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Composite Of Earth At Night
crmartin writes "Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is an incredible composite image of Earth from space at night. Actually a composite from many pictures from the Defense Meteorological Satellites Program (DMSP), it's like a skeletal view of the Earth in tiny lights. If you really like it, there are hi-res images up to a 40 megabyte TIFF."
How could you allow a link to a 40MB file into a /. article? Oh the humanity...
OK, if you were an alien, where would you land? Somehow anywhere in the United States seems to be not a very bright idea. Stupid Roswell aliens...
Maybe that will mean something to the communist horde on /.
naah... wishful thinking. Bush's fault, right?
Why is half of Texas so dim?
if you have been a fan of Xearth and the better versions, it is sorta..errr.. 3 years late as far as a scoop.
Oh by the way, did you try www.google.com yet?
It's a pretty new site that just opened.
It tells you who is paying their electricity bill and who is not. Africa is awfully dark.
I can see my house
Now they'll know where to attack first! Sheesh.
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I can see my case mod from here!
At any rate, if you click the link, click the resulting image to get a bigger one, and then resize it, it makes pretty nice wallpaper. Unfortunately the aspect ratio isn't fit for a desktop, so you'll have to trim it or let the aspect ratio change to get the whole thing.
Alternatively, you could always upgrade your graphics card, buy a VGA/DVI converter connector and a couple of 20" LCD displays. That should sort out the aspect ratio problem.
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...it appears that the Earth is flat!
In a similar vein; how come all those Sea areas are pretty dark ?
The lack of light isn't much of a problem, our missles have GPS.
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What about those lights in Northern Alaska? Has the drilling already begun?
When you get to hell -- tell 'em Itchy sent ya!
It looks like .. yes .. I left the back porch light on, again.
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That's no way to talk about President Bush... oh, hang on...
Using HTML in email is like putting sound effects on your phone calls. Just say <strong>no</strong>.
I've driven through Belgium on motorways a few times at night (it only takes a hour or so) and, in a similat way to the fact the Queen thinks that the world smells of new paint, I think that Belgium is yellow.
No but, yeah but, no but...
Any idea why this might be?
That isn't actually Tsushima, it's Monster Island. The UN, in cooperation with the Russian government and the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, keeps a constant surveillance vigil on the indigenous monsters such as Godzilla, Mothra, and Gamera. (After 1954, nobody's taking any chances). This necessitates a lot of bright light, which is what you're seeing in the pictures.
All employees must wash hands before seeking equitable relief.
...to screw in a lightbulb?
Obviously there arent enough.
It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
Reminds me of something that happened to my father a few years back. He was a high school principal and was giving a tour of the school to some board trustees on a Monday morning. They came around the back of the school where someone had sparypainted "Mr. Smith is gay" on the wall over the weekend.
Without missing a beat, my father turned to the delegation and said "See that? They do indeed have respect for me...why else would they paint Mr. Smith??"
Anyone notice that this picture looks similar to the Earth on the viewscreen of the Enterprise when the borg took it over in Star Trek First Contact? I for one welcome our new conformist masters.
I live in L.A. After the 1994 Northridge quake, I remember looking up and being stunned by how many stars I could see (at 0445 PST).
;)
Yeah, I remember that too -- after the quake they all just came streaming out of Beverly Hills and wandered around West Hollywood in a daze.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
That socialism results in less energy-waste and light-pollution?