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Who dugg this? Made popular Jul 30, 2007

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  • lostradamus, on 10/10/2007, -5/+178This pic never gets old! Check out the huge difference between North/South Korea. Also how the light follows the Nile River for hundreds of miles.
  • BLyn, on 10/10/2007, -2/+167Even if you didn't see it in 95, the apparently necessary instructions give away that it's old:
    "Use your browser's scroll bars to see the entire picture"
  • Rapax, on 10/10/2007, -13/+165Old as the hills, but still cool. Dugg.
  • thatsmyaibo, on 10/10/2007, -9/+145In fact it's so old that those are all candle lights.
  • ViRaZ, on 10/10/2007, -4/+109So thats where all of the WoW players are located.
  • hmunkey, on 10/10/2007, -16/+112You need to see this, it's really amazing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar
  • PiSan314, on 10/10/2007, -2/+58The same way you take a rectangular picture of a sphere.
  • thatsmyaibo, on 10/10/2007, -3/+39Thank you! I'll be here all week. Try the fish.
  • archistudent, on 10/10/2007, -4/+40The difference between N and S Korea in this picture has been discussed before. It's important to note that this picture was probably taken after 11pm NKorea local time, because they have a standing rule to brownout the country, except the capital, after 11pm. NKorea has not been photoshopped, they just turn out the lights to save electricity. Weird, I know.
  • kandor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+36The pic posted is very poor quality compared to this one: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights2_dmsp_big.jpg
    Also, multiple versions available here:
    http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?vev1id=5826
  • gts1983, on 10/10/2007, -1/+31i knew the world was flat
  • lsbigbro11, on 10/10/2007, -5/+34Ba-Dum Chhhh
  • CannedMango, on 10/10/2007, -1/+29I've seen this many, many times, but it never gets boring to look at.

    This is a perfect illustration of distribution of wealth in the world. Notice how dark Africa is. (also notice how it is next to impossible to take my last comment out of context).
  • timusca, on 10/10/2007, -1/+29I'd be surprised if most people could even find where Korea is without lines and titles across the globe.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25hey did you get that thing i sent you?
  • MimsyMaple, on 10/10/2007, -5/+28Id like to poke at youre nazism buy noting that the comma shoulda ben a semicolon. (Nice try, though.)
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20Chad is sitting in the cubicle next to me.
  • Hipple, on 10/10/2007, -10/+30I'm digging you up because I understand sarcasm
  • loconet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19and in different shapes and sizes (better quality too).. http://images.google.ca/images?gbv=2&svnum=10&hl=en&safe=off&q=world+at+night&btnG=Search+Images
  • wbbb617, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19I had skipped over the comment and i was wondering where the heck australlia and asia were... thank god, they put the instructions there, i never would have seen them
  • domomike, on 10/10/2007, -4/+22Wow that would make a very low-quality, ugly wallpaper. lol
  • AKBryant54, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17Digg comments look more and more like youtube comments every day.
  • psg188, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19I was going to mention Korea, you beat me to it.

    Its really quite interesting how North Korea is so dark.
  • nodonoug, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Welcome to the Internet, hmunkey. It's called sarcasm.
  • ByronT, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17I'm soooooooooo insignificant...
  • mt066, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14"Not" should NOT be capitalized.
  • FadieZ, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Fun to see how much space we Canadians are wasting.
  • UnFriendlyFire, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Just in case you were serious, it's a composite picture.
  • tizz66, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Well, it's also an indication of how uninhabitable some parts of the world are, hence why most of Oz is dark. It's not just wealth, it's also the fact we can't live on vast areas of the planet for various reasons.
  • tomesnyder, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Of course. If the entire earth experienced night at the same time we'd be in big trouble.
  • sbolanos, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14New Game: Spot the Developing countries!
  • GliTCH82, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Tell that ***** he owes me $80
  • Wormfather, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Wow, just wow...seemed real to me.
  • houndeyex, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Apparently you needed INSTRUCTIONS too. Idiot.
  • mrblue182, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10title should have been " Wow players by location"
  • TrevorBelmont, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11No digg AND buried? You must REALLY hate old photos!
  • BoMEpsilon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Is that's why Antarctica is so dark?
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11How the ***** do you figure this is spam? You're a ***** retard.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Actually, in this case it's satire.
  • tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9LMAO that poor bastard.
    BTW, I speak some French, and the subtitles (at least for the question and its answers--French people talk too fast for me to fully get what they are saying :D) are accurate. And I think it's obvious the audience was toying with him.
  • archistudent, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8As a resident of Nebraska, I assure you that we really have that much open space. Wyoming is even more sparse outside of towns and cities.
  • jmpeagle, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9what's cool is that you can see the border of South Korean and N. Korea...goes from lights to pitch black
  • jkleinfeld, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8one interesting feature is how the Trans-Siberian railway (or whatever they call it nowadays) is home to many communities built in the surrounding areas.
    the extent of the build-up is evident in the picture.

    similar patterns occur by the river nile and the amazon river
  • JohnP, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Why would light density change with population density? Youre not seeing a light over every persons head, youre seeing lights installed in buildings and streets, hence the dense lighting in cities. There is no indication how many people are in the area, just how many lights are installed. They are not statistically connected.
  • paulisnotdead, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7HI I too am an American teenager, how the hell can you not know where the Nile/N. Korea is?
  • loconet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7From the November 2000 APOD entry: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001127.html
    " Explanation: This is what the Earth looks like at night. Can you find your favorite country or city? Surprisingly, city lights make this task quite possible. Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth's surface, including the seaboards of Europe, the eastern United States, and Japan. Many large cities are located near rivers or oceans so that they can exchange goods cheaply by boat. Particularly dark areas include the central parts of South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The above image is actually a composite of hundreds of pictures made by the orbiting DMSP satellites. "
  • prockcore, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8We're digging you down because the rest of us understand how composites work.
  • creativeamp68, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7What I want to know is...who is living in that one lone light FAR to the north of Canada?
  • mablco, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Bermuda
  • JoWiGo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Wait... are you saying Greenland ISN'T the size of South America? Blasphemy!
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