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Sunday, March 7, 2004 - 12:37pmSanction this postReply
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A colossal contrast, indeed. The Communist landscape is just about devoid of any light whatsoever. This extends even further north into the territory of the People's Republic of China, which remains a socialist state.

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Sunday, March 7, 2004 - 2:35pmSanction this postReply
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Excellent posting, Ross.  I was recently stationed in the ROK for a little over a year and was amazed that while S. Korea is not yet the giant America has become, it dwarfs its nearest neighbor--and as Korean sentiment goes, brother--in wealth, health, innovation, technology and freedom.  S. Koreans do genuinely wish to end the suffering of the North, but rising collectivism and anti-America demagoguery within may hinder the process.  Not to mention appeasement towards the PRK from the rest of the world.

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Sunday, March 7, 2004 - 5:39pmSanction this postReply
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Just out of interest, the only spot showing any light in the North is the capital city of Pyongyang. That just about says it all: let the bureaucracy live in relative comfort while the serfs shiver to death. Pyongyang is, of course, a show city. It's a sick ruse. It's evil incarnate. Man, would I love to see a couple of carrier battle groups stationed off the NK coast and have an ultimatum issued to the sadists in charge of that hell hole.

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Monday, March 8, 2004 - 4:26amSanction this postReply
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Is this for real?!

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Monday, March 8, 2004 - 3:16pmSanction this postReply
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These satellite images roughly match other satellite images that I've gotten from another source a couple of years ago and put up here.  These images do seem to be real when we have now three different satellite images from at least two different sources.  Note that the image that I put up wasn't just a picture of Korea, it was a satellite image of the whole earth at night (put together from different pictures at different times in order to get the whole planet) and was online for use as a texture in 3D graphics.

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Monday, March 8, 2004 - 6:43pmSanction this postReply
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Gee, Jeff, I didn't know you had that pic on IOP. You beat me to the draw :-)

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Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - 5:35pmSanction this postReply
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The picture Jeff Landauer is talking about is named "earthlights.jpg" and it can be found on google if you want to see the whole one:

http://images.google.com/images?q=earthlights.jpg


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Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - 6:21pmSanction this postReply
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If you download a good quality full-sized image of this, there are so many interesting things to see beyond the Korea's.  For example, look at the Caribbean and pick out which of the islands is the US territory.  (It's easy.)  Look at Taiwan vs. China.  Look at the strange straight strings of lights in Russia that aren't anywhere else on the planet.  Government planning?  And overall, the brightness of the US, Western Europe, and Japan compared to the darkness of the rest of the world is a little sad.  Time for the rest of them to adopt capitalism and get out of the dark ages!


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Tuesday, April 6, 2004 - 6:33amSanction this postReply
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With no slight intended to Ross Elliot’s great photo—that earthlights.jpg brought a lump to my throat and tears to my eyes. As AR said, “It is earlier than you think.”


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Monday, April 19, 2004 - 2:17amSanction this postReply
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It's beautiful. I imagine the last pages of Atlas Shrugged, as the lights go out. And it is amazing to see the bright glow of Japan, and Western Europe, and the coastal US. It's even possible to pick out cities - in the UK, you can make out London, Cardiff/Swansea, Manchester/Liverpool, Leeds/Bradford and Newcastle... an interesting metaphor for society - those places that are productive. And looking at the Caribbean, Cuba is in darkness, but Jamaica and the Antilles seem to be bright...

Incidentally, regarding North Korea, I thought this extract from Kim Jong Il's entry on Wikipedia might be of interest:

"Kim... has a 10,000-bottle wine cellar, likes blonde western women, collects Mazda RX-7 sports cars, stages all-night banquets at which attendance and heavy drinking is compulsory for high officials (this was also a habit of Stalin's), and has a troupe of strippers for his personal entertainment."

As is perhaps more well-known, he also wears platform shoes. To continue with my current Atlas fixation (I'm rereading it at the moment), Cuffy Meigs anyone?


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