How 1 Photo From Space Explains ALL of History

[@RealLifeLore]

Hey y'alll! I've been working very, very hard to produce more new videos every month in my Modern Conflicts original series that's over on Nebula! This month, the 26-minute video I made in the series covers the Battle of Aleppo during the Syrian Civil War and with 9 full length episodes now, the best way to watch them all is through the CuriosityStream/Nebula bundle deal, which you can get right here; curiositystream.com/?coupon=reallifelore Thank you all for watching and enjoying, it truly means the world 🙏

[@leltech8117]

Neat

[@HindustanballAnimations1521]

Nebula is not free 😭

[@Cool7]

Cool, but I cant get nebula.. btw I love ur videos!

[@FreddyImran32]

Cool

[@AWindy94]

I've been wanting to get nebula and curiosity stream for a really long time but I've never been able to justify getting them. I recently stoped paying for Netflix however. I has no excuse for myself now. Imma dew it. 👍

[@RealLifeLore]

My friend Neo made a video that covers this map as well a while back. I made sure to not include the majority of things he discussed in his video, so you can still watch his and learn a lot more about this beautiful map here; kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIqqlWCiod17gKc

[@londoncrow500]

Hi, can you do 'what if countries united' videos again?

[@takenhaven]

Noice

[@virangmankad]

Yeahh you did much better than him. Nice content

[@vitamler9790]

PLESE USE THE METRIC SYSTEM

[@yurttgjk]

Please use metric system

[@morningsun8387]

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)

[@The-ZebraFinch-Channel]

Underrated

[@hdcontents6688]

Iraq not Iran the last one

[@amishD69]

What is India ??

[@morningsun8387]

@@amishD69India is a country. It's the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the largest democracy in the world.

[@bb5979]

@@TML0677 that's a great question

[@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.

[@CR7GOATofFootball]

@Prajwal Devanga the seasons pr the night version?? Or both??

[@wild4509]

@Prajwal Devanga whose check?

[@applesauce_0743]

Brilliant idea!

[@cjg8763]

I was just perusing Google maps while listening to this and thinking exactly the same thing.

[@ProfessorJayTee]

How much are you willing to PAY for that rather-pointless "functionality?" Right. So they won't be doing that any time soon.

[@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!

[@tributetolost]

*a European

[@stefanj11]

@@tributetolost LOL what? An European

[@baileyharrison1030]

@@stefanj11 Are you really trying to correct someone’s English when it’s obvious it’s not your first language? It’s “A European”

[@jjmaia]

@@tributetolost Is your life so frustrating that you're coming to youtube correcting other peoples misspellings?

[@SternLX]

I grew up in and around the Sierra-Nevada Mtns. and Reno. I was so used to seeing the Milky way at night that I took it for granted. Then when I got older and lived in more populated areas with tons of light pollution I didn't remember what I was missing until I went out camping in the middle of the Moab in Utah. "My god, the Sky, it's full of stars."

[@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.

[@harukrentz435]

I almost forgot how bright the full moon was until we had total electric blackout few years ago.

[@jessieiscool0218]

So true

[@goofytuna6077]

Here in my college town we can actually see the stars at night, its really beautiful

[@supertyfon1736]

Your not wrong.

[@jay-d8g3v]

There's an area in Montana, clear night sky, I saw the entire arm of the galaxy we live in, just stretch across the sky like a beautiful painting :"""). I could only imagine the sky back 200 years ago.. it's breath-taking.

[@yashrajsomvanshi128]

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

[@sapphire5475]

I am sad today I didn't got a single subscriber😭😭..........

[@RealLifeLore]

For the record, I LOVE Neo's video on this subject as well. For everyone who hasn't seen it, I tried my best to steer clear of anything he discussed in his video so it's totally different and includes a lot more facts on this that my video didn't, so you should go and watch it next!

[@Aqabal]

@@RealLifeLore hi

[@thegoldengamer9315]

Nice

[@andreaspapadopoulos5840]

@@RealLifeLore Hi sir, can you please make vid on how Greeks invented everything 🇬🇷😍💪

[@SunnyCida]

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

[@TimeBucks]

This is my favorite video you made so far

[@mjmtaiwan]

Try “thus far” for added variety in your conversations.

[@chaahatsharma5361]

10:44 As an Indian, I have only heard about how poor India is, how corrupt it is, scarcity of food, water etc. All the bad things. But this might be one of the few times when we hear something really positive about my Country. It doesn't matter which political side you're on, you have to feel proud of it. Nearly 100% of people have access to electricity! And we are talking about a country with more than 1.4 Billion people! That's no mean feat. Thank you for making this video and portraying a different picture of India. Jai Hind!

[@duitk]

Most countries outside of Africa have near 100 percent access to electricity. India has finally joined that club, poor Africa though.

[@chaahatsharma5361]

@@duitk yeah, just checked. I've edited it. Thanks tho 👍🏻

[@manofculture9051]

still long way to go , Golden Bird will shine again and this time we will be the brightest ❤️ JAI HIND !!

[@Pinpadprompts]

@@duitk please stop calling me

[@madrigale6396]

@@finlaycowan3681 if you look into it tho its actually kind of a lie on the part of modis government as they count a village as considered electrified once 10% of its houses and significant civic infrastructure such as schools and panchayat offices are connected to the power grid. But 2.84 crore households connected is still a good number and it's commendable to make electrification a priority but like anything Modis govt its best not to take it all at face value. The push for better sanitation and access to toilets for villagers (to end open defecation) was commendable as well.

[@vasilerogojan4520]

This video is basically a proof that demonstrates just how important are history and geography for human development.

[@checker297]

actually its incredibly wrong, its just a bunch of correlation/causation misnomers. Human development is more based around access to fresh water sources. Lights are just showings of where electricity infrastructure has been invested in.

[@Jane-qh2yd]

@@checker297 "Lights are just showings of where electricity infrastructure has been invested in." That's precisely what human development means...

