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Re: Terra Bella

#11

Post by trequartista »

Very ambitious. Will be interesting to see how it pans out.

Interestingly, Google acquired Terra Bella in 2014. Even though the domain says google.com, is this an Alphabet subsidiary or part of Google itself?

Re: Terra Bella

#13

Post by mino »

gravypod wrote: post #6
manaskarekar wrote: post #4

This post makes me wonder about space pollution/saturation. Are there any resources that talk about what is a safe number of satellites for different altitudes and the effects of space pollution? I have heard of the Kessler Syndrome, any suggestions that discuss this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

As long as the satellites are under a certain mass, they will eventually get too close to Earth and burn up once they are pulled into reentry.

That doesn't really depend on mass, but on drag and altitude.

See for example Figure 10 of: http://www.agi.com/downloads/resources/white-papers/20110808...

Re: Terra Bella

#14

Post by evmar »

rbinv wrote: post #3

Unbearable scrolling behavior in Chrome on a late 2013 MBP.

I (and likely many others on this site) am tired of people complaining about weird-scrolling sites, but this one is exceptional: I can't get it to actually display the content! At some point scrolling gets somehow stuck and I can't scroll down anymore.

Re: Terra Bella

#15

Post by frisco »

Hold on hold on. This is a big swarm of satellites and (I assume) a forthcoming API and the comments are "the scrolling sucks"? They could have used tables and comic sans for all I care. This is awesome.

Though Planet Labs will always be my first affection in this space. Talk about a hard and interesting problem. This data takes you to so many different places.

Re: Terra Bella

#16

Post by zzleeper »

kanche wrote: post #7
taylorwc wrote: post #2

This project is amazing. The site's scrolling should be memorialized in a museum of awful user experiences for posterity's sake.

Does anyone really like this kind of scrolljacking pages? Not responding properly on an MBP 2015. The project looks so interesting that I tortured myself by scrolling till the end. To me it feels similar to invasion of space.

Not working on Win10 with latest Chrome either.

Clicks ("Next Observation") take me down and then up where I was; then scrolling is jumpy and extremely annoying to read

Re: Terra Bella

#18

Post by eunoia »

trequartista wrote: post #11

Very ambitious. Will be interesting to see how it pans out. Interestingly, Google acquired Terra Bella in 2014. Even though the domain says google.com, is this an Alphabet subsidiary or part of Google itself?

I'm also curious about this. Isn't this exactly the kind of project Alphabet was created to wrap? i.e. something not related to Google's core business but still under the corporate umbrella?

Re: Terra Bella

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Post by zzleeper »

frisco wrote: post #15

Hold on hold on. This is a big swarm of satellites and (I assume) a forthcoming API and the comments are "the scrolling sucks"? They could have used tables and comic sans for all I care. This is awesome. Though Planet Labs will always be my first affection in this space. Talk about a hard and interesting problem. This data takes you to so many different places.

I still do not know how is this actionable. So, they have satellites that take cool pictures, ok. Are they selling the stuff? Sharing an API?
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