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- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -23/+491Title says the submitters sucks at writing descriptions.
- roomforpanic, on 10/12/2007, -11/+220Since when is the word say possessive?
- PhillipJFry, on 10/12/2007, -21/+227For ***** Sake!
The quality of comments is one thing, but the quality of submissions really needs to be improved. First we have the fact that the title doesn't actually say it all. It could be a lot more descriptive. Why no information about how the illusion is formed by water-filled terraces creating interesting lines and colors? That wasn't hard.
Secondly, "say's" isn't even a word. It's not a ***** word! I can understand getting your and you're confused, but this is simply pathetic. Get your ***** together submitters. - D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+113Some day I'm going to find a story and title it "Description says it all", then give a detailed description of the story/picture/video
- hadak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+86I didn't know China was paint by number.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+58galaad...
He resized it in photoshop and saved it. Thats all that that metadata says.
Stick to reading detective stories. - badjoke, on 10/12/2007, -2/+56In case anybody's wondering, they're flattened parts of hills called terraces.
- noisician, on 10/12/2007, -7/+51at least they didn't cut down all the vegitation, pave it and slap up a Walmart
yet - skyfire1, on 10/12/2007, -6/+47Google satellite or it didn't happen.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+47You, sir, are a *****.
- Fedallah, on 10/12/2007, -2/+41...the description calls it an abstract pattern, not an abstract painting.
Abstract ≠ painting. Time to go work on your reading comprehension. - automan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+39i found these pictures of china a year or so ago. here they are:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/automan/486978832/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/automan/486978838/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/automan/486978854/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/automan/486978858/ - stevenvh, on 10/12/2007, -14/+48Yes
- Eryin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35Hopefully we (china) will do something about the severe pollution, before the only memories we have of these landscapes are through photo's.
- petdance, on 10/12/2007, -2/+34Automatic downvote for "title says it all", when it doesn't. Bonus downvote for apostrophic jihad.
- Jumba990, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29Uhm, I'm not sure, but when you say 'Photo of" we automaticly assume that it's a pic right? *points to the (pic!)*
- undersky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27why do you guys need to verify this or cry out "fake" about this picture? It doesn't look fake to me. I learned in elementary school (I am a Chinese immigrant) that this style of farming is called "Stair Farm" because of their obvious topological shapes.
The title says Yunnan which is a province consisted mostly of parallel mountain peak and river trough. The entire province is like that, full of North-South rivers between the North-South mountain ridges.
http://milos2.zoo.ox.ac.uk/~hilary/yunnan2004/prospectus_body.htm
Because of its continuous change in elevation, there is very little flat land for farming. What people did was creating levels of flat lands on the slanting slope side of mountains, hence the look of "stairs." The different color of water is simply different stages of the farming or crops. - neebs, on 10/12/2007, -5/+30@PhillipJFry
It's "For *****'s Sake". Funny how when you rail on someone for adding an extra apostrophe, you forget one. Just proof that the world tends toward balance, I guess. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+28sounds like you have no idea about people work in paddy fields
- Sornos, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22Though I do not agree with you, dugg up for "apostrophic jihad".
- RSPDude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17That's pretty cool. Photography can be amazing.
- gravis86, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=24.862769,103.133898&spn=0.003553,0.00648&z=18
- Rocketman1882, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17They actually do use human feces in their agriculture. I was in China over Spring Break.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_soil - Leonx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15i Find this instead:
http://www.heartfeltmedicine.com/images/Terrace_field_yunnan_china.jpg - kingfelix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13http://www.digg.com/programming/Description_says_it_all_8
or
http://www.digg.com/programming/Description_says_it_all_5 - jhw549, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13yeah, it's called aerial photography...
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13While all the short-sighted, egotistical idiots bitch about grammar, I can appreciate that the title may have been written by someone with little command of the English language -- perhaps someone who was raised speaking some other language.
I appreciate the fact that they were willing to risk the attempted ridicule by every ignoramus who has a keyboard and a digg membership, and still posted this awesome picture.
(Why don't you immature digg-morons go and learn Chinese, so others can post about how stupid you are? Do you think perfect English is easy to learn? There are so many inconsistencies.)
I got it exactly from the title, and liked the photo.
I just want to say... F**k all y'all -- and I mean that in the nicest possible way! ;-) - Comatose51, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Actually those are rice fields found in southern China. Northern China is a wheat growing region. Southern China is the rice growing region because of its humid climate. Historically, the rice is then shipped north via the grand canal to feed the population centers in northern China and "China Proper" (the cradle of the Chinese civilization at the mouth of the Yellow river.)
