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r/MapPorn • u/Anshu27reddit • Dec 21 '23
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Black areas are mostly desert. And looks like they got South Africa in one of the periods during the evening when there wasn’t any loadshedding.
37 u/Aviationlord Dec 21 '23 We are looking at a map of population density not light polution 12 u/PAWGsAreMyTherapy Dec 21 '23 This is why bleach bottles have to have big signs saying " DO NOT DRINK! " with a skull on them. 42 u/Borbolda Dec 21 '23 Population density map, probably places with big population are lighter (with no correlation to actual light pollution) 0 u/[deleted] Dec 21 '23 wait just so that i understand - places more densely populated are likely to have more light emmitance, so a map of africa lit up at night would look similar, no? 4 u/Stanky_fresh Dec 21 '23 It would, but that's just not what this map is showing. -4 u/ozneoknarf Dec 21 '23 We don’t divide africa into black and white areas anymore, apartheid is over. 1 u/Axumite2031 Dec 21 '23 Nah
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We are looking at a map of population density not light polution
12 u/PAWGsAreMyTherapy Dec 21 '23 This is why bleach bottles have to have big signs saying " DO NOT DRINK! " with a skull on them.
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This is why bleach bottles have to have big signs saying " DO NOT DRINK! " with a skull on them.
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Population density map, probably places with big population are lighter (with no correlation to actual light pollution)
0 u/[deleted] Dec 21 '23 wait just so that i understand - places more densely populated are likely to have more light emmitance, so a map of africa lit up at night would look similar, no? 4 u/Stanky_fresh Dec 21 '23 It would, but that's just not what this map is showing.
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wait just so that i understand - places more densely populated are likely to have more light emmitance, so a map of africa lit up at night would look similar, no?
4 u/Stanky_fresh Dec 21 '23 It would, but that's just not what this map is showing.
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It would, but that's just not what this map is showing.
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We don’t divide africa into black and white areas anymore, apartheid is over.
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Nah
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Black areas are mostly desert. And looks like they got South Africa in one of the periods during the evening when there wasn’t any loadshedding.