22,300 miles above the equator, satellites keep an eye on Earthly weather conditions.

Zone Coverage NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Meteosat-9 image courtesy of NASA/Rob Simmons using EUMETSAT data ©2010 Hurricane Sandy image courtesy of NASA GOES Project Space object illustration courtesy of NASA/Orbital Debris Program Office

Weather satellites above Earth stay in perfect, geosynchronized orbit, so you can probably guess at which one is keeping an eye out for events like Sandy. New Yorkers? Probably GOES-13. Calfornians? Good ol' GOES-15.

The satellites are 22,300 miles up, which puts them higher than most satellites, but that number's key: any higher or lower and they'd move faster or slower than the Earth spins, putting them out of their carefully crafted orbit.

[NASA]

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Seems the hexagram symbol has made it to space and surrounds the Earth!

I wonder if the Annunaki will be pleased or not?

Ooops, my bad, its not a hexagram.... lol.
Its just a simple star shape.

I need to layer that tin foil hat of mine and get
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