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Thursday, February 04, 2010

New word for today: satimages

I want to be like this teacher when I grow up: to teach your students so well that they can do something amazing, like say, send a balloon up to the edge of space and take pictures. People talk about how the space program is so expensive and doesn't do us any good at all; satellite imagery has revolutionized everything, from Google Maps to agricultural and weather forecasts to disaster relief. We send astronauts to orbit the earth and look down, but in today's world of satimages, we are all astronauts.