Wouldn't the other half be... not dark?
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025
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Yeah but it's on the back side so we can't see it in this picture
I’m gonna go ahead and guess that’s the joke
They posted the wrong image. This is actually "Earth as a rogue planet"
Is that a chalkboard globe? I'm gonna need one for LARP.
EDIT: Damn, this is an old picture, or they don't sell it here :(
You can buy chalkboard paint pretty easy though. Just buy a globe that doesn't have any topographical detail and paint it!
That's probably way cheaper. Smart thinking!
Product idea: A nightstand globe lamp, but it's a spherical screen that shows real time weather. Or other planets/moons. Maybe add a mode to simulate one of those plasma globes.
I mean, if you have £40,000 to spare, you could buy a big spherical display and then write your own software for it
I would absolutely buy a globe with live weather. That would be so cool!
A mode where it turns into the night sky as seen around the world.
Fam, you got a million-dolla idea.
I'm definitely going to get one. Well the inevitable Chinese knockoff of course
Check out zoom.earth
Not perfect but I do love to see real time satellite!
Patent that shit right away
Oh how cool would it be if it could sync regions of the world as the ISS flies over and you get a projected image of what it really looks like
I'd even be interested if it wouldn't be a full globe since there are plenty of countries who's weather is least of my concern. I'd even be interested if it were a virtual globe in an app like Google Earth.
Ah, world without humans, truly beautiful
It could be a lamp which you need to turn on to see through it
Ah, the beginning of nuclear winter. It's like a snow globe full of ash you just shook on Christmas morning.
Earth really looked cool back in 2026
Or after we scorched the sky.
Wasn't there a time in history there was so much volcanic activity there was no daylight? Or was this only very local, don't know.
Thanks for sharing, very interesting. Although i was thinking of events in prehistoric times. But this sounds like a light version of what I believe to have seen in some documentary one day. Imagine getting a letter with the following, and you don't know what could've caused it:
In 538, the Roman statesman Cassiodorus described the following to one of his subordinates in letter 25:
- The sun's rays were weak, and they appeared a "bluish" colour.
- At noon, no shadows from people were visible on the ground.
- The heat from the sun was feeble.
- The moon, even when full, was "empty of splendour"
- "A winter without storms, a spring without mildness, and a summer without heat"
- Prolonged frost and unseasonable drought
- The seasons "seem to be all jumbled up together"
- The sky is described as "blended with alien elements" just like cloudy weather, except prolonged. It was "stretched like a hide across the sky" and prevented the "true colours" of the sun and moon from being seen, along with the sun's warmth.
- Frosts during harvest, which made apples harden and grapes sour.
- The need to use stored food to last through the situation.
You should draw someones face on it
I wonder what works on it. Chalk? Chalk markers? Dry erase markers?