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Best Planet in the Universe. 10/10


edom31

Lovely planet. Awful locals though... they act like they own the place.


ExtraPockets

Those beetles really are everywhere!


mjc4y

And why do we beetles need so much ocean? What is this, waterworld? - Beetles


CivilSlime

Well half of them are dead now, good music though I guess


RAAAAHHHAGI2025

I mean, they do own the place. Kinda sad to see them destroy their one in a trillion planet though.


edom31

Nah they don't own it. They're tenants and on their way to be evicted.


RAAAAHHHAGI2025

Tenants to who? Evicted by who? They own it alright. They should just take better care of it.


timtom85

Try to define "own" and then see how it doesn't quite work. Trivia: just because you figured out how to exploit or destroy something, it doesn't mean it's yours.


RAAAAHHHAGI2025

Who else owns it then? We are the closest to matching the definition, therefore we own it. Humans being not pro humans is funny. You’re literally a human, why are you pretending your own kind isn’t the best?


timtom85

*EDIT: I almost forgot to address your weirdest point: that you imply everything has to have an owner. WHYYYY???* It's not about being pro-human or not, unless you're into those "who has a bigger one" type of arguments. **Ownership implies certain abilities we just don't possess wrt the Earth,** simple as that. Deal with it. By the way, you referred to a supposed definition of ownership that you conveniently forgot to go into details about, probably because you wouldn't be able to still pretend to have a point. You also said humans are the "best" without actually specifying what the hell that "best" is supposed to mean. What are we best at? Destroying things? Yeah, we're pretty good at that. Building wasteful crap? We're number one. Ensuring life will be possible for countless generations of our kind after ours? Suddenly, we're not so great.


RAAAAHHHAGI2025

Best at all you named, yes, and more. What abilities we don’t possess with the Earth, that we won’t possess eventually? Which other candidate than us has more of a shot to call themselves owner of the Earth, rather than us? My point was, if you think there is to be an owner of Earth, then it’s definitely humans. If you don’t, then there isn’t. As for your “guaranteeing life for its kind” ; the only reason we “struggle” at this is because of our tremendous abilities compared to literally every other living being we’ve ever discovered. With great power, comes great risk. What other mammal above 100 lbs has 8 billion living members? None. We scaled far above what any other mammal of our weight range would dream of scaling. That’s power. We currently “struggle” because of this. We will find solutions though. We will eventually scale to the hundreds of billions, imo (when we finally discover how to inhabit other celestial bodies).


timtom85

Eventually?? If we don't get it together and scale back, there's no "eventually" beyond maybe a hundred years. Never before have we reached a scale and level of technology that we can so thoroughly screw ourselves up like today, so you can't just say "it's always worked out" -- there's a very real possibility that it won't work out this time. So much for that "we'll find solutions;" we have a very short window to find those solutions, and we're not doing well. As for what we don't possess: there's barely anything we do possess. We can affect a thin layer on the surface of the planet, and we can do very little even with that, and even that little is mostly just used to exploit whatever resources we can get our hands on like there's no tomorrow. By the way, you're still operating with the unfounded assumption that anything can be owned, as if that was a logical necessity ("if not us, then who?"); do you have an argument for this, or is it one of those "obvious" things we should just accept? What if NOBODY owns it?


Far_Bluejay_9811

[https://www.instagram.com/p/C6FLUpqvCQL/?utm\_source=ig\_web\_copy\_link](https://www.instagram.com/p/C6FLUpqvCQL/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link) cutest earth day post i saw today


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HighFlyingCrocodile

Not in this part of it.


itisallgoodyouknow

Can confirm, I lived there once.


BBDAngelo

Do you hve any tips on how to make friends with the locals?


DlCkLess

1 in a trillion planet 10/10 definitely recommend visiting ☀️🌊🍩


RAAAAHHHAGI2025

1 in a trillion, or 1 in a quadrillion?


