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Re: Show HN: Plot modern addresses on Earth 240M years ago

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Post by pvg »

tempestn wrote: post #33
pvg wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is... is the rest of the site with the dinosaurs your work as well?

Yeah, I definitely went down a bit of a rabbit hole of random dinosaur discovery!

It's a really wonderful site and horrible clicktarpit. I'm curious whether you have metadata about when the images were made (originally, I mean, in the case of reproductions of older images). It'd be nice to see the evolution of models from 19th century proto-godzillas to modern fluffy derposaurs.

Re: Show HN: Plot modern addresses on Earth 240M years ago

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Post by tounu »

broken_symlink wrote: post #44
Somasis wrote: post #12

I felt so silly trying to zoom in and see satellite images of my house as it was 240M years ago.

I was hoping that if I zoomed in enough I'd get a 3d street view of a bunch of dinosaurs walking around. I was disappointed.

I can relate to this...

Re: Show HN: Plot modern addresses on Earth 240M years ago

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Post by mirimir »

typpo wrote: post #2

Hi HN, I built this by adapting GPlates ( https://www.gplates.org ), an academic project providing desktop software for geologists to investigate plate tectonic data. I'm amazed that geologists collected enough data to actually plot my home 750M years ago, so I thought you all would enjoy it too. Even though plate tectonic models return precise results, you should consider the plots approximate (obviously we will nev…

Is there any way to see any of this without WebGL? Do you perhaps have some screenshots?

Re: Show HN: Plot modern addresses on Earth 240M years ago

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Post by harshulpandav »

broken_symlink wrote: post #44
Somasis wrote: post #12

I felt so silly trying to zoom in and see satellite images of my house as it was 240M years ago.

I was hoping that if I zoomed in enough I'd get a 3d street view of a bunch of dinosaurs walking around. I was disappointed.

Could be possible if a 4 light year wide telescope is sent via a worm hole to one of the galaxies in the Virgo cluster (65m light years away) and live imagery of Earth (not via worm hole) is sent back via the worm hole to Earth.

Re: Show HN: Plot modern addresses on Earth 240M years ago

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Post by csomar »

harshulpandav wrote: post #47
broken_symlink wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was hoping that if I zoomed in enough I'd get a 3d street view of a bunch of dinosaurs walking around. I was disappointed.

Could be possible if a 4 light year wide telescope is sent via a worm hole to one of the galaxies in the Virgo cluster (65m light years away) and live imagery of Earth (not via worm hole) is sent back via the worm hole to Earth.

Not needed. Once we can determine the starting composition of the universe, and have enough quantum computing power, we'll be able to simulate the past... and the future too. So you can see what your home looked like in the past and what it'll look like in the future.
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