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Iconic Carl Sagan Nasa Pioneer plaque as glitch art
Ok, we took a pause from our variations on maps and charts to look back at some of the more iconic past images on our IG feed. One of our most iconic (and recognizable) is the Carl Sagan-designed plaque that went into space aboard Pioneer in the 1970s as a message to aliens. We had to crop the image to keep within IG community standards. (We also did a 3D-printed version of this.) So here is our first take on this: glitched Carl Sagan Pioneer Nasa plaque. If aliens would have a hard time deducing Earth’s location from the original Plaque due to the errors (see our original post and some of subsequent ones), this glitch art version would totally confuse them. If only we sent this version into space instead, Earth would now be safe from predatory aliens! 🙂 It’s also no longer #monochrome, due to the glitching skewing the colors.Ironically,… Read the restEvolution of historical notions of Earth
A collage we created to help visualize evolving historical notions of Earth over time. We created it as part of our IG data visualization series. The first two maps are from ancient Rome. The middle image is of a 16th-century map is already surprisingly accurate. (That map was the tanktop being worn by our virtual reality fashion model in our last collage.) The last image is Earth photographed from space. D Data and geospatial analytics, where data is combined with other location information, are often important components in data analysis and visualizations. We have more and modern map collages forthcoming. Post and some comments below may be synced from our original Instagram version. Instagram likes: (more…)… Read the restAsteroids hit the Earth more often than thought
As show in this map, small space asteroids hit the Earth more often than commonly thought. We’re continuing our recent asteroid theme. According to this map, small asteroids were documented hitting the earth 556 times in the twenty year from 1994 to 32013. Nasa notes that “almost all were harmless.” Ahhh, well, almost all, except for that Chelyabinsk event. (The study of these unlikely but potentially catastrophic “Black Swan” events, like the Carrington Event, is another topic we’ve discussed before (here).) Recall the Chelyabinsk event broke a lot of windows and caused a lot of other damage in rural Siberia (and made for some pretty spectacular video). Good thing Siberia is rural, because the Chelyabinsk event _only_ released 20-30 times more energy than the atomic bomb over Hiroshima. And it wasn’t detected before it entered Earth’s atmosphere. So maybe that early warning system needs some work if we want to continue feeling smug and so much superior to the dinosaurs.… Read the restMartians making Mars canals: Solution to yesterday’s puzzle
Yesterday we presented a puzzle photo. We promised to explain the relationship between the Panama Canal and Mars. Shown here in glorious black and white is the 1887 map by Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli. It shows “Mars canals.” Were these canals dug by intelligent Martians? Many in the 19th century thought so, and thought they had found proof of space aliens in their telescopes! Schiaperelli (and many others) thought they observed “canals” on Mars.(The map is in Italian or Latin with some legends in German, in part because this version was taken from an 1888 German encyclopedia version.)This has since been shown to be optical illusions; modern high-resolution maps of Mars show no such features.Part of it was mistranslation. Schiaperelli’s use of “Kanal” was translated into English as “canal”, but the usage in the original meant something closer to “channel”, a more neutral term suggesting a natural feature. In any event, everyone got very excited that there might be intelligent Martians building an advanced canal system on Mars for transport.… Read the restRecent Posts
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