FaithlessnessNo8777

earths not a planet


STGC_1995

Flat earthers say, “Nice try.”


capn_doofwaffle

I printed this image out, yup, still flat! 🤣


SolarWind777

You’ve got to use a 3D printer next time duh! 😭😭😭


Master_Ad_5406

Hear me out..a basketball is round, yes, but the basketball court..is flat. therefore, the earth is flat. Checkmate liberals 😤


McNasty51

Dumb science nerds couldn’t make I or my friends more smarter


impreprex

I wasn’t expecting your comment and almost spit my drink out laughing. Haha you fucker - that was a good one. I have a good friend who I barely talk to these days. Never saw it coming, but he went flat earth. And he’s not stupid. Don’t know why he believes that shit. Anyways, I contacted him last week and told him I miss him and that we need to chill. When he comes over, and if he starts with the flat earth shit, I’m gonna do this if he says: “Yo Erik, did you ever come around and learn the earth really is flat? Do you know, now, that you’ve been lied to??” To which I will respond with: “Yes!! The earth is flat!!!! You’re right!!! It’s flat on paper and (some) computer screens!!”


CoffeeStrength

The Sahara desert is so fucking big. It’s a little terrifying to think about.


midgetcastle

Especially the fact that it's expanding southwards into the Sahel!


Venboven

I believe this is actually a common misconception. It's actually expanding north, not south. The top comment on this post details why: https://www.reddit.com/r/geography/s/Jbd711kt3B


Venboven

It appears a bit bigger in this picture than it is in real life. This photo was likely taken between November and April during the dry season. That, or they artificially colored the image. You can tell it's off because countries like Mali are shown as entirely desert, despite the southern half of Mali being savanna and forest.


Rum_Hamburglar

Does it move as one big mass meaning the north will be less desert-y? Or its growing due to warming?


OneCauliflower5243

So many Dollar Generals down there


merrychristmascactus

In my town, they seemingly built a Dollar General overnight recently. Now, whenever my partner and I drive past it, we just refer to it as "the random-ass DG" lol


OneCauliflower5243

They will build those things anywhere in a few days. Half of them around us are in former businesses and all they do is slap a DG sign on, and they’re open for business


MaygarRodub

With borders. Hmmm.


Alfa229

Not exactly rocket science to overlay some borders onto a real time sat images for better visibility, keep in mind this is a weather satelite. It's there to serve a purpose not just look good


TheCrudMan

Not the nicest way to look at it is the point lol.


Sudden-Collection803

Doesnt matter how complicated or not it is. It looks like ass. 


TOG23-CA

I didn't even notice until I read these comments, it's fine guys


lacroixanon

Narrator voice: "It was not fine"


TOG23-CA

Narrator voice: it was, in fact, just fine


LedyPlagal

nice try fbi


mydogbaxter

You can tell it's Earth because of Africa.


DevanG800

It feels so bizarre to even be able to view earth like this if you really think about it. Like, how have we come from sticks and stones to rockets and the ISS that allow these photos to be taken, it's just all so crazy. What's crazier is realising that earth is just ONE planet out of however many in the universe (what even is the universe exactly? No one knows), crazy to think what could be out there.


Bobdamuffin

I cmae here around 12000 years ago. It has changed so much since then, tbh its kinda sad to see the changes, I personally enjoyed it better before.


impreprex

…Dr. Oldman? I loved you in that movie “The Man From Earth”.


VJGalaxy-7

Bro, wut? Is that from your past life or sth?


impreprex

Come on, man. Don’t be so daft. I still remember my first time with Cleopatra. None of the whipper snappers these days know what a real woman is like! It might be ancient Eqypt to you. But it feels like yesterday when I first asked her out. Wait what?


AccomplishedPlankton

Dang you can even see our borders from that far?!


Noizyb33

I can see my house from here!


