April 23, 2008

El Paso and Jeddah at Night

It starts with Doug's discussion of how "fake" or synthetic the whole "brilliant earth" enterprise is (reminiscent of the "how beautiful! they're almost artificial!" scene). That's good enough: but then he links to "Cities At Night: An Orbital Tour Around the World."

It's a ten-minute video of cities shot from the International Space Station, and it's engrossing. It shows a lot of places I've lived in or visited:

New York

Zurich

London

Cairo (and the pyramids are visible, too!)

Tel Aviv and Jerusalem

at around 3:55, you can see my former home of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Manila

El Paso and Juarez at about 7:25

Phoenix

San Francisco Bay area

Miami

Houston

Los Angeles and the coast towns to San Diego

Washington, DC

and the brightest spot on Earth: Las Vegas, Nevada.

(Update: Added Zurich and London.)

Posted by Craig Ceely at April 23, 2008 09:38 PM
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