Our beautiful planet seen by the eyes of satellites.
South of the Iberia Peninsula. Sand Storm leaves Africa and Canary Islands
Strait of Gibraltar
Night arrives over Europe and Northern Africa
The Swiss Alps
Iceland
The Black Sea
The Red Sea
Even submerged in darkness it is a beautiful sight!
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Hi! My name is Vladimir Prelovac. I am a computer engineer by profession and an adventurer by state of mind.
146 Comments
WHY DON'T HAVE BETTER PICS OF EARTH????????
all these picturea are very nice.....but we all should take some steps to save our beautiful earth.....
this website have change my life like micheal jackson
is that really? what do you feel?
my comment should be longer than seven words??? it is so idiotic. then i introduce more than seven words non-sense.
And you guys are all idiots. This is obviously pictures of jupiter.
people don't seem to get along when talking about earth pictures...
Nice! Thanks.
@Tristan chapman:
My favorite part about your "spelling nazi" rant is that you misspelled Google, unless there's some "goggle images" service that I'm unaware of.
The ignorance of the children commenting on this website is atrocious. That picture is of Iceland, which anyone could tell by observing its shape. All of these photos have been generated by goggle earth, meaning any of them that show the earth from a distance farther than low orbit are computer generated images. which is why Iceland is a very cold, mountainous place, and is covered in ice in the winter. Much of the country is covered by volcanic ash and there is little foliage that is visible from high altitude even when it is photographed in the summer.
People seem to have spelled words incorrectly, such as anonymous and absolutely. This is revolting. There is also a little shit who seems to think that Global warming is a "scam" This is the worst bit of deception on the entire page.
global warming is a scam, do ur research
I love the pictures, and a lot of the comments have given me a good laugh. The place everyone keeps calling Greenland looks an awful lot like Iceland to me, at least on the maps I have, but then again maybe those are "fake" too. I do believe Vladimir got it right though. ;) Thank you by the way for posting these, and the other pictures too; they are amazing photos!! And I would hope that people could appreciate the beauty of Nature, and yes the beauty of mankind, we're not all bad. Mankind doesn't just destroy, but create, and if I'm not mistaken Mother Nature does the same, what a coincidence! :)
Many of these ARE NOT real pictures but computer generated images available on line
The background (stars) doesn't change,.....why ?
Eventhough I'm 10 I still appreciate the earth. I found the images really open your eyes to how beautiful the earth is.
PKFoxwell said: "The picture with the caption "Night arrives over Europe and Northern Africa" is obviously a fake but I see it all the time on the web. You can't see features on the bottom of the ocean from space or from a boat. It can't be done. Quit pretending like it is a real photo."
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Ever been on a plane? You can see where the water is shallow versus where the water is deep, it's where the ground drops away. That's the only thing I see in that picture, the coastline and sandbars associated with small islands. Quit pretending that you have any idea of what you are talking about.
The only thing is that iceland is actually all grean and greonland is actually all ice
yo that is wicked my comment is the best
whooooooooooooooooooooo
Such majestic wonder..
I love you Earth and I give you a great letter and also a drawing of you. More chocolate chips! Also "wa-see-osh". (What does that mean Gretchen?) I don't know. Earth, Earth I love you! Sherman is my dog and Sue is my momma and I love my babysitters.
-As dictated to Momma Sue by Gretchen age 3
we live in wonderful earth. save the planet
that was apsolutily loverly my teacher showed me at school coupple weeks ago i loved it with the music but cnt seem to find the one with the music again i passed it on to alot of ppl and they love it id love to see more of the world from above
the night and day transition is obviously not fake... ive seen this photo in National Geographic and other relyable sources. Best keep those comments to yourself unless you have facts
The picture with the caption "Night arrives over Europe and Northern Africa" is obviously a fake but I see it all the time on the web. You can't see features on the bottom of the ocean from space or from a boat. It can't be done. Quit pretending like it is a real photo.
It is great view that getting from far away of us, and see many of the view that is very attractive and excellent shot as well. Of course, there are more for who interseting in such photo from space coverage.
beautiful pictures
and about iceland and greenland
their switched for a reason, the vikings wanted to confuse their enemies by switching the names, making a green country named iceland and a ice country named greenland
hope u get what im saying
No South America? We barely see it in the last pic, but there are no shots that focus on it. Other than that, beautiful pictures. Thank you for sharing.
