Viewing the earth from the moon

The slow melting of the polar icecaps, signaling the gradual death of the only life sustaining world known to us in all the cosmos. The resulting lifeless shell a monument to mankinds's technological prowess and blind greed.

Might be difficult to see changes from day to day, but vegetation would spread and recede with the seasons.

Probably the most obvious short-term clue would be the on/off of lighting at night--on parts, but not all, of the Earth's surface.

I like these... Back in the 50's I suppose one of those cold war nuclear bomb tests might have been visible given the right weather conditions. Nowadays if N. Korea attacked S. Korea or Pakistan/India engaged in a nuclear exchange one might be able to see the blasts' flash of light form the moon.

You could see that green shit appear and disappear but that wouldn't tell you it was alive. Green shit isn't necessarily alive.

What you might be able to see is city lights from the megalopoli. You can see those from the ISS so maybe you could see them from the moon too. That wouldn't prove life but it would be some good evidence.

A moon person would also notice right away how much land is in the northern hemisphere compared to the southern, and how the southern continents trail away to points as they get farther south. Obviously most of the land in that hemisphere has fallen off.

Bad Wigins wrote:

You could see that green shit appear and disappear but that wouldn't tell you it was alive. Green shit isn't necessarily alive.

What you might be able to see is city lights from the megalopoli. You can see those from the ISS so maybe you could see them from the moon too. That wouldn't prove life but it would be some good evidence.

A moon person would also notice right away how much land is in the northern hemisphere compared to the southern, and how the southern continents trail away to points as they get farther south. Obviously most of the land in that hemisphere has fallen off.

Your brilliant subtlety is to be commended. I loved your post.

Why hasn't Google put a camera on the moon yet? I mean, it is 2016 and I cannot watch the Earth from the Moon?

On another note, I was in my backyard the other day and saw a very small, shiny spot in the sky. Like a pin point. I wouldn't have noticed it except that it was clear and sunny and the sun hit it like a mirror. I was like, WTF!? and got my binoculars out. Sure enough, it was a shiny silver disc and it was flying in the air, very far away and very slowly. At first I thought it was some kind of weather balloon but it was way too far away and looked way too big.

I thought to myself, "I am obviously going crazy and no one is going to believe me." I called for my wife. She saw it too, so I got out my phone and looked at the PlaneFinder app to see if maybe it had something. It did! It was a Google Loon flying at 59,000 feet. I didn't know those even existed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Loon

Google loon? Even the name is a giveaway. It's all part of the NASA conspiracy to make us believe the Earth is round.

very true, you can't put a camera on something that doesn't really exist.