Comments on: Earth At Night - Continents http://thecontaminated.com/earth-at-night-continents/ Sat, 17 May 2008 09:14:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Pandey Asheesh http://thecontaminated.com/earth-at-night-continents/#comment-3414 Pandey Asheesh Sun, 04 May 2008 14:21:07 +0000 http://thecontaminated.com/earth-at-night-continents/#comment-3414 How is it possible that no clouds are there in the entire continents ? Anyway, its a good piece of art performed on satelite pictures. How is it possible that no clouds are there in the entire continents ? Anyway, its a good piece of art performed on satelite pictures.

]]> By: lilly http://thecontaminated.com/earth-at-night-continents/#comment-3408 lilly Sat, 03 May 2008 18:50:39 +0000 http://thecontaminated.com/earth-at-night-continents/#comment-3408 looks real tight looks real tight

]]> By: Man http://thecontaminated.com/earth-at-night-continents/#comment-3379 Man Thu, 01 May 2008 03:26:49 +0000 http://thecontaminated.com/earth-at-night-continents/#comment-3379 The images shown aren't magnifed, they're reduced, so it has nothing to do with telescopes or magnification at all. There's no satellite in existence that can see through clouds, the images shown are rendered from NASA's "Campfires" images, which in turn are modified versions of their "Visible Earth" series, so at least you were right about something. However the Visible Earth images are taken in daylight and assembled from carefully chosen images and edited by hand to rid the resulting map of any cloud cover that might remain. No high-tech wizardry somehow made them invisible and to suggest that is insulting to the people who spent time compiling and editing the images by hand. For someone who goes around calling other people idiots, I'm surprised you didn't notice that in addition to there not being any clouds, there is some kind of backlight illuminating the Earth, The world doesn't glow from within, so what is lighting it up? The answer is nothing, the dark side of the Earth is pitch black. The images on this page were created from day images and the lights were added by hand. The blurb describes the images as "photographies", they are clearly not photographs, so you're wrong again. Asserting your own intellect aggressively while being consistently wrong yourself is a sign that you're naive, and don't realize how much you don't know. How old are you? 12? The images shown aren’t magnifed, they’re reduced, so it has nothing to do with telescopes or magnification at all.

There’s no satellite in existence that can see through clouds, the images shown are rendered from NASA’s “Campfires” images, which in turn are modified versions of their “Visible Earth” series, so at least you were right about something.

However the Visible Earth images are taken in daylight and assembled from carefully chosen images and edited by hand to rid the resulting map of any cloud cover that might remain. No high-tech wizardry somehow made them invisible and to suggest that is insulting to the people who spent time compiling and editing the images by hand.

For someone who goes around calling other people idiots, I’m surprised you didn’t notice that in addition to there not being any clouds, there is some kind of backlight illuminating the Earth, The world doesn’t glow from within, so what is lighting it up? The answer is nothing, the dark side of the Earth is pitch black. The images on this page were created from day images and the lights were added by hand.

The blurb describes the images as “photographies”, they are clearly not photographs, so you’re wrong again. Asserting your own intellect aggressively while being consistently wrong yourself is a sign that you’re naive, and don’t realize how much you don’t know. How old are you? 12?

]]> By: Guy http://thecontaminated.com/earth-at-night-continents/#comment-3359 Guy Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:46:59 +0000 http://thecontaminated.com/earth-at-night-continents/#comment-3359 You @!#$#*) idiots... have any of you ever heard of telescopes?? So what if there are no clouds? It's called magnification. These shots could easily have been taken THROUGH the clouds. It's called modern technology. Combine that with a composite of thousands of pictures, and voila! You get these pics. Saying that they're pictures in this sense is not wrong. And I don't see the part where the post says that each of these is a SINGLE picture... sometimes I wonder if there's any intelligence at all on the internet... You @!#$#*) idiots… have any of you ever heard of telescopes?? So what if there are no clouds? It’s called magnification. These shots could easily have been taken THROUGH the clouds. It’s called modern technology. Combine that with a composite of thousands of pictures, and voila! You get these pics. Saying that they’re pictures in this sense is not wrong. And I don’t see the part where the post says that each of these is a SINGLE picture… sometimes I wonder if there’s any intelligence at all on the internet…

]]> By: Cosmo naught http://thecontaminated.com/earth-at-night-continents/#comment-3346 Cosmo naught Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:50:51 +0000 http://thecontaminated.com/earth-at-night-continents/#comment-3346 Those photos very fake... Americans must be stupid. Like all Russians I have my chance make recent voyage into space in glorious Soyuz capsule I snap this photo of what Earth really look like in space at night. http://portunus.net.nz/rtfm/erf.png Those photos very fake… Americans must be stupid.