Yep, that image is definitely of Iceland. I know when I was in school I had a teacher who stressed to us the irony of Iceland being "green" and Greenland being covered with ice...I have since learned to disregard what teachers say unless I can verify the information through a second (or third) source.
no it´s Iceland
Your "Iceland" is in fact Greenland.
But otherwise, these are beautiful!
beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
Very nice pictures, Vladimir. Thank you for putting them up here. They show how beautiful our "blue planet" really is but also how fragile...
Have a great year 2009!
keep up good work
Awesome photos!
many thanks,
smiles, cyndi
Really awesome pics!
I love the ones of the night where you can see all the lights.. So amazing.
Wow - amazing images! I suddenly feel very small. Thank you for putting this together, Vladimir!
Gorgeous! It reminds me of being on the Star Ship Enterprise!
Nice pics.
Well a comment on the Iceland Greenland thing.
The reason for the names are that vikings went out on a raid. they found Iceland (at wintertime) and hence they called it Iceland. Greenland was discovered the year after in the summer and they struck land far south. there was green so therefore Greenland. Just like the reason for Indians in America.
who was the person that called earth the blue planet?
We are proud to live on such beautiful planet! Lets do our little effort so that it remain beautiful for ever.
yeah Greenland is icy and Iceland is "green" but since there pretty well up there they both are pretty icy year round
I was under the impression Greenland was the icy one, and Iceland was the green one, due to Viking tricks. Am I wrong?
So, to those of you who are bitching about America using so much light and shit... check out Japan. I'm pretty sure the comparison of light to size proves Japan's light usage exceeds ours.
Also, get over it. Posting on a forum isn't going to make the earth any greener or these pictures any more real or fake (whichever side you're on). If any of you fuck faces gave a shit, you'd be over in Africa hooking up their power. But I suppose your "over lit" America with Laz-e Boy chairs and laptop Macs is too comfortable to risk.
Keep right on posting, but remember: you guys are doing nothing but making some other person on another computer a little flustered.
They are not fake
Neither are they photographs.
These are images generated from equipment designed to identify and capture static lights around the globe for 'research' purposes. There are very few man made things which can be observed from space with the naked eye.
So they DO represent the extent of lights around our planet but nobody has ever seen this.
However, to say they are fake is not realistic - if this were so then almost all astronomical photos would also be fake as they rely on long exposures and the capture of electromagnetic radiation from all parts of the non-visible spectrum.
It is however sad that these images are in wide circulation without any credits or explanation and hence misleading many people.
That was my girlfriend lol
Amazing collection...
This is something new and different of all of photography what I saw.
Respect !
Bex
What a beautiful collection of satellite shots! Looking at the images taken at night is somewhat evocative. It reminds me of an organism covered in a skin disorder that it can't seem to shake.
QUAID... Start the Reactor!
I never thought pictures of the Earth would bring out such venomous comments.
Are the pictures beautiful? Yes. Are they photoshopped? Maybe. Is the environment a mess? A little. Is global warming a threat caused by humans and rising levels of CO2 and heat? Not really. Global warming is more of a scam than a real threat.
Is the environment a mess .... yes. Are these beautiful pictures .... yes.
Does it matter that their Photoshopped .... no, their still beautiful.
check me out sitting on the fence :)
Obviously, it's been photoshoped.
The arguments in the comment section are more entertaining than the actual pictures. I think it's funny how much people care about whether these pictures are doctored or not rather than appreciating their beauty.
We’re no strangers to love,
You know the rules and so do I.
A full commitment’s what I’m thinking of,
You wouldnt get this from any other guy.
I just wanna tell you how I’m feeling,
Gotta make you understand…
Never gonna give you up,
Never gonna let you down,
Never gonna run around and desert you.
Never gonna make you cry,
Never gonna say goodbye,
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.
We’ve known each other for so long
Your heart’s been aching
But you’re too shy to say it.
Inside we both know what’s been going on,
We know the game and we’re gonna play it.
Annnnnd if you ask me how I’m feeling,
Don’t tell me you’re too blind to see…
Never gonna give you up,
Never gonna let you down,
Never gonna run around and desert you.
Never gonna make you cry,
Never gonna say goodbye,
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.
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Never gonna let you down,
Never gonna run around and desert you.
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Never gonna say goodbye,
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.