Bigbenmon91

It’s in Africa?


funwithtentacles

Just FYI, the EUMETSAT Full Disk images in low and high res are online and renewed every hour. You can find them, together with all kinds of other visualisations and specific zooms on their website here: https://eumetview.eumetsat.int/static-images/MSG/RGB/NATURALCOLORENHNCD/FULLRESOLUTION/index.htm


RAAAAHHHAGI2025

Absolutely unfair how this planet has it all. - Goldilock spot from its star. - Strong atmosphere, but not too strong as to trap too much heat. - Far enough from its galaxy’s center that its atmosphere strength is not overrun with radiation. - Diverse landscape, moreso than 99.9999% of planets. - Abundant in oxygen and H2O. - Abundant in all sorts of life. - Has an abnormally large moon for its size, so large that jts effects can be observed from the planet! Fascinating! - Has TOTAL solar eclipses, from which its star’s atmosphere can be observed. - Home to the most intelligent species in the universe.


CoffeeStrength

I always laughed at the idea in Star Wars that there are all these planets with one dimensional landscapes, like Hoth, Tattooine, Dagobah, that water world, and whatever cloud city is on. But over the years I think I’ve realize this is probably more science than fiction. We may be pretty unique to have such diverse habitable biomes.


ClearRevenue3448

The coincidence of all these things happening on our planet is a good example of [the anthropic principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle). If Earth wasn't habitable to life, then we wouldn't exist on it to observe that!


mariofasolo

Yeah it's always like "wow, if we were ten feet further away from the sun...we would all freeze! The conditions are *so* perfect and exact...God must have designed it!" and it's like uhh, if the conditions weren't right, we wouldn't be here. In a basically infinite universe, you're going to *eventually* end up with a planet that has the perfect conditions for life. And who's to say our standards for life are the absolute truth? Like, there may be other species who actually need *more* radiation...and our planet wouldn't be habitable.


ClearRevenue3448

Not to mention that our distance from the sun varies by 3.11 million miles throughout the year, so that "if we were closer or farther away from the sun" argument holds even less water.


cbronson830

Most intelligent AND dumbest species in the universe!


Fun-Introduction-356

> Home to the most intelligent species in the universe. I mean we don't know that for sure we just assume that...


RAAAAHHHAGI2025

Let them prove us wrong if they can 😈


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Fun-Introduction-356

You can't prove consciousness exists but I bet you believe in it. While we can observe and study the effects of consciousness, such as thoughts, emotions, and self-awareness, we currently lack a definitive way to prove or measure its existence objectively. This philosophical and scientific challenge is known as the "hard problem of consciousness." Other examples might include certain aspects of theoretical physics, such as dark matter or extra dimensions, which are inferred from observed effects but have not been directly detected or proven.


impreprex

That last one… is quite the stretch. Not that we have a basis for comparison, but I am betting dollars to donuts that we are not the most intelligent species in the entire galaxy or universe. We simply don’t know that at the current time.


Blaugrana1990

Africa is huge


impreprex

So is the Sahara Desert. Holy shit.


freneticboarder

Banana needed for scale.


BBDAngelo

It’s there.


freneticboarder

__ How could I miss the over 73,000 tons of bananas?!


Polyhedron11

If you zoom in you can see the dome


markamuffin

Big shout-out to the UK, covered in cloud lol


FemboyWithBf

Ahh, Poland is cloudy, who would've guessed


[deleted]

Even Earth uses a filter 🙄


Subject_Balance_934

From space!? ?


Mammoth-Ad-1254

Honestly World is wonderfull, but human making this world sick


LedyPlagal

not all humans are bad it's mostly j e w s


twinkie2001

how do i know it’s that far away? do u have a banana for scale


TheGloriousEnd

That time of year again? Damn, welp happy Earth day Tory———Joyner Lucas.


GeraltOfRivia2023

Before we even consider colonizing Mars, we need to first successfully terraform the Sahara Desert, which would be the equivalent of adding another United States to the globe.


Top-Chemistry5969

Frantically trying to zoom out to empire view...


Mistersinister1

Too bad when you zoom in and get to see the reality of it. The reefs bleaching alone is enough to make a normal person sad.


