Monday 7 April, 2003 at 8:52PM (Nereus)  ::  permalink  ::  comments (2)

Just dropping in. It's now April. It's now spring. It's usually around 60-70°F this time of year in NYC apparently. It's now snowing. Yup, you heard me, snowing. Plenty of it too, like 6+ inches on the ground accumulated so far. Freakville.

Since todays post has not been terribly exciting, I'll give you an image to look at that's pretty groovy. The image is a panoramic view of the earth taken from the Boeing built Space Station last November on a perfect night with no obscuring atmospheric conditions.

This is a scaled down image. You can check out the full 2400x1200 image here. The lights clearly indicate the populated areas, and you can scroll east-west and north-south. Funny how Canada's population is almost exclusively along the U.S. border (wonder why? heh). Moving east to Europe, it's easy to spot London, Paris, Stockholm and Vienna, and check out the development of Israel compared to the rest Of the Arab countries. You can spot the Nile River and the rest of the the African Continent; after the Nile, the lights don't come on again until Johannesburg. Check out the difference between North and South Korea, and the density of Japan. Thanks to Pete VV for sending me this link a while back.