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- where "Wow" stands for "world of wildness", pretty much.
<ahref="http://kottke.org/13/05/the-long-swath">This was a remarkable thing to wake up to. A NASA satellite filmed a swath of planet, 120 miles wide and 6K miles long, and stitched that into a fifteen-minute video. If you have the time and a decent monitor, it's well worth your attention. One of the lovely things is that no one has dubbed music onto it, it is what it is, pure visual. One of the extraordinary things is that they could still find that much planet - it runs from Russia to South Africa - with absolutely no evidence of urbanisation, barely any signs of habitation. There's agriculture here and there, the occasional road; once I saw the shadow of an aircraft. Mostly, though, it's pure geography. Much recommended.
<ahref="http://kottke.org/13/05/the-long-swath">This was a remarkable thing to wake up to. A NASA satellite filmed a swath of planet, 120 miles wide and 6K miles long, and stitched that into a fifteen-minute video. If you have the time and a decent monitor, it's well worth your attention. One of the lovely things is that no one has dubbed music onto it, it is what it is, pure visual. One of the extraordinary things is that they could still find that much planet - it runs from Russia to South Africa - with absolutely no evidence of urbanisation, barely any signs of habitation. There's agriculture here and there, the occasional road; once I saw the shadow of an aircraft. Mostly, though, it's pure geography. Much recommended.