{"id":5730,"date":"2008-12-17T08:56:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-11T13:09:24","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:24","slug":"whole-earth-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/whole-earth-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Whole Earth Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWhen it finally occurred to NASA (with persistent nudging by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stewart_Brand\">Stewart Brand<\/a>) to turn their satellite cameras back on Earth, from whence they came, our planet took its first self portrait. That picture of the whole Earth became a catalyst for human environmental consciousness. It is now the emblem of our home.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlthough there have been a few crude animations of a video version of this self-portrait since then, the following Whole Earth Video &#8212; with Moon transit &#8212; is quite handsome.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MEcqWuYqrSo&#38;hl=en&#38;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MEcqWuYqrSo&#38;hl=en&#38;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object>&#160;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe still-unlaunched L1 point satellite <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DSCOVR\">DSCOVR<\/a> would display a continuous year-round real-time image of the earth in full sunlight. It would be a mirror in space. Watching in multi-spectrums, this full-time eye would make video of earth a never ending webstream. Bush-politics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/dscovr-killed-dick-cheney-nasa-insider-climate-change-satellite\">have shelved plans<\/a> to launch the $100 million completed bird now sitting in a warehouse. Maybe Obama can get it up where it belongs. Or at least release the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/whitehouse-withholds-dscovr-documents\">FOIA-denied documents<\/a> on why it was killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it finally occurred to NASA (with persistent nudging by Stewart Brand) to turn their satellite cameras back on Earth, from whence they came, our planet took its first self portrait. That picture of the whole Earth became a catalyst &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/whole-earth-video\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[269],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}