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Ox Bow Lake Formation, As Seen By the Google Earth Time Machine
djl4570 writes with a link to this "excellent study in the gradual change of geographic features as a river meander becomes an ox bow lake when the river current cuts through the meander. The same Google Earth feature can be used to view changes in urban and suburban geography. The historical data is a work in progress. The region I looked at only has images going back to 1993. Other regions will have a different mix and depth of data."
...or Mosquito Paradise?
...to high school geography!
This'll be a nice refresher, it was over 20 years ago and I don't remember a lot of it.
Operation Guillotine is in effect.
I've plotted a graph of all the ox bow lake formations found using Google Maps, and guess what? Not one formed before 1993. What happened in 1993? That's right, CO2 levels hit 350ppm. Coincidence? I think not. We need to save our ox bows, donate today.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
The aliens are expanding rapidly.
I'd also like to check out Detroit over the same time frame.
I realize not everyone cares a whole lot about web design; but who the heck puts black text on a dark blue background and doesn't immediately notice it's awful for reading?
#DeleteChrome
and you can watch continental drift in action
"I've plotted a graph of all the ox bow lake formations found using Google Maps, and guess what? Not one formed before 1993. What happened in 1993? That's right, CO2 levels hit 350ppm. Coincidence? I think not. We need to save our ox bows, donate today."
Just testing this out... (Ack! Periods!)
http://cryptome.org/2012/07/censored-slashdot-post.htm
"(Disclaimer: I'm not a conspiracy theorist, nut.)"
But your writings say otherwise.... :P
zosxavius photography
I don't know. I've been watching the moderation go from +1 to +2, then back down to +1, then back up....6 points spent on moderation so far. I wouldn't exactly call that a forum slide, but time will tell, I guess.
And besides, it's only a theory until evidence proves otherwise. What do you think I'm doing here? Looking for evidence.
And thanks for giving us examples of Rule #4 and Rule #5.
The first image in TFA is an aerial photograph from 1945. Google Earth incorporates some maps from a long time ago: "... Google superimposed old woodblock prints of maps from 18th and 19th century Japan over Japan today." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth
The amount of information incorporated into Google Earth is mind boggling.
A "forum slide", as discussed in the document, can't happen on /.; it relies on typical vbulletin/phpbb/etc. software with independent non-branching threads, which are sorted by the time of the last post in the thread. /. has articles always sorted by the article's time, and posts within an article are sorted first by parent, with sibling posts further sorted by time and/or moderation score.
With the new(ish) "Full/Abbrev./Hidden" settings, it would be fairly easy to bury something with a low moderation score and given the offtopic nature of the post, it's easy to mod to into oblivion (and keep it there) too.
The whole thing seems silly to me, though. For every forum, there is an anti-forum where the opposite moderations occur. Some form of groupthink seems the most likely culprit to me for perceived slights. No need to drag initialed agencies into it.
Spamming, posting off topic, and trolling. These are the reasons these posts get modded down. It's not mind control, group control, group think, or whatever idiotic conspiracy you think it is. It's you being a shitty poster. Just accept it. Own up to it. Either post better or stop posting and move on with your life.
I was skeptical until I saw the first image was from 1944. Wow, I hope you guys at Google patented this one.
Ox Bow Lake Formation as SHOWN by Google Earth. It's a simulation, folks.
Rule #4: Thou shalt not post a link to dancing hamsters on thou'st geocities page.
Rule #5: Thou shouldst use Altavista search, for it is the finest search engine there is.
Or have you hipsters been trying to instagram the original rules or something?
The blog provides the coordinates, 2915'34.29"N 09534'08.85"W, so you can view the formation on Google maps. If you check it out in map view, it still shows the original river bend with no cut-through.
Ox Bow Lakes blew my mind in junior high. I didn't realize it at the time, but it was my first introduction to emergence, long before anyone was talking about emergence.
Just in case our "Upside down" compatriots in Australia are confused about an Ox-Bow lake, you would know them as a Billabong, yes body of water that the Swagman boiled his billy by and ultimately jumped into is real...
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There will always be some people who take moderation super seriously and browse at -1, sorted by post time. This is slashdot, after all.