[@checker297]

@@Jane-qh2yd i mean electricity is a very new concept. I would say that human development defined by electricity alone is an extremely narrow view of the world. I mean lots of complex mathematical theories etc which form the basis of modern mathematics were performed before there were calculators. What about social development like things like democracy, clean water, medicine?

[@Jane-qh2yd]

@@checker297 "Development is a process that creates growth, progress, positive change or the addition of physical, economic, environmental, social and demographic components." If a society wasn't able to adapt to what is the most basic of modern human technology, then it is inherently not developed

[@apoolplayer278]

așa-i

[@AJ-ut8cz]

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

[@Lazer-bp9lf]

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.

[@waleedalarmanazi159]

Amen.. thanks from syria

[@douglasdever6134]

What will be will be. Their problem; surely not mine.

[@zekeyeager1458]

Less light pollution! Think of it that way! There’s so many people in this world who haven’t even actually seen a shooting star in person, I frightens me! Like come on, ya city slicker!

[@tremedar]

​@@zekeyeager1458 If seeing a piece of space rock burning up in the atmosphere is important to you, there are plenty of places you can visit that have no light pollution, without sacrificing a modern standard of living.

[@zekeyeager1458]

@@tremedar irrelevant point comrade, it’s about the preservation of not only the natural environment but the very delicate balance that is somehow and somewhat still existent here on Earth. I suggest you educate yourself on the matter! For example, China’s “False Moon Initiative.”

[@ankitghosal9324]

India is quite evenly populated throughout its landmass especially among the big countries(US, Canada, China, etc.), it's quite cool actually. btw as with India - Pakistan border the border between India and Bangladesh is also fully illuminated. So you can actually see the silhouette/outline of Bangladesh at night which is really cool.

[@bangguyraj]

I think the outline you can clearly see is between Bangladesh and the North East India and Myanmar. They are quite dark!

[@akihokokurosaki]

@Prajwal Devanga illegal immigration from Bangladesh is really a problem. What's the reason for not fencing it completely.

[@bangguyraj]

@Prajwal Devanga what are you talking about, where the fence is coming from?

[@ameyas7726]

India should fight Islamists who are the real enemies smartly...things like fencing and border lights don't work in the long term....and more people are not bad as long as they are productive...they are actually good for the economy..

[@bangguyraj]

@@akihokokurosaki Wake up bhakts from your state of delusion and denial! Pull your head out of your rearh0le to see the world properly! India hosts more hungry stomachs than the rest of the world does together, hundreds of thousands of farmers commit suicide every year out of sheer poverty, 70% of the indians have no toilets but take their dumps out in the open air, millions of female fetuses are aborted every year. So why on God's earth anyone will ever have the nightmare of migrating to India? India is the 3rd poorest country even in South Asia right above Pakistan and Nepal! Stop consuming too much holllyduung and holllycola! There are at least one million indians working legally in Bangladesh but the illegal indians are at least three times the legal number which means 3 millions. Bangladesh is india's one of the top 5 remittance source countries based on the legal income. And nobody knows how many $billions the illegal indians are sending home from Bangladesh! Bangladesh cannot afford 1.4 billion poor and hungry indians flocking to Bangladesh illegally. So, once the submissive Hasina is kicked out of power, it's Bangladesh who will put the fence for their own interest!

[@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.

[@rozdid6353]

Nooo

[@extrafreshhh]

Logistically it makes no sense that Alice springs was a “significant staging area”. I’m not even going to need to do research to say it was not lol.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

@@extrafreshhh Actually, it's true. It's logistically sound for the same reason it is today - extremely remote in-land and surrounded by harsh terrain. It makes sense to send commanding officers and strategists there so they're not at risk of capture or death, and it's much easier to keep a close eye on who goes in and out.

[@andyrob3259]

@@extrafreshhh okay Knuckle don't. Doesn't make it any less true. Let us know when you finish primary school. It's been a primary staging area since colonial times fort inland transport between Adelaide and the north and was the terminus of the Inland railway until the late 20th century and before that the Afghan camel trains. .

[@salt-emoji]

I'm sure it was instrumental in the the Australian eco war against emus ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@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"

[@ricardoludwig4787]

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

[@sapphire5475]

I am sad today I didn't got a single subscriber😭😭..........

[@alman29812]

@@UnkownKZbinr286 you don't have any

[@GuiiBrazil]

The clickbait title is scientifically proven to work for KZbin algorithm. And the poor man needs to put food on the table.

[@robertschnobert9090]

@@alman29812 it's a scam bot. It can't read your answer, it's just a script. Report as spam and move on, thank you :)

[@SlumMattress]

@@GuiiBrazil hes a millionaire with 5,2 million subscribers

[@aniruddha3431]

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

[@sapphire5475]

I am sad today I didn't got a single subscriber😭😭...........

[@aniruddha3431]

@@UnkownKZbinr286 your content?

[@virangmankad]

@@aniruddha3431 Why are these 2 spamming on every comment in order

[@virangmankad]

I mean they also fought like this in last few com. Look at any comment see them fighting

[@aniruddha3431]

@@virangmankad 🤷‍♂️

[@ahmadhasan9446]

Without you really saying much this is one the saddest and deepest videos on this channel... as someone from aleppo , i left almost 6 years ago... still broke my heart and made me tear up 😢🇸🇾

[@Shreya...1]

Don't worry things will get better one day

[@poptartpanda1484]

I was always so fascinated by the "Earth at Night" poster in my 12th grade physics classroom. I loved looking at all the lights and seeing just where people populated the earth. This video shows both the dark and the light (no pun intended) parts of our history. Watching the lights grow in some areas while also watching some go out. It's very powerful. Thank you for sharing.

[@n4rcy508]

I was really glad you explained what was that tiny spot of light in the middle of Australia. I was literally staring at it and thinking what the heck and who in the right mind would live there. The whole 2 minutes since I saw it to the point of you explaining it.

[@Ms666slayer]

Normally if you see a spot of light in the middle of nowhere it normally means, that there's something important there, most of the time, is something like a mining city or oil.

