Edit: A little more info... Since I heard the original of this was done with a parabolic mirror, I thought I'd try and reproduce it. This is fully ray-traced (The land on the globe is an image map though).
(Richy_Thundreds if not thousands of dollars,
Fri 24 Apr 2009, 2:27,
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pfff
it's a telescope with a mouse in it!
(Smash Monkeylowering the tone of the whole internet,
Fri 24 Apr 2009, 2:28,
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