Give you up. give you up.
Give you up, give you up.
Never gonna give
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Never gonna give
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We’ve known each other for so long
Your heart’s been aching
But you’re too shy to say it.
Inside we both know what’s been going on,
We know the game and we’re gonna play it.
I just wanna tell you how I’m feeling,
Gotta make you understand…
Never gonna give you up,
Never gonna let you down,
Never gonna run around and desert you.
Never gonna make you cry,
Never gonna say goodbye,
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.
Never gonna give you up,
Never gonna let you down,
Never gonna run around and desert you.
Never gonna make you cry,
Never gonna say goodbye,
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.
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I think it's sad that EVERYONE on here is moaning about photoshop, editing, green peace, the environment, their own sanity and all things irrelevant. You either enjoy the pics or you don't. Stop complaining about it if you don't and allow the rest of the internet-using society go "oooh" at the pretty pictures.
Seriously,get over your own issues and just appreciate something nice once in a while.
One "night shot" shows the topography of the ocean floor. Obviously a composite! Another one shows the entire northern hemisphere in darkness. What time of year would this happen?
If you don't think these are fake then shame on you!
Actually the lights that we constantly see on Earth images here and elsewhere on the internet are fake. They are representative of the populations of our planet but from space the city's lights are simply too insignificant to be visible! At least to the extent that they are depicted here.
Most of these images are composited from a combination of satellite images and computer generated imagery based on demographic data.
FYI, the night shots I do believe are screenshots of a screensaver called Cities of Earth 3d with all the text info turned off.
http://www.screenomania.com/cities-of-earth.html
All the rest are satellite pictures from Nasa.
i.e. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_32.html
And the first picture is "Blue Marble" composite images generated by NASA in 2001 (left) and 2002 (right). Image available at...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/BlueMarble-2001-2002.jpg
Ok I'll take my detective hat off now.
Tarrith
Ahhhh Benny Bean, you are either a complete loser or an amazing troll. Seriously, GET A LIFE
Beautiful!!
*Sigh* Ok, let me re-focus. I do apologize for hijacking here as well; I also, though somewhat begrudgingly, apologize for getting a little worked up there. I just hate seeing folks get in that "humans are parasites" mode. I find it incredibly hypocritical.
Now, you're missing my point entirely if you think you should get all warm and fuzzy looking at these pictures, fake or not. I just think it's a little pretentious contorting some pictures into some pessimistic propaganda.
Congrats on your 4-banger. Props on going with the bike every now and then. And I'm sure you're well received with your friends at GetUp! Unfortunately, I live in a culture that is not as receptive to change. Moreover, I live in the Energy Capitol of the US, and we love our oil here. There are more refineries than you can possibly imagine, and it's positively depressing. And yes, I donate to Greenpeace, support the Green party, and eat green vegetables as often as possible. I'm just all about the green, really. But I don't get all apocalyptic with it. Yeah, you gushed over these computer generated pictures just like you accused everyone else of doing. You just did it in a negative way. "Take a closer look. What you see should make you all ill and somewhat afraid." That kinda says it all, doesn't it...
Listen, man, no hard feelings. You want to be all gung-ho about environmental reform, more power to you. But people that are stuck up, pretentious, and frankly think their sh*t doesn't stink just infuriate me. Sorry, chief, I calls 'em likes I sees 'em.
Well isn't there some hackles being raised in here. Yes indeed there is...Well, bring it on.
Excuse me for not gushing over some computer generated pictures of our planet. What was I thinking not going all pink and tingly all over just looking at them? Let me see if I can change my pessimistic attitude.
Hmmm, yes I do have a four cylinder people mover for my family and my personal transport for getting to and from work is a twin cylinder motorbike. Unless I opt for walking or a push bike, I consider this quite economical under the current circumstance.
But now, if I was a hippie that lived in the basement of my Mom's solar powered house, would you give my point of view more respect or would you continue to disregard my opinion with your childish insults? No I don't think it would change your attitude at all.
To make a difference, now THAT'S something worth ranting about.
Making a difference. Most of us would like to. Most of us wont, hell let's face it. Even if I did petition my state of federal government to support more renewable energy, do you think it would make a difference?
No it would not. Governments do what governments want to do, with the influence of money and power.
I have the power of one, all you people have the power of many, the same power that has such a devastating affect on our plant and our environment.