[@lilaclizard4504]

Uluru is nearby too, making it a major tourist town. The dots in the north of WA are mines/mining towns

[@dalerowell75]

As interesting as Pine Gap is in its own right, it’s odd to dwell on it so long in this video when it has nothing to do with the videos purpose - light telling history. The town is the source of the light, not Pine Gap itself, and the town was founded 90 years before Pine Gap, with the major population booms being due to gold rushes, WWII and tourism.

[@terrysweat4187]

I have heard of that place before, specially when it came down to the part about the spy satellites 🛰 they crossed over middle of the continent and no signals could be picked up from the water/oceans.?

[@CaptainCed]

@@dalerowell75 American exceptionalism. Everything has to be about them.

[@ayotundealele1465]

This is without a doubt one of the best videos I have ever seen...demonstrating the extent of the impact humans have had on our planet/natural world, and just how pivotal geography has been to human settlements over time. The sheer variety of locations and examples you cited was impressive as well. I'm blown away 👏. Your material is incredible...please keep it up with the thought provoking content!

[@taln0reich]

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"

[@360.Tapestry]

the destruction is sad af... imagine being a child and that was your hometown. traumatizing

[@deleetiusproductions3497]

It probably is, considering everything that’s going on right now

[@Alvin_Vivian]

Well we're doing better than the 20th century so far. By 1922, WW1 and the Russian Revolution had already happened.

[@100percentSNAFU]

Hopefully, all the war hawks in both parties in the United States don't force a war with Russia like they want, or this could be the big one that is "yet" to come. While the rest of the world, understandably so, views Americans in general as a bunch of war mongerers, the reality is that most of the PEOPLE here don't want that, it's the idiots in government that push it, and I suspect for economic reasons. It's their policies that get us in to economic hardship, then they try to resolve it by starting a war.

[@peiceofcheese87]

sadly, given we're only 1/5th of the way through, it's likely that something worse will happen.

[@mohamedanisferchichi2071]

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

[@pilot7977]

11:31 The proof of development done under Modi government can be seen through space well that's some heck of an achievement well done India

[@dylanrambow2704]

I'm surprised you didn't talk about the lights in Berlin. If you look at the tint of the lights you can still to this day see the different types of light bulbs that were used in East Berlin and West Berlin before the days of unified Germany.

[@1m2rich]

Light bulbs can emit blue, yellkw, white light depending on their type.

[@atropatene3596]

Same, but then maybe that has been mentioned often enough by now.

[@dancollins2568]

He didn't want to draw any negative attention towards communism. Hence why he called North Korea, a nation that couldn't be more hardline communist dictatorship, a fascist country.

[@AwokenEntertainment]

Lights have become a such a staple of life, so interesting being able to use it to reverse engineer information about different civilizations and cultures

[@nameisamine]

I have 2nd hand embarrassment that over 700 million human beings still have no access to it 🤢 And even with those 700 million people ‘off the grid’, carbon emissions are ALREADY out of control…how we are supposed get all these people affordable, clean, renewable energy and still CUT emissions, and STILL prevent climate breakdown?

[@ForzaMonkey]

The energy crisis in a nutshell.

[@omegalksg3918]

@@nameisamine The carbon emissions of the worse-off 98% of the planet is still EXPONENTIALLY smaller than the 2%, even when combined all together. Giving the basic minimum necessities to the people who don't have it would barely make a dent compared to the amount of destructive pollution created by big wasteful corporations.

[@nicksmalldick]

@@nameisamine On top of that the world population is still growing and growing, and as people are becoming more affluent their standard of living goes up, meaning all of them will also want all the nice things in life, drive a car, tons of nice clothes, travel the world by plane and so on.. This will definitely get out of control at some point..

[@joeyp373]

@@nicksmalldick that’s why there is poverty and drugs

[@yogasounds1]

Many people (including myself) don't know much about Afghanistan's geography! I always thought of Afghanistan as a desert like Iraq or Saudi. Thank you for share a few tidbits. Very interesting!

[@studyofgaming9707]

Hands down one of the most interesting videos I’ve seen in the last year. It’s amazing how light tells the entire story of humanity

[@AhmadLad]

This is my favorite video you made so far. I was researching these photos as well. You beautifully summarized the stories of lights around the world. And HUGE Thank you for *shedding light* on the war in Syria ( 21:32 ) and the battle of Aleppo. I really hope the lessons we learned in the war in my country could serve as a warning to other countries not to descend into this horrific cycle of violence. Keep up the good work.

[@Tony-.]

But just ignored to mention Idlib, which was captured by pro-Turkish forces; Mosul was burned down by US aircraft, Deir ez-Zur, which for five years in complete encirclement was defended by local Syrians from ISIS terrorists, while American bombs fell on them.

[@whuzzzup]

@@Tony-. Imagine the western world helped to fight the terrorist along with the Syrian government instead of the US trying (successfully) to destabilize the region.

[@mopping4600]

F for Syria

[@Musa-al-Khwarazmi]

Russia and NATO bombed Syria and blamed syrians for standing up against dictatorship.

[@Tony-.]

@@whuzzzup the Syrian regime is not much different from the terrorists, only instead of God they glorify the military junta. I live in Russia and I know what I'm talking about. The military and special services make all decisions in the economy and the social sphere, their uneducated children in luxury, sit on the boards of directors of all large companies in every region, and they also call on us to fight the capitalist because of terrorism? What nonsense. In the West, such people are tried and imprisoned; in our country, monuments are erected to them.

[@johnchedsey1306]

As someone who grew up in a very dark area of the American west, the thought of being around 70,000,000 other people in the small area around Hong Kong just gives me great anxiety!

[@Adaguflo]

I'd feel sophocated

[@amitsingh-yk3ps]

i think china is more densely populated than india

[@stc2828]

@@amitsingh-yk3ps NO

[@amitsingh-yk3ps]

@@stc2828 yes

[@UwU-ok2jr]

@@stc2828 it is China is the most populous country in the world

[@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!

[@fastelement]

This perfectly visualises how physically isolated we are from the rest of the world here in Perth. It's so easy to forget that sometimes with 2.5 million of us crammed into our city. It also shows why I can't see the stars very well at night, despite being so far away from the rest of the world!

