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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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!