Before calling it fake, check Japan’s Himawari-8/9 satellite a real Earth-observing satellite that captures full-disk images of our planet every 10 minutes using official space-based imaging, not weather predictions.

This is actual satellite imagery from space… sometimes Earth just looks so unreal that people forget reality can be more stunning than CGI

🔗Check out by yourself https://himawari8.nict.go.jp/ 🔗

Details: https://www.jma.go.jp/jma/jma-eng/satellite/himawari89.html

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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    2 days ago

    Fake. This is just a picture of earth. You could never fit the real earth into a jpg because it’s made of rocks and dirt and stuff.

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      1 day ago

      You know how Quantum Field Theory suggests that everything is a field at the smallest possible levels? The idea that everything exists “on average,” because quantum fluctuations are constantly… well, fluctuating?

      What if that evidences the idea that you don’t need solid matter in order to produce solid matter? What if you can just simulate emergent relationships from the bottom all the way up? At the bottom, it’s just bits. Kind of like how, at our bottom, it’s just fields.

      Then, in that reality, maybe you can put the Earth in a jpg. To its human occupants, they’d have no way of knowing.

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          22 hours ago

          What about black holes? The event horizon’s area scales with mass (∝ M2), but don’t some modern theories posit that the internal space can behave very differently over time and produce more space?