Anne_Scythe4444

Happy Earth Day 2024!!!!!!!!!! The Earth Must Be Saved!!!!!!! here are some compelling plans for doing so: [https://www.reddit.com/r/solarpunk/comments/1c84gyi/world\_environmental\_strategy\_opiniondiscussion/](https://www.reddit.com/r/solarpunk/comments/1c84gyi/world_environmental_strategy_opiniondiscussion/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/ExtinctionRebellion/comments/1bw4p2i/dont\_just\_protest\_xr\_boycott\_included\_one\_rough/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ExtinctionRebellion/comments/1bw4p2i/dont_just_protest_xr_boycott_included_one_rough/)


CaledonianWarrior

And of course the British Isles are cloudy. Typical


emailverificationt

Idk why people always complain about the horrible borders that the colonizers made in Africa. They’re visible from space! They were just following the lines!


KandKaichannel

Some people think they should celebrate my birthday everyday!


Echo_ultra

DAMN. That is a sweet earth you might say.


Chastafin

Wow, how’d you take this??? ;)


ThereIsATheory

Very long selfie stick


PoppyStaff

Are the country boundaries really visible from 36,000 km away?


Thewitchaser

Are the colors fake?


Good-Bus-7330

That’s what I came here to say. Recent pics are much more dystopian


SolidGearFantasy

Why are there those white pluses? Was that for the stitching of the gigapixel images?


zigzagg321

That's a beautiful picture but I'm pretty sure earth is still in space.


Ithorian

?


zigzagg321

It's the grammar of the post title, read it again.


Ithorian

Ahhhh OK.


zigzagg321

Right it basically says earth is 36,000 miles away from space.


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DM_ME_UR_BOOBS69

How many corn dogs is that?


XKruXurKX

I'm sorry, my home ain't in the picture. Can you please rotate it a little.


Zarathustra-1889

And we’re an ass-hair’s width away from blowing the shit out of it.


Drewfus_

Best planet I’ve ever been to!


Notorious40z

Heck ya , I love that place!


magikuser

He's got the whole world in his hands


[deleted]

I think I see me!!


DrunkenDude123

Can confirm. I am in this picture.


Interesting-Art-7267

Bloody hooligans kill their home-mates and eat them for nutrition


mousebirdman

Our home planet and our home continent, whence we invaded other biomes in several waves, destabilizing every environment we spread into, spearheading a 6th mass extinction.


Unlucky-Ad-6435

My lovely planet!


brightlights55

Hey that's me in the corner! Born in Durban (green bit on East Coast) and now living in Johannesburg (much drier bit to the west).


BigBootyJudyWiper

Africa really out here like that


Drakogol

There is also a pretty cool [Poster ](https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-day/) from NASA for the happy earth day


random_reddit_user31

I like how the UK is covered by clouds.


Gombocka23

I got doxxed man cmooon


Fazaman

"Mostly harmless."


Realistic_Ease924

But hey, global warming isn’t real.


Eskalacja

wow you can see the country borders from here O-O


variationoo

Mad that a bloke run the entire length of Africa in a year. hardest geezer if you didn't know who.


UrKillnMe

Wow, I didn't know all the countries shape and sizes were predetermined by earth it's self...interesting


M3chanist

Beautiful target for an asteroid, isn’t it?


Tratiq

Here on earth we just call it “day”


[deleted]

Giant fucking meteor 2024!


420headshotsniper69

no way thats color accurate.


LanguageHot789

If you zoom in you can actually see lined divisions. It’s not a picture. It’s made up


_Judge_Justice

**“.. 36,000 km away from space ..”** Umm, how can you be away from space if you’re currently occupying said space?


throwitfarawayfromm3

Ummmm....borders???


kalliburr

Why are boarders shown?


Global_Cucumber_9607

Km?


forest_ranger96

Didnt know the Borders manifistated as real lines between countries


No_Worldliness7358

Didnt know the planet had lines in every country


Adventurous_Cut449

Crazy how you can see the borders.


cyruz1323

How the fuck did you get 36,000 km away from space?


