Auburn on the Moon

Ok just for fun here is Auburn in the area of the Apollo 11 landing site.

First the 5 mile line from 5 miles high.

Now the 5 mile line from 5 miles above the Apollo 11 landing site.

Now from 25 miles above the Moon.

Now from 125 miles above the Moon.

And finally from 1000 miles its a little hard to see the line from here.

Auburn in Benghazi

Auburn US 5 miles across from 5 miles up.



Benghazi Libya 5 miles across from 5 miles up.

Auburn in Fukushima

So as stated in the previous post this is an attempt to gain a perspective of the world relating to where I live. One way to think about it is that I am taking the main area of my town and plopping it down in the middle of some other part of the world using a 5 mile long line and three consistent altitudes to maintain a sense of scale. A reason for doing this is to gain different perspective on the world. Whether it be a current event or some place I have visited before.

For today I want to think about what it would be like for Auburn to be in the area around the Fukusima nuclear power plant disaster.

I start with the 5 mile line across Auburn from an altitude of 5 miles.



Now the area around the Fukushima nuclear power plant.



Now Fukushima from 25 miles up.




Auburn from 25 miles up.




Fukushima from 125 miles up.

And finally Auburn from 125 miles up.

It is amazing to me to think about my community suffering in the way the area around Fukushima is now.

This Is What Its All About

I am interested in the scale of things and where things can be within that scale, and how that might change how things are viewed. I initially started with thoughts about how the size of my current town compared in size to Amsterdam in Holland. I was amazed to find that they are very similar in size. That is to say if you drew a line on a map across Auburn using Google Earth for a distance of five miles and compared it with a a map of Amsterdam it was the same size. I then thought it might be interesting to see how this would play out in various places around the world that I had visited or might currently be in the news for current events or of interest to me. Then I also thought it would be interesting to see it from different altitudes to get a new perspective. I chose 5 miles first so that you see a 5 mile line from an altitude of 5 miles and then you see the same line from 25 miles and then from 125 miles.

So here are the first images: Auburn above and Amsterdam below.



You can see the red lines drawn across the center of the cities and they are approximately 5 miles long. Auburn has a population of about 40000 people and Amsterdam has a population of 750000 in about the same area.

The next image is the same but from 25 miles up.

And this one from 125 miles up.

In the future I will be adding similar images of other places around the world to try to gain a 5 mile perspective on the world.