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: 2012-12-09 06:29 am (UTC)Sadly, I'm sure it will turn out to be a much more boring explanation, i.e. that somebody probably doctored the image and it then escaped into the wild (accidentally on porpoise). Like those goofy stories on The Onion that somehow get picked up as actual news :D