Dish: Channel 212, Earth...

[amicus]

Sent this off to my kids and a handful of others, as an email:

I have about a gazillion channels on Dish Satellite Television, which costs me about a hunnert bucks a month, but, oh well...Exploring a little on a Sunday afternoon too damp to garden, had like an inch of rain last night, continuing showers...I went to have a look at the NASA channel, being a 'geek' of sorts, and right next to NASA, channel 213, I noticed, 'Dish Earth' on channel 212.

I recently posted an essay on a forum concerning the age of man and that at this particular point in history, the width and depth of readily available knowledge has surpassed anything before. I posed this as a, 'rhetorical' question, not expecting an answer, merely airing a point of view. I wondered what generational changes this avalanche of finger tip available knowledge on every subject, every discipline, on the Science, History, National Geographic channels and more, broadcast 24/7.

That was just to set the stage for channel 212.]

This is a channel broadcasting continuous live video from 22,000 miles in space of our planet, earth, as it turns slowly in space against the black, utter black background of deep space.

The channel broadcasts audio simultaneously, thus far, top hits from the 70's & 80's, old ones but good ones.

I am watching 05/03/2009 21:44:48 at this instant...just imagine, should an undetected earth killing Asteroid come sweeping in......we could watch our own destruction and extinction!

Yeah, I know, I need to get a life....(been there, done that, had one, but thanks anyway)

Me....

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You are hilarious dad, I love reading through and sharing these nutso emails and saying to me close friends, and I quote NeverEnding Story "is he a nutcase??"

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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Now the reason I had kids was....?

Amicus

 

[JackLuis]

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You are hilarious dad, I love reading through and sharing these nutso emails and saying to me close friends, and I quote NeverEnding Story "is he a nutcase??"

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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Now the reason I had kids was....?

Amicus

See I knew I wasn't the only one Ami.

Are you really sure that the video is coming from one of our satellites? It could be the bow camera of a deep space generational ship bringing a plague of Interstellar tourists here to see the primitives?

It could be the government using computer generated graphics to lull you into complacency so there is no panic, as the Asteroid of Doom approaches earth.

They can't shoot it down, they can't deflect it, the only thing is to hunker down and hope that it misses by enough that the earth is not cast out of orbit.

Other than that, Have a nice evening.
Jack Luis--

 

[amicus]

Heh!,...not quite the response I imagined might come out of the blue, but, a curious one indeed.

Let me throw a wrench into the works here and suggest that I have, 'faith', ahem, that it really is one of our satellites and not an incoming bunch of turista's; although, one helluva story line!

Thanks and a pleasant evening to you...

Ami

 

[amicus]

Ah, a great picture of ole father earth right now, 05/04/2009 16:55:31 EDT, lovely blue oceans and white clouds. My nuke engineer friend was amazed by critical(as usual) "we should be able to zoom in!", have to wait a while for that feature I imagine...actually along with the soft rock music, I managed to get a good amount of editing done last night with the earth looking on.

neat, eh?

ami

 

[JackLuis]

Ah, a great picture of ole father earth right now, 05/04/2009 16:55:31 EDT, lovely blue oceans and white clouds. My nuke engineer friend was amazed by critical(as usual) "we should be able to zoom in!", have to wait a while for that feature I imagine...actually along with the soft rock music, I managed to get a good amount of editing done last night with the earth looking on.

neat, eh?

ami

Try Goggle Earth Ami if you want to zoom in. I use it to help research terrain and also look at the "War Zones" to get an idea what the troops are up against. North west Pakistan is very rugged, no wonder they are using the Predator.

 

[amicus]

Try Goggle Earth Ami if you want to zoom in. I use it to help research terrain and also look at the "War Zones" to get an idea what the troops are up against. North west Pakistan is very rugged, no wonder they are using the Predator.

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I mentioned the same thing to my 'nuclear engineer friend', and I have used Google Earth before...after Katrina, I zoomed into the Biloxi, Mississippi area and discovered, as expected, the entire area had been under water due to the tidal surge of the hurricane.

But, thank you...hmmm...as far as has thus been posted, no one else seems to have seen channel 212 and, I add, the music....sighs...I was a disk jockey back in the 60's & 70's, and the music played on 212 brings back so many memories, XM satellite 'soft rock' with lots of the very best of the era...reminds me of the list of songs I used to play when they first came out...

nostalgia lane, here I come

Amicus