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The dark face of Earth.
BillieTheBot
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The dark face of Earth.
Look here please.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg
I find this NASA's map is extremely interesting and provoking.
It explains a lot but also asks a lot of questions.
Your thoughts?
Look here please.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg
I find this NASA's map is extremely interesting and provoking.
It explains a lot but also asks a lot of questions.
Your thoughts?
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My first thought was we're losing the night sky forever. Talk about light pollution...
My second thought was (at the risk of getting all philosophical and soppy) that Africa suddenly looks by far the most inviting place to live on the planet. A call of Mother Nature to return to our place of birth. A safe refuge from man-made progress where one can connect back with the earth and find peace.
My last thought was that the Indians like their light bulbs in abundance!
the freaky bit is that the only economic/political future on offer everywhere ...like a fast food chain is ...produce more, consume more. a bazillion china men are about to start the production lines rolling and consuming. in ten years that picture will look very different.
the vietnamese are building highways and people like mercedes and vw are big there.
no one can shout to these people STOP! go back ...look what we're doing. ha ha ...no way. everyone wants a peice of the action. how long can it be sustained? and how? and by whom?
Indeed, then compare it with the UK...
I definately noticed the difference in light polution when I went to South Africa, the stars there were really impressive, far better than anything you get in this country.
The rising New World that we still name ’third’. Like Romans of last years of Empire looked at northern ‘barbarians‘.
Get down on the ground and youll see continued poverty and disenfranchisement rife throughout these nations.
Certainly China's record of individual prosperity is about as glowing as its human rights record.
Am I making any sense? If not, I concede that I am having a stupid day and maybe I will be a bit more coherent when I'm not doing coursework simultaneously!!!
not a lot.
the devouring is now accelerating ...headlong?
Have used this a the desktop for my Laptop...
50 miles away from cities and industrial areas ( a couple of hours of driving) and you are on some other planet.
The number of stars is doubling, tripling, multiplying…it’s exciting! Looking at stars I feel…bloody shit, it is unexpressionable! ( xcuse me I don‘t know whether this word exists in English) .. you all felt the same so no words are need.
Buy a telescope my friends! Highly recommended
This pic sort of prooves that one wrong!!!!
It's scary how much energy we waste, just flooding the heavens.
Isnt it the only man made structure visible from space?
As in a normal map?
Bopz
Says a lot for mankind really.
Apparently not, China's first astronaut said that he looked very carefully, but didn't see it!
However, my point is that at night-time, you can see all of humanity's creation, from nomadic fires in the desert to the lights of the big city!
Thats perhaps a tad alarmist isnt it? Mankind hasnt been entirely good to the landscape granted, but I'm not sure turning the lights off and going back to the 1800's would make life any better for us or the other creatures around us.
No, as in a satellite picture.