May 12, 2013

See Alabama's Growth from above (or anywhere else too!)

Google has put together time lapse satellite photos from 1984 till last year that show the changes in places on earth...some of them are amazing.

Watch a lake in Iran dry up...or the fast development of the desert into the city of Dubai. (That's where all of the money you've been spending on gasoline in recent decades has gone!)

Here's the site on TIME

I'll bet most people will want to look at where they live...tip: go to "Explore The World"---bottom right on the front page to fill in the city and state---and then use the little map window on the top right of the next page to locate your own area. Watch the Taylor Road area of Montgomery grow from farmland to a suburb.

The only negative is the relatively low level of zoom, but still, a fun site.

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