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    A few interesting observations:

    · Northern Italy is one of the couple of places in Europe that seems really intensely lit up.

    · In contrast, Mongolia is rather dark. Seems like a good place to hide after you've faked your death-- Uhm, ahem.

    · There is a noticable hard cut between North Korea and South Korea … understandably … but interesting shape, nonetheless.

    · There is an odd partially rectangular shape in the waters, south of South Korea. Are these maybe military ships?

    · ~~How up-to-date might this be? Beirut is still as bright as Moscow. Can this be?~~ From 2012, says the Info button.

    · Kairo and the Nile look like Disney land main street.

    · I wonder why the United States has a similar divide from West to East, along the height of Dallas, Texas … a divide *this* visible.

    · Overall, this kinda looks like a medical scan of a virus-infested organism.
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    • Nodley
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      Editing … Well, all the water is on the Nile so that's where they'd build the cities, right? I mean, the rest of the country is sand. I've been there, words like desolate and barren come to mind. Northern Italy is an interesting one, it's lit up like a drunken Nod on a works night out. I've been there too but I don't remember it being built up that much, it certainly isn't all cities. I wonder if that's where rich people have houses or something? I dunno, the alps are a beautiful part of the world and really lovely to look at. Belgium too seems to be too bright, there are a lot of green fields in Belgium.
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      Editing … Yeah, the Nile looks interesting – also in Google Maps – how it's a brush of greenery within a desert context. — This other map https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/ also flags Belgium as light polluted. I can't tell why … Ah, wait https://energyindemand.com/2017/12/15/belgium-is-a-leader-in-light-pollution-easily-identifiable-from-space/
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      Editing … So Belgium keeps all it's street lights on all night. I'd be interested to see if that has an effect on crime.
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      Editing … Streetlights and politics, it seems. Though, the lanterns in my street are also turned on during the night. Though, I live in a 30 km/h zone.
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      Editing … Lombardy (N-IT) is known for its agricultural (like rice) part, assume its energy consuming... well for mongolia the capital is told to have half of its country population so most of the country is empty. For egypt Nod pointed it out, just barren land outside nile river. For US it is rain recipitation line located around 100°E west of it agricultural production is hampered. In north-korea outside Pjöngjang people just try to survive so light is luxury, for the light dots in the sea my guess goes to fishing boats.
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      Editing … True belgian streets have streetlights, this done in germany would be just an lightdot...
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      Editing … Belgium is also quite densely populated so I guess that contributes. that website is a good way to see how to get away from people hehe. I need that because fuck people today. People always blast their pussy music in the summer. Hate that. I don't want to hear your shit music asshole neighbor! I'll go to that dark spots on the map. Then I can get away and see the pretty stars.
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      Editing … "that website is a good way to see how to get away from people" Klem you're more than just a vegan, you're a bloody genius. Now, show me that map again....
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