Chris Graue, a tinkerer online as Lo(u)ser, machined an adapter and slid a 1998 Game Boy Camera — a grey Nintendo toy shooting 128 by 112 pixel greyscale — into the Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson, the 100-inch mirror Edwin Hubble used to prove other galaxies exist. It photographed Jupiter. Fine.
The Kyoto Protocol opened the same year. It bound 12% of global emissions. The US Senate pre-rejected it 95 to 0. That's 7.9 pixels of policy per pixel of Graue's Jupiter, I did the arithmetic on a calculator older than the treaty.
The camera works because Nintendo engineers respected a spec sheet. The treaty doesn't because Byrd and Hagel wrote a resolution to strangle it in July 1997, and Chuck still drives a 2003 Suburban he calls "the beast." A cartridge outlived a legal instrument. Both were built by adults in 1998. Only one shipped.
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Based on the original article "Guy who took photo of Jupiter with a Game Boy Camera and giant telescope publishes DIY tutorial".
