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Bo Thompson
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Retired Educator / Learning Scientist
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Oh no, I did the math. Just the Chesterfield Mall lot that they mention with 500 cars, 1% of their overstock, is ~48k sqft of bumper-to-bumper cars if using Tesla '24 dimensions. This puts just that lot on the low end of human visibility from the International Space Station.
(If you were to somehow get all of their overstock from the last year in one location, it would cover a large enough area to write a human-readable message of "Hello" from the ISS using them.)
Oh, I see. The criterion is "visible to the unaided human eye from orbit". I concede the point.
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Bo Thompson
@gaudipern.bsky.social
Retired Educator / Learning Scientist
Solo Game Developer
Pixel Artist
Worked on a bunch of JRPGs back in the day
Male presenting NB
Pronouns: Nobody/Nothing/None - any if you must
Avatar alt: Pixel art portrait of a Black person with glasses and pink hair
4.4k followers823 following21.2k posts