Oh by the way. I am a member of GetUp!
http://www.getup.org.au/
Or are you going to try and insult me for that too?
Yours,
Tarrith Do'Urden
P.S. Sorry for hijacking you blog Vladimir ;)
I too enjoy a good discussion...hehe maybe I should start my own blog lol
I am not a poor guy ;) Do enjoy this discussion though.
@ Tarrith Do’Urden
Jesus, get over yourself! Do you honestly think you're busting my idealist bubble? It's the hypocrisy in what you say. Bitching about our overuse of electrity as you're sitting there in your mom's basement just lets us know exactly how much of a loser you really are. A little pretentious, are we?
Hey, got a car? Even if it's a hybrid, you're still the enemy you keep whining about. What about electrity in your house? Well, unless you've got a solar panel on your roof or a wind turbine in your back yard, you ought to shut your hole. Practice what you preach, hippie.
Want to actually make a difference instead of crying about it on some poor guy's blog? Petition your state and federal governments to support more renewable resources. Or if you have a little extra money lying around, sponsor research in hydrogen cell technology. But don't sit here on your high horse and preach to me, chief.
@LurkerJune 28th, 2008 at 19:37
"Can I just mention that Tarrith DoUrden is obviously a one-off of Tyler Durden from the book/movie Fight Club"
Well you could, but you would be wrong. Though I do enjoy the movie Fight Club, my online persona is not based on this particular character. Rather it is this one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drizzt_Do%27Urden
But to truly understand you would have to use your brain by reading the books.
Now for those who tell me to pull my head in. Let's zoom in on this pretty blue planet of ours.
This is an area of our planet unsullied by much of the human population.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&view=map&q=jericho&sll=-37.655558,146.521912&sspn=0.821944,1.73584&ie=UTF8&ll=-37.637072,146.270599&spn=0.411075,0.86792&t=k&z=11
This is an are that has sparse human population.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&view=map&q=wyalong&ie=UTF8&ll=-33.925699,147.242889&spn=0.430732,0.86792&t=k&z=11
Do a search for any major city and you will see just how bad we can get as a species.
Did anyone notice the pixelisation that happens to our pretty blue planet? See, all those pretty little squares is a property. A paddock or field. Which get's sub-divided as the population grows. And when an area get supersaturated, the green color fades to gray dead concrete.
Would you like me to unplug my machine? Yes I'm sure that would rest easier on some of you people's conscience if I did stop posting these nasty things that impinge on your cosy little reality.
Tough.
Tarrith Do'Urden
Yes merica has all the monies (but not for long kthxCHINA), and yes there are way too many babies in need of staples and trees, but really there is not enough trees for us to even staple the babies to or to pick all the monies that grow there. So why don't we all plant some trees and cry less, and then eat brains?
holy photoshopped pictures batman!
The pictures aren't photoshopped. A lot of them were edited by NASA, as in, different pictures of Earth were stitched together to create a picture with very little cloud cover, as is seen in the Blue Marble image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_marble and other images of Earth. Likewise, various images were combined to create an image of the Earth in complete darkness, to show the drama of the whole world lit up. Sure, they were edited, but by NASA, not by some dude in his basement with Photoshop.
Lulz at all the stupid people leaving comments for some collection of stolen photchopped crap..
These pics are all real? was that the day there was no clouds... haha.
Read the comments on any webpage and you get the same moronic trash...
1. FFFIIIIRRRRRSSSTTTT!!!
2. Fake.
3. George Bush's fault!
4. Ugly Americans!
5. I am so much better than you because...
all morons.
@ Anon:
The US and Europe ARE the most advanced places in the world. Bits of Asia, too, like Japan and S. Korea.
Anyway, yeah, it makes sense that I'm a dick because I live in one of those places. That's called being bigoted. Thanks, dick!
Nitce how the US and Europe consume WAY more electricity than any other part of the world.. funny how the nations who would consider themselves the most adavnced don't realise that they are killing the entire planet..... thanks dicks!!
1. @ shooped: Photoshopped or not, this is pure friggin' art. As defined by Wiktionary: "Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature." Or, as defined by one wikipedia page, "...Art is the third album from the Australian rock band, Regurgitator, released in 1999." I'll stick with the former of the two.
2. @ Tarrith DoUrden: You are a waste of existence, just like the rest of us. Get over yourself, man. Groan...
