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Re:Geography is four-dimensional on Friday May 15, 2026 @07:45AM (#48147409)
Even with altitude, you still need time. The Earth moves around the Sun, the Sun around the galactic center, all at hundreds of km/s. Without a timestamp, lat/long/alt just tells you where something was, not where it is. Time was never optional.
Re:Alive Internet Theory on Sunday November 09, 2025 @08:21AM (#45865407)
That's exactly my kind of humor: the page "aliveitheorie" remains black because I'm not allowing a Java script.
Re:Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision on Sunday March 23, 2025 @04:56AM (#43451661)
Wait, we are not mapping things we see in sattelite images, we are mapping things that have ground truth.

Please do not contribute anything ai-fantasized

Re:Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life on Saturday February 22, 2025 @03:46AM (#43137331)
I was on a search for the 'perfect' system all my life.

And I found it after 40 years : The No-System System... and it's the exactly opposite of op's suggestion :-)

All together in somewhat chaotic folders and subfolders... the clou is that I use "recoll" everytime i search something. It's an Index based search engine. Take a look...

I never missed something since I use just recoll and throw things just anywhere in the huge black box.

The main pro: it costs me no time to "sort" things into things.

Re:The Illustrated Guide to a PhD on Sunday January 12, 2025 @03:32AM (#42672113)
You don't need a PhD to push the boundaries. You need a PhD to make others believe you pushed the boundaries!
Re:First Images from Euclid Are In on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @01:51AM (#41922193)
Not "where"... they are "there"...

But "when" they are?

Could Ingenuity fly with 3 blades or is Ingenuity too heavy for that?
Re:Reddit signs $60M content licensing deal with AI company on Sunday February 18, 2024 @01:32AM (#39416750)
At least in Germany, such agreements are afaik invalid and without a severability clause, possibly all others too. Simply because something like copyright cannot be assigned in Germany. Secondly, there are ways to use Reddit without ever having agreed to the ToS.
Re:Euclid's First Images on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @03:19PM (#38182218)
Depends on which post u are refering it
Cross-eyed the picture i can say there is more than 3 just spots.
Re:Raytheon High-Energy Laser on Monday February 13, 2023 @01:50AM (#34770847)
Maybe retroreflectors?
Re:Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light? on Sunday September 12, 2021 @03:29PM (#28504088)
wouldn't it go backward in time if it goes faster than light? Light travels in null-time from point a to point b (light-perspective of course) - anything slower, needs time to go from a to b. if i travel faster than light, i can - but i travel to b before i start at a. Maybe because this is not possible.
Re:OpenStreetMap charts a controversial new direction on Saturday February 20, 2021 @02:20AM (#26202294)
That, my friends, would be the first step for my dream to finally map historical data, like in the OHM, directly in the OSM without anyone feeling bothered by it.
Re:New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies on Saturday February 13, 2021 @06:37PM (#26128124)
most likely these are cosmic rays hitting the sensor
Maybe finnish has more declinations but german has a nearly unlimited amount of words with "dog" too...

Hundstage, Hundehotel, Hundekot, Hundeasyl, Hundepension, Hundeweg, Hundemüde, Hundefell, Hundebox, Hundebett, Hundefloh, Hundebiss, Hundewiese, Hundekeks, Hundebaby, Hundedreck, Hunderasse, Hundekette, Hundehalsband, Hunde... and so on and so on