map of the world at night
 

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its a map of the world at night, my geography teacher showed us this i thought it was intesting, plus im bored ::


sorry about the size

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What do the colors signify i see its all heavily poulated areas but i dont think thats it :-\

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its the heavily populated areas, but the $$$$$ also play a factor, cuz most of the heavy populations areas are too poor to have alot of things that give off light.

for example, look at hati and cuba, compared to jamaica (me ;D )and pueto rico, the poorer countries have less light.

also look at america, europe and japan, compared to the rest of the world.

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That made no sense :-\

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Wow I would of never thought australlia would be like that?

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canada: turn a light on will ya?

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theres no way in hell to have a map of the world at night.

unless they just did parts of it at a time?

meh

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damn..the east coast over dominates the west coast in america :-\

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LOL, I like how they cut off Canada.

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kinda interesting...

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Woot.. East Coast is all lit up all the time :P

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ohhhhhh another Canada burn. ::) shouldnt you guys be worrying about Iraqi's bombing you soon ?

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no, but you dont have to either because of us ::)

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Heheh.. ---- my countries small compared to all of yours.. the very bottom right country :) ..

Its still JDM heaven tho ;)

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new zealand?

did i spell that right?

cool place

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Japan is still glowing. ::)

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If this is a thermal scan of the world, those lights are all the bitches and fuckers that are getting laid right now...

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lol, well the "lights" are out at my house right now, if thats the case

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that's pretty neat :)

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onlyhalf of the world is in "night time" at once. if this is a composite map it totally isn't reliable because of the variation in time each bit of surface are was recorded. that and the angle at which the heat/light is being recorded from would completely throw off readings. unless the some sort of sattelite that ran half the circumfrence of the earth and orbited at a speed which would allow it to be at everywhere in the world at the exact same time (on the clock not in general, which BTW you couldn't anyway unless timezones were continuously variable) this is complete bullshit.

that being said, it's pretty cool to look at huh? can you imagine what the stars would look like from, say, mongolia? or somewhere real deep in africa? that'd be amazing.

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well there's a reason the west coast is darker then the east coast...time zones anyone? ::)

it's 10pm on the east, its like what, 4-5pm on the west? who needs lights then?

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each time zone was done at the same "time" for example, each time zone was done at its "midnight", so the photos were taken over a 2day period (considering that it really takes 2 days for 1 day to pass) and then compiled together.


it would not make much sense to take a picture of the west cost while the sun is still out, that would ruin the whole thing

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Soooo.... who like... owns Antarctica? I'll take it if no one else wants it. ???

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Not exactly ;) There is only a 3 hour difference. 10 PM in the East, 7 PM in California. Not a 6 hour difference. :)

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Was it only me that found it funny that north korea is completely shafted :P. Japan through S. Korea that ---- is brighter than hell then as soon as you get to the parallel it's gone hah :-*