How 1 Photo From Space Explains ALL of History

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Select video clips courtesy of the AP Archive

Special thanks to MapTiler / OpenStreetMap Contributors and GEOlayers 3

[RealLifeLore]

Thank you all for watching and enjoying, it truly means the world 🙏

[mason_mann]

Google Maps needs to implement a "night mode." Also it would be nice if they had a, summer, spring, fall, and winter imagery toggle.

[morningsun]

2:06 Afghanistan
2:54 Iceland
3:32 Argentina
4:20 Russia
5:24 Australia
7:22 United States
8:52 Egypt
9:16 Pakistan
10:22 India
11:59 China
15:36 Sub Saharan Africa
15:58 Burundi
16:09 DRC
16:55 North sea
17:43 Eastern Mediterranean Sea
17:53 Azerbaijan
18:02 Persian gulf
18:43 Korean peninsula (North vs south)
20:56 Middle East(Iraq, Yemen, Syria)

[babsjojo]

As a European, I was blown away when travelling Australia. The night sky was something out of this world, and something I've never seen. I treasure those memories and photos!

[Jiji-the-cat]

You can see Cold War history too. If you look at Berlin from space at nighttime, you can still see where the Berlin Wall once was. The area that was West Berlin is illuminated in American-style white LED lights while East Berlin is illuminated in more old school yellowish gold lighting.

[irishpolyglot]

It's amazing that the extent of human-made light means that in my lifetime, despite being lucky enough to have travelled the world for almost 20 years, I've very rarely gotten a true glimpse of a sky without light-pollution. It's next to impossible to find in Europe without going to Arctic circle regions, or out to sea.

Last year, I travelled to the "Big Bend" region in Texas that is very far removed from major populations, and I got the best view of the Milky Way I've ever seen. It was amazing, and a reminder that we definitely live in a different world because of our electricity, that a night-sky available to all just a few decades ago, is a rarity in this day and age.

[AJ-utcz]

See this little light right here?

That's there because you left all the lights on again, and now my electric bill is so big you can see it from space.

- my dad probably

[SunnyCida]

Local to Alice Springs, Australia, discovered your channel two days ago, delighted to see my town pop up!

[yashrajsomvanshi]

This was a very popular video by Neo, always wished for an updated version of it, and RLL delivered it.♥️

[IncapableKakistocrat]

Alice Springs doesn’t *just* exist because of Pine Gap, it’s been around since the 1800s, and it became a much more significant town during WW2 because it was a significant staging area.

[Nikolapoleon]

The segment about Syria reminded me of a very famous quote from the British Foreign Secretary in the lead up to WWI:
"The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime"

[mohamedanisferchichi]

This is an amazing channel! The voice, the cinematography, the facts, the narrative, the pace …. Just amazing work! ❤

[Lazer-bplf]

Seeing those lights disappear in Yemen, Syria and Iraq saddens me to my core considering just how prosperous these places used to be in history. What the people living in these countries faced during those horrific times, I truly can't comprehend that and the lights disappearing shows that. Let's hope these places prosper again in the future (even if it takes a long time) and those lights reappear again.

[aniruddha]

There is a huge difference of electricity evolution in the years between 2012-2016 for Syria and South Korea, India.

[icejester]

At 21:10, you can tell that there is a shift in his tone of voice. Possibly spent more than one day to record all of this. That’s what I call dedication.

[cptnbangatron]

The quality of your content is just mind-blowing, keep it up man!

[talnreich]

when he talked about the battle of Aleppo being the most destructive battle of the 21st century, I felt like adding "yet". But, man, I really hope that's not a "yet"

[ricardoludwig]

Saying it tells us all of human history is overselling it a bit, but I definitely agree it is the most informative type of map there is

[DeyshaanGTR_]

oh my days. How did u make this, i swear to god it took you 1 month, i really appreciate how much time and effort you took to script this, rly educational!

[gomac]

Really cool, I love this video.
Nice to hear the enthusiasm in your voice while telling us everything about this.
Thank you so much!