Turns out, it is a river in Egypt
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Turns out, it is a river in Egypt
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Re: Turns out, it is a river in Egypt
#2Back on the ground, most of the land area around the river is dark, of course, because it’s desert.
Maybe I'm weird, but now I want to know what those lonely spots of light are.
Re: Turns out, it is a river in Egypt
#3Back on the ground, most of the land area around the river is dark, of course, because it’s desert. Maybe I'm weird, but now I want to know what those lonely spots of light are.
from google maps, you can figure out some of the places by comparing them to the satellite image: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
this seems to be one of the more isolated ones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahariya_Oasis
pretty fascinating.
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#4Looking at a composite night picture of the world, another river with a heavy relative concentration seems to be the Indus in Pakistan. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights2_dmsp_big.j...
In general, the picture provides a great insight into both the affluence and population density of various parts of the world.
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#5Back on the ground, most of the land area around the river is dark, of course, because it’s desert. Maybe I'm weird, but now I want to know what those lonely spots of light are.
from google maps, you can figure out some of the places by comparing them to the satellite image: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&... this seems to be one of the more isolated ones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahariya_Oasis pretty fascinating.
Thats what I was thinking. The few places in the desert that people found water.
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#6I'm in Egypt at the moment. We're in Dahab, on the Sinai peninsular - but we spent several weeks travelling on the Nile from Cairo to Aswan and Luxor before we got here.
The experience that really brought home the importance of the Nile was taking the overnight train from Cairo to Aswan. You wake up in the morning to sunrise over the Nile. If you look out of the left hand window of the train, you see desert - nothing but sand and rocks. If you look out of the right hand window, you see literally just a few hundred metres of lush green farmland followed by the expanse of the river. It makes you realise that a large chunk of Egypt's usable land is hundreds of miles long but less than half a mile wide.
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#7Anyone know what this article meant by "enphaoronate"?
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#8Of course, pictures like this are more profound for what you don’t see: country borders.
There are some borders you can see from space, such as the transition between North and South Korea:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/dprk/dprk-dark....
Re: Turns out, it is a river in Egypt
#9Back on the ground, most of the land area around the river is dark, of course, because it’s desert. Maybe I'm weird, but now I want to know what those lonely spots of light are.
> Maybe I'm weird, but now I want to know what those lonely spots of light are.
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#10Anyone know what this article meant by "enphaoronate"?
Pretty sure it's just a goof trying to make a word that sounds like it means 'enlarge' with 'pharoah' in it. The tone of the article sounds like the author may have been a little loopy on some 'medicine' when writing.
Sure, space travel will pay for itself by engendering international love. Um, ok.