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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.
2500 B.C. and everybody watch the dinosaurs.
Agent Smith was ignorant of biology. Mammals of all kinds can overpopulate, exhaust resources and cause themselves starvation, disease and misery.
England and Western Europe, for example, were forests.
In Canada, US, and South America, you only need to go back a couple of hundred years to get good perspective on the extent and acceleration of deforestation.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
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.
But some like the OP were quoting the movie as if that were scientific fact. Have to help out these people that get their facts from sci-fi movies and twitter, there are a lot of them
In fact, every organism expands to the limits of the resources and competition. Living on the edge of starvation is the default condition.
In fact, only until the agricultural revolution was this ever any other way. This enabled a massive population increase. The second occurrence was the industrial revolution, which yielded another massive population increase from which the world is still undergoing.
The former yielded the first kings, etc, because it permitted a small fraction of the population to live above subsistence. The industrial revolution and modern economics (capitalism) was the first time in the existence of any population that large fractions of a species lived in a state better than that.
In fact, every organism expands to the limits of the resources and competition. Living on the edge of starvation is the default condition.
In fact, only until the agricultural revolution was this ever any other way. This enabled a massive population increase. The second occurrence was the industrial revolution, which yielded another massive population increase from which the world is still undergoing.
The former yielded the first kings, etc, because it permitted a small fraction of the population to live above subsistence. The industrial revolution and modern economics (capitalism) was the first time in the existence of any population that large fractions of a species lived in a state better than that.
Agriculture, from the point of view of human diet, was a huge compromise, it now seems, if you follow the Paleo movement. We started evolving maybe 2 million years ago, and in all that time we grew to become adapted to hunting and some gathering, but essentially, we are very fit for sweaty long distance running, and with some tracking, can eventually run other big animals to death. But then we invented agriculture, which was only 10 or 12 thousand years ago. Then with modern farming we changed the nature of the stuff we were growing even further. And all this is taken as a *hint* that we are not adapted to modern diets largely comprised of industrially grown grains and sugars. Those paleo ancestors didn't have to carb load to run the distances they did, their bodies were adapted to run on fat stores, and modern athletes are starting to experiment with this and discover that yeah, you really can burn better on fat. So then, was agriculture a huge mistake?
Well, it got us here, it allowed our populations to grow, allowed more people to live together, and as you say, have Kings and later Parliaments, and so the whole social structure adapted and evolved to the need to integrate ever larger numbers. Empires worked for thousands of years but they eventually crumbled under the sheer weight of their own expansive and "too hard to administer" centralised control.
So we eventually created the "individual" and say that the individual should have more power to make local decisions, and so you have the notion that, in a modern economy, the brain power is more distributed, and so can process more variables, more local differences, and so the system still manages to work, when an empire would have crumbled already.
So that brings me to the point of this, and that is, agriculture and industrialisation, Empires and Democracies, have got us this far, but what is next?
The world is still developing, but many of the cultures are still recoiling at globalisation and development. People compare humanity to a petri dish and imagine that we will at some point reach the edge of the dish, and having consumed everything, collapse. Because, you know, humans have the brain power of an amoeba.
I think what is closer to the truth is that we have always and always shall be faced with the problem of survival. We faced it when we were hunter gatherers, we faced it when we were dying of the plague in medieval Europe, we faced it again and again and always shall face it. We are living biological machines in an environment which is nicely-called "Nature" but nature is a bitch.
So the question is how to survive, and a fashionable answer is that we should stop consuming. Well, that's like trying to breathe more slowly when you are trapped in a hole with limited air. Sure... that'll buy you some time, but that is not sustainable. The real answers are about inventing a way to get out of the hole.
As humans we have imagination and creativity and reason and intuition, and "sustainability" means inventing a heck of a lot of new stuff, yes, stuff, which will then make life easier for everyone. The natural birth rate for people, women if their children survive, is 2 children per couple. We don't overpopulate because we have too
That's because of the way the images have to be captured. A photograph that records the wavelengths our eyes can perceive would produce an image obscured by things like cloud cover, and it could take many passes over many days before you luck out and happen to snap the picture on that one clear day that isn't cloudy. So, the satellite makes one pass and captures multiple images in infrared and other wavelengths that penetrate clouds, moisture, particulates, or smog. Then, all of those data are compiled into one composite image and converted to colors that more closely match what our eyes would perceive.
This is done not only to produce an unobscured image, but also because the information that we can gleam from various wavelengths is more useful. For example, parts of the spectrum like microwave or infrared can be used to determine vegetation density or even distinguish different species of plants, or can indicate things like heat absorption of different surfaces or ice thickness. That stuff can't be done with visible light alone.
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No he didn't. He won 2,600 out of the 3,100 counties. Why are you lying?
According to this breakdown Trump won the popular vote in 2,584 counties and Clinton won the popular vote in 472 counties.
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