• High-Res Images of Cities at Night (from ISS)
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Not sure if this has been posted yet, but its amazing [video=youtube;-RGNhZ292Zg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RGNhZ292Zg[/video] [video=youtube;OPsPgwPOxos]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPsPgwPOxos[/video]
Earth seems so small when you look at it like that.
This really sheds light on the astronaut experience.
[QUOTE]Our impact is so profound that it is visible from space - this makes us unlike any other species[/QUOTE] Hey don't take credit away from trees and common plant species.
Wow. Never realised how empty my country really is (Scotland). It's like, you have Glasgow and Edinburgh in the central belt, then a little bit in Aberdeen. But the rest is fucking empty! fucking hills and lochs all over the place
[QUOTE=Bad)-(and;38406259]Wow. Never realised how empty my country really is (Scotland). It's like, you have Glasgow and Edinburgh in the central belt, then a little bit in Aberdeen. But the rest is fucking empty! fucking hills and lochs all over the place[/QUOTE] Since you're from Scotland you can probably answer this. Ever since I was there I've wondered what the geological reason for the existence of the river cutting through Scotland was. Think Loch Ness, Loch Lochy and all of that, cutting a straight, diagonal line through the entire nation. How did that come to be?
[QUOTE=mac338;38406345]Since you're from Scotland you can probably answer this. Ever since I was there I've wondered what the geological reason for the existence of the river cutting through Scotland was. Think Loch Ness, Loch Lochy and all of that, cutting a straight, diagonal line through the entire nation. How did that come to be?[/QUOTE] It's actually a big fault line that is full of water, forming a string of Lochs.
[QUOTE=SeamanStains;38407967]It's actually a big fault line that is full of water, forming a string of Lochs.[/QUOTE] Wow, wouldn't have guessed that. I assumed it had to do with ice erosion. Well, neat.
It's always so strange looking at N. Korea. The South is completely lit up like a modern nation while the North is completely left in the dark.
i love humans
[QUOTE=Mr_Razzums;38408840]i love humans[/QUOTE] Yes, humans are quite delicious.
There is no dark side of the earth any more. I welcome our light overlords.
I wish I could see this with my own eyes.
[QUOTE=jiggu;38411475]I wish I could see this with my own eyes.[/QUOTE] Being an eye donor must be tough
[QUOTE=mac338;38406105]Hey don't take credit away from trees and common plant species.[/QUOTE] Besides, it's not THAT visible. [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Pale_Blue_Dot.png[/img] This is a picture of Earth from the edge of our solar system (6 billion km away)
[QUOTE=Mr.Cookie;38411340]There is no dark side of the earth any more. I welcome our light overlords.[/QUOTE] Pacific Ocean. [url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasamarshall/6258799449/lightbox/[/url]
Watched it full screen 1080p and you can really tell how different French and British cities are from American and Australian. The American and Australian have like a grid where the streets are and the British and French doesn't. It's because when America and Australia were discovered the settlers made sure to align the streets like that so it would be easier to get around. Some cities were lower resolution than others though which is a shame.
[QUOTE=Lolkork;38407384][IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34721652/bestkorea.png[/IMG] lol[/QUOTE] I'm bad at geography.. Is this the border between South korea and north korea? If so, north korea really is in the [I]dark age[/I]
[QUOTE=Lolkork;38407384][IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34721652/bestkorea.png[/IMG] lol[/QUOTE] dark korea is best korea
i'm suprrised the luxor beam at las vegas didn't create a lens flare or something since the light goes upward for over 10 miles
I love how all the American cities are a rectangular grid.
I remember watching a time-lapse video of the space station taking images as it flies across the Earth, and there was this one part of the Earth that was being bombarded with lightning. It was amazing.
[QUOTE=mac338;38406345]Since you're from Scotland you can probably answer this. Ever since I was there I've wondered what the geological reason for the existence of the river cutting through Scotland was. Think Loch Ness, Loch Lochy and all of that, cutting a straight, diagonal line through the entire nation. How did that come to be?[/QUOTE] The Great Glen Fault. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Glen_Fault[/url]
[QUOTE=Bad)-(and;38406259]Wow. Never realised how empty my country really is (Scotland). It's like, you have Glasgow and Edinburgh in the central belt, then a little bit in Aberdeen. But the rest is fucking empty! fucking hills and lochs all over the place[/QUOTE] I expect that from the north, but there's actually hardly anything between Glasgow/Edinburgh and England too. We're like the North Korea of the UK.
[QUOTE='[CWG]RustySpannerz;38416699']I expect that from the north, but there's actually hardly anything between Glasgow/Edinburgh and England too. We're like the North Korea of the UK.[/QUOTE] That's what I love about living here, you can be in the centre of one of the large cities like Edinburgh or Glasgow and within half an hour you can be in (in my opinion) the most beautiful wild landscape there is.
bump, part 2 is up now [video=youtube;OPsPgwPOxos]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPsPgwPOxos[/video]
My god, we're unbelievably tiny. My first thought was that this looked like crystal formations in a petri dish under a microscope. Imagine if you were an alien looking at this with some kind of intergalactic telescope and saw this... what would you think? You would have no idea that these strange crystalline formations of light were enormous cities housing millions of people; cultures, languages, sentient intelligence... This shit blows my mind.
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