[@avarma6313]

they didnt even show tasmania

[@martinjohnfox]

@A Varma those devils dont have lights

[@justanenderman9668]

@@martinjohnfox i get it

[@ragh9014]

I'm from Aleppo and I can confirm that most people in that city cannot even remember what electricity means.. Luckily, I don't live there anymore but I can never forget the years I've lived there in the war Pray for Syria, it's really bad in there Especially in Aleppo💔💔

[@realwiggles]

They forgot about electricity?

[@ragh9014]

@@realwiggles yeah because we had no electricity for many years so we just used candles and used to wash our clothes by hand Of course very rich people had pack ups but most people didn't so we just lived like that

[@crashstitches79]

Pray? Religion did that to Syria and the Middle East in general.

[@terskataneli6457]

​@@crashstitches79 religion is poison to human mind. I'm a christian not by choice but by birth. I don't give a shit if someone burns a bible in public and neither should anyone give a shit if someone burned Koran.

[@kirandeepchakraborty7921]

That part about India was a gem

[@cptnbangatron2221]

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

[@glazersout6189]

One of the best videos ive seen on your channel, very fascinating

[@sapphire5475]

I am sad today I didn't got a single subscriber😭😭..........

[@thegayestmfalive]

Fuck off, spam bots

[@fandroid6491]

@@sapphire5475 that's a lame reason to be so sad

[@wallaroo1295]

An area that I found very interesting [and personally, kinda sad]: *The Bakken Oil Fields* I grew up in the area some decades ago, and the oil industry has a bit of a boom and bust cycle there, but was always a big chunk of the economy. High School graduation (for men) pretty much gave these options: farm, college, military, oil fields. (Or combinations thereof) I chose military, and left the area for most of my adult life. Growing up there, at night you could pretty easily navigate by the various glows on the horizon, as long as you knew what primary direction you were travelling. "Yep, going the right direction - there's X town glowing over there." Then - fracking became a thing, and the Bakken oil field absolutely went bonkers for about a decade. And you can't navigate by horizon glows at night anymore - the horizon is speckled with land-based oil platforms, in a sea of prairie. Seemingly overnight, very very small towns that had been that way for *decades* - even during prior boom cycles - became small cities. In particular, Williston, North Dakota - which became something akin to the capitol city of the Bakken.

[@dominicguye8058]

How is this sad?

[@johnchedsey1306]

I drove through that area (from Regina to Denver) maybe a couple years before those oil fields blew up. It was a stunning change to pass through there again in 2016. And once the boom is gone, will the small cities turn into oversized ghost towns?

[@wallaroo1295]

@@dominicguye8058 It is sad, in several ways - some personal, and some tragic. The culture there was the last remnants of "Scandi-America" - having been settled in the late 1800s and early 1900s by primarily Scandinavian immigrants, from Eastern Montana, across to Minnesota (also why we have the NFL Vikings team, and it's very stereotyped team logo). The region is... hard living, especially back then. With winter temperatures that can easily hit -40 degrees C/F, [the scales cross each around that level] in the winter with near constant high winds, to proportionally inverse hot summers. The area has "The Badlands" running through it, named so, for good reason! 😄 And those pioneers, made it grow food. Lots of it. Enough to supply billions of people globally with the vast wheat fields that extend across the otherwise arbitrary Canadian border. That sort of, "Canadians are Nice People" culture, is more regional, than national. So, if you were from Saskatchewan, Canada - some little mostly wheat farming community of about 10,000 people - most of whom were the direct descendants of the pioneers, many still on the same family farms - and out of seemingly nowhere, because of a new technology, 100s of thousands of people suddenly moved from Toronto, either into or regionally near your town, and bring with them all of their culture... Even though a [mostly] peaceful deal, rather than the open warfare of previous mass migrations of humans... Everything that was your culture - your history, your buildings, the streets, schools, businesses... families. All gone in just one or two years. It's... sad. Suddenly, crimes that were almost unheard of, in a community where locking your doors while you slept at night was considered borderline paranoid... it's terrifying. A longtime, and beloved, school teacher in one of the Montana towns was abducted, strangled, and then her body molested, by two men from Texas, high as fuck on meth amphetamines and who knows what else... just saw her out for her 5AM morning jog, and decided in the moment. Crimes like that did happen, but they were extremely rare. With working men, so also comes the vice industry - a strip club, more bars, prostitution, and violence. So in that way - yeah... it's sad to me. It can't be stopped, that is the passage of time, and change. Nothing lasts forever, and fighting time - only causes more pain. So anyway to myself - I blather. But, I love to answer a good question.

[@wallaroo1295]

@@johnchedsey1306 I blathered pretty good in my response to Dominic! 😄 But, as I replied to him - I do like to answer a good question. And I had a pretty damn good day, so... I feel like responding with blathery stories. Once the towns have been changed this significantly... well, no matter where, we can't go back in time. We're doing a hell of a lot more with our oil than just cars - plastics by *far* is the biggest slice of the pie in our world now. Gasoline will always be a thing, but the share of that oil pie for gasoline will eventually get pretty small, and probably a luxury for collector car owners... in more than a few decades. So, the extra houses will cause the housing market to crash, and the people who sold at the top will walk away with lots of money, and the people who stayed... stay longer. Until the next cycle. People who plan properly, buy in when the houses are dirt cheap, and long term invest - and they make theirs at the next cycle. And so the cycles go... on and on.

[@wallaroo1295]

@@dominicguye8058 On the upside though Dominic, a *lot* of those pioneer families, still *owned the pioneer's rights to the oil* - and so three generations after, many of those families are "oil money wealthy." Also, in that "seemingly overnight" time frame. So, sad in a lot of ways, but also a lot of happiness. One of those families *donated all the funding* to completely astroturf and re-track the High School stadium. Because, "they don't really need the money now anyway." Hopefully, the people who move in will appropriate that part of a culture soon to be lost. Scandis love it when people appropriate our culture, it's fun.

[@robertharris6092]

I honestly find the small barely visible isolated specs of light more interesting than the big connected ones.

