Awesome stuff you see on the internet
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An Italian doctor discovers a novel method for conducting medical research:
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Google Earth Timelapse
Explore the dynamics of our changing planet over the past three and a half decades.
This could be my whole day, if the cricket is not on.
You can link to a particular map as well. Here is Hamilton in timelapse from 1984 to 2016 - because there isn't a lot of aerial photography before 2000 it starts a little slow:
Google Earth Timelapse
Explore the dynamics of our changing planet over the past three and a half decades.
Lake George just outside Canberra:
Google Earth Timelapse
Explore the dynamics of our changing planet over the past three and a half decades.
Etc.
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@Hooroo said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@NTA What's the story with the lake? Irrigated farms taking its toll?
Lake George is basically a massive, flat runoff - no irrigation feed or even an outflow. Like several "lakes" in Australia it only fills up under serious rain, and because it is so big (about 25km north-south and 10km east-west) and shallow, it doesn't really have standing water. Evaporation is a bastard, too, and the wind is quite strong there (wind farm on eastern side)
At maximum depth - when completely full, its only reaches more than a metre in a few places. But you can walk across it most days if you're so inclined
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@NTA said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Hooroo said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@NTA What's the story with the lake? Irrigated farms taking its toll?
Lake George is basically a massive, flat runoff - no irrigation feed or even an outflow. Like several "lakes" in Australia it only fills up under serious rain, and because it is so big (about 25km north-south and 10km east-west) and shallow, it doesn't really have standing water. Evaporation is a bastard, too, and the wind is quite strong there (wind farm on eastern side)
At maximum depth - when completely full, its only reaches more than a metre in a few places. But you can walk across it most days if you're so inclined
Ahh nice! That was a cool we demo of the Google tool
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Nice one Nick.
Having spent many an unhappy day flying over the GAFA (Great Australian Fuck All) the "lakes" were actually something that broke the monotony. Always changing, there one day gone the next. From memory some of them are salt as well and dry out into salt basins (or was some Aussie taking the piss when he told me that)?
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@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
From memory some of them are salt as well and dry out into salt basins (or was some Aussie taking the piss when he told me that)?
That's legit. Out in the centre of the country there are certainly big salt lakes such as Lake Eyre that form salt pans like the ones in the USA
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Lake Eyre - rough location:
Timelapse link below. Thing about the lake is, if you miss the rains by a couple of weeks, it won't look much different.
Google Earth Timelapse
Explore the dynamics of our changing planet over the past three and a half decades.
Some fucking amazing photography to be had out there if your timing is good
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@Hooroo said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@NTA What's the story with the lake? Irrigated farms taking its toll?
Nothing. Simply relies on rainfall. Given the winter Canberra's had it's basically full again now.
Lake Eyre used to be an inland sea. If climate change has the resultant sea level rise some are predicting, it will be again.
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@antipodean isnt Lake Eyre one of the lowest points in Aus or the world, not under water?
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@taniwharugby yeah it's something like 10m below sea level IIRC.
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@antipodean @taniwharugby google says lowest point in Lake Eyre north is 15m below sea level.
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The GAFA is far from having FA to see, you just need to be on the ground not in the air. I would rate my trips driving through the outback as some of the best travel experiences I have had. The subtleties of the landscape are quite noticeable and fascinating when on the ground and there aren't too many accessible places in the world where you can camp out knowing that there are probably no other humans in a 50km radius of where you are.
Lake George (New South Wales) - Wikipedia
