Brad N Bendily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I might just make it my KDE background (now it's on topic ;) )
> I know this is off topic, but if you look at this site using your > Linux machine then it's close to the topic? ! ;) > > However, this is a really great photo of the earth at night. > > http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg > > > > > > The image is a panoramic view of the world from the new space station. It is > a night > photo with the lights clearly indicating the populated areas. After > enlarging the picture, you can scroll East-West and North-South. > > Note that Canada's population is almost exclusively along the U.S. border. > Moving east, to Europe, there is a high population concentration along the > Mediterranean Coast. It's easy to spot London, Paris, Stockholm and Vienna. > Check out the development of Israel compared to the rest of the Arab > countries. Note the Nile River and the rest of the "Dark Continent". > > After the Nile, the lights don't come on again until Johannesburg. Look at > the Australian Outback and the Trans-Siberian Rail Route. Moving east, the > most striking observation is the difference between North and South Korea. > Note the density of Japan! . > > What a piece of photography. It is an absolutely awesome picture of the > Earth taken from the Boeing-built Space Station last November, on a perfect > night with no obscuring atmospheric conditions. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -- Scott Harney<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...and one script to rule them all." gpg key fingerprint=7125 0BD3 8EC4 08D7 321D CEE9 F024 7DA6 0BC7 94E5
