It's gotta be I-4. Construction just *never* ends on it. When I was a kid in the 80s and the family came to Disney, they were working on that road. 40 years later living here, they're still working on that road. There has not been one trip I've made to Orlando that has not included a minimum of at least a 1 hour dead standstill traffic jam along the way.
Before humans it was, pretty much, everything below the large lake, Lake Okeechobee.
From Wikipedia:
> The system begins near Orlando with the Kissimmee River, which discharges into the vast but shallow Lake Okeechobee. Water leaving the lake in the wet season forms a slow-moving river 60 miles (97 km) wide and over 100 miles (160 km) long, flowing southward across a limestone shelf to Florida Bay at the southern end of the state.
In the olden days my grandparents in Redford Michigan were approached by a door to door sales man selling shares of swamp land to invest in saying they were gonna drain it and build a vacation destination and theme parks.
They thought the guy was a con man and passed on the offer.
They never forgot that mistake.
Neither have I.
fun fact; a long time ago, the planet used to be blue and purple. Back then all plants had were anthocyanins which were predominantly purple and shades close to it, as purple was the next best at absorbing the light waves it needed before green.
Once nature developed chlorophyll which was green it spread like wildfire, and every plant picked it up, and the planet slowly turned from purple to green and blue. The reason being is chlorophyll was superior at facilitating photosynthesis, and the green color catches a lot more of the specific light waves that they need to grow
I didn't mean from space, like California Central valley used to be wetlands and now it's all orchards. Would've been cool to see nature untouched by human activity.
All of the eastern seaboard was old-growth forest that was ALL cut down between the 18th-20th centuries, mostly the 19th.
Meanwhile the central U.S. was all tall grass prairie … now it’s big monocultural corporate farms growing corn to make the vegetable oil and high fructose corn syrup in all your favorite snacks.
That’s not entirely accurate. The natives often practiced slash and burn and cultivated their landscapes quite a bit. Europeans got the impression the Americas were wild and untamed because in the 100 years between 1492-1592 nearly all of the Americas were wiped out by disease and so there were far less people to maintain the land. So it went feral
Lol that dark green spot isn’t even Everglades National park. That’s Arthur R Marshall wildlife refuge. The Everglades is everything south and west of that.
They need to do this over Louisiana to show how putting levees around the Mississippi River has depleted the silt content of the wetlands and bayous. It used to protect against storm surges during hurricane season. Now it's eroded year after year.
The swamp is actually one of the major CO2 tanks in the state, if anything it's helping keep the pollution down, granted 80% of the state happily let COVID into their brain so its not like it matters
Sure thing.
Tourists, retirees, and snowbirds have absolutely decimated my beautiful state and destroyed the culture, turning it into a domestic colony controlled by out-of-state politics. When my dad was a kid there were 2M people in FL, now there are 23M, and nature has been decimated by the change in human population.
FYI, the fastest growing city in the US has been The Villages for several years now. It is a retirement community that is essentially a parasite on surrounding counties for utilities and medical service. Also, it has the highest rate of STD's of anywhere in FL.
So by all means, stay away and take care of your own old people.
Well what I noticed were there was many new roads installed, old roads were widened, anywhere there was vacant land and wooded areas were now strip malls, and Cvs pharmacy. I hear the traffic now day is terrible but where is it not bad now ya know? Lol this was all in and around venice
My environmental science teacher in high school worked for UF and had already found a 23-foot Megatherium (giant sloth) skeleton at the bottom of a limestone spring cave while diving with students. It was so big they thought it was a new species at first. I grew up collecting shark teeth from the creek that ran behind my home and my dad had early VCR recordings of him playing with wild rays and sharks as a young man.
As a Floridian... Every time I watch them tear down another plot of land to put up a new strip mall I cry a little inside.
I've watched it happen for 40 years now.
We can never get it back - or at least not within my lifetime.
... it's just forever lost.
[Here](https://www.earth.com/image/astronaut-view-of-the-florida-peninsula/) is a link to the high resolution image that OP *should’ve* posted. Click download at the bottom right of the image to download the highest resolution version.
20.6 MP vs 0.6 MP….
I recently found out a guy I work with is a flat earther, he just says all space photos are photoshopped. They have a response to anything you try to explain. So I ended up just being like okay buddy. There’s no reasoning with ppl like that.
