A tool to plot modern addresses on a map of the Earth. The tool defaults to a view from 240 ma ago, smack in the middle of the Pangaea supercontinent era, but you can select views from 750 ma ago right up to the present.
Tag: earth
Virosphere
Each day, 800m viruses cascade onto every square meter of the planet. Unimpeded by friction with the surface of the Earth, you can travel great distances, and so intercontinental travel is quite easy for viruses. It wouldn’t be unusual to find things swept up in Africa being deposited in North America.
Darkness
Darkness is either really good, or really bad. fascinating. lower light levels are both due to better technology and tragedy.
At their core, night lights are a generally human phenomenon. As such, they are tempting proxies for things like standard of living and economic activity. An illuminated place, sufficient to be detected by an orbiting satellite, represents the substantial influence we have on pushing back the darkness of the nighttime sky.
Satellites
It’s getting packed up there.
There are more than 1300 active satellites orbiting earth right now. The satellites are sized according to their launch mass and are colored by their country
stuffin.space is a real-time 3D map of all the crap floating in circles around planet Earth, much of it put there by us.
Hypercanes
This is one vision of what it might have been like to visit the world as it ended 250 ma BP during the end-Permian mass extinction—the worst moment in the planet’s entire history. There might have been turbocharged “hypercanes” of almost unbelievable intensity assaulting the supercontinent Pangaea—the result of runaway global warming. These mega-storms might have had 800 km/h winds, filled with poisonous hydrogen sulfide sucked out of a rotting ocean that topped 37 celsius.
5 energetic epochs
Judson divides the history of the life on Earth into 5 energetic epochs, geochemical energy, sunlight, oxygen, flesh, and fire
Earth seen from Mars
The Earth and Moon, as seen from Mars. That image was taken by the phenomenal HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which was more than 200M kilometers from Earth at the time. It’s actually a composite of a few separate images, processed to show the relative size and position of our planet and its moon.
very nice backdrop
very nice backdrop
What makes us Human?
Over the past 3 years, filmmaker and artist Yann Arthus-Bertrand travelled to 60 countries, interviewing more than 2K people in 10s of languages, in an attempt to answer the question: What is it that makes us human? The result is HUMAN, a documentary film that weaves together a rich collection of stories from freedom fighters in Ukraine, farmers in Mali, death row inmates in the United States, and more—on topics that unite us all: love, justice, family, and the future of our planet.
Now we’re partnering with Arthus-Bertrand, the Goodplanet Foundation and Bettencourt Schueller Foundation, to bring HUMAN to you on Google Play, YouTube and the Google Cultural Institute so we can share this project with the widest audience throughout the world.
Overview effect
The overview effect is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts during spaceflight, often while viewing the Earth from outer space.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 