If you're rich... you turn on the lights....

New Scientist article...

Image: Xi Chen

Thanks to @digitalearth for tipoff...

Comments

Anonymous said…
I like this pic!
AnneG said…
Isn't it "later" on the East coast? Depending on what time this photo was taken it could have been dark enough to turn on the lights in the East but still bright daylight in the West... :-)
Alan Parkinson said…
True indeed...
The main differences will be outside the USA where there are contrasts within the same time zone, such as North and South Korea...
e.g this one:
http://bigthink.com/ideas/21270
which has some interesting comments added, related to the use of images like this to reinforce particular views...
Geography's tricky sometimes :)
AnneG said…
Ah yes, this is a better example although comments about doctoring the image have been noted!