I remember Kevin Kelly blogging about this. Fascinating project. http://kk.org/thetechnium/2012/11/the-average-pla/ http://kk.org/thetechnium/2012/11/the-avera

I remember Kevin Kelly blogging about this. Fascinating project. http://kk.org/thetechnium/2012/11/the-average-pla/ http://kk.org/thetechnium/2012/11/the-average-pla/ It's interesting to consider that if you just take a random lat-lon, and go find that place ... most of the time it'll be the middle of an ocean. Hey, 75% of Earth's surface is water, right? If you find a random land-based location ... as Kevin notes, it's interesting how rare it is to see a building, and how often it's wilderness. As developed as the world is, there's still quite a bit of wild out there. Even without buildings, farmland appears often, which makes sense ... so that's one cue that civilization is around. Look up and you may see jet contrails during the day, or satellites swimming across the stars at night. A few more cues ... it's just surprising how rare a random spot on earth shows more than that.