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The World's Worst Places from Space
Pretty interesting concept here. This site Sprol.com features satellite imagery
of some of the world's worst places. Where environmental catastrophe and, in the words of the site itself "evidence of
humankind's wanton destruction" can be enjoyed from the comfort of your office, home or cube…and perhaps even your cell
phone.
The images, many taken from Google Maps, are accompanied by well-written, albeit
a wee bit panicky in some cases, articles explaining what damage man hath wrought. The top piece today discusses the
midwestern city of Martinsville, which is "dealing with a massive drinking water catastrophe that will likely take
years, plus possibly millions of dollars, to clean up". So that's a bummer. Then
there is a cool (pun!) image of the retreating, er, collapsed, Antarctic
"Larsen-B" ice shelf that disintegrated in 35 days in 2002 (pictured). Depressing eh? So, I guess if you take this site
and match it against the earlier Onion post, well, they
sort of cancel each other out, humor-wise. Sorry about that.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Automatt Dec 18th 2005 5:08PM
I hate to be nitpicky, especially for such a tepid review of something that I spend so much of my time on. But mostly I hate to post the only comment here on this fine blog and thereby break the silence. Accuracy however requires me to do so.
The quote you have about how Sprol shows humankind's wanton destruction -- that was a quote from the bbc.uk review about us and is attributed to them when it is displayed on the front page and on the quotes page of Sprol.com.
In other words, your post says "in the site's own words," but they're not our words-- they're bbc.uk words. Plus you call our community of over 20 U.S. & international writers "panicky," but I can excuse that as some of them could be described that way sometimes.
You could say that we're meticulous about the details at Sprol.com and we want to get the facts right.