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Suckers are bred. Are they bred like rabbits, probably to eat? Or for decorative purposes like Persian cats, Pekingese, and Dzungarian hamsters?

On the Internet, the teeth creak and cry of millions of citizens who collect a penny from the world for an operation for a child, who can be saved by the unfortunate 20-30 thousand euros, at the same time as the government, instead of fulfilling its direct purpose - taking care of life and the health of its own citizens, invests billions in nano navel warmers, Skolkovo, buys peregrine falcons and mistrals. How much money has been spent on satellite imagery of the surface of planet Earth, wondered? And how much money has been invested in the development of astronomical objects, satellites, orbital telescopes, radio telescopes and other high-tech rubbish, which produces images of the moon's surface on the mountain, in quality comparable to those that I myself took with my camera "Smena-8M" back in 1976?

How many millions were spent on this photo?

Do you know about the TESIS program? This is a complex of space telescopes designed to study the Sun. Started work in 2009. The cost of the project is a state secret. But there is a list of the equipment involved, operating in low-earth orbit. Even what is not classified is not worth 30 thousand euros:

• The imaging spectroheliometer in the MgXII line 8, 42 Å (MISH - the MgXII Imaging Spectroheliometer)
• Extreme ultraviolet spectroheliometer (EUSH - the EUV Spectroheliometer)
• Two telescopes of the extreme ultraviolet range (FET - the Full-disk EUV Telescopes)
• Ultraviolet Coronograph (SEC - the Solar EUV Coronograph)
• X-ray photometer-spectroheliometer SPHINX (SphinX).

Now imagine how much it took to withdraw all this into orbit, and subsequently exploited. So what? Is there any reason for this? Maybe there's. And the main thing, of course, is not immediate profit. The main thing is that such projects are always a locomotive for all branches of science and industry. This is necessary, I do not argue at all, but … Speaking specifically about the images of the Sun, is this a normal quality for equipment of this level?

Meanwhile, ordinary citizens, amateurs, have proved more than once that reinventing the wheel is not harmful, but very harmful. More precisely expensive.

Here's the first example:

What do you think about this? Cool space shots? Undoubtedly. Do you know how much their production cost? You will laugh, but it only costs … £ 200. At the rate of the Central Bank, today it is 12091 rubles and 6 kopecks.

How? Elementary! How Winnie the Pooh got to bees, remember?

19-year-old British student Adam Cadworth, along with his friend, photographed the Earth using a used camera bought on eBay and a homemade device with a GPS transmitter, a small video camera, a microprocessor and several solar panels. This invention took him 40 hours. Adam placed the camera in an insulated box and sent it on a gel balloon into the sky at a height of 20 miles (about 33 thousand meters). After the photos were taken, the GPS navigator helped determine the location of the camera landing. “A lot of people think it takes millions of pounds for these kinds of events, but I've proven you can take amazing photos of Earth with a budget of just £ 200,” Cadworth told the Telegraph.

This is one of the methods actively used in such a branch of the national economy as suckering. To convince taxpayers that science needs millions and billions for something that is much less money.

And here's a second example:

How many million hryvnias do you think is worth the observatory, under the dome of which there is such a powerful telescope, which allows you to photograph the Sun in this quality? Take a look at the photo below and try to guess …

How is it? Are there versions? Don't strain yourself!

Alan Friedman, 58, whose main business is postcard printing, is also interested in astronomy and photography. Using his amateur telescope in his backyard, industrial grade webcams and filters, he took an incredible series of photographs of the Sun.

And the price of all equipment is less than the used Lada Kalina. Fine?

And you say: - "Divorced amateurs!"

From comments:

I used to live in the Urals, so in the pictures in the "planet" you could see cabbage in the garden. And back in the 80s in "technology - youth" there was a series of sequential images from space with "collisions". A dude is lying on the extreme, sunbathing, and on the wristwatch you can see what time it is. So, for a long time, technologies of both multiple exposures and spectrum filtering have been used to minimize atmospheric distortion. Another thing is that when we cut wool from rams, we are not obliged to report that we will knit wool from it. Andrey is right, there have always been 2 types of people, not even grades, and now that other species will not even think that we, rams, need real infa. Stall, damn it!

I have been using Google Earth since its release, the resolution there was much better. Then there was talk about terrorists and there was a significant coarsening of the pictures …

NASA has a Stereo Sun Observation Project: years ago, the images were of much better quality. But after enthusiasts began to upload photos and stitching photos in videos of objects near the Sun every day, the quality of the images deteriorated. Here's one of the enthusiasts:

Yes, billions are being cut, but the remaining funds are used to create monitoring systems for those phenomena that are not officially recognized. And these narrow circles know much more about what is happening than all the research institutes combined …

Addition from the editor:

On the Kramolnaya map, you can find a video Stripping Daariya from maps to parasites, which demonstrates the stripping of the Legacy of the Ancestors from Google maps and others, performed on February 1, 2011.

Here are some examples that are covered in this video:

You can verify this yourself by downloading the archive with old maps from the link.

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