Two of a series of plates for “Geological Investigations on the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River”, produced in 1944. It is practical geography performed on a large scale. The plates trace the progressive meanders and changes in flow regime of the Mississippi River from 1765 to the then current river path. It is at once the past, the present, and the future (the power of prediction), for those that would take the time to see and understand.

It also shows quite well, again for those who wish to understand, the pains taking detail, the accumulation of data through almost obsessive determination, the analysis and interpretation of data, and the importance of presentation needed to futher the advancement of science and knowledge. If you think this only applies to maps or photos of galaxies, you need to rethink that idea. Look above in this thread for the Dirac equation.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

Robert Falcon Scott, third from left (or right), and expedition members, South Pole 1912










Only the important stuff included:

The Surveyor and Apollo landings:

Center of our galaxy.

Beginning of the Space Race:

Map of scheduled airline traffic around the world, circa June 2009. Contains 54317 routes, rendered at 25% transparency. Base map is NASA Blue Marble (PD) plus airports.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wo...temap-2009.png


Earth at night from space.
Composite map of the world assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012.

http://anon.nasa-global.edgesuite.ne...otate_1080.mov

||.||.||, like to see the relative velocity of the planets! What does the yellow stuff in the first picture represent? Looks like some activity that closes down at night. The sinus curve shape of the day-night border is an awsome find.



What James Cameron saw at the Challenger Deep.

I appreciate the innovative way in which you've used the word "almost."

It takes massive amounts of single-minded obsession. Moreso then when everything had to be calculated by hand and there were no graphics programs to make nice pictorials to help us understand what the scientist was excitedly rambling on about after a decade or two of painstaking work. I was going to put up a pic of Mendeleev since he came to mind, but this is more amusing:

I had factored in the time spent on masturbation so the use of almost, however innovative, is almost true and almost reaches the realm of fact.

Mendeleev and the perodic table is almost as good as Edward Lear's Complete Nonsense. Neither is a waste of time, but the perodic table is funnier.

First picture: World Air Traffic Over A 24-Hour Period

Do a search for 3-D model (or simulation) of planets' orbits, you might find something you like.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy7y6VxmmNA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNGR4sm__54

You can buy your own for a mere $5 million. It's a planetarium and 4 Louis Moinet Tourbillon watches made with meteorites from the moon, mars, an asteroid, and a 4.5 billion year old Rosetta stone. I want this for Christmas.













http://www.ablogtowatch.com/louis-mo...ris-watch-set/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABbwaG3OpgA

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not sure if this is real, because as far as I'm aware there is **** all happening in the middle of Australia

^wild fires

do you know that or are you guessing? I wouldn't have thought wild fires would pick up that much with the smoke and all. Also that is one big ass wild fire for an area that is mostly desert.

acquired April 18 - October 23, 2012

Seems like it was fires given how the population appears to be distributed in western Australia.


Ps: Australia based on area and population i say it has a bright massively uptrending future ahead of itself towards future superpower. 6th in area in the world with so little population= amazing potential for growth and immigration still.

In a scientific society type world total area and resources define how good you have it. Area = pure gold in energy terms and excellent food supply, very big homes and gardens and all kinds of things without being close to too many other people. Also known as Perfect lol! Big areas that are controlled by one government (but also ethical and healthy/efficient) is a secret to uptrend. Where you have many masters good luck with policy...

The progress in the US was not at all unrelated to its vast resources and exceptional landscape and vast open areas. Australia is like 70% of that area basically. And although how tough (desert like) a large area is makes a difference today, in the future in an advanced society even deserts are turned to exceptional prosperous locations. Best investment in all human history other than education is land. It will pay off big time in the future. Eg proper usage of the land in Greece would eliminate the dept in only 10-15 years. I had calculated the loss in Fukushima due to the nuclear accident was over $30-40 bil just for that near area over 20 years or so in terms of productivity loss (if it were to be left unused although probably knowing Japanese people they will go for it and try to clean it like there is no tomorrow eventually) .

Overall on earth we have ~20000m^2 per human (ignore sea which is another future paradise). Even if only10000m^2of that is reasonable land (the fact is the other 50% can easily be altered over time too and maybe extract another 25%) and is "assigned" in terms of productivity to each human (and then imagine going to levels higher ie building ) you can imagine the amount of food and energy that can produced in such huge area to feed that 1 person. This is the basis of the scientific society idea that we have vast resources if we learn to use them properly to support amazing lifestyles through technology for everyone and give them all they need to have excellent education and decent jobs without destroying nature. Stabilize world population and apply technology, massively and properly and the future is beautiful. Good luck convincing the idiots now...who prefer the world to be a place with 90% misery and 10% happiness+naivete+boredom+emptiness and wars wars wars.. bs religions and politics...and overpopulation.

Sorry for the tangent but geography can tell you a lot.

shh don't tell everyone!

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I am very fond of those 2 pictures, the first one for profoundly personal reasons...




Taken by Apollo 8 crewmember Bill Anders on December 24, 1968, showing the Earth seemingly rising above the lunar surface. Note that this phenomenon is only visible from someone in orbit around the Moon. Because of the Moon's synchronous rotation about the Earth (i.e., the same side of the Moon is always facing the Earth), no Earthrise can be observed by a stationary observer on the surface of the Moon.





Scientist-Astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt is photographed standing next to a huge, split boulder during the third Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA-3) at the Taurus–Littrow landing site on the Moon. Schmitt is the Apollo 17 lunar module pilot. This picture was taken by Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander.