[Profane]

Using the Internet to inform people of how they overuse electricity is like carving save the whales into a bunch of baby seals.

[cyberdeth]

Originally Posted by bluesrodder

omg don't even try to put yourself in the same boat as Einstein, the father of special relativity and the search for the unified theory. he was a genius and you are not. now about me not adding anything useful to this conversation, there is nothing to be added. you basically asked to get pooped on and thats what happened. what you did was take a picture you thought you could morph and mold to fit your propaganda hate-speech and then failed at doing it. you tried sooo hard to make an "intelligent" "sophisticated" and "liberal I am better than you" stab at this that you fucked yourself. if you had just put he picture out there then we would have discussed it but now this isn't about he picture its about how you think that you are on a high horse and you can talk down to people because you turn off your lights sometimes. typical liberal agenda, they think that since they are more sophisticated then the normal "stupid white americans" they have to tell all the dumb masses of people how to live their life because they are too unintelligent to do it themselves. you really do sound like the typical stoner who tries to sound smart at a party by talking all deep and intellectual but everyone outside the box is just saying to themselves "wtf is this guy talking about?"

When did T-Town get a Republican???

[GracieMMABarra]

Originally Posted by SpacePotato

Three things that have absolutely nothing to do with the original post... damn, that's some real ownage. How bout right now I race you to my desk -- bing! I won! Pwn3d!!

Dammit, you always win the desk races. One day I will beat you, that I promise.

[cyberdeth]

Originally Posted by enginekid

This is the Earth at nighttime. Notice that North America, mainly the USA is using massive power 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Next is Western Europe, than Japan. There are major cities around the globe that also have this intensity of light all night.



The all-night-long power grid represents a direct relationship with industrial activity, automotive activity, and any other activities that use electric power. All these activities are not pretty Christmas lights for the kids ... or cool light shows for the stoners... they represent "cancer" to the planet Earth. And present the highest levels of heat trapping gases: The USA being the major culprit.

The best analogy is, the area with the high levels of light indicates spreading cancer - which is harbinger of the impending doom of the ecosystem, all its species, (e.g. the worlds frogs are all dying off, they are the indicator species of eco-health). Ultimately the major species that's causing it, the apex predator, will die in the end ... humans.

Sadly, areas like India are starting to become lit up like Europe and the USA. Not even close yet to the brightness and intensity of the USA but one day if they stay on this path it will be. Post-industrial Human activity is the root of the disease. Western countries are the ones most responsible for engineering, marketing, and spreading the industrialization.

If you look around at the rest of the planet that is mostly in the dark at night you can see it's in areas like Africa, South America, and Eurasia. The all-night-long power-sucking vampires of the planet are impoverishing the Earth. The party won't last my friends. You think technology will save us? The Earth laughs in our faces. We are at a tipping point in human history. All the people who think of themselves as the “have-mores” and laugh at the poor, “have-nots” are the true cancers of this world. The planet and nature has no ability though to discriminate between rich and poor individuals or nations. Nothing you own will save you; not your houses, your SUV's, your bank accounts, your guns, your medications...nothing. Once this ship tips, the party is OVER.

You are either a part of the disease or a part of the solution. You either deny the truth or accept this disease exists and start doing something about it. Our kids will have nothing but a world sucked dry by our slothful ways, greedy soul, and mental apathy.

Where were you a few years back when the Japanese were buying up most of Vancouver and cutting down all those trees that used to make Vancouver so beautiful???

[BIel Casen]

Originally Posted by SpacePotato

Three things that have absolutely nothing to do with the original post... damn, that's some real ownage. How bout right now I race you to my desk -- bing! I won! Pwn3d!!

You have no clue what you're talking about.

The polar orbit of the satellite means it goes from South to North or VV, starts in Mexico and goes to Canada in a vertical line. It takes a picture of the entire US in one shot from that altitude.

Its NOT taking a picture of New York at 8 pm and a picture of California at 8pm and sewing them together. Its taking a picture of New York at 8pm and California at 5pm, and that's why there are few lights on in the state of California.

Texas alone is bigger than France, so its most likely taking a picture of all of Europe at the same time also.

Russia alone has 11 different time zones, so the effect of taking a picture of the area at once is grossly magnified over the US example, which is why Russia is dark.

I'd be happy to address any further questions you have.

[bluesrodder]

Originally Posted by cyberdeth

When did T-Town get a Republican???

haha. puyallup actually to be specific but i would say im more independent and i call them like i see them . michael savage style i guess. are you from around here? there is bef. a more liberal base up here in the NW but its ok.. ha

[SpacePotato]

Originally Posted by cyberdeth

Where were you a few years back when the Japanese were buying up most of Vancouver and cutting down all those trees that used to make Vancouver so beautiful???

Probably eating tuna sushi with disposable wooden chopsticks while lecturing said Japanese about the evil of their flora and fauna destroying ways.

[enginekid]

can you ban a guy like casen just based on him posting that nonsense? i mean it could easily fall under trolling. its pathetic

[LeviAJones]

My favorite line: The Earth laughs in our faces.

That bitch won't be laughing when we turn this shit hole into a 24/7 water park

[SpacePotato]

Originally Posted by BIel Casen

You have no clue what you're talking about.

The polar orbit of the satellite means it goes from South to North or VV, starts in Mexico and goes to Canada in a vertical line. It takes a picture of the entire US in one shot from that altitude.

Its NOT taking a picture of New York at 8 pm and a picture of California at 8pm and sewing them together. Its taking a picture of New York at 8pm and California at 5pm, and that's why there are few lights on in the state of California.

Texas alone is bigger than France, so its most likely taking a picture of all of Europe at the same time also.

Russia alone has 11 different time zones, so the effect of taking a picture of the area at once is grossly magnified over the US example, which is why Russia is dark.

I'd be happy to address any further questions you have.

Great. Here are 3:

1) Did you even bother to read the text in your own PwN3d post? The part that says "The above image is actually a composite of hundreds of pictures made by the orbiting DMSP satellites."
2) Do you really think that the people at NASA are so fucking stupid, that in spite of the effort of pulling together hundreds of satellite photos to make this composite image, it never occurred to them to pull together images of each place at very similar times of days? Do you really think they are so stupid that they used hundreds of different shots, but just chose to go ahead and use shots from totally different times of day in different places?
3) Do you own a bowflex and and extension cord?