This view of White Sands, the Tularosa basin, and distant mountain ranges probably looks a little off to you.

That's because it was taken in near-infrared, which removes most of the haziness we see in photos of distant objects. The haziness is a visual depth/distance cue that we rely on when looking at distant terrain.

The gypsum dunes of White Sands are 25 miles away, the first mountain range is 50 miles, and the most distant ridge line is 120 miles away...which does not make sense when looking at this photo.

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Zuckerberg has blown 77 billion – enough money to revitalize entire countries – on an idea so overwhelmingly, obviously stupid that I have never once heard anyone, from the Thanksgiving avuncular table to the most wretched depths of social media, say they liked it or even tried it. He was so sure that it would revolutionize the world that he renamed his extremely famous company after it. And now he's on to the next thing that he's so very, very sure about.

The world needs direction from sober people who aim to improve the human condition, not the whims of a handful of billionaire princelings who absolutely, positively cannot be dissuaded from failing at unprecedented scale while chasing their own vainglory off the edge of a cliff.