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Auldian
08-21-2003, 12:55 PM
A friend just sent this to me

Eomer
08-21-2003, 01:27 PM
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
08-21-2003, 02:21 PM
Pretty sure the top one is fake, hehe.

Andaas
08-21-2003, 02:28 PM
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
08-21-2003, 02:48 PM
Never mind the fact that the "blackout" doesn't even extend to the correct city (areas).

Auldian
08-21-2003, 08:00 PM
I'm a bit naive I guess. It looked pretty amazing when I first opened it. Oh well :(

Myztlee
08-21-2003, 08:46 PM
This is real.

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

Zappo
08-21-2003, 08:59 PM
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/9911/lunation_ajc_big.gif
this is fo real

Tilea
08-22-2003, 07:03 AM
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