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7 Satellite Photos That Look Like Math

Mathematician Paul Bourke collects satellite photos that look like fractals. It turns out, Earth looks kind of crazy. posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:09pm EDT

Russell Brandom BuzzFeed Contributor posted about 7 months ago

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7 Satellite Photos That Look Like Math

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Lillithdv8 7 months ago

It looks like a cross section of brain or other spongious matter
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Antifaucetwater 7 months ago

Definitely thought it said meth, not math.
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deaddrift 7 months ago

http://www.pbase.com/rwalkernm/image/41202777

Once you start paying attention, fractals are absolutely everywhere in the natural world.
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Ryan L thinks 7 Satellite Photos That Look Like Math is Geeky about 7 months ago ×
RyanH31 7 months ago

Mathematical!
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silencethesongbird 7 months ago

Image Location 1: Spain
Image Location 2: Egypt
Image Location 3: Spain
Image Location 4: Saudi Arabia
Image Location 5: California, US
Image Location 6: Namibia
Image Location 7: Australia http://paulbourke.net/fractals/googleearth/
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WhatTheHolyHeck 7 months ago

Isn’t that kind of the point of fractals?
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IcemanD 7 months ago

Amazing pictures. Though this post would be a thousand times better if the locations were listed.
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nerdinator 7 months ago

swamps
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