[@icejester6832]

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.

[@Pepo24]

True, this video probably took much effort

[@yash_deep]

11:52 INDIA ❤️

[@godivachoco6509]

Congratulation to all those who worked so hard to produce this documentary. This is precious. A great lesson of modern geography. Thank you all so much. Looking forward to learn more from you. Keep up the good work.

[@cinnamonstar808]

the brightest people on the earth

[@HeortirtheWoodwarden]

6:20 "No photography from this point" The cameraman: 👁️👄👁️📸

[@Anonymouslikemydad]

Beyond this point...Although the air photo was illegal

[@WindWalkTravelVideos]

Great perspective! Learned a lot.

[@joshuachristofferson9227]

I've always found this to be one of the most intriguing & beautiful of Maps--thanks for the deep dive!

[@vyvorgarcia5909]

Seeing the stark contrast of lights in each countries is so fascinating. It is indeed more evident to see the difference of how each nation lives.

[@sabikikasuko6636]

Hi, I'm from Argentina and I wanted to develop a little bit on the Fair Winds side of things (Buenos Aires XD). What you see there was the Red Ferroviaria Argentina, or Argentina Railway Network. It has now been largely dismantled by this point, with only a few lines running, being the biggest the Roca line, which runs all from the capital of the country, down to La Plata, which is the southeast blob sliiightly sticking out of the BIG light that's Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. Going north, you can clearly see a straight line going from Buenos Aires to some big city, and then turning, and then splitting in two. The big city is called Rosario, biggest city in the province of Santa Fe and third most populous in the country. From there, the line goes to, and splits at, Villa María. Southward, it goes through Río Cuarto, which is a huge touristic attraction, and then to Villa Mercedes and to San Luis, capital of the eponymous province. The big lights you see that almost form a huge line, honestly I don't know for certain what are they but, across the highway between San Luis and Villa Mercedes there is a considerable concentration of circular crops, so those lines could be irrigators, or cars taking crops to San Luis and Villa Mercedes. Finally, back to Villa María, going northwards will take you to Cordoba City, which is the second densest place in Argentina only behind Buenos Aires capital itself. It's a huge city with upwards of 1.5 million people, the only other city with more than 1 million people, with Rosario a close third with something of 950k (Most likely already at 1 million, that population's from the 2010 census >w

[@abhijeetkumarrath3758]

Thanks Sabiki! Good job.

[@USSR_CCCP]

We love Maradona and Messi from India

[@Draxzz.]

I live in Villa Nueva and i can hear the trains that go through Villa María from my house every other day

[@alejandrocrespo7633]

Siempre he querido ir a Argentina, pero nunca se me ha dado ... tal vez un día

[@OfentseMwaseFilms]

What an amazing video🙌🏾💯

[@DrBeauHightower]

Great video I love this channel

[@windywendi]

13:45 Fun fact: those fields and mountains in the background are actually in Hong Kong, since Shenzhen built its city center right on the border, and Hong Kong haven't quite developed the land adjacent to China.

[@imblack011]

honestly this is the kind of stuff i believe i should be learning about in geography class. sure learning about volcanoes and what not is important but this is even more important because thia is what geography is about, it is about how different geographical features dictate where and how we live and this video deomnstrates that very well

[@fonzi981]

I think you went to geology class

[@HoV326]

Sounds like you were taught more geology than geography

[@IG7799-c4u]

It seems they do teach more geology than actual geography these days.

[@jesusmgw]

You're talking about geology not geography.

[@fonzi981]

I love how every reply that came after my first basically say the same thing 😂😂

[@Aresie271]

I’ve been watching you for 5 years and I must say, this is probably your best video ever.

[@emeij]

I found the Korean border to be quite fascinating! The fact that you can see the borderline just from lights is insane.

[@interstellarmanufacturingc8093]

I highly recommend you go visit the dmz, it is crazy looking in on North Korea. There is a ghost town that you can see from across the border and it is creepy lol.

[@emeij]

@@interstellarmanufacturingc8093 One day, hopefully I get to visit all the cool places I see on the Internet.

[@ungrateful-66]

An uncle of mine lives in Perth and was a federal senator for the state of West Australia in his younger years, and honestly, I admire those Aussies who live at a REAL FRONTIER!

[@pullfunnystick]

This guy has taught us so much despite only posting around once per 2 weeks. I respect you so much RLL, thanks for teaching me so many useful facts

[@jdbreaux8080]

To date the very best YT video I've ever watched. Should be required to watch in US public and private schools.

[@maxrucula]

4:02 as an Argentine, I can add that this happens because our economy depended on agriculture during one century, and it was mostly connected to the main port (Buenos Aires, current capital city) through trains

[@krio1267]

are you german

[@maxrucula]

@@krio1267 I get it but no lol, btw 95% of people I know are mostly European descendents

[@easypeasy9598]

@@krio1267 He said he is argentinian lol. Im argentinian too

[@prajwalkannadiga8737]

@@easypeasy9598 European

[@annoyed707]

Japan and Russia connecting through that route is, to say the least, politically problematic.

[@cmyk8964]

I know, right? The south half of Sakhalin is technically disputed territory.

[@qjtvaddict]

But economically huge for both

[@hanzocloud]

Russia shouldn’t own 1/3 of Asia, one day a powerful Asian nation will drive them back and “liberate” the siberians

[@Rickywwx]

@@cmyk8964 I don't believe Sakhalin is disputed; its only the Kurils that are disputed, right? But still politically problematic for numerous other reasons.

[@cmyk8964]

@@Rickywwx The south half is technically also disputed territory. Nobody really talks about it.

[@deval97]

This is by far my favourite video you've ever made, on any of your channels! I spend so much time looking at maps, including night time shots of lights, but i never noticed some things like the pakistan/india border, the lights in the north sea and persian gulf, or the Argentinian city layout. thank you for making this!

[@gomac5]

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

[@rougeclips9438]

7:36 You don’t realize how empty the western United States is until you see it like this. Wow!

[@axelfoley133]

Me: Laughs in Australian!

