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- Nootay, on 05/09/2008, -11/+49it just looks like the picture is darkened with some clouds added. even the wave pattern stays exactly the same
- Nayson, on 05/09/2008, -2/+34I dont think it conveys the horror of what really happened there. It just looks like a cloudy day from that height.
- CivilBryan, on 05/09/2008, -3/+27No clouds. Clouds. How bizzarre
- StrangeFamous, on 05/09/2008, -0/+24The water has been churned up with mud, so you have to look for where the greens have become brown. The villages and fields are distinct in the first pic, but in the second, they're mostly indistinguishable from all the brown muck. Keep in mind that it's a satellite pic, so you have to imagine the impact on the ground if an area that large was completely inundated.
- willk281, on 05/09/2008, -2/+24Why do all the same people digg all of your stories mrbabyman? that doesn't seem very fair that you can get 50+ diggs no matter what you post. Granted, this is current, unlike that horrible 75 things a man needs to know thing. how did that make it to the top? Someone isn't playing by the rules! http://exposingtheflock.blogspot.com/
- Dundasbro, on 05/09/2008, -5/+15Because you are an uninformed tool?
- IphtashuFitz, on 05/09/2008, -0/+8Hopefully there's a special place in hell reserved for the military leaders of Myanmar for refusing to let aid into their country and letting tens of thousands die needlessly.
- bstock, on 05/09/2008, -0/+6Here's a good picture from NASA's Earth Observatory:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImage ... - manstein01, on 05/09/2008, -0/+6Yeah, I drew a blank too. You have to wave the pointer over to the far right to see ANY flooding, and even then it was hard to see.
- zadadka, on 05/09/2008, -2/+8Try using Google or even Wikipedia to educate yourself instead of making crass comments.
Thanks. - typotype2, on 05/09/2008, -8/+13That is probably the most powerful use of a rollover that I've seen.
- Dohko_Xar, on 05/09/2008, -2/+6you are the worthless scum
- jayomatic, on 05/09/2008, -2/+6Why isn't J Peterman helping out?
- Ganja420, on 05/09/2008, -2/+6how bizarre, how bizzare
- yourbrokenoven, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4only difference between the two photos that i can see is that one is brown and has clouds, while the other is green and has no clouds. way to go. whoopie.
- jamesweston, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4Its called Burma
- IphtashuFitz, on 05/09/2008, -1/+4You're kidding, right? The US government was just plain inept, but aid did get into the affected areas very quickly. In Myanmar they're refusing to let any aid workers or thousands of tons of supplies in a week after the cyclone. They're putting propaganda on the tv & radio showing their own military offering aid in very limited ways (and most likely the UN supplies that they seized when it arrived) while the international media is showing the truth of thousands of their people suffering and dying due to lack of food and water. There's no comparison between the two whatsoever.
- Feyr, on 05/09/2008, -2/+5nothing to see here move along. the photo is deceptive to the max. the latter "after the flood" picture was taken at a different time and/or intentionally darkened to make it look gloomy and elicit "oh noes" reactions.
- TheoDork, on 05/09/2008, -2/+5The only way to get people to care about anything: Interactive Maps
- willk281, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Sorry if I made that assumption. It wasn't my intention to assume a "level playing field," even though that whole bit seems rather trivial to my point.
- schweeet, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Exactly. Give me a Google Street view of the siutation and I'll crap my pants.
- momsshizzle, on 05/09/2008, -3/+5More clouds?
- jaybol, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2You should listen to Mrbabyman's podcast at thedrilldown.com if you want to know what he is really all about. He truly likes social media and enjoys putting content on the front page of digg because he cares about the site and wants to entertain people. obviously, not everyone is going to like everything on the front page of the site, but not every story on any news or entertainment site is going to be appealing to everyone. Put the time into submitting the content you want to see on the front page and make friends who have your same interests before you complain.
- sny1120, on 05/09/2008, -2/+4No. You have to move your pointer to the edges of the picture to see the difference. Leaving your pointer in the middle will give you a morphed images of both pictures.
