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Rarest World

A scan line sweeps the globe for the rarest natural or orbital coincidence in its observation window — and opens a dossier on the physics and the odds.

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The story

Rarest World is a one-screen Earth-observation console. A scan line sweeps an orthographic globe for the rarest natural coincidence happening on the planet; each ping opens a dossier with the physics, a factor decomposition of the odds, and where to stand to see it.

It is a curated dataset of authored moments, not a live feed, and the console says so on screen. Drag to spin, wheel to zoom, and take the first sweep — a six-stop guided walk over six real moments.

Status
Live at rarest.world
Built by
BigBad, Calgary

What it does

In plain words.

A one-screen Earth-observation console: a scan line sweeps an orthographic globe for the rarest natural coincidence in its window, and each ping opens a dossier with the physics, a factor decomposition of the odds, field notes and a historical precedent.

A curated, hand-authored dataset — not a live feed — and every screen says so.

The first five minutes

What you actually do first.

  1. 01No account. On a first visit the console offers the First Sweep: a six-stop guided walk over six real moments that drives the actual controls; skippable.
  2. 02Drag to rotate, wheel or pinch to zoom, double-click to recentre; click a ping and the dossier slides in.
  3. 03Scrub the 24-hour UTC dial to change which moments are in window, or sync it to the real clock.

The value · before and after

What changes for you.

  • Before

    A listicle of rare phenomena with no where, when or how rare.

    After

    97 authored moments, each with a place, an observation window and weighted factors, and derived odds from 1 in 83 to 1 in 6,250,000.

  • Before

    Reading about it.

    After

    A logbook that fills as you open moments, and a generated field report when you close a whole class.

Why it is worth it

Versus doing nothing.

  • Real Natural Earth coastlines and a genuine solar-terminator calculation — the globe is not a texture.
  • Free, no accounts, no email, nothing to install; it runs in the browser.

Straight answers

What it does not do.

  • The odds are modelled co-occurrence estimates, labelled as such — not measurements.
  • Two of the space entries are about human-made objects, so the catalogue is natural or orbital coincidence, not purely natural.

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