[@sapphire5475]

I am sad today I didn't got a single subscriber😭😭...........

[@Aqabal]

@@UnkownKZbinr286 bot

[@alter112]

Overpopulation 🤣🤣

[@Lynn-pw9nw]

I live in the American west, it's empty, but it holds a lot of beauty most people aren't willing to go out and see!

[@LordButtersI]

Just "liking" isn't enough to convey how much I enjoyed this video. This is the best video you've ever made.

[@Blank-41]

Its hard to imagine how much huge vast open areas of nothing there is.

[@RobbbbC]

For now.

[@sapphire5475]

I am sad today I didn't got a single subscriber😭😭..........

[@nikjost1]

@@RobbbbC for ever. You may think theres a lot of people on the planet but compared to the entire world we're just small dots and all other areas around are much bigger than what we inhabit. So we will definitly stop exsisting before we ever manage to populy the entire world

[@GasStationBird]

@@sapphire5475 nobody asked

[@IbelieveinGod483]

@@UnkownKZbinr286 My 6 year old nephew could make better content then you

[@demarcjw]

Awesome video! Didn’t realize it’s actually 30 min long. Content is well researched and captivating. Keep it up! :)

[@Jayko72000]

I've been meaning to get Nebula for your Modern Conflicts series since I love your work here and it's amazing! I may or may not have just binged a whole bunch of them :) Keep up the awesome work!

[@larsedik]

Thanks for explaining how oil and natural gas fields show up as lights, even though no people live in those areas. I noticed this particularly in the Permian Basis in Texas - especially the western part of the basin, which is pretty much devoid of population but still shows up with a lot of bright lights. Also, I was unaware of the Eagle Ford Shale, which forms an arc south and southeast of San Antonio, again where there are no cities and extremely sparse population. I always wondered why there were bright lights in these parts of uninhabited Texas.

[@TheOriginalFaxon]

One thing he didn't mention about the oil rigs, they DO have a few people on board, and a shit ton of lights as you can see in the picture. Not all of the natural gas is wasted as flare off either, they use it in gas turbines to power the rig, but since there isn't currently an economical way to tap it for most offshore rigs, it just gets burned, since methane is a worse greenhouse gas than CO2 in the short-medium term. It degrades to CO2 over time in the atmosphere from UV exposure, but in that time it's like 20x more potent than CO2. The main reason oil rigs are so bright is because getting hit out at sea by a boat that didn't get a good visual on you in time to avoid you, would be a massive disaster, and with all that available energy to power lights on the rig, they light them the fuck up.

[@joellimbom2666]

wow, the electricity and light trend comparison between India and China really surprised me, India is going up and China is doing the opposite.

[@plug007]

China has massive mountain ranges and is a bit like Afghanistan

[@sapphire5475]

I am sad today I didn't got a single subscriber😭😭...........

[@steelnail1917]

@@plug007 because its literally a desert nobody likes a desert but also can't even grow food overthere

[@steelnail1917]

@@UnkownKZbinr286 you have no videos tho

[@kushal4956]

china is not going down. people are just moving to the cities

[@cmdr1911]

I love the bright lights in the Dakotas. It is all the drill rigs and frac spreads in the Bakkan Oil Field. The scale amazes me

[@AlecInstant]

Good thing you brought up that dot in Australia. It would have drove me nuts.

[@robertschnobert9090]

"It would have driven me nuts"? Shouldn't it be driven instead of drove? I'm trying to improve my English. I don't want be be offensive. 🌈

[@eccoeccos]

@@robertschnobert9090 yes, you're correct

[@xenos_n.]

@@robertschnobert9090 I always find it funny when people who don't speak English natively can speak better than some who only speak English... I've run across many people who apologize for their "bad English" and I'm like "are you kidding me, I understand you better than a lot of locals." 😂 ... That said, you can say both "drove" or "driven".

[@AlecInstant]

Honestly that’s how I would of said it verbally too. We can bend the language anyway we want ;)

[@eccoeccos]

@@xenos_n. You say driven if it's preceded by "would have" (past participle), otherwise, you say drove (preterite/past).

[@avgeek1930]

You can give credit to Nikola Tesla for spreading electricity throughout the world. He perfected AC current and invented the modern AC current distribution system.

[@belland_dog8235]

No, you can't. Nikola Tesla was awesome but he did not spread any electricity anywhere

[@gazzy01]

@@belland_dog8235 go listen AC/DC band

[@shreyaspillai8421]

Indian dads will probably freak out seeing the number of lights turned on

[@Aman_34563]

😂😂😂

[@NamTran-ur6yc]

People say one image is worth a thousand words, but this is more like one image is worth the entirety of humankind.

[@SpazzyMcGee1337]

I hope the British dude with the jittery hand that drew the border between Pakistan and India feels proud of himself now that his doodle can be seen from space.

[@WestExplainsBest]

You could learn more from this one video than you could in an entire semester of middle school social studies.

[@vicentegambini8907]

This channel produces some of the best content on KZbin. I might go buy the subscription for curiosity stream because I love this kind of informative content.

[@andyrob3259]

Even if it's full of mistakes

[@ythunderboy8694]

@@andyrob3259 ??

[@bravehome4276]

Thank you for being a bright light to all us docufans!

[@HoLDoN4Sec]

this map shows best how much light pollution ruins the night sky view in the world. i consider myself lucky that i had the chance to watch a clean night sky in the desert during my military service, and oh boy the pictures you find online don't lie. it really is a beautiful view! you could literally see every star out there, even meteors!, and even though it was complete darkness the moon literally light up the surface and you could completely see everything around you clearly almost as if the moon's light is like daylight, that was an amazing experience to be honest. 15 years ago i remember when i looked at the sky at night i could still see a few stars and the moon, while nowadays in populated areas all you can see nowadays is just the moon and even that isn't enough to light up the ground anymore..

[@kartikaggarwal1709]

Ok boomer

[@fandroid6491]

@@kartikaggarwal1709 Ok millenial

[@kartikaggarwal1709]

@@fandroid6491 *Gen Z

[@1600_rk]

@@kartikaggarwal1709 stfu bro u making us look bad

[@KillberZomL4D42494]

@@fandroid6491 The last group of Millennials are turning 28 years old this year, all those born in 1994 are the last millennials, I guess you're even a Millennial.

