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[arethinn]

Actual original post seems to have been moved/removed, but: http://planets-bend-between-us.tumblr.com/post/18591993325/nasa-recently-released-imagery-showing-the



"NASA recently released imagery showing the deforestation of America …in just 34 years."

hmm.

edit: By "hmm" I meant "hmm, I dunno about that" (this icon on DW is one of my "o rly?"/skeptical icons; that didn't come over on LJ). It looked to me more like dry and wet seasons or some such thing and according to this link from jarandhel it looks like I may have had the right idea there.

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[kllara]

That's hard to look at. :( 'Nuff said.

[arethinn]

See, however, the edit to this post (the version in my notification email is the original, so you may have missed it).

[kllara]

Oh okay. :) Yeah, I missed your edit. That does make more sense; I just don't see what the motivation is for the lie...

[waywind.livejournal.com]

Oh! I thought what we were supposed to be saying "hmm" about was how these images seem to show that North America has inflated itself over the last few decades until it could practically eat Eurasia.

I've been reading How To Lie With Maps and Making Maps and stuff, and this is the kind of picture that they would use in there to demonstrate how maps, even ones that partially use satellite imagery, are never literal truth.

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

It's a fake: http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=5032

[arethinn]

As I said, "hmm." My thought was that it looked seasonal (dry and wet seasons, whenever those are - here that's summer and winter respectively but it might be the other way around in these pics) and on a quick skim of that link, it sounds like he came to the same conclusion.

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

*nods* Yeah. He also identified the sources of the two images, and the first one isn't from 1978 it's from 2001.