• ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
    24·
    5 days ago

    Product idea: A nightstand globe lamp, but it’s a spherical screen that shows real time weather. Or other planets/moons. Maybe add a mode to simulate one of those plasma globes.

    • KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      4 days ago

      I mean, if you have £40,000 to spare, you could buy a big spherical display and then write your own software for it

    • Sergio@slrpnk.net
      5·
      5 days ago

      A mode where it turns into the night sky as seen around the world.

      Fam, you got a million-dolla idea.

    • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      Oh how cool would it be if it could sync regions of the world as the ISS flies over and you get a projected image of what it really looks like

    • huppakee@feddit.nl
      1·
      5 days ago

      I’d even be interested if it wouldn’t be a full globe since there are plenty of countries who’s weather is least of my concern. I’d even be interested if it were a virtual globe in an app like Google Earth.

  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    5 days ago

    Is that a chalkboard globe? I’m gonna need one for LARP.

    EDIT: Damn, this is an old picture, or they don’t sell it here :(

    • huppakee@feddit.nl
      1·
      5 days ago

      Wasn’t there a time in history there was so much volcanic activity there was no daylight? Or was this only very local, don’t know.

        • huppakee@feddit.nl
          2·
          2 days ago

          Thanks for sharing, very interesting. Although i was thinking of events in prehistoric times. But this sounds like a light version of what I believe to have seen in some documentary one day. Imagine getting a letter with the following, and you don’t know what could’ve caused it:

          In 538, the Roman statesman Cassiodorus described the following to one of his subordinates in letter 25:

          • The sun’s rays were weak, and they appeared a “bluish” colour.
          • At noon, no shadows from people were visible on the ground.
          • The heat from the sun was feeble.
          • The moon, even when full, was “empty of splendour”
          • “A winter without storms, a spring without mildness, and a summer without heat”
          • Prolonged frost and unseasonable drought
          • The seasons “seem to be all jumbled up together”
          • The sky is described as “blended with alien elements” just like cloudy weather, except prolonged. It was “stretched like a hide across the sky” and prevented the “true colours” of the sun and moon from being seen, along with the sun’s warmth.
          • Frosts during harvest, which made apples harden and grapes sour.
          • The need to use stored food to last through the situation.
          • Rhaedas@fedia.io
            1·
            2 days ago

            I’m working on a scifi story with the premise of something that caused the collapse of civilization. The concept of post-collapse fascinates me, and it could easily happen to us in reality. Just the simple thought experiment of something that we’ve all experienced, a power outage. What does everyone do? You wait a few minutes to see if it’s just temporary. If you still have a way to communicate, you call or text someone maybe. You get a flashlight, or some candles to prepare for a longer wait. Let’s say it’s not a known cause like a storm, but just went out for some unknown reason. How long before people start to get restless and go past the conditioned training of letting someone bring their technology back? What if it never comes back? Seems a ridiculous stretch, but is it? And the problem with collapse is that the higher you are, the longer and harder the fall.