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Reminds me of a conversation I had with a guy on a plane once. We were staring out the window over central Australia and he commented that it's almost impossibl
by taneq 5y ago
Reminds me of a conversation I had with a guy on a plane once. We were staring out the window over central Australia and he commented that it's almost impossible to find a place so remote that you can't see a sign of human occupation from the air. And he was right, even 500+ km from anywhere there were still a few roads, sheds etc. visible at any given time.
- deanCommie 5y agoI think the sign of human activity that is the most visible from the furthest out into space is forestry clearcuts. They are much bigger than cities. Farms fade and start to blend together and their perfect geometric shapes are harder to see. But clearcuts are more haphazard but spread over hundreds of kilometers, so even when you zoom out really far, it just looks like someone spilled a bunch of salt on the map.