Like all Russians I have my chance make recent voyage into space in glorious Soyuz capsule I snap this photo of what Earth really look like in space at night.

http://portunus.net.nz/rtfm/erf.png

]]> By: Ralph http://thecontaminated.com/earth-at-night-continents/#comment-3005 Ralph Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:12:16 +0000 http://thecontaminated.com/earth-at-night-continents/#comment-3005 The above images are actually composites of hundreds of pictures made by the orbiting DMSP satellites. The above images are actually composites of hundreds of pictures made by the orbiting DMSP satellites.

]]> By: arlene http://thecontaminated.com/earth-at-night-continents/#comment-2542 arlene Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:46:38 +0000 http://thecontaminated.com/earth-at-night-continents/#comment-2542 it does look like google earth its look pretty when your viewing night zone it does look like google earth
its look pretty when your viewing
night zone

]]> By: jak http://thecontaminated.com/earth-at-night-continents/#comment-2516 jak Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:05:48 +0000 http://thecontaminated.com/earth-at-night-continents/#comment-2516 what's wrong with you guys? so what if it's fake? the main point of these pictures is to show how e earth is populated and distribution of the people. Australia is only mostly populated at the fringes, thus the darkness in the middle. even national geog has used these pictures in their atlas. so why are you all so worked up over them? geez. what’s wrong with you guys? so what if it’s fake? the main point of these pictures is to show how e earth is populated and distribution of the people. Australia is only mostly populated at the fringes, thus the darkness in the middle.

even national geog has used these pictures in their atlas. so why are you all so worked up over them?

geez.

]]> By: Ryan Connor http://thecontaminated.com/earth-at-night-continents/#comment-2297 Ryan Connor Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:51:27 +0000 http://thecontaminated.com/earth-at-night-continents/#comment-2297 These are nice pics if they were real. Though the earth may be real with pieced together pics, I am pretty sure its a graphical art. the lights on the planet from that distance would not be visible and the stars in the background are for sure added in digitally. The lights you see can be added as an overlay, but themselves are not really lights. I believe its taken with a radioscope that simulates what it would look like had the lights been visible to the naked eye. Lastly the earth is not purple at night. Its pitch black on the night side taken with any camera. there are plenty of pictures of space stuff that are altered or just a digital art. alot of what you see in space pictures is even just something like what an xray machine can see and then its colored to look pretty. I know all about pictures. I am a photographer, digital designer, videographer/filmaker, and i have studied and still study astronomy and geology and phsyics and things of that nature. I dont know it all, but I have enough knowledge and education to say what i have said. These are nice pics if they were real. Though the earth may be real with pieced together pics, I am pretty sure its a graphical art. the lights on the planet from that distance would not be visible and the stars in the background are for sure added in digitally. The lights you see can be added as an overlay, but themselves are not really lights. I believe its taken with a radioscope that simulates what it would look like had the lights been visible to the naked eye.
Lastly the earth is not purple at night. Its pitch black on the night side taken with any camera.
there are plenty of pictures of space stuff that are altered or just a digital art. alot of what you see in space pictures is even just something like what an xray machine can see and then its colored to look pretty. I know all about pictures. I am a photographer, digital designer, videographer/filmaker, and i have studied and still study astronomy and geology and phsyics and things of that nature. I dont know it all, but I have enough knowledge and education to say what i have said.

]]> By: bc http://thecontaminated.com/earth-at-night-continents/#comment-2288 bc Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:50:24 +0000 http://thecontaminated.com/earth-at-night-continents/#comment-2288 these photos are bs as uninhabited areas of the world have lights out the ying yang, and lightly populated areas look like major metro areas. complete dumb ass' made this these photos are bs as uninhabited areas of the world have lights out the ying yang, and lightly populated areas look like major metro areas. complete dumb ass’ made this

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