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Google Earth's Timelapses Offer a 32-Year Look At Earth's Changing Surface (pcmag.com)
Google has partnered with TIME to release an improved version of Google Earth Timelapse that provides animated satellite imagery covering the past 32 years, from 1984 to 2016. In 2013, Google and TIME launched Timelapse with a time-lapse from 1984 to 2012. However, this time around the project uses the higher-resolution maps introduced back in June to provide a look that's more detailed and more seamless than in the past. ZDNet reports: The 10-second snapshots of Earth from space over 32 years captures urban sprawl, deforestation and reforestation, receding glaciers, and major engineering feats, such as the Oresund Bridge connecting Denmark to Sweden, or the spread of the Alberta Tar Sands in Canada. Google Earth engine program manager, Chris Herwig says it created the new "annual mosaics" by stitching together 33 images of the Earth, each representing one year. Each image contains 3.95 trillion pixels, cherry-picked from an original set of three quadrillion pixels. "Using Google Earth Engine, we sifted through about three quadrillion pixels, that's three followed by 15 zeroes, from more than 5,000,000 satellite images," Herwig said. "We took the best of all those pixels to create 33 images of the entire planet, one for each year. We then encoded these new 3.95-terapixel global images into just over 25,000,000 overlapping multi-resolution video tiles, made interactively explorable by Carnegie Mellon CREATE Lab's Time Machine library, a technology for creating and viewing zoomable and pannable time-lapses over space and time." The satellite images come from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and US Geological Survey. Since 2015, they also contain some data from the European Space Agency's Copernicus Program and its Sentinel-2A satellite.
Trump Supporter found Dead from suffocation after shoving his head up his own ass.
2500 B.C. and everybody watch the dinosaurs.
When it comes right down to it. Trump just isn't that interesting.
Hannah Arendt called it the "banality of evil".
But if you're really missing the Trump news, I'll help you out. We're now up to a 2.5 million vote lead for Hillary. You know that's got to frost Trump's cornflakes. And speaking of cornflakes, Trump supporters are now pushing a boycott of Kellogs since Kellogs pulled their ads from Breitbart because, and I quote, "That place is a real shit show of fake news and crap-posting, racism, bigotry and hatred. We might as well advertise on fucking Stormfront." That's not an exact quote as far as I know, but it could be.
The kicker is that they're calling this boycott #DumpKellogs and to show Kellogs they mean business, they're buying Kellogs products and taking selfies of them dumping the products into the garbage. Pure genius, I tell you. This comes on the heels of the successful Hamilton and Starbucks boycotts.
Also, to prove he's gonna drain the swamp and fight for the little guy, Donald Trump, Mitt Romney and something called a "Reince Priebus" had a swank dinner last night at some fancy French restaurant (a Trump property) called Pepe Lepew's or something. They had (I'm not making this up), frog legs and fresh marshmallows. The intimate dinner for three cost over $1000, even though they didn't drink wine or any other spirits. Trump made Romney strip down to his magic underwear and suck his dick, but only after Mitt bussed the table and apologize for having better hair than Trump.
I'm pretty sure that brings you up to date on all the Trump news you need to hear. Oh, and he's appointing some Goldman Sachs billionaire named Mnuchin to run the Treasury Department. Consider the swamp drained.
You are welcome on my lawn.