Et. al (get it? anyone? meh...): I'm sorry, I must have missed the part where the poster informed us that these are pictures he took with his homemade satellite. At no time did he say "check out these pictures I took" or make any other claims that they were his own. Copyright infringement is an obsolete term, thanks to the blog-o-spheres and internets. I'm sure if NASA didn't want this pictures posted elsewhere, they would have done SOMETHING to prevent that from happening, ie a script disabling right click, etc. No, instead, they put they link on their site straight to the jpg. Your mom is a copyright infringement.
I think Jehovah has made the most interesting comment on here. Those little white dots really are just a representation of where the money is. Leave it up to "He that is" to tell it like it is.
These are really great pix.
Shame that we've fucked our world up too the point where these majestic pics will be a forgotten memory in 100 years time
aka the Big Implosion
take the photos as they are.R they encroaching on someone's copyrighted prized possession.These images are indeed worth appreciating.
Enjoy!!!!
Hey Shooped, you are a fucking moron, not everything on internet is photoshoped
BTW. nice pictures man
These aren't fake. You can go to the Nasa website at http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/ and see hundreds just like them. Why would you think they were fake? What else would you expect the Earth to look like?
it sickens me how much light the US uses compared to the rest of the world. =[
And another 8 years of Bush through martial law and it will look a lot different. And all the Chinese slave labor camps on our soil will look really nice when we run out of money to pay our military.
You don't have to be a math major to see how badly a $15 trillion debt with interest will kill a republic. It's only a matter of time.
my god you people are idiots the light pictures are not fake, they are just several pictures over-layed to show what the lighting looks like for large geographical areas. What they do is take a satellite picture at 7pm Tokyo time and continue to take a pictures every hour until its midnight in Europe and overlay all the pictures, once you mess around the the lighting so that only the night time parts of the pictures are shown you get a picture apparently showing all of asia with its lights on when in fact its just a well know method of showing time lapsed photography.
While cool and beautiful, it just shows how absolutely overpopulated we are. It makes me look with awe, but all those lights are just pinpoints on how absolutely crowded we are. The sad thing is that Africa is mostly unlit when we know how populated it is as well. Pretty much these shots show exactly where the money is.
Can I just mention that "Tarrith DoUrden" is obviously a one-off of Tyler Durden from the book/movie Fight Club. Combined with his comments I believe that we must assume the guy lacks an individual personality so he is copying one that he admires. Not that I care all that much, hell it's his life not mine, but it is annoying to think that some of you seem to take his post seriously and speak to him as if he was using his real name.
Pictures are nice by the way, I think everyone is missing a point about the advancement of the human race. All else aside, it is amazing that we have created artificial satellites that send us pictures of the entire Earth when Columbus was bumbling about on a boat a few hundred years ago.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke
Just my take. Cheers!
That the night skies are faked is clear: the first one has us looking straight on the north pole yet all sides of the earth are dark. Hmm... it was night in each and every time zone ? :-)
The Pictures are
Wonderful!
Marvelous!
Excellent!
Beautiful!
The Pictures are
Wonderful!
Excellent!
Beautiful!
Marvelous!
Everyone talks about the future weather, but so far nobody has done much about it, not even the many people and politicians conceived that climate change will be a serious problem. Global warming is an evil that is growing proportional to human progress but working against it. People are not good at making immediate sacrifices for an abstract benefit in the future, specially when they do not completely understand the problem. We have a hard time even understanding the problem or the impact of our actions today.
IT IS NO TIME THAT OUR PLANET WILL BE TRUELY BLUE. and the above pics will be even more mesmerising.
That is Iceland. I should know I live there:D.
Beautiful photos... even if doctored, they really help u appreciate the beauty of mother earth. If given a thought, nature is so vast and unexplored, that our whole progress as human beings seems worthless in front of it.
Hope we do not destroy it in our quest of knowledge.
Save Earth till we have the time to do it.
google earth??...
where did all the clouds go????
Greenland? Come on...
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=74.775843,-28.476562&spn=37.913969,153.808594&z=3
BIG difference.
All that crap about Greenland being icy and Iceland being green; What do they teach you in American schools? Just random nonsensical trivia?
So many angry people and comments over a bunch of pictures.
Even if the photos were completely made up, at least they are beautiful and got each one of you to think about our home.
To those naysayers---I suppose you think the movie Capricorn One is a documentary?!?
