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I bet it's an engineering marvel though. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

No, you can't. This is what earth looks like from space... https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/ most of google maps uses airplane aerial shots.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Literally, yes you can, on that specific website's satellite imagery. Bloody thing's over 10 km wide, it's the size of a large city. I can still easily spot it on my screen if I zoom far enough out to also include Edinburgh and Riyad!

    The only way not to see it from space would be to look in the wrong place or when it is cloudy.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    What am I looking at? The white dot?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    The oval beige thing that takes up 1/5th of the width of the screenshot.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    It is 10km wide? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_293 Also, I don't see any beige oval that takes up 20% of the screen.

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