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Originally Posted by zorgon
REALITY CHECK
Get over it...
Get on with it...
And lets show that there really IS intelligent life on this old rock, shall we?
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Zorgon,
I have no clue where you got your photo, because you don't give us a reference to the site.
This government website shows Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites by NOAA
http://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/Atmosphere/poes.html. They have two video links there showing the path of the polar-orbiting satellites, here's one
http://sos.noaa.gov/videos/poes.mov They say it takes only 102 minutes for a satellite to make one circle of the globe. That's darn FAST!
Here's a representation of polar satellite paths and it comes from
http://hollowplanet.blogspot.com/
Here's another representation of the polar satellite paths and this comes from website
http://www.newmediastudio.org/DataDi...ar_Orbits.html
"Most of the near polar meteorological satellites ensure complete global coverage of the Earth, during one day, thanks to a ground swath of about 3300 km." This is how they can have so many weather satellite photos, including what is refreshed frequently on Google earth.