7th April 2005, 2:57 PM
Oh sorry OB1. This site gives you a photograph of whatever coordinates you punch into it, based on it's records. Weltall thought it was real time. It's not though, and I was just explaining why, because we don't have cameras aimed at every single spot on earth at the same time, and we can't do that either. The best we can do is create a large archive from when the cameras pointed at us ARE above certain locations. Oh yes, this also means not EVERY spot you can punch in there is recorded, only the spots with a satellite above them (or on a non-geosyncronous orbit that will eventually pass over it).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)