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Berlin at night: photo by NASA astronaut Kevin Ford taken from the International Space Station using ESA's NightPod camera aid, 8 December 2012 (ESA/NASA)
A pulsating point on a map was all there was left to come home to,
Midnight codes having finally isolated
That which needed to be retained outside the cave
Into abstract pseudo knowledges, color dots
On a computer graphic illustrating how and when
The onslaught of universal electricalillumination
Had scattered trophy wounds of lightover the savanna
In a desert once some nomad's unconnected nest --
Who could then know, when the windows once aglow
In the bright hall, the hollow ball of bone,
Began to go out, what the night might yet hold,
In its great wideness, for the anxious watchman --
They glimpsed these wonders as through glass darkly
Before the cave wall slide show history ran out of power.
Berlin at night. The former division between East and West Berlin can be seen. The yellow lights correspond to East Berlin and the greener tones show West Berlin. Over twenty years after the Berlin Wall was dismantled the effects of separating the city can still be seen from space: photo by NASA astronaut André Kuipers taken from the International Space Station taken from the International Space Station using ESA's NightPod camera aid, 5 April 2012 (ESA/NASA)
The Netherlands at night: photo by taken by ESA astronaut André Kuipers from the International Space Station using NASA's NightPod camera aid, 5 April 2012 (ESA/NASA)
Naples and the Bay of Naples at night: photo by taken by ESA astronaut André Kuipers from the International Space Station using NASA's NightPod camera aid, 5 April 2012 (ESA/NASA)
Melbourne at night: photo by taken by ESA astronaut André Kuipers from the International Space Station using NASA's NightPod camera aid, 4 April 2012 (ESA/NASA)
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Kiev, Ukraine at night: photo by NASA astronaut Kevin Ford taken from the International Space Station using ESA's NightPod camera aid, 8 December 2012 (ESA/NASA)
Kiev, Ukraine at night: photo by NASA astronaut Kevin Ford taken from the International Space Station using ESA's NightPod camera aid, 8 December 2012 (ESA/NASA)
Cairo at night: photo by NASA astronaut Kevin Ford taken from the International Space Station using ESA's NightPod camera aid, 9 December 2012 (ESA/NASA)
Chinese city at night: photo by NASA astronaut Kevin Ford taken from the International Space Station using ESA's NightPod camera aid, 8 December 2012 (ESA/NASA)
Paris at night: photo taken by ESA astronaut André Kuipers from the International Space Station using NASA's NightPod camera aid, 10 April 2012 (ESA/NASA)
Milan at night: photo by NASA astronaut Kevin Ford taken from the International Space Station using ESA's NightPod camera aid, 8 December 2012 (ESA/NASA)
London at night: photo by NASA astronaut Kevin Ford taken from the International Space Station using ESA's NightPod camera aid, 9 December 2012 (ESA/NASA)
Nile River Delta at night: satellite photo by ISS Expedition 25 crew, 28 October 2010 (NASA)
(NASA caption: In this view of Egypt, we see a population almost completely concentrated along the Nile Valley, just a small percentage of the country’s land area.The Nile River and its delta look like a brilliant, long-stemmed flower in this astronaut photograph of the south-eastern Mediterranean Sea, as seen from the International Space Station. The Cairo metropolitan area forms a particularly bright base of the flower. The smaller cities and towns within the Nile Delta tend to be hard to see amidst the dense agricultural vegetation during the day. However, these settled areas and the connecting roads between them become clearly visible at night. Likewise, urbanized regions and infrastructure along the Nile River becomes apparent. Another brightly lit region is visible along the eastern coastline of the Mediterranean — the Tel-Aviv metropolitan area in Israel (image right). To the east of Tel-Aviv lies Amman, Jordan. The two major water bodies that define the western and eastern coastlines of the Sinai Peninsula — the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba — are outlined by lights along their coastlines (image lower right). The city lights of Paphos, Limassol, Larnaca and Nicosia are visible on the island of Cyprus (image top). Scattered blue-grey clouds cover the Mediterranean Sea and the Sinai, while much of north-eastern Africa is cloud-free. A thin yellow-brown band tracing the Earth’s curvature at image top is air-glow, a faint band of light emission that results from the interaction of atmospheric atoms and molecules with solar radiation at approximately 100 kilometres altitude.)
European map of Flickr and Twitter locations. Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both: image by Eric Fischer (See something or say something), July 2011
London: map of Flickr and Twitter locations. Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both: image by Eric Fischer (See something or say something), July 2011
San Francisco: map of Flickr and Twitter locations. Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both: image by Eric Fischer (See something or say something), July 2011
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New York: map of Flickr and Twitter locations. Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both: image by Eric Fischer (See something or say something), July 2011
New York: map of Flickr and Twitter locations. Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both: image by Eric Fischer (See something or say something), July 2011
North American map of Flickr and Twitter locations. Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both: image by Eric Fischer (See something or say something), July 2011
World map of Flickr and Twitter locations. Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both: image by Eric Fischer (See something or say something), July 2011