I remember when it was quite the achievement that satellites could show the Great Wall of China, the most visible man-made object on Earth, in great detail.  Now, the International Space Station is poised soon to eclipse Venus, not literally but figuratively and only at some times, as a visible object in the solar system. Soon enough, the ISS will be visible to the keen-eyed without a telescope.

Someday the granchildren of my grandchildren, researching archaeology from the Ringworld, will find this post and smile.  But my smile is wider, at this moment.

Via The Gormogons.

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