot
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.
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 🤦♂️
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.
Can't believe they're not letting us move the satellite around, smh
I'll contact their webmaster and file a bug report
for real shaking your head too
I read this comment and the comments below it, chuckled, then opened the link, marveled at the marble, and then tried to turn it.
I'm going to sleep now, good night.
Can confirm, I was there and am in this image
Location confirmed. Get him, boys!
see? It's flat!
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Bullshit piefed says this post is almost an hour old youre a liar
Hmmmm, can't even get New Zealand in a satellite photo
We do manage to get in at the edges of both the Himawari and the GOES-WEST satellites.
https://www.metservice.com/maps-radar/satellite/tasman-sea-infrared will almost certainly be from Himawari.
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.