It displays data pulled daily from space-track.org, and shows it in a nifty WebGL 3d (javascript) display.
From this, you can really appreciate how much stuff is just floating around our planet.

Tom Ligon wrote:But don't you think truly intelligent life would manage the junk?
There as the bro-haha a few months back, the speculation that a pattern of light dropouts around one star might mean they had a Ringworld under construction.
The methodology required for detecting small bodies orbiting planets around other stars will require better ability to image planets. So far we've managed to get a few hot pixels, but nothing like the resolution needed. But the approach is straightforward ... build multiple big telescopes in space.
Which might be some of the more conspicuous artifacts we could look for.
ladajo wrote:. Especially in spectrums related to space-hardware type metals. Higher than normal metal could indicate intelligent species efforts. Unless they are tree-hugging organic lovers and created organically based ships and such... or hive based snot slinging bug monsters using chitin... or...
Tom Ligon wrote:Another order of magnitude of resolution, or two, may get us there.
krenshala wrote:Tom Ligon wrote:Another order of magnitude of resolution, or two, may get us there.
And at the rate we're going, that might not take too long.
I don't think it a far leap, nor a far term in the future to use this data to look for higher metal based reflectivities than expected.
One of its most amusing moments is when Nobel Prize winner and chief scientist John Mather considers whether Webb's optics could sense the heat energy of a bumblebee at a distant equivalent to that of the Moon. It could, he concludes: "You have to take a time exposure to get something that sensitive; the bumblebee shouldn't move. The bumblebee has to hold still, but of course the most distant Universe looks as though it is standing still."
Taliesin wrote:I have heard that bees body heat is also used to defend their hive. If an intruder inters the hive, the bees will surround the intruder and raise their body temperature, effectively baking the intruder in a bee oven.
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