- drakenlot, on 05/09/2008, -1/+3Hmm, I really don't know what to say to you, other than I'm sorry you're a gigantic *****.
- diggerpleez, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1Maybe if I stare closely and slightly cross my eyes I will start to see the damage. I have never been good at these things.
- mahdroo, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1This piciture is WAY more representational. Why aren't we digging THIS pic?
- StrangeFamous, on 05/09/2008, -1/+2Tens of thousands of dead bodies have been found already, either buried in mud or floating by in the floodwater. The number of casualties is increasing constantly as they find entire villages that have been erased. It's kind of a big deal.
Also, the government is delaying the delivery of aid from the UN, which is threatening the lives of countless more to disease. - StrangeFamous, on 05/09/2008, -1/+2Would you say the same thing about Katrina if the media coverage wasn't good enough?
The photos aren't all that useful in relaying the damage, but at least they still get people talking about the crisis. - inactive, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1Looking at that I'd just think it is a different season and more cloudy. Hard to tell what kind of destruction really happened there from those images.
- liljay2k, on 05/09/2008, -1/+2this could of been so much better..
- epitome89, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1Its global warming! Everybody run for your lives!
- talkingpidgin, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1or the picture happened to be taken at a different time on a different day. I think the air of gloomyness comes also from a city turning into a giant rice patty, I don't think that was the lighting.
- TimberWolfGirl, on 05/09/2008, -4/+5So so so sad.
- nightwing2000, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1My thought exactly - "It's certainly gotten a little more cloudy in the last 4 years".
The contrast isn't that great, I assume I can see a few fields are flooded, but I don't see sections of coastline missing, roads gone, etc. - or even the rivers rerouted.
I'm sure it looks more obvious at ground level. - drakenlot, on 05/09/2008, -2/+3Why even bother whining about it? It's not going to change any time soon. I personally like some of his submissions, though I rarely ever digg them.
- inactive, on 05/09/2008, -1/+2Even though I naturally want to hate Mr. BabyMan, I'm glad he does what he does (when it isn't old as *****), because i wouldn't do it, and I wanna see it.
- withears, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1Does anybody remember a scrollling-type picture from the Banda Aceh damage in the 2004 tsunami? You could move your cursor left or right to expose damage over the picture. Post a link if you have it, please.
- malman4, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1Crisis like village-no village.....people-no people.
- drakenlot, on 05/09/2008, -1/+2Agreed, and the same can be said of all the news reporters on the scene. They don't go to the worst hit areas due to no way of driving there.
- dmadip, on 05/09/2008, -2/+3looks the same to me
- hydrodev, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1that was pointless.
- MusicMagi, on 05/09/2008, -0/+0nothing gets by you
- drakenlot, on 05/09/2008, -1/+1Look at a lot of the small villages in the picture from the left, then try to find them in the pic on the right, they aren't there.
- twertyto, on 05/09/2008, -1/+1The fault is mostly not with MrBabyMan but with the 'same people that digg his stories', if that is even true. I hope it is not. I think a perfect realization of Digg would not be guided by popularity at all. I would say that submitting 8,900 stories is a bit excessive.
- auto98, on 05/09/2008, -3/+3yar - same re: katrina (maybe not the scale, but of course the US refused aid and did nothing for ages
- FlimBlimmer, on 05/09/2008, -0/+0Cuz he's high on yam yam and chilling in a cave with some servants.
- 4abtrlife, on 05/13/2008, -0/+0Juntas are crazy. The so called representatives of their kind destroying their own!
- jjef, on 05/09/2008, -1/+1the clouds get in the way
- Ruger11mcrdpi, on 05/10/2008, -0/+0What is so sad is how they will not let foreign, UN/US aid into the country. We could have already had two hospital ships, two Marine MEUs and round the clock airdrops of supplies in the area... Believe it or not there is a HUGE push in the US military (from inside leadership) to begin using our Navy more and more as a humanitarian aid force, like we've done in the Philipines, and Indonesia. Sad. So Sad. up to 2 million people homeless.
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