What's with those fools who think they're seeing a picture of Greenland? You didn't bother looking at your third grade geography books, did you? Or haven't you received those yet? Oh, bother!
Can you say ICELAND in winter? it does snow there & they have glaciers year around, didn't ya know? It's mostly green in the Summer!!!!!!
Now apologize to those of us who passed third grade. Or who know how to find NASA's photo sites.
ITS SO LOVELY PEACFULLLLLL
I'm really angry at StumbleUpon for directing me to sites that are simply a collection of images that someone else has copied and pasted off of the internet. This should be categorized as some form of plagiarism. I mean, can't you just SAY, for each image, "This picture is from NASA's website [see http://blah blah blah]." And then, "This picture was generated using the software Google Earth [see http, etc.]." But NO, there is no credit given anywhere, leading the unwary to conclude that the poster is correct in saying these pictures were all taken by satellites. Or that it takes some special access to NASA to find their zillions of satellite images. GRRRRR!
they could all be taken in the same place at different times.
WOW!! That's where we live, and it is absolutely amazing... Let's not forget that.
Jim and Hosehead: How DARE you! The environment is precious. Every bug could be my father! Every flower could be the next pope! How DARE you fire up those carbon logs - it's just wrong. Peace, Love, and a change of underwear - that's all we really need. I'm going to drive my electric car home now. And wash my clothes on stones. Who cares if I stink? I'll be just like the European bastards! Ooops - sorry, sorry, must love my brothers.
Namaste!
Jim - you're right on. Global warming is a liberal fantasy. Al Gore profits from carbon credits. He refuses to debate real scientists. Global warming is real, but there's no evidence that it's happening now. Fire up the carbon logs, Martha!
Hunt and Fish: Loved your response. What a bunch of losers. Wah - the planet's overheating. Bunch o' crap. Remember El Nino? No one talks about it, but it's still here. We're in a cycle, morons.
Simply marvelous. I love the image of the Black Sea. I live in Varna. It is located on the west coast of the Black Sea. A beautiful place!
Fantastic pics
Greenland, not Iceland... recalling 4th grade history, when the Vikings named it... they were trying to fool everyone? They called Greenland, the ice covered one, that name so everybody would go there. They called Iceland, the green one, that name so nobody would go there...
The first Liberals apparently, kings of disinformation and calling things what they aren't for convenience or expediency.
Suggest shutting off your computer, disconnecting the internet, shivering in the dark, and leave the normal people alone.
WOW lovely pictures!!!!!!!!(I hope we will see these scenes with naked eye in near future)
beautiful. beautiful. beautiful. beautiful.
wow. the eastern side of america uses alot of light.
ITs really amazing how beautiful is our HOME!!
hey dopes, all these are from NASA and/or Google Earth!
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov
Nice looking pics, photoshopped, but who doesn't use it? Though I agree with many of Tarrith DoUrden's statements it would be hypocritical of me to start ranting about how much people are destroying the earth. I have to drive to work everyday, I'm sitting at my energy using computer, there is multitudes of different gadgets and gizmos throughout my home that require electricity, same as everyone else. At this time it would be quite literally impossible to live without many of our electronic toys and gas guzzling cars. We are doing the best we can as a species to correct the error of our ways and though it may not seem like it, things are getting better. Anyways, nice pictures.
Oh...and the one labeled "iceland" is actually Greenland.
I think it is great we have the knowledge of what our beautiful planet looks like as a whole.
But photoshopped or not, these pictures highlight the serious problem of light pollution. Just one issue which if tackled could move us a tiny step towards a sustainable future, before we plummet in to darkness due to overuse of fossil fuels.
I do think, however, that insulting Tarrith DoUrden by calling him/her a capitalist pig is hilarious... don't think it's quite the right ideology.
What Chris said.... looks like Greenland to me.
I wonder what would be the reasoning behind faking this photos?
And what about Meg Ryan...
I always "thumbs down" sites like these when Stumbleupon sends me to them. These doctored pics are lame. Beauty and fake beauty aren't the same thing. Ask Meg Ryan.
awesome collection.. either fake or not they look good..
@Chris: Good one :)
What does Iceland look like on your planet, Bill cos it sure looks like the one on mine.
@ Tarrith DoUrden
Lullerz. Get off the internet then, you capitalist pig.
