Earth as a Giant Eyeball

Human eyeballs and earth have similar colors (blue, green, brown, white) and they're both round. And they are both primarily sensors from an external standpoint. As a planet, our actuation (even our EM noise) is mostly limited to the boundaries of our atmosphere, but we sense all sorts of things from all over the universe.. in this way, the earth might be thought of as a huge eyeball floating in space -- a huge eyeball that is self-similar in shape and color with the eyeball of its most advanced population

I'm not exactly sure what problem this solves (maybe for burningman?), but it seems interesting.

Inspiration: Trying to align the policymaker's and children's interests for the "Improved Decision Making" project made me think about how our planet might seem to extra-terrestrials in order to gain some appreciation of how washington dc policymakers might seem to very poor children in the 3rd world