The world

[Thoras]

Here's a pretty neat link
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg

[Gadwin]

Hey, I can see my house ;) *eyeshift*

[illabrat]

You can see the aluminuim smelter that's at my hometown. Pretty cool ;)

[Vertilus]

And it looks really cool as a wallpaper, too.

Vertilus Peritonitus

[Brassy]

Oh yes it does make a lovely wallpaper. Has been wallpaper in my home for a while now. ;)

[Govan]

Canada must conserve light or something ;) Kinda funny, we just POOF and vanish off that map ;p

[Stonespyder]

Everyone knows Canada isn't part of the known world

Do we even recognize you in the UN?

It'd be better if we pretended you didn't exist! :D

[Dragonion]

I seriously didn't know people lived in Canada until I was 12...

[Roadkill]

That map is cool look at England energy all over the place

[TheBigBeef]

Oh yeah, Canada's there... Just take a marker and draw a line on yer screen where the 49th parrallel should be. :) You can see bright dots where Montreal and Quebec are, as well as Toronto/Ottawa.

But the question is: What are those dots up in northern Nunavit? And on the west side of Greenland? Creepy.. (must be some secret government staging area preparing for the Denmarkish invasion of Newfoundland... ;)

[roadstrom]

Originally posted by TheBigBeef
But the question is: What are those dots up in northern Nunavit? And on the west side of Greenland? Creepy.. (must be some secret government staging area preparing for the Denmarkish invasion of Newfoundland... ;)

One on the west side of greenland will probably be Thule USAF base.

http://www.thule.af.mil/index2.htm

There is no “local town.” The closest Inuit (native Eskimo) village, Qaanaaq, is 65 miles away. There is no “off-base” except for the bay, the ice cap, and what appears to be thousands of miles of rocks.

There was a quote somewhere that female military personnel at Thule had a 50%/year pregnancy rate, but I didn't bother to look for it. At some other bases the rate is as low as 17%.

That's probably the dim one on the west side of the triangle, leaving the two brighter greenland ones as something else.

I was surprised how well the US part outlined interstate highways. It's like a whole lot of towns turned bright because the interstates were there.

And egypt -- everybody knows it's a whole lot of people on the nile, but this shows it. Clearly egypt has no possible defense against WMDs. They're just too close together. Taiwan is lit up on the side facing china, all the stuff that would get bombed first in an attack. Of course the chinese won't attack, they'll just keep closing in until taiwan gradually negotiates a surrender, but... And I knew how central Salt Lake City and Denver were to the west, but this shows it, if you want to use interstates going east-west you either go way north or way south or you go through one of the two.

Anybody who wanted to think about geopolitics could do a lot worse than meditate for a few hours on that map. One way or another most of those lights are lit up by oil. It comes from a few places and goes to those places to be burned and turned into electricity etc. The lights don't match up with populations very well, the places with the most people don't have the most lights. Take it from there.

[Takius]

Look at Korea...

There are also two faint dots on Antarctica.

[Marnevel]

You can see the lines of the railroads in central Asia, too.

[Mast3rMind]

I'm guessing the dots on Antarctica are the research stations?

[Antonisus]

Yeah, in Korea the lights shut off at the demarcation line. P’yongyang is the only place is North Korea with power.

[sdtc91]

Nice... www.terraserver.com is cool. You can get a pic of your house from space up to 8 meters i think... btw i'm making a pole thing for class... some one answer it plz

[Mast3rMind]

Sweet site. :)