Fake Fake Fake, well a couple might not be, but everyone of the ones showing lights is fake.
FAKE FAKE FAKE, IS THAT THE BEST YOU CAN DO!?
eejad,
I quite agree with most of your comments, yet I find it somewhat cynical, that you can slam the "civilized" nations, for their contempt of global reasoning, while you have the luxery of sitting at your globally positioned hi-tech computer to tell us what a bunch of SOB's they are.
Great shots BTW..
It makes me think how litle of it have I seen in my short life... :(
For the critics out there: we are aware of it. we know we destroy our planet. let us enjoy the pictures for a moment. If you want to do something then http://www.networkforgood.org/
totally not Iceland. check a globe there big guy.
Thanks Tarrith DoUrden, I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one completely dazed by the contradictions here...
All the irony showed here between the title claiming the infinite beauty of nature (which is by the way the base of my train of thought) and the pictures showing the endless crazy expansion of the greatest parasite the earth has ever known.
All I see in those night view pictures is the hypocrisy of an elite, a 20% of world wide population, living blindly in a unsustainable, hyper-egocentric lifestyle, sucking 80% of all earth resources, slobbering from every pore tons of waste that make all of us more and more closer to a point of no return. I see the triumph of the neoliberalism, a mentality that wants to recreate life at his image, to appropriate every living being, reorganize every parcels on earth by the self-proclaimed master of the earth, us and our so called knowledge.
I can't wait to see the day when this wealthy and supposedly most advanced civilization of ours will be outsmarted by nature, when we will realize that we are not the promoters of earth. We are a result of nature, our fragile organism (like others) totally rely on it. By obstructing more and more the complex mechanisms that took millions of years to build, we are the greatest predator of our own kind and most of other species. Us modern people are blinded by our technology, our cities, our heated houses. The illusion of a world made by humans for humans. First nations all around the world understood thousands of years ago that respecting their environment is the only way to survive.
I don't care if I'm a endangered specie. I don't care if I die. I'll have the satisfaction that I did all I could not to be part of this.
1. Buy nothing.
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Why can't we be friends?
Why can't we be friends?
Why can't we be friends?
Why can't we be friends?
The color of your skin don't matter to me
As long as we can live in harmony
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So what if they are photoshopped, the photos are great, makes me realise how wonderful this planet is. It's the only one we know of like it,so lets just enjoy it and look after it.
As I look at many sites with pictures, I notice that everyone's worried about it being photoshopped or not. Why can't everyone just acknowledge the pictures for what they are worth and enjoy them? Is that just too much to ask?
Those are some awesome photos. I love them.
preach it xusxt!
this is the reality.
damn these are fake
Tarrith DoUrden, you do realize in writing you have used electricity and have become one of the things you hate. So stop it! Go practice what you rant about. Live off the land and nothing else. No cars, electricity, coal, and hot showers or baths...nothing. Can you do it? Doubt it.
boo boo boo on fake pictures
Very beautiful pictures,very impressive.
It's sodding ghastly. Take a closer look.
The land has been pixalised by the human race, carving the land up into small patches of various brown and grey.
The most fertile parts of the planet have have cities where humans multiply, turning fertile green to infertile grey concrete.
Even at night humans make little glowing spots on the surface. This is NOT pretty. These are NOT Christmas lights. This is is the human race using an exorbitant amount of energy to see in the dark.
I'm glad you like dust storms, once all the green has gone, there will be a lot more to appreciate.
Take a closer look. What you see should make you all ill and somewhat afraid.
This is google earth call.
Look what you are doing to your planet.
Stop it.
google earth. as in, fake-real pictures of the earth.
This is indeed a great set of pictures of our planet. Great creativity though.
How can so many continents be in the dark simultaneously? Look closely at the 1st night-shot pic, its seems to be nighttime in North America, Europe and Asia. hmmmmmm?
Funny how the stars behind Earth don't change when the view of Earth changes ...
every singe one of those are photoshopped
AWESOME!!!
What a beautiful planet we live on. We should all live in peace and love each other instead of hurting each other.
fantastic.
Amazing stuff. It looks like I will be spend a lot more time going over your pages. I am just starting up WordPress.
Absolutely beautiful!! These pictures make me realize how small we really are in the whole scheme of things, and how lucky we are to be here. Thanks.
Wonderful! Wow! Thanks for the pictures