Google Street View is an amazing tool. Two years ago it hardly existed. Today, there is hardly a main thoroughfare on earth that has not been photographed by a Google Prius with a camera on top.
Well, that's not entirely true. Google hasn't explored deep into the hinterland of Congo, for example.
I wonder why?
Except for Japan (and a bit of Brazil), it looks like Google Street View is limited almost exclusively to the Western World (they have made some unexplained forays into Mexico, for example) :
Blue indicates extensive Google Street View coverage.
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| Nighttime View Of Earth From Space (the bright spots are NOT lit with candles, Ed. Note) |
2 comments:
Yes, but lights of the world are being extinguished all over the western world. Soon we will be as black as Africa.
I don't believe candles ever existed in Sub Saharan Africa before contact with the civilized world had been established. There the Negro's periods of activity mirrored exactly that of the other savage beasts.
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