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15 comments to "Cities at Night, an Orbital Tour Around the World"
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sigh
May 19th, 2008 at
3:24 pm
The WorldWide Telescope has an option to view the Earth at night.
Unfortunately, they only have low resolution images. Hopefully that will be updated though, if WWT is [will be] everything they say it is. -
CheeseDuck
May 19th, 2008 at
3:42 pm
Why can’t Google Earth do this?
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Nick
May 19th, 2008 at
3:46 pm
The astronaut Story Musgrave used to take using this same technique, but he did it by hand.
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Tata
May 19th, 2008 at
4:11 pm
very nice your blog.
See this is: http://lista10.org
Incredible
thanks
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Adam Stanhope
May 19th, 2008 at
4:31 pm
Awesome post!
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andrewdoane
May 19th, 2008 at
4:42 pm
I recognize that first city as Chicago… unless there is another city in the same position relative to a body of water, in which case I apologize for my ethnocentrism!
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Will
May 19th, 2008 at
5:45 pm
Astronaut Don Pettit is a cool, nerdy guy. See his other videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgC-ocnTTto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dimLdczXSE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn_hdADpFlAHe’s played around a lot more with water bubbles in microgravity, but I can’t find those videos on youtube.
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Nostra
May 19th, 2008 at
5:51 pm
Yup Andrew that’s Chicago… I wanted to ask if anyone could guess it but you got it!
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Justin
May 19th, 2008 at
6:29 pm
Great post! That was really spectacular. Did anyone else think the narrator sounded a bit like a robot?
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Christophe
May 19th, 2008 at
9:14 pm
Awesome indeed.
Let’s enjoy this. We’ll not be able to when oil reaches $300 a barrel…I wonder what brand of power tools they’re using up there (or maybe they’re unique)
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TT
May 19th, 2008 at
9:55 pm
That was the WORST narration I have ever heard.
Would’ve been so much better with subtitles for the names of the cities, so that we could enjoy the beauties in with music, and not have the experience ruined by the depressed suicidal dude’s voice. -
Archbob
May 20th, 2008 at
12:33 am
The cities mainly look like spider webs.
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Scooter
May 20th, 2008 at
9:52 am
i second the narrators being bad. he sure didn’t sound excited about the great images he was showing us.
cool video + bad narration = meh
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CheeseDuck
May 20th, 2008 at
5:31 pm
I think Sir David Attenborough should have been the narrator of this video!
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Vako
May 22nd, 2008 at
11:09 pm
Regardless of the quality of narration, I feel that it is very fascinating. I agree with the person who said that Human cities, in the way that they expand and spread, resemble micro-organisms or fungus. Fascinating.
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