Title doesn't match submission: it's not really a "coordinate" in 3D space, you "adopt" a pixel from the early imagery taken by the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.<p>Maybe that can be reverse-projected back to something like a coordinate (if you know the distance), but it's not the same thing.
It's a coordinate on the celestial sphere, which is just as good a coordinate as anything else. Now, if the title had said something like "place" you might have a case that the expectation is that a specific spacetime point is being defined.
It's not even that though if we are going to be nit-picky: it's a coordinate (not quite sure what the pixel extent would subtend to solid-angle-wise, but...) based off the coordinate frame of where the space telescope will be when the image is taken in spherical coordinates.<p>That's not "exclusive". The "pixel" is the exclusive bit.
that's only true if Roman were to do a continuous stare. However, it (as with any telescope) has to re-point from time to time in order to look at different targets.
I'm happily surprised they didn't ask for money.
Good try, federal agency, good try.
I wish to be named Emperor of One Thousand Galaxies.
Please see:<p>- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton</a>
It’s something of a pity NASA doesn’t offer that chance to crush 1,000 independent peace loving democratic galaxies in my brutal rise to power as my soldier fanatics sweep the universe.<p>I’d pay for that. More exciting than owning a pixel.<p>Imagine the headlines NASA To Sell the Universe.
What a great way to harvest an email list lol
Just use a temp email (if they allow it) and screenshot the email you'll receive?
It's much like their previous stuff - e.g. send your name to the Moon.<p>And there's definitely cheaper approaches than sending a $2.7b telescope to L2.
OK, I adopted Pixel 00150921. It has some nice divisors including 9. Hit me up.
But which one is mine? :S
Is this an NFT without the block chain? Sounds like it from a quick skim.
The idea of personalised pixels goes back way before NFTs, such as The Million Dollar Homepage[1]<p>[1]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage</a>
So, simply a *centralized* database?<p>Like a plain old database ?<p>"NFT without the Blockchain" is a weird thing to say
In fairness, nothing about the initials "non fungible token" ever really required a blockchain.<p>Though I suppose the only things which I'm aware of which actually benefit from a blockchain was version control systems like git.<p>(I heard there's some cases where self-executing contractual obligations are a money saver versus proving you're not engaged in unlawful collusion with the counterparty, but as this didn't come from a lawyer I don't even know if that was true).