Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Fifty Years of Weather Satellites

It was been fifty years since the first weather satellite, TIROS-1, was launched.



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1 comment:

  1. Sadly, it appears there will be only a few more years before the last weather satellite watching out for Atlantic hurricanes falls out of the sky. Then the lower Atlantic coast and Gulf coast are *really* fscked...

    Late Roman empire, where the infrastructure was falling apart all over the place as the tax base evaporated due to the nobles deciding to use their tax money to build their own private armies rather than submitting it to the central government. History repeats itself...

    - Badtux the History Penguin

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