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EARTH
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4.54 BILLION YEARS IN THE MAKING

EARTH

The only world we know that breathes.

II LOW EARTH ORBIT · 550 KM

The internet, in orbit.

A flat-panel broadband satellite, one of thousands in low orbit. Hover over each system to see what it does.

Type
Communications · LEO broadband
Class
Starlink-type flat panel · twin-wing
Altitude
550 km · 53° inclination
Speed
7.6 km/s · one orbit in 95 min
Mass
about 300 kg

II ORBIT · LOW EARTH

Sixteen sunrises a day.

The space station circles the planet every 92 minutes at 28,000 km/h. Its crew watches the Sun come up over the horizon about sixteen times between breakfasts.

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III ATMOSPHERE

Thinner than the skin of an apple.

Shrink Earth to the size of an apple and the air we breathe would be thinner than its peel. Ninety-nine percent of it sits below 30 km.

PROBE ALT600KM
  1. 85–600 kmThermosphereAurora, the space station
  2. 50–85 kmMesosphereMeteors burn up here
  3. 12–50 kmStratosphereThe ozone layer
  4. 0–12 kmTroposphereEvery cloud, every storm

IV NETWORK · LIVE SURFACE

8.2 billion people. One surface.

More than 500 submarine cables and 100,000 daily flights stitch the continents together. Drag the globe to follow a route.

ROUTEMUMBAI → LONDON7,190 KM

V PERSPECTIVE

The Moon keeps us steady.

Our companion holds Earth's 23.4° tilt in place, which keeps the seasons gentle. It is pulling the oceans toward it twice a day as you read this.

VOYAGER 1 · 14 FEB 1990 · 6.06 BILLION KM

All of it, 0.12 of a pixel.

“That's here. That's home. That's us.”

CARL SAGAN · PALE BLUE DOT, 1994

VI HOME

Every light is a machine.

Cities glow all night because servers, sensors and cars never sleep. Keep scrolling to go beneath the surface.

VII INDIA · PUNJAB · AMRITSAR

Somewhere below, one address.

31.63° N, 74.87° E. In the city of the Golden Temple, one building keeps a nation's data awake through the night.

VII PUNJAB · INDIA · 31.6340° N 74.8723° E

Amritsar.

The city of the Golden Temple. 1.2 million people, one river of traffic lights, and one tower that never switches off.

VII ZLAARK HQ · AMRITSAR, PUNJAB

Ideas, engineered.

Zlaark designs and builds websites, web apps and software for companies that want to lead. This tower is where it all happens.

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VII ZLAARK HQ · GROUND FLOOR

Welcome to Zlaark.

Reception never closes. Badge in, turn right, and follow the blue line to the server rooms.

VIII ZLAARK HQ · HALL B · THE CORE RACK

Behind the door, a second world.

Two thousand racks keep the city's memory. At the end of the aisle, one rack in the light holds the node that runs it all.

IX THE CORE · INSIDE THE DIE

Every idea starts as a spark.

XI AUTOMATION IN MOTION

Automation, now in motion.

Zlaark's fleet layer drives, routes and recognises every passenger: seat, music and climate set before the door closes.

XII RETURN

Up through the clouds, back to orbit.

Pull back far enough and every machine becomes a point of light again.

Handle with care.

Every ocean, forest, server and city you passed tonight shares one thin shell of air. There is no other copy.

XIII THE CONSTELLATION · LOW EARTH ORBIT

Thousands of satellites. One net of light.

Every point is a craft like the one you met at the start, handing the signal on by laser, plane by plane, at the speed of light.

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XIV THE SOLAR SYSTEM · NINE WORLDS

One star, nine worlds.

Pull back from home and Earth becomes the third light from the Sun, one small blue world on a long road round a star.

XV THE MILKY WAY · 100,000 LIGHT-YEARS ACROSS

One of two trillion galaxies.

Pull back far enough and the whole journey, every city, server and car, fits inside a single point of light on one spiral arm.

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