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I love the romance of this. Even though the earth is only going to be a few pixels, the frame will contain a snapshot of the entire human race.
by nhoss2 13y ago
I love the romance of this. Even though the earth is only going to be a few pixels, the frame will contain a snapshot of the entire human race.
- TravisLS 13y agoThat's one of my favorite things about the famous Earthrise photo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise The frame contains every living human, and every human who has ever lived - except for three of them.
- terabytest 13y agoThat's such an overwhelming thought.
- ceejayoz 13y agoWell, assuming the lost cosmonauts conspiracy theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cosmonauts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cosmonauts) is wrong.
- sadkingbilly 13y ago> every human who has ever lived How is that, exactly? Doesn't the picture only contain the light captured at that moment?
- baddox 13y agoThe photograph captured the light from the planet where everyone who has ever lived has spent their entire life, except for a small number of astronauts. More accurate, but less spiritual/sentimental sounding.
- T-hawk 13y ago"The frame contains". Meaning that every dead and then-living human was within the camera's view frustum, except for the three in the spacecraft. Not considering whether they're in the nighttime part of the planet or on the far side away from the camera; just that they're somewhere within the field of view. Presumably many photos of the Earth from spacecraft have achieved the first part of that criterion, as Cassini's will. But the set of photos of most of the human race minus a few is much smaller: limited to the moon missions, because the shuttle and space station orbit too low to fit the entire Earth in one camera frame.