@CathofWales When I think "King of Thailand", my mental image is still of his father, King Bhumibol.
And yet, weirdly, I've already switched to thinking "King of Great Brittan".
@Rjthunder2 @latestinspace The big stuff is tracked so that rockets can be steered around it. The micro stuff hits satellites, rockets, and the ISS all the time. Usually the impacts don't hit anything vital, but ever once in a while the people on the ISS have to plug leaks.
@evanpcox @BirdPerHour The reason I remembered seeing the original is because the photographer explained that it's a composite image. The birds were genuinely on the fence... but not all at the same time.
@evanpcox @BirdPerHour Now you're asking hard questions. Spent over an hour looking for the original tweet. Problem is the Photoshopped version is a decade old, and way more popular. 1/2
@evanpcox @BirdPerHour The Oriole is Photoshopped in. The rest of the birds were actually there. (I'm following the photographer, so I've seen the original photo before.)
@ShadowAfrican@latestinspace On the the right side, that bit of brown is the Sahara. North of that is Spain, but it's mostly obscured by clouds. The rest of Europe and all of Asia is on the far side and not visible.
@idragonlord@latestinspace I've seen a picture of a satellite taken by another satellite in low Earth orbit. It was so ridiculously small in the picture, I wouldn't have noticed it if it hadn't been pointed out to me by someone else.