As for the comment on using human feces as fertilizer, that's definitely true. My father when he was a kid had the unpleasant job of having to fertilize the farm with that... crap. Anyone here ever wonder why the Chinese don't have salad on their menu? The Chinese always thoroughly wash and cook their vegetables for this reason. This was a very self sufficiently and environmentally friendly way of farming, which sustained China and its huge population for most of its history until recently when they started switching over to chemical fertilizers. - wayne247, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10What? The wiki page clearly mentions the origin of the photograph, http://www.peace-on-earth.org/China/index3.html
The word "abstract" doesn't mean it's fake, it means that the shapes do not resemble anything in particular, sort of a random fashion. - PuyoDead, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13It sure is a good thing the title said it all. I didn't even have to bother following the link! Amazing, I guess the whole "a picture is worth a thousand words" thing works both ways. Why, I even learned a new word! Say's! I'm not really sure where to use it yet, but I'm sure it'll be all the rage soon enough.
- Hashiro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9@Neatchee
You're right... It is abstract... But it's still a photo!
If I take a picture of a painting, does that make my picture a paining? NO!
If I take a picture of some abstract terraces in China that happen to look like a painting, does that make my picture a painting? NO! - chaersi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7wow, how original!
- crabnebula78, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Hm, that's rather Fauvist and Post-Impressionistic. Cezanne anyone? *puts away the art snob*
That's pretty amazing. - EruLabs, on 10/12/2007, -7/+13Its a tad akin to gold farming in wow. Only, sadder and real.
By the way, thats not necessarily true about human feces, these people have survived for thousands of years growing rice. They use feces for fertilizer, but Im not too sure about human waste. I think you would hear alot more about wide spread disease there. Also, they sell that food, and theres no way that passes international standards.
Just pointing it out. Pretty pic too - Zatechz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It pisses me off, and I can't seem to stop reading...
- koolmanoncampus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrace_%28agriculture%29 is a working link
- macstevie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@galaad
If you were really looking at the picture you would have realized that it's probably not photoshopped, I know that you can do a lot with it, but if you look at all the trees around what is supposedly 'photoshopped,' you would realize almost every single one of them look like they do in any picture.Also, why would it be on wikipedia and be photoshopped, unless maybe it's displaying what photoshop could do. - NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'd say it looks more like stained glass.
- ShrimpCrackers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3As an Asian person, all I can say is that this is common place and can be found all over Asia. Its just a method of hillside farming.
I've seen terrace farming in Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia, China, Japan, just to name a few.
I don't know why just because it looks different some would call it photoshop. Some diggers really need to get out more.
Also this is NO INDICATION of POLLUTION! I've seen many a terrace farm next to a billowing factory of some sort and not too far a pile of trash. (Hillsides that follow along roads are popular dumping places throughout Asia) - liutang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3These fields are in southwest China; where it's more suitable to grow rice.
- silverchrysalis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3wrong thread much?
- hellochildren31, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2so this isnt digg anymore but a big huge grammar bee? "say's isnt a word" WHO CARES. this isnt a 4th grade test on grammar or spelling. the description could have been better but the fact that it was "title say's it all" doesnt make this guy a retard.
- atbnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No the ***** title doesn't say it all. Why are there so many different colors in the picture? What caused it to look that way? If the god damn title said it all, I wouldn't need to ask these questions.
- kaison, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Do you reckon chinese people get tattoos of english words?
Sorry, but how the hell else was I gonna fit a joke in? - gummih, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Paint by numbers?
- th3heretic, on 10/12/2007, -9/+11You people must be making up for lack of intelligence by being grammar nazis.
- Mirag3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've been to China and yes, certain parts of the countryside do look like that. It really is an interesting environment, im just not a fan of what the China has done to it (Shanghai is a mess that smells absolutely horrible, Beijing isn't much better, Xi'an is a slum, etc.).
NO it is not photoshopped, you people are idiots. - dimplemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I feel like searching for the little numbers that tell you which color to use. Pretty cool.
- Comatose51, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Those are rice fields, found all over China. The design is quite clever in that water left over from the top splits down and used to irrigate the next level. China had for most of its history very advanced agricultural science that allowed it to sustain its incredible population. The use of human feces as fertilizer also made them very self-sustaining. Of course, this is why the Chinese always wash and cook their vegetables. Ever wonder why there are no salads in a Chinese restaurant?
- schmitey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2they must like mosquitoes and waterborne disease!!!
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