Comments on: NASA-NOAA satellite reveals new views of Earth at night http://www.kurzweilai.net/nasa-noaa-satellite-reveals-new-views-of-earth-at-night Accelerating Intelligence Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:03:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Bob Vasquez http://www.kurzweilai.net/nasa-noaa-satellite-reveals-new-views-of-earth-at-night/comment-page-1#comment-64547 Bob Vasquez Fri, 07 Dec 2012 22:05:26 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=173759#comment-64547 Amazing pictures. Another view of population centers (and I now know where to find New Zealand). Amazing pictures. Another view of population centers (and I now know where to find New Zealand).

]]> By: tedhowardnz http://www.kurzweilai.net/nasa-noaa-satellite-reveals-new-views-of-earth-at-night/comment-page-1#comment-64423 tedhowardnz Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:40:44 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=173759#comment-64423 A bit annoyed that someone saw fit to crop New Zealand out of the picture, otherwise interesting pic (we would be just off the bottom right). A bit annoyed that someone saw fit to crop New Zealand out of the picture, otherwise interesting pic (we would be just off the bottom right).

]]> By: Gorden Russell http://www.kurzweilai.net/nasa-noaa-satellite-reveals-new-views-of-earth-at-night/comment-page-1#comment-64336 Gorden Russell Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:35:01 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=173759#comment-64336 Look at all those vast, empty spaces in the western half of the country. Plenty of space to grow new cities after the Sing. You'll have to give individual homesteads large plots for their solar arrays to sprout up and then start growing houses out of carbon nanotubes made from the CO2 in the air. To keep people from being socially isolated out in these sprawling suburbs, cultural centers will be grown to be walkable spaces, over vast underground parking lots. They can be grown up to be a combination of Paris and Greenwich Village, with sidewalk cafes on every block. There will have to be lots of green spaces with theater shells. People will be encouraged to form theater groups. With the houses set so far apart in the 'burbs, they have to be brought together for creative meetings on narrow streets lined with brownstones. Now look at the west coast. See the dark areas? That is where the desalinization plants can be grown offshore, in the shapes of vast, tree-covered islands. The few people on the coast there won't find them ugly at all. They'll be far enough off shore not to block anybody's view of the setting sun. Their pipelines will be grown through uninhabited regions and up over the mountains to the empty deserts on the other side. The department of Housing and Urban Development will need to grow these new cities to shelter all the people who have been left homeless when they loose their jobs to robots. But I fear that the robots will be here a long time before the self-assembling photovoltaic carbon nanocells. I'm getting tired of typing "self-assembling photovoltaic carbon nanocells" time and time again. Can somebody help me come up with a shorter name for them? Look at all those vast, empty spaces in the western half of the country. Plenty of space to grow new cities after the Sing. You’ll have to give individual homesteads large plots for their solar arrays to sprout up and then start growing houses out of carbon nanotubes made from the CO2 in the air. To keep people from being socially isolated out in these sprawling suburbs, cultural centers will be grown to be walkable spaces, over vast underground parking lots. They can be grown up to be a combination of Paris and Greenwich Village, with sidewalk cafes on every block. There will have to be lots of green spaces with theater shells. People will be encouraged to form theater groups. With the houses set so far apart in the ‘burbs, they have to be brought together for creative meetings on narrow streets lined with brownstones.

Now look at the west coast. See the dark areas? That is where the desalinization plants can be grown offshore, in the shapes of vast, tree-covered islands. The few people on the coast there won’t find them ugly at all. They’ll be far enough off shore not to block anybody’s view of the setting sun. Their pipelines will be grown through uninhabited regions and up over the mountains to the empty deserts on the other side.

The department of Housing and Urban Development will need to grow these new cities to shelter all the people who have been left homeless when they loose their jobs to robots.

But I fear that the robots will be here a long time before the self-assembling photovoltaic carbon nanocells.

I’m getting tired of typing “self-assembling photovoltaic carbon nanocells” time and time again. Can somebody help me come up with a shorter name for them?

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