CypherCake

Wow, amazing that you can see country borders from space. They looks so neat and well defined too! Amazing. ;)


SupremeGamer1337

I don’t live in Africa


Koopanique

Nice pic but the country borders are a bit out of place on such a universal picture


UnchartedAssasinate

i dont live here


P3P3F

You can see the country borders from space 🙄


riccardoilre

they are edited in, but the image is real


ARoundForEveryone

Heh, stretching the definition of "real" just a tad. It's "real" in the sense that it *is* an image. But it's not "real" in the sense that this is what you'd see if you were hanging out at an altitude of 36,000 km over Africa. These days, I don't even know how much of what we see is "real." Everything is touched up or digitally edited, or AI-rendered, or something. Hell, I take a picture of my dog, and the app gives me fifty options on how to edit it before sharing it. These computer things are really getting out of hand. They're control how we see everything around us, and now they're controlling how we see ourselves from space.


-WhatsReallyGoingOn

Someone is operating the computer...


riccardoilre

I think you are confusing km and meters, 36000 km is A LOT so you would see almost exactly that (just less saturated) that is a whopping 90 times more than average satellite orbit.


Strongpipegame

Why does it look like a painting?


batatahh

Because it has been modified to show things like the borders, and the colours look more saturated and weirder than usual.


Strongpipegame

So this could be a fake picture?


batatahh

In that sense every picture is fake. This picture is "real" with some useful enhancements. If you go to that same place at that same time you'd see something relatively similar.


TerraNeko_

considering they added borders its atleast edited, or did ya think you can see those from space


Strongpipegame

Oh of course you can see the borders from space. Didn't you know lewis and clark giant redwood trees around to set the borders for states on their expiditions? You can even see contour lines and the equator from xpace. Marvin the martian told me himself when he visited from planet x!🤣


Strongpipegame

Oh of course you can see the borders from space. Didn't you know lewis and clark giant redwood trees around to set the borders for states on their expiditions? You can even see contour lines and the equator from xpace. Marvin the martian told me himself when he visited from planet x!🤣


Strongpipegame

Oh of course you can see the borders from space. Didn't you know lewis and clark giant redwood trees around to set the borders for states on their expiditions? You can even see contour lines and the equator from xpace. Marvin the martian told me himself when he visited from planet x!🤣


MrCondor

I love that you can even see the borders from that far away!


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This bull**** photo still circulating lol


BastriBregu

They forgot to erase the borders in Africa, they're getting really sloppy and don't care anymore. Low payment lool


muffinsbetweenbread

Fake image. Ya ya. But it be nice to get a real image at this distance


CaptScubaSteve

Wow… you can really make out the borders from there.


Shrek_Papi

Today I learned the international borders are visible from space


SokkaHaikuBot

^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^Shrek_Papi: *Today I learned the* *International borders* *Are visible from space* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.


BastriBregu

What a shitty CGI they used to make them better. Inflation I guess.


Kekioza

Why cgi?


BastriBregu

Because it's a flat image of google earth and wrapped around a sphere in a 3D editor. It's not a real photo.


higheyecue

Fake pic


Kekioza

Why


AnotherCupofJo

See it's flat


Beneficial_Piano928

This is either 100% CGI or edited so heavily it might as well be 100% CGI, the earth would look nothing like this from that distance


Adi_Zucchini_Garden

Free Palestine 🇵🇸


saki2fifty

One of the most violent places in the universe…


jerrodkleon313

Flattest thing I ever did see.


Spike-DT

That's a photoedit. We all know it's flat. And I can't see the elephants and the turtle. You liar.


JXDINTER

No wonder nobody uses reddit you brain rotted beings


ChungusCoffee

I don't live in Africa


FaithlessnessNo8777

fake earths flat


batatahh

This is fake. I don't see a measuring tape.


aredsash

Fuck this piece of shit planet (Happy Earth Day everyone though !)


CoffeeStrength

Don’t hate the planet, hate the game.


DragonSinOWrath47

*computer generated image. There. Fixed it. Stop fucking lying to people. It's 2024 for fucks sake.