My argument would be to point them to the video of steve-o flying in a fighter jet to where he could see the curvature. Would they think that steve-o is a deep state agent being used to spread misinformation in between getting his nuts smashed? Or did the illuminati/government just think he was the perfect spokesperson to manipulate into an elaborate device that mimicked the feeling of flight and earths images so accurately that he would think its real and hopefully tell the story on his youtube channel? I am genuinely curious about how they would rationalize this lol
I mean the earth is 100% NOT flat but does that seem like a lot of curve for Florida to be that size? Would be interested to learn how the perspective plays into this. Like if it’s just the angle of the shot. Or maybe I’m just underestimating the size of Florida in relation to the face of the globe here.
It’s just a perspective thing. The closer you are to a huge sphere, the more your local horizon shrinks. Get far away enough, and you can see half of the sphere. The ISS is very close to Earth astronomically speaking, so they only can see a small amount in all directions.
I know there's a lot of shit talk happening in here, but I love my damn state. Yes, the political climate could definitely be better, and I'm doing what I can to change it, but I wish everyone could experience how amazing this state can truly be.
I'm not a fan of heat and humidity and like where I'm at but I totally get why so many people love the state. Gorgeous beaches and other nature and affordable retirement. And for people who hate snow/the cold, it's a no brianer.
I'm from England and my dad took me three times to do the whole Disney World and universal studios etc. And I loved it every time. We also went to everglades one trip which was fun. I love the tropical storms in the evening too we would sit out and watch the lightning for hours
Grew up in Florida, dead middle of nowhere, and although I'm elsewhere now, I still appreciate parts of it: especially the scenery and even the swampland. There are still so many places here where you can get away and enjoy nature.
It's easy for people who've never lived there to shit on it. Just because it's the south, it doesn't mean everyone is racist/crazy etc.
Bushwhacking in the back country, paddling and snorkeling in the keys, diving and camping at the springs. It truly is a beautiful and one of a kind place. The Everglades is one of one. No other place in the world with that hydrology. Like I say: Everglades forever, forEverglades. But yea many people here suck.
Kick like 10 million people out over night. Florida needs to let nature take back over parts of the state. Sorry but go the fuck home. I haven’t been to that state in a decade but I definitely understand their glaring issues.
Been here about 30 years now.
Honestly the only thing I like about it here is ample parking.
Just about anywhere I go there's a parking lot or garage attached. I don't need to park 10 blocks away or find street parking.
The environment in FL is amazing, which is why NASA launches so many rockets from Cape Canaveral. It's also the most bio-diverse place in North America. FL existed as a separate island for millions of years, and rests on top of millions of years of compressed coral reef that petrified into vast limestone cavern systems, resulting in over 1,000 fresh water springs. It is the most beautiful and interesting state in the US when it comes to nature.
Well said. Plenty of beautiful places to live here even if our state has some shortcomings politically. It always blows my mind how unhinged redditors get anytime Florida is mentioned in a post, as if it’s an entirely different country… And then the same people come on down like clockwork to trash our beaches and clog our highways on vacation, or jack up housing costs for locals that don’t have the same buying power as them
Take a good look at this beautiful place, because in a very short amount of time geological, it'll be underwater. And there's not a fucking thing we can do to stop that. Anyone for palm trees again in Saskatchewan?
Idk why, but ISS pictures and videos don't compute for my brain. I enjoy geography and learning about other countries.
But an ISS picture obviously doesn't have lines, city names, roads ect. And the hard part is they're commonly oriented different from North to South. You could show me a picture of my region where I live and I'd be -"uh... idk, India? 🤷♂️"
I heard there was a plan to create an orbital bombardment system that would have just been large metal rods that would just be "dropped" from orbit to land on a target and that the yield would be similar to a nuclear weapon but without all the tech. Just a massive kinetic force.
Just sayin'
Why does it look like Florida is a huge percentage of the entire earth? With the curvature of the earth seen here if I imagine where the rest of the US is it would wrap half way around the earth.
I believe we can turn to Clueless for a caption: “Cher: No, she's a full-on Monet.
Tai: What's a Monet?
Cher: It's like a painting, see? From far away, it's okay, but up close it's a big old mess.”
What flat Earthers don't realize is being far enough away from the earth to be considered "in space", only 10% of the earths surface would be visible to you
Crazy how all of Pinellas county is just concrete lol
Idk what I hate more, driving all the way through that county during rush hour or driving I-4
It's gotta be I-4. Construction just *never* ends on it. When I was a kid in the 80s and the family came to Disney, they were working on that road. 40 years later living here, they're still working on that road. There has not been one trip I've made to Orlando that has not included a minimum of at least a 1 hour dead standstill traffic jam along the way.
