Harv
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This is as about as far off topic as you can get, but it's one of those things that just has to be shared.
The photo was emailed to me fairly anonymously, so I don't know the exact source, but it's quite possible that some of you may have already seen it. It's an incredible panoramic view of the world from the new space station. It was done in such a way as to portray the entire planet at night. The resulting images of city lights across the globe yields not only fantastic beauty, but some startling realities of our world.
Things to look for:
- Canada's population is almost exclusively along the U.S. border.
- There is a high population concentration along the coast of the Mediterranean.
- Notice the development of Israel compared to the rest of the Arab countries.
- Pay particular attention to the Nile River, the Outback of Australia and the Trans Siberian Rail Route.
- In the east, note the striking difference between North and South Korea.
<font color=red>WARNING!!!</font color=red> This is one hefty photo (about 535K), so unless you've got a peppy internet connection, you might want to get a cup of coffee while it's downloading.
Having said all that, please take a gander at our world at night. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
Thanks to Boots, we now have an alternative source for the picture (this is good 'cuz I'm running low on space on my own server and may have to delete the above image soon). These have some words overlaid on them, but they're basically the same pict:
Same resolution as original, but is "jpx" format, which my Mac/Netscape browser didn't understand.
Smaller file (386K) -- same size expanded, and the quality is still quite good.
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by Harv on 04/19/01 11:57 AM (server time).</FONT></P>
The photo was emailed to me fairly anonymously, so I don't know the exact source, but it's quite possible that some of you may have already seen it. It's an incredible panoramic view of the world from the new space station. It was done in such a way as to portray the entire planet at night. The resulting images of city lights across the globe yields not only fantastic beauty, but some startling realities of our world.
Things to look for:
- Canada's population is almost exclusively along the U.S. border.
- There is a high population concentration along the coast of the Mediterranean.
- Notice the development of Israel compared to the rest of the Arab countries.
- Pay particular attention to the Nile River, the Outback of Australia and the Trans Siberian Rail Route.
- In the east, note the striking difference between North and South Korea.
<font color=red>WARNING!!!</font color=red> This is one hefty photo (about 535K), so unless you've got a peppy internet connection, you might want to get a cup of coffee while it's downloading.
Having said all that, please take a gander at our world at night. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
Thanks to Boots, we now have an alternative source for the picture (this is good 'cuz I'm running low on space on my own server and may have to delete the above image soon). These have some words overlaid on them, but they're basically the same pict:
Same resolution as original, but is "jpx" format, which my Mac/Netscape browser didn't understand.
Smaller file (386K) -- same size expanded, and the quality is still quite good.
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by Harv on 04/19/01 11:57 AM (server time).</FONT></P>
