Neat.
neat. neat?!?! youre looking at day and night AT THE SAME TIME, don you realize thats been completely impossible until like the past ten years. To be looking at this is straight up INSANE.
neat.
you fuckin kidding me
Neat.
For the sake of accuracy, I have to add:
Orbital photographs have been possible since the late 1960’s. And humans have been able to personally view sights like this for just as long. If we ignore the incomplete decades, this sight has been available to humans for forty years.
FORTY.
(The actual number is very likely closer to fifty and heading for sixty, but the first object sent into orbit still occurs within living memory. I’m on my phone and can’t casually look this up)
This fact does not diminish the utter coolness of night and day in one photograph. Not one slightest bit.
It’s not just neat.
It’s firkin awesome.
OK children it’s fact check time. The first photograph of the Earth from high altitude was achieved in 1935 with the help of a balloon.
The first photograph taken from something launched by a rocket was on October 24, 1946. Utilising a V2 rocket and an automated camera.
The first human to capture the Earth from space did so during the early sixties. [According to Google, if the Americans didn’t do it, it’s not worth documenting 9_9]
So as early as 1961 when Yuri Gagarin first orbited the earth, people have been able to see this.
So this sight has been available for fifty-four years. Give or take.
[Insert Bill Nye gif]
