WTF, NASA?
Dec. 8th, 2012 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reynardoWho has seen the image of the Earth from space, at night? The latest edition is here.
Here's a clipping I've just made, of Australia.
Click on it or here for the really weird bit.
Here's the bigger picture.
There's no-one in the centre of Australia. That is - there's almost no-one. According to Wikipedia, almost 75% of all Australians live in the cities or coastal areas.
That ain't the big lit-up bit on the left.
NASA are claiming it's wildfires, but here's a look at the area or somewhere similar:
You'd have a lot of trouble getting that lot to stay alight, let alone to show the sort of light that's in the photo.
So...
Did NASA make a boo boo of epic proportions (to us, anyway), or is that where the secret Boat People camps are, or is it a US Military secret like 100 Pine Gaps except bigger?
Here's a clipping I've just made, of Australia.
Click on it or here for the really weird bit.
Here's the bigger picture.
There's no-one in the centre of Australia. That is - there's almost no-one. According to Wikipedia, almost 75% of all Australians live in the cities or coastal areas.
That ain't the big lit-up bit on the left.
NASA are claiming it's wildfires, but here's a look at the area or somewhere similar:
You'd have a lot of trouble getting that lot to stay alight, let alone to show the sort of light that's in the photo.
So...
Did NASA make a boo boo of epic proportions (to us, anyway), or is that where the secret Boat People camps are, or is it a US Military secret like 100 Pine Gaps except bigger?
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Date: 2012-12-08 02:21 pm (UTC)