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12-21-2010, 09:36 PM
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| What does the earth look like at night from space during the holidays?
So the question I have is, since seeing that awesome picture of what the earth looks like at night I was wondering. What does the earth look like at night during the holidays?
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12-21-2010, 09:46 PM
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12-21-2010, 10:58 PM
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looks exactly like the map in black ops lobby
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12-21-2010, 11:30 PM
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lol even from that map u can see how much the US consumes in energy compared to the rest of the world...
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12-22-2010, 12:46 AM
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why so dark africa? 
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12-22-2010, 12:51 AM
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Originally Posted by asahai69  why so dark africa?  | Fixt
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12-22-2010, 01:14 AM
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this is cool
sunrise 
and heres a way bigger of the OP pic 
really fuckin big western hemisphere 
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12-22-2010, 01:11 PM
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On the same topic, heres Earth mapped by a fellow friend from VeloCity at Waterloo University. He had a co-op with facebook, used the data and mapped out the shape of earth by facebook users.
Note Russia and China... http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpr...map-edited.jpg | |
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12-22-2010, 02:35 PM
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So the point is everyone uses alot of electricity?
Photoshop those lights blue, red and green then its a worthy thread 
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12-22-2010, 03:02 PM
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lol look at north korea
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12-22-2010, 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by transcendent On the same topic, heres Earth mapped by a fellow friend from VeloCity at Waterloo University. He had a co-op with facebook, used the data and mapped out the shape of earth by facebook users.
Note Russia and China... http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpr...map-edited.jpg | in russia they dont use fb. they have a similar social networkig site made by and for russians thats far more popular. same with other countries such as japan Posted via RS Mobile | |
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12-22-2010, 03:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Hi_Im_Mike So the question I have is, since seeing that awesome picture of what the earth looks like at night I was wondering. What does the earth look like at night during the holidays?[/img] | It would look exactly the same. What did you expect it to look like? Bunch of Red and Green lights?
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12-23-2010, 12:41 AM
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thats pretty
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12-23-2010, 01:04 AM
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Originally Posted by sonick It would look exactly the same. What did you expect it to look like? Bunch of Red and Green lights? | Not exactly, maybe different colors here and there depending on the country.
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12-23-2010, 01:11 AM
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12-23-2010, 01:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Hi_Im_Mike Not exactly, maybe different colors here and there depending on the country. | No, I urge you it wouldn't. Decorative lights would be nowhere near bright enough to shine more than normal lights, especially when seen from space.
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12-23-2010, 09:48 AM
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I love how your have the lower mainland, then nothing. Then a small spot for Whistler/SSC then nothing. To the east a couple little dots that I'm guessing are Kelowna and Kamloops, then nothing.
Canada looks like a whole lot of nothing in the dark.
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12-23-2010, 10:02 AM
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looks like Japan uses as much light as the whole of Canada
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