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tears posted:



i just assumed it was all miami. even the desert bits

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Panopticon posted:

capital is a relationship, you cant see it from a satellite photograph


you can see some of it

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icecrystal posted:

Panopticon posted:

capital is a relationship, you cant see it from a satellite photograph

you can see some of it


there is no context for what you're seeing on the map though. there were holiday hotels in the socialist bloc. ceauescu's palace doesn't look any different from the air than a mansion in america

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been messing around with this thanks to this thread. mostly looking at australia which is p boring.





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18. bahrain again, this is fucking beautiful, i hope its never finished



think this is actually in qatar, near doha. found it browsing.

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It seems as though capitalism has shifted the entire planet off its axis in a matter of years: http://gizmodo.com/we-finally-know-why-the-north-pole-is-moving-east-1769588584
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a song to listen to while you smoke a comically large joint and look at google earth

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ur right M_S, the one that looks like fish cross sections is the bahrain one, worth checking out

also that 1st australia one looks like buildings blasting from a butt



bhpn: I havent read that book and will not be purchacing it at that price, but if u post some links i will have a read

c_man, koyaanisqatsi: hoooooooly shiiiiiiiiit how have i never heard of this film, thanks!

tsinava: great stuff, u get it . My fav think about that image is when you see it while thinking about sea level rise, see this: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/21/the-siege-of-miami I'll select an image and do something similar later
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when i play tropico i make my farms look like dongs and my ranches are the balls and provide the farms with fertilizer
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same
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all of those are great. That ferrarri one takes thhe cake tho, looks like giant plastic underwear
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i think one of the most eye opening things about panning around the world in google earth is the massive cultivation of the land that still goes on in the west. it really puts lie to the idea that western nations are pure parasites stealing the bread from the mouths of africans.
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except amerikkka is a net "staple food" exporter which it uses to destroy the food independance of third world nations by dumping cheap wheat and corn and forcing them to grow coffeee and other luxury cash crops

this makes these countries doublly dependant on imperialist countries, both as a market where they need to sell their crops for a pittance to afford to buy actual food, and as these same imperialist countries are the ones who hold all the actual food people need to live, they're the ones they have to buy from.

they are literally stealing food from peoples mouths, just through a complex globalised chain of evil rather than you know, actually going up to them and nicking it

totally fucked up if u ask me
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huh. i guess you need context to make sense of what you see on the map.
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Panopticon posted:

i think one of the most eye opening things about panning around the world in google earth is the massive cultivation of the land that still goes on in the west. it really puts lie to the idea that western nations are pure parasites stealing the bread from the mouths of africans.



And the award for stupidest poster on the forum goes to...

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Was he actually serious? I mean, it's clear that there is a lot of agriculture in the American west/midwest. What is not immediately clear from a satellite photo is why the so called free market is not making efficient use of it.
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camera_obscura posted:

Was he actually serious? I mean, it's clear that there is a lot of agriculture in the American west/midwest. What is not immediately clear from a satellite photo is why the so called free market is not making efficient use of it.



are you referring to the spherical fields or the patches of desert

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looks like prime farmland to me (???)


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"Making the desert bloom"
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the great manmade river (of stalinist tears)
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Panopticon posted:

camera_obscura posted:

Was he actually serious? I mean, it's clear that there is a lot of agriculture in the American west/midwest. What is not immediately clear from a satellite photo is why the so called free market is not making efficient use of it.

are you referring to the spherical fields or the patches of desert



i meant only that we shouldn't need to plunder other countries to feed our own

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Next terrifying great idea: Google History. Its Google Maps, but for time. With all kinds of revisionist splendor. But at least we can zoom out and see that capitalist world structure, for all its apocalyptic effects, is no larger in sheer temporal scale than the three centuries of Dancing Mania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania#Characteristics

They hardly stopped, and some danced until they broke their ribs and subsequently died. Throughout, dancers screamed, laughed, or cried, and some sang. Bartholomew also notes that observers of dancing mania were sometimes treated violently if they refused to join in. Participants demonstrated odd reactions to the colour red; in A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany, Midelfort notes they "could not perceive the color red at all", and Bartholomew reports "it was said that dancers could not stand... the color red, often becoming violent on seeing (it)".

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Panopticon posted:

looks like prime farmland to me (???)


change this users name to Green Moses

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camera_obscura posted:

i meant only that we shouldn't need to plunder other countries to feed our own



america has such a massive surplus of food that it shovels it into animals, into biofuel, and yes, into foreign aid projects which effectively undercut farmers in the periphery (i have no idea if they also intentionally export food to drive farmers out of business, but i've read about the vicious cycle of dependency after famines)

poverty in the midst of plenty is one of the fundamental contradictions of capitalism

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maybe when this is all said and done we can just say that capitalism was a mass psychogenic illness
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See right there? That's full on dirt. Dirt is what we in the sciences like to call, plant chow. See the height of the dirt? The width of it? How brown and sticky it is? Plants can grow here and become food, not something can be said of other geological surfaces. Like sand, asphalt, supermarket floor, wood floor, ocean, and even gravel. Many kinds of plant-bearing material is still incapable of hosting food plants - for example, lawn, or cemetery. You need lots of dirty looking dirt like you can see here and here, in these pictures of nothing, to feed a great nation.
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swampman posted:

change this users name to Green Moses



i didn't pick that spot, camera did

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welcome to the Google Earth thread, where arrogant shits like swampman and emanulabrolandi alternate between calling panopticon an idiot for posting pictures from google earth, and calling him an idiot for saying the pictures don't tell us much without additional context
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Panopticon posted:

welcome to the Google Earth thread, where arrogant shits like swampman and emanulabrolandi alternate between calling panopticon an idiot for posting pictures from google earth, and calling him an idiot for saying the pictures don't tell us much without additional context



I think it's more that this is an unusual and creative thread by a new poster which is inviting us to provide the context. but instead you post something obviously wrong and reactionary and when called out on it are like "LOL I was actually trolling to prove you can't tell anything from pictures, wasn't it obvious the whole time?" which is pretty annoying even if it were true. nobody's out to get you, if anything there are posters here who can't stand me personally but it doesn't stop me from posting. just don't take it so personally imo.

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You posted a picture of dirt and said it looks like really great farmland, seemingly to support the statement that

Panopticon posted:

it really puts lie to the idea that western nations are pure parasites stealing the bread from the mouths of africans.

Sorry if I overreacted but I find the one statement specious and the other, a crass distortion.

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Panopticon I think for once bhpn is wrong and you should absolutely take it personally and let it stop you from posting
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Panop, you've completly missed the point, this isn't look at this static photo and look you can infer capitalism if u knoew nothing about the world, thats dumb and the fact that you havent seen beyond that is unfortunate for you.

This is look at the earth, from above, you know like a bird, as a marxist, and think aboput capitalism and meditate on the nature of the state or whatever, but mostly apply a combination of what you know about what capitalism is and your good old science of DM from a massivly wider perspective than the view out the window.

Of course other people see it completly different because theyre not class conscious and think stalin was a bad man (u?), pills says it well:

littlegreenpills posted:

there are probably a ton of folks who do this but instead go into joyful raptures about the power of capitalism to unleash human ingenuity and raise cities from the desert and islands from the sea and all that crap though


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oh pity me and my stunted imagination/lack of rigorous application of the science of marxism-leninism (delete as applicable)
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panopticon why are you trying to be a tepid, anemic, and for want of a more perfectly apt description English version of iwc