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Turn-of-the-Century Pigeons Photographed Earth from Above

by dthal on 4/15/18, 5:45 AM with 12 comments

• by mikeash on 4/15/18, 11:11 PM

  A tangent, but: how long until “turn of the century” is assumed to mean the time around the year 2000?

• by skookumchuck on 4/16/18, 7:38 AM

  > only pigeons could have done before.

  I find this peculiar. Hydrogen balloons were used for surveillance in the Civil War, 40 years earlier. It would have been easy to attach a camera to a small hydrogen balloon, with a clockwork device to puncture the balloon to bring it down in a reasonable distance.

• by aaronbrethorst on 4/16/18, 1:12 AM

  I think the idea of owning a drone and being able to capture 4K 60FPS video of the earth is cool and all, but I'd much rather strap a pinhole camera onto a Phantom and recreate photographs like these. Hmm, now that I think about it...

• by Robotbeat on 4/16/18, 2:13 AM

  Do they have to register with the FAA?