World at night
 

This is a nice pic =/

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ima...s_dmsp_big.jpg

i think i see my house!!!

You can easily see where the "devoloped" countries are...

Australia and NZ are "developed", just like Canada. It simply doesn't show up too well, since they don't seem too addicted to electricity.

Wheres all the lights in Antartica?

The east side of USA has the most lights.

africsa is desolated lmao look at it only south africa has lights , the other sparkles are campfires from indians

lol !!
Are you serious ?




It's because most of 80% of Australian territory is a desert...

Right around the left side of Lake Michigan, there is a bright area, I contributed! :)

Big dots = Power plants

i see hoover dam near arizona/nevada =o

and i see a certain nuclear plant too =p


Chruser brought up an itresting point, see those 2 lights by madagasgar in the ocean? those are huge... power supplys... secret military bases? nucleur siloS? why would 2 TINY isalnds off the coast of madagasgar have that much power? =0

I hope its a given that those lights are added, I mean, if you can see the enitre US and Canada from a Satellite like that your not gonna be seeing lights like that.

Plus, the whole world isnt dark at once, ever, so I'm assuming its seperate pictures merged together.

prolly, but still its by NASA =p

Yeah, that and the whole "Earth is Round" thing.

Actually, these 2 islands are :
- Mauritius
- A french overseas department called " L'ile de la Reunion".


The brightest areas of the Earth are the most urbanized, but not necessarily the most populated.
In Russia, the Trans-Siberian railroad is a thin line stretching from Moscow through the center of Asia to Vladivostok. The Nile River, from the Aswan Dam to the Mediterranean Sea, is another bright thread through an otherwise dark region.



The above image is actually a composite of hundreds of pictures made by the orbiting DMSP satellites.

utah? how boring

The reason why the whole west side of China is 'dark' is due to the vast elavated mountain surroundings. The people who chose to live there (Gologs) are practically cut off from the modern world.

theres like not a single lite in antartica =( i wanna build the first major antartica city and name it Yungville

yungville? bah what about

penguinapollis

you bet mos tof the citizens there r penguins

good old canada, dark so I can sleep better

canada? developed? lolololol:O) :O) :O) :O) :O)

nononono you got it all wrong... you said most of the'citizens' r penguins? more like most of the penguins are slaves... and anyone who lived in yungville would get a free penguin slave! now aint that a deal!

Penguin slaves, eh? Would some of them be running around in a hamster wheel device to provide electricity? You know, so Yungville would show up on the map?

But we are developed as much as the US is. Did any one in Canada see "Talking to Americans"? It was the funniest show ever.

I've seen that one :O) ^_^ :O) :O) . They were talking about how Canada's second ever flag desgin should be and they had the chose of a hockey stick&puck, an eskimo, an a beever or the original Canada flag and almost everone they asked picked the hockey stick and puck wich proved them to be pretty lame and never even once saw how an original Canadien flag looks like and how Canada should get their first ever Naval base and they all said 'really?' and 'sure' saying how good it was to be catching up to the Americans and all pretty funny shit.

There was a movie about it once, I can't remember the name of it but they were talking about how the US need another country to be an enemy to boost president ratings so they said it was Canada and how 90% of the Canadien population was lined up agains the US boarders and everybody believe in it and they sent Americans dressed up as 'dorky' Canadiens spying on the Americans and they were 'caught' so everyone believed in it.

Yup and John Candy was in that movie.. it was pretty funny to bad I forgot the name of it.

nice. thanks penguin.