Re: An astronaut's eye view
- From: skearney@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 6 Jun 2005 18:19:02 -0700
On some PBS show I saw short clip of Mt. Fugi peeking from the clouds,
from an angle of maybe 45, it was awesome. Actually, since the imager
might be five meg, it would make a fine CD chock-ablock-full of
pictures of the whole region where you live, or any place else, with
dramatic aspects, to reiterate, added by the angle of the sun, the
angle of the picture, the direction it is taken from, cloud cover and
shadows. The question isn't whether I want to be a virtual space
cadet, but whether there is a virtual space cadet market out there. I
like to think that once the images can be downloaded for a small fee it
will appeal to the inner space cadet that most people don't yet know
they have. Getting an overview of a terrain you are going to hike or
bike might become as important as bringing the GPS reciever along.
Wouldn't it be neat if when a satcam was passing within range they
would PBS would put it on their schedule real time. You might see a
cloud that you recognize from your backyard.
As far as cost, it is just moving electrons. With a million
subscribers for the image retreival service, five dollars a year would
pay for the system many times over, and the available image archive
might quickly fill up the equivalent of the library of congress. By
combining information from thousands of images, it might be a popular
video game like pastime to fly over any place in the 'real' world as if
in a plane, swooping and turning at speeds and g forces that would be
impossible, or illegal, in a real plane.
Just trolling for a reply.
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