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[underpants]

NASA (news - web sites)'s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) provided this 3-D graphic view of the Earth as shown in this enhanced undated satellite photo released by NASA. The scientific data and photos are helping scientists understand how life on Earth is affected by changing climate. After less than a year of work, the Earth-orbiting satellite has churned out the most detailed, three-dimensional maps ever of the ice sheets blanketing Greenland and Antarctica. The baseline measurements collected by theIce, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite, or Icesat, should allow scientists to track the growth and shrinkage of the ice sheets, and to gauge the effect that might have on global sea levels. (AP Photo/NASA)

[theorist]

1. No Way!

No one's gonna tell me the Earth ain't flat. :tinfoilhat:!

(Seriously, though, DU gets me on these conspiracy kicks and I can't seem to shake it sometimes. Thank you, truth seekers!)

[demnan]

2. What a beautiful place to live.

n/t

[GOPisEvil]

3. Hey! I can see my house!

That's a great picture. Nice detail from that distance.

[underpants]

6. Yeah I didn't want to mention it but....

repeat after me "fresh coat of paint" ;-)

[OldEurope]

4. Funny. Never thought to see longitudes on a photo.

:evilgrin:
By the way: I´m NOT there, I´m at the other side
;-)

[underpants]

5. What? they are every map I've ever seen

Maybe 'cause your are in Europe you all only have one. Can't you see them too.

:eyes::crazy:

[JackDaniel1216]

8. whats the deal....

with the big black nasty blob of nothingness in western canada? am i the only one who sees it?

[underpants]

16. I think that is the void left by the exiting hockey teams

:bounce:

[THUNDER HANDS]

7. by that photo

It looks like I might need an umbrella when I go out.

[Braden]

the map in my elementary school had Greenland

the size of South America. You and your science.

[underpants]

10. Can I interest you in a Peters Projection Map ? (area acurate)

http://www.petersmap.com/



The earth is round. The challenge of any world map is to represent a round earth on a flat surface. There are literally thousands of map projections. Each has certain strengths and corresponding weaknesses. Choosing among them is an exercise in values clarification: you have to decide what's important to you. That is generally determined by the way you intend to use the map. The Peters Projection is an area acurate map.

[Braden]

15. thats the one

Africa looked so much thinner then.

[everythingsxen]

9. Cool

[Bertha Venation]

11. from a distance, the world looks blue and green

and the snow-capped mountains white

[underpants]

13. Up close too

:bounce:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

12. Look at me, I'm waving to you

[underpants]

14. Hi

Where is that?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

18. Rio de Janeiro (nt)

[underpants]

19. Ooooh

spicy

:bounce:

[Bertha Venation]

17. Cool. Here's an idea -- anyone?

Another MB site I used to frequent had an applet that allowed users to place an icon on a map for their location on the globe. The icon linked to the user's profile.

Wonder if Skinner/The Powers would be interested in such a thing.