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Re:Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the s... by xhkkffbf on Thursday July 28, 2022 @02:30PM (#32268387)
I've been told that some national borders make it clear about the difference attitudes toward the environment. That is, one side of the border is filled with trees and the other is denuded by a population that doesn't think in the long term and simply trashed the environment.

That kind of difference might be visible through one of these telescopes, especially if the border is long.

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Re:Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the s... by nickpinkston on Thursday July 28, 2022 @02:53PM (#32268665)
Yea that's a good point. The classic example is Haiti and the Dominican Republic, where the DR has trees on the border in contrast with often a bare landscape just on the other side.

Though I've heard this is actually overstated.

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Re:Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the s... by amself on Thursday July 28, 2022 @04:40PM (#32269839)
You can see it more clearly on the Israel-Egypt border
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Re:Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the s... by mkl on Thursday July 28, 2022 @06:10PM (#32270674)
I think that's just different sources of imagery with different lighting. At some zoom levels it's more or less apparent, and it's mostly the same desert on both sides: https://www.google.com/maps/@31.03477,34.3411577,15440m/data...
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Re:Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the s... by anonAndOn on Thursday July 28, 2022 @04:00PM (#32269406)
You can see the national borders of DPRK from space at night.[0]

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/02/26/282909885...

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Re:Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the s... by bori5 on Thursday July 28, 2022 @04:18PM (#32269603)
Night sky must be great in NK!
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Re:Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the s... by delecti on Thursday July 28, 2022 @06:36PM (#32270884)
There's also the less prominent East/West Berlin border which is still visible due to the different light bulbs used in the different format street lights.

https://www.businessinsider.com/divide-between-west-east-ber...

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Re:Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the s... by pantalaimon on Friday July 29, 2022 @06:25AM (#32275205)
West Berlin still has gas light, slowly transitioning to LED.
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