Yeah. That post inspired me to build this extension in the first place. I don't look much at my desktop (there is always something on top of it) so I figures a good place would be the new tab page. Earth is just beautiful and it makes me happy to have these high quality images available almost in real time.
you might be interested in this link and especially the links in the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10977295