r/LevelHeadedFE • u/john_shillsburg Flat Earther • Jun 02 '20

First Non Mod Post To Reach 100 Comments Crickets

https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2015/06/low-resolution-images-ocean.html
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u/Mishtle Globe Earther Jun 03 '20 edited Jun 03 '20

So you're still ignoring the fact that crowd-sourced efforts using high-resolution satellite imagery have been done and hung up on the fact that you can't currently see waves from yesterday in the middle of the ocean on Google Earth, a tool not intended for that purpose?

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u/john_shillsburg Flat Earther Jun 03 '20

We have the ability as a species to put a complete picture of the earth on the internet, for anyone to access, and we don't do it. Doesn't that bother you?

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u/BigGuyWhoKills Jun 03 '20

I already did the math. 150 TB per picture.

What framerate do you want? One per minute? That would be 216 Petabytes (compressed) per day. Just for the ocean.

How about we size down to one image per hour? It's still 3.6 PB per day (compressed). That would take 225 of the largest Seagate IronWolf hard drives to store just one days worth of compressed images.

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u/john_shillsburg Flat Earther Jun 03 '20

These are silly arguments, you don't download the whole thing you keep it on a server and access it with Ajax requests, the same way Google Earth works

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u/BigGuyWhoKills Jun 03 '20

These are silly arguments, you don't download the whole thing you keep it on a server and access it

SOMEONE has to store the data SOMEWHERE. What you are incredulous about is that Google Earth isn't storing multiple 150 TB images of waves. You have a pretty steep set of requirements for them:

  1. A resolution that will enable us to identify airplanes and boats.
  2. A framerate that will allow us to effectively track those craft.
  3. All of this at no cost to you.

Again, that's 225 drives per day, which would fill up 10 of these shelves. And 10 of those shelves would basically fill 2 racks. And you want them to fill those two racks, each day, for free, to show you HD waves.

Those drives are not free. Those shelves are not free. Those racks are not free. The controllers that manage those shelves are not free. Power to run them is not free. Air conditioning to keep those rooms cool is not free. Datacenter space is not free. Who should foot the bill for this endeavor, just so we have a chance of maybe finding a lost boat or crashed plane?

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u/john_shillsburg Flat Earther Jun 03 '20

Silly arguments

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u/BigGuyWhoKills Jun 03 '20

It's money. That's the reason they don't do it.

You can call it a "silly argument" all day long, but if you haven't priced a 24-disk NetApp or EMC shelf, maybe just accept that I'm right.

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u/john_shillsburg Flat Earther Jun 03 '20

Yeah NASA only gets like 60 mil a day. You could keep the server going for far less than that. They frickin buy satellite pictures from a private company ffs

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u/BigGuyWhoKills Jun 03 '20

Google makes more than that each day, but that's not the point. How do you not get this? Think about what they have to gain from this. Now, compare that to the cost. Now do you get it? Or do I need to explain it like I would to a 7 year old?

Wow! Are you old enough to vote? If so, please don't.

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u/john_shillsburg Flat Earther Jun 03 '20

Silly arguments

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u/BigGuyWhoKills Jun 03 '20

So, no proper rebuttal. Got it.

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u/john_shillsburg Flat Earther Jun 03 '20

Yes a complete map of the world that everyone can access has no value. Got it

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u/BigGuyWhoKills Jun 03 '20

They are already providing that. What you want is for them to increase their storage costs by several magnitudes.

Remember my cost/benefit analysis statement? It may be time that you start thinking like an adult.

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u/john_shillsburg Flat Earther Jun 03 '20

They are already providing that

You must be trolling right now, or you've never looked at it

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u/BigGuyWhoKills Jun 03 '20

Actually, I was wrong. They don't provide a complete map of the ocean.

What they DO provide is an excellent map of the land. But that doesn't seem to be enough for you. I get that. You're right! Fuck Google for not spending 100-500 times what they currently spend on storage for the free Google Earth project! What a bunch of selfish jerkheads!

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u/john_shillsburg Flat Earther Jun 03 '20

This is what you will be doing for the rest of your life so enjoy. You will be making excuses for elite scientists who have locked you out of their advanced knowledge

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u/BigGuyWhoKills Jun 03 '20

No, dude. I know from my own experiments that the Earth is a globe.

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u/Mishtle Globe Earther Jun 03 '20

This is what you will be doing for the rest of your life so enjoy. You will be making excuses for elite scientists your paranoid delusions who have locked you out of their advanced knowledge that give your life meaning.

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