Coordinated CPF'r Effort

Bmccue1964 · Jan 3, 2004

Coordinated CPF\'r Effort

If all of the members of this forum were to get together at a predetermined time and shine a light or two skyward, do you think the space station residents could see it if they were over a particular continent?

Tomas · Jan 3, 2004

Re: Coordinated CPF\'r Effort

Perhaps if we were all together at one spot and coordinated an on/off flashing we probably could be seen with minor optics, but otherwise we'd just dosappear into the overall nightime lights and the "flickering" and distortions caused by air movements.

Now if you could arrange to turn, say, Los Angeles on and off in a pattern, I'm SURE it would be noticed from space ...
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/huh.gif

springnr · Jan 3, 2004

Re: Coordinated CPF\'r Effort

Maybe in Africa?

BlindedByTheLite · Jan 3, 2004

Re: Coordinated CPF\'r Effort

if it were somewhere without alotta light pollution, and ALL the members of CPF got 2gether with some nice lights, then i think it'd be seen pretty easily from space..

Xrunner · Jan 4, 2004

Re: Coordinated CPF\'r Effort

Maybe one of the poles or perhaps Greenland? But then we might have to worry about melting something. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/naughty.gif

-Mike

Rebus · Jan 4, 2004

Re: Coordinated CPF\'r Effort

Springnr, Is that an actual picture or
a simulation? What do you know about it?

-Rebus

BlindedByTheLite · Jan 4, 2004

Re: Coordinated CPF\'r Effort

i believe that's a real picture that was pasted together from multiple views of Earth from space.

Negeltu · Jan 4, 2004

Re: Coordinated CPF\'r Effort

That's a real photo.

IlluminatingBikr · Jan 4, 2004

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It would have to be foggy too. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

tylerdurden · Jan 4, 2004

Re: Coordinated CPF\'r Effort

It is a composite of a *lot* of satellite photos.

More info can be found here:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001127.html

Stanley · Jan 6, 2004

Re: Coordinated CPF\'r Effort

That's a nice photo! And I'm glad to say that M'sia isn't too shabby as well.. guess we do have quite a number of flashaholics here then... Oh, you mean those aren't flashlight beams? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/twakfl.gif

Coordinated CPF'r Effort

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Tomas

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springnr

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BlindedByTheLite

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Xrunner

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