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Innerworld lemmy.world Innerworld@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-16
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Ceruleum lemmy.wtf Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf
Joined: 2025-02-04
#2 · Quote Reply

Planet Australia!
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tenchiken anarchist.nexus tenchiken@anarchist.nexus
Joined: 2025-08-18
#3 · Quote Reply

I wish Carl Sagan were still around.
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bleistift2 sopuli.xyz bleistift2@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2024-06-02
#4 · Quote Reply
If you have no clue what you’re looking at, here’s the more familiar angle

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john_t piefed.ee john_t@piefed.ee
Joined: 2025-08-21
#5 · Quote Reply
Ceruleum wrote:
Planet Australia!

The Sahara Desert?
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nymnympseudonym piefed.social nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-08-25
#6 · (edited) Quote Reply
tenchiken wrote:
I wish Carl Sagan were still around.

He might wish he wasn't given how fucking spot-on he was. Or maybe he'd be a John Connor and smash those anti-science mofos

The Demon-Haunted World

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tenchiken anarchist.nexus tenchiken@anarchist.nexus
Joined: 2025-08-18
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nymnympseudonym wrote:
He might wish he wasn't given how fucking spot-on he was. Or maybe he'd be a John Connor and smash those anti-science mofos ::: spoiler The Demon-Haunted World :::

That's fair, but my initial thought was he'd have been able to help delay or prevent... Wishful thinking I know.
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kazerniel lemmy.world kazerniel@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-21
#8 · Quote Reply

so pretty! amazing to see how thin is the atmosphere proportionally (and the two auroras! 🤩)
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Confused_Emus lemmy.dbzer0.com Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-07-19
#9 · Quote Reply

She's so much more beautiful without all those petty, arbitrarily drawn lines all over her continents.
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smeenz lemmy.nz smeenz@lemmy.nz
Joined: 2023-07-11
#10 · (edited) Quote Reply

Took me a while, but north is to the bottom left, and the land mass is mostly the sahara desert, with the Strait of Gibraltar near the edge .

Northern and southern lights are visible to highlight where the two poles are.
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nymnympseudonym piefed.social nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-08-25
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tenchiken wrote:
That's fair, but my initial thought was he'd have been able to help delay or prevent... Wishful thinking I know.

Nope. That's on us now. We all have to be Spartacus.

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RizzRustbolt lemmy.world RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-06
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What's the bright bit in the lower right?
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