blackout

[Auldian]

A friend just sent this to me

[Eomer]

that's faked, or at least looks like it.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/photogalleries/poweroutage/gfx_satellite/blackout_prior_noaa320.jpg

http://www.cbc.ca/news/photogalleries/poweroutage/gfx_satellite/blackout_noaa_satimage320.jpg

[Andaas]

Pretty sure the top one is fake, hehe.

[Andaas]

I believe this is the original image shown in Auld's post:

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/49261main_usa_nightm.jpe


These images are actually a composite of hundreds of pictures made by U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellites Program (DMSP). The Nighttime Lights of the World is compiled from the October 1994 - March 1995 data, which was collected when moonlight was low.

[Forty]

Never mind the fact that the "blackout" doesn't even extend to the correct city (areas).

[Auldian]

I'm a bit naive I guess. It looked pretty amazing when I first opened it. Oh well :(

[Myztlee]

This is real.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030818.html

[Zappo]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/9911/lunation_ajc_big.gif
this is fo real

[Tilea]

In that photo the southern tip of Ontario is all lit up - it would have been almost entirely black. But I'm willing to bet that most of you don't know by looking at that photo where that area is anyways :p