[@fortunatestandupdesk7892]

I love this. I've had this map as my computer background for years and love just staring at it and thinking about the patterns.

[@ferenc-x7p]

As someone who does astrophotography as a hobby, I yearn for the less luminated parts of the world. Light pollution is still a pollution, many people living in these giant metropolis areas never even seen the night sky. I had friends from cities who traveled to a small town where I used to live and they couldn't get enough of the stars visible at night, they said it was magical. Also, lighting up the environment as many of these giant cities messes with the the people's internal/biological clock, and since LED introduced and their spectrum of light they emit is even worse than the old light bulbs. Just like the way phones and tablets have the ability to turn the light yellowish, to avoid causing sleeping pattern problems, the problem doesn't stop there. LED street lights, car lights all causing the same problem and not just to humans, but nocturnal and all creatures around. There are still no regulations on LED bright lights, regardless how people in love with them, they are not your friend at night. There should be regulation by now to limit the light emission and frequency of it, to pull it back down to more conservative levels, or we will have a serious problem very soon, or possibly already happening with the people's mental and neurological well being. I'm not saying we should go back to dark, but moderate the light output for efficiency and stay in the emission level of natural lights.

[@dukeon]

Totally agree!

[@18maxx87]

No one asked shutfp

[@bpbpbpbpbpbp]

There’s so much that cities could be doing to improve our night skies, both locally, and for the few remaining dark areas hundreds of miles away. Let your city councils know that dark skies are important to you!

[@jasonreed7522]

Some cities/towns have "dark sky policies" which means minimal uplighting on walls and street lights can't emit light above parallel to the ground. (Meaning now wasting photons by shooting them directly into the sky, they have to bounce off something first) Personally i fully support dark sky measures as even in my small town (living 5 miles out of the village actually) some stars aren't easy to see and the Milky way was very hard to see. But it still is way better than my current lication where even the big dipper is hard to spot. I also think all billboards, especially electronic ones need to be removed. (They are a waste of electricity and an ugly blemish of consumerism on out society, also the light pollution aspect)

[@Ultrevolous]

This is my favorite video you've done RLL! Big fan

[@CharlesGregory]

When I saw the "black marble" at the start showed significant sources of light in north-western Australia, I wondered if this would be noticed and corrected. Fortunately it seems you chose a more accurate image for the detailed section about Australia. The bright lights are from gas fields and mining operations, and not indicative of populated areas! Just thought I'd point it out so it didn't go unnoticed!

[@aarieffawwaz7984]

1:43 The lights on Java island is very bright compared to the rest of major islands in Indonesia

[@HeortirtheWoodwarden]

4:14 You can see How This pattern viewed from space Became The way That it is Today

[@Anonymouslikemydad]

Lol

[@StealthyDead]

"More habitable and easy to live in." "Artificial and man made." What's next? "Dark and lacking light?"

[@alman29812]

Lol

[@itsfonk]

I find it kinda neat how images of Earth at night appear similar to spectral images of our galactic neighborhood and electrical signal scans of my brains neurons.

[@sapphire5475]

I am sad today I didn't got a single subscriber😭😭..........

[@doomjunyu_]

There are cities in our brains

[@fandroid6491]

@@UnkownKZbinr286 troll bot

[@vasangettamemes8689]

10:45 My Beautiful Country ❤️🇮🇳

[@man7912]

It's kinda cool how you can look at the light map of your country and pick out your town/city. Like, at 8:03, in the center of the US to the left of the line, you can see Denver, and right below it, Colorado Springs. Then the tiny one to the left of it with a couple of lights in between is Grand Junction. Then to the southeast, you see two smaller dots of light being Delta and Montrose. I used to live there.

[@helbent4]

Although you and your friend covered much ground in your videos, you missed something interesting about Canada, the second-largest country in the world. Most people tend to think settlement is fairly evenly dispersed. But in fact, most (90%) Canadians live within 200Km of the US border, and you can see this on the "Black Marble" map, which is easily noticeable. This is for three reasons: primarily climate; the further south you go the more optimal for settlements and the north is just not hospitable enough. Second, the US is our largest trading partner. Third, early settlement was mainly in the east around the Great Lakes (which is mainly where the lights are clustered) and then a second phase was the settlement of the west, which followed the rail lines (which mainly parallel the border to the south).

[@nunyabysnss9755]

No one thinks that lmao

[@helbent4]

@@nunyabysnss9755 Yes, most people don't know most of the population is within a couple hundred kilometers of the border. If you knew this already, good for you. Not many people do, even those that live here.

[@helbent4]

@@cyberwar4111 This is a very foolish comment. You may know everything and are clearly way too cool for school, but I bet some people who are less evolved than you do not. You can't speak for anyone but yourself.

[@aleleliah]

@@cyberwar4111 not everyone learns about canadian geography so I thank the op for posting that info

[@melodyseverything6999]

The northern most central province in Canada even reflects this in its name: Nunavut. There's even a joke about it: How much of northern Canada is livable? *Nunavut* Get it? NONE-OF-IT Lol! 😂

[@SadisticSenpai61]

That line in the US is also where parts of the Colorado River Basin begins. And I noticed the equally spaced straight lines of small lights in the Western US too - again, railroads were hugely influential in how ppl planned where to settle. Although these days, we tend to plan more around interstates (unfortunately).

[@mjmtaiwan]

Don’t overlook the role that grain elevators play. They spaced train stops to account for the yield of farms and the storage capability of community grain elevators.

[@Nazuiko]

Unfortunately? Interstates are just the modern transcontinental railways of the 19th century

[@Stimpson-J-Cat]

Although when he talked about the “darkness in the west” the line he is actually looking at (and the rest of us on the video) actually coincides with the shift in the us government keeping land as states were added to the west. There are states with close to 60% of the land in their borders in the hands of the bureau of land management, and that is why there’s darkness in the us west.

