Here’s Cairo, and a new city called New Cairo City forming on the right side:Ĭhinese cities are especially crazy. ![]() ![]() To an alien watching Earth from afar, city development would look like the spores of a virus spreading across the surface. Also note the birth of an Oakland-San Francisco bridge:īut in cities that have seen great development in the past 30 years, the timelapses are mesmerizing. Same story with Downtown San Francisco-though you can see plenty of development in the form of the little white dots of new building roofs being sprinkled on top of an already-dense landscape. Some cities were already super developed in 1984 and don’t show super-dramatic changes. I plucked out my favorites from the playlist. They have compiled the greatest hits into a 40-minute YouTube playlist, which I may or may not have watched in full. We then encoded these new 3.95 terapixel global images into just over 25,000,000 overlapping multi-resolution video tiles. We sifted through about three quadrillion pixels-that’s 3 followed by 15 zeroes-from more than 5,000,000 satellite images … We took the best of all those pixels to create 33 images of the entire planet, one for each year. Using high-resolution satellite photos, Google has created a timelapse of the planet’s entire surface that brings you from 1984 to 2016 in four seconds. ![]() My entire morning was just derailed when a reader named Stuart emailed me a delicious thing that Google has done, called Google Earth Timelapse. This is different than a Mini post, which is a WBW original post, just a short one. If you’re new to Wait But Why and don’t know what the Shed is, it’s a place where I post things I find on the internet.
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