[@SadisticSenpai61]

@@Stimpson-J-Cat Well, a lot of that has more to do with the land in question being land that no one wanted to settle. No one wants to settle land in the desert or land that gets very little rain annually - especially if there's no existing water infrastructure in place when ppl were claiming land in the region. For example, land in NM and AZ was not that greatly sought after until after the invention of air conditioning (and it becoming affordable). The same is true for a lot of western states that have a lot of desert (like Nevada).

[@Stimpson-J-Cat]

@@SadisticSenpai61, you picked out the southern states of the west and completely ignored timber/water rich states in the nw. Yes, there are arid inhospitable spaces in the western us that lack water, that people “didn’t want to settle”. That claim doesn’t fly for the entirety of the western United States though.

[@matthyden8922]

It's kinda poetic that the more lights we emit from the surface the harder it is to see spaces brilliance but from space it gets better to see our lights from the surface.

[@RealShadowspirit]

Parents be like: "i walked that distance to school" 4:45

[@soundblockz]

Lol

[@davidmonge4136]

Love your vids! Bezos and universe videos are my favorite. Both blew my mind

[@sapphire5475]

I am sad today I didn't got a single subscriber😭😭...........

[@Merennulli]

I still find it insane that KZbin so heavily frowns on modern history. The part of history that people need to know most to understand current events isn't being taught in school because it's "not history yet" as one person in my past put it to me, and is difficult to become aware of alone because people don't know they don't know it. I know some of it because I lived through the time when it was "news", but a lot was glossed over because it was an "over there" story which our media seems to feel is far less important than what type of pet a sitting President has or doesn't have.

[@veggsbacon1891]

YT hates history and learning from mistakes. Hence why they took down dislikes from the public eye.

[@DieJG]

In general it Is true, but there are dangers to the opposite, because it Is very for modern history to become propaganda and in many cases you need time to see the realities and consequences of such actions. I remember some youtubers becoming very involved in videos about Syria and it quickly become just that, propaganda.

[@Merennulli]

@@DieJG That's true to some extent. I definitely don't want "news" from KZbinrs. We certainly get enough cases where someone made up a story from their first impressions and it stuck even after it was incontrovertibly proven false. But we also can't rely on people having been watching the news when something happened and these things are vitally important to know. I don't know the situation with the Syria propaganda on KZbin, but people can use any form of knowledge as propaganda. We've seen people take findings from space probes to push Flat Earth nonsense, we've seen people use a fictionalized version of Ukraine's long history to defend Putin's current "promise not to stop me when I invade, or I'll invade!" ultimatum, and I apparently can't even mention the most prolific propaganda group that started in 2020 or KZbin hides my comment but they have latched onto everything even vaguely resembling relevance.

[@duchypuchy]

Imho this is RLL's selling pitch on why he posted it on his platform and why should people go watch his long-form content on Nebula. After all, he wants to build up the user base of Nebula so that makes sense and is respectable, but the reasoning ("KZbin would never allow this", or "it would be demonetized") sounds a bit deceiving. Just don't take that statement at the face value I say this as someone who enjoys RLL's content, but this selling style always irked me

[@Merennulli]

@@duchypuchy I'm not an RLL subscriber. It's a pretty widespread sentiment from KZbinrs that cover history subjects. And it fits with my observations as well - I know full well that people ARE creating content about Syria, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and other recent history, but despite having a very strong history focus in my KZbin recommendations and following some people who HAVE covered those subjects, those subjects never come up. Wendover Productions, for example, gets in my recommendations a lot and I finally ended up following them. Yet despite being heavily recommended to me both before and since, I only know of his Afghanistan video from looking through his videos list. These are of course anecdotal and aren't evidence. But KZbin is intentionally not transparent about how it manages videos so it's all I have to work with as someone who isn't a content creator experiencing it myself.

[@vaughangarrick]

At 19:38 you can clearly see in the south China seas the fishing lights at the international straight borders

[@hanjubyxie1134]

that's in South Korea my guy

[@umberceri1441]

So RealLifeLore, I am new to you, though I have been referred to some of your videos in the past. I just wanted to say to you personally - you have a great voice for narrating, you have fascinating videos, you have a great intonation, and finally when you talk you don't doddle. guess you could say I am a BIG fan of you! THANKS!

[@julianaylor4351]

I love these satellite images of our planet. ❤️ Most of Iceland is volcanic, you simply can't live in some places, because some of the volcanoes are too dangerous. These images are very good way to teach World history and geography. If you want to find the Earth's astronomy centres you have to look in daylight, because they are in the darkest highest or/and desert places. If you looked at anywhere in the world that is a victim of war or disaster you would see the disappearance of lights.

[@mernsworms]

I've heard a crazy law in North Korea that the whole country goes full lights-out at a certain time. People do live all over North korea and not just the capital, so maybe that's why the night map is so dark for the country.

[@ziqi92]

That's correct. NK has a crappy outdated energy infrastructure, so they can't support modern levels of energy generation and consumption. They spend so much time and money on bolstering their military that there's little left for civilian development. Not even China, North Korea's only political ally, is willing to provide them with any significant aid because they see NK as a bottomless money pit whose only right to exist is a buffer zone with a US-allied South Korea.

[@Mikaela_Westmt]

That's how it is in Pyongyang. Most of NK has no electricity period.

[@anshulagarwal6896]

15:45 "Sub-Saharan Africa appears far darker than it should be" wow

[@igorchistyakov8876]

"Death of one soldier is a tragedy. Death of a million is statistics" -a quote often attributed to Joseph Stalin. Pretty widely accepted thought, hence the best war stories tend scale their narratives down to a single person. Not this time. Seeing those lights of life being extinguished was poignant, personally painful to me. Great visualization, thank you for sharing it.

[@vaccino3359]

It is quite ironic for a man who was a tyrant.

[@igorchistyakov8876]

@@vaccino3359 not really. He wasn't lamenting it, in Russian it sounds rather cinical.

[@jeanbonnefoy1377]

An enlightening and illuminating (pun intended) lesson in geography. Amazing and fascinating.