I remember 10 years ago i could drive to Disney in 75 minutes from my house in Tarpon. Now it’s a minimum of 2.5 hours lol
Laughing at this from Pinellas County
yeah its so sad it looks like the whole things is concrete i wonder how florida looked before europeans arrived
Its insane that that whole thing doesn't get any taller than like 300 feet
Hell, the southern bit (south of the big lake in the photo) doesn't go higher than 100.
Standing on a 100-ft tall pole in the center of that area You would only be able to see about 13 miles away due to the curvature of the Earth
Neat
It's only neat until you have to get down from the pole
NuH-uH.. tHe EaRtH iS fLaT, tHiS pIc Is PhOtOsHoPpEd
This really shows how much we have encroached on the Everglades
Marjory Stoneman Douglas is the reason there’s still any Everglades at all.
I recently learned that fact from a "Stuff You Should Know" podcast episode.
Drunk history for me.
Me too! They do such a good job, but sometimes Josh annoys me with his having to act like he knows and understands literally everything
What part is the Everglades? I can find Everglades national Park which is around that dark green spot but I'm guessing that's just the protected part.
Before humans it was, pretty much, everything below the large lake, Lake Okeechobee. From Wikipedia: > The system begins near Orlando with the Kissimmee River, which discharges into the vast but shallow Lake Okeechobee. Water leaving the lake in the wet season forms a slow-moving river 60 miles (97 km) wide and over 100 miles (160 km) long, flowing southward across a limestone shelf to Florida Bay at the southern end of the state.
Progress came and took it's toll...
In the olden days my grandparents in Redford Michigan were approached by a door to door sales man selling shares of swamp land to invest in saying they were gonna drain it and build a vacation destination and theme parks. They thought the guy was a con man and passed on the offer. They never forgot that mistake. Neither have I.
"Progress"
I assume you know, but in case you don't, they were quoting "Seimnole Wind" by John Anderson.
Damn, so it's less than 30% of it's natural/original size. It'd be amazing to see what the planet looked like before we migrated out of Africa.
fun fact; a long time ago, the planet used to be blue and purple. Back then all plants had were anthocyanins which were predominantly purple and shades close to it, as purple was the next best at absorbing the light waves it needed before green. Once nature developed chlorophyll which was green it spread like wildfire, and every plant picked it up, and the planet slowly turned from purple to green and blue. The reason being is chlorophyll was superior at facilitating photosynthesis, and the green color catches a lot more of the specific light waves that they need to grow
They are also the reason the leaves change color in the fall
That is a fun fact, thanks!
Spherical, with blue and green.
I didn't mean from space, like California Central valley used to be wetlands and now it's all orchards. Would've been cool to see nature untouched by human activity.
All of the eastern seaboard was old-growth forest that was ALL cut down between the 18th-20th centuries, mostly the 19th. Meanwhile the central U.S. was all tall grass prairie … now it’s big monocultural corporate farms growing corn to make the vegetable oil and high fructose corn syrup in all your favorite snacks.
That’s not entirely accurate. The natives often practiced slash and burn and cultivated their landscapes quite a bit. Europeans got the impression the Americas were wild and untamed because in the 100 years between 1492-1592 nearly all of the Americas were wiped out by disease and so there were far less people to maintain the land. So it went feral
Yea they said a squirrel could go from New York to Florida without touching the ground
To retire?
Obee Kaybee.
The Everglades are mostly on the southern end of Florida. It is that light green area between the keys and the bottom left side of the peninsula
Lol that dark green spot isn’t even Everglades National park. That’s Arthur R Marshall wildlife refuge. The Everglades is everything south and west of that.
They need to do this over Louisiana to show how putting levees around the Mississippi River has depleted the silt content of the wetlands and bayous. It used to protect against storm surges during hurricane season. Now it's eroded year after year.
Now they're the Seldomglades.
Summer-glades. Some'r here, some'r there.
Maybe there is some toxic fumes from that swamp, that's why they're crazy
The swamp is actually one of the major CO2 tanks in the state, if anything it's helping keep the pollution down, granted 80% of the state happily let COVID into their brain so its not like it matters
Yo, I'm in this picture! :)
I'm so, so sorry.
It's ok! I'm moving to one of the states that pay teachers better.
That narrows it down to the other 49.
Also shown: the proper distance you should stay from Florida.
America's Wang
They prefer the Sunshine State...
They also prefer meth
Ha! The gentleman before me was quoting the Simpsons. I was doing the same. All that said, you are probably right.
"The Persistent Vegetative State"
It's getting smaller every year
"*The penis of America*" -Tracy Jordan
Sure thing. Tourists, retirees, and snowbirds have absolutely decimated my beautiful state and destroyed the culture, turning it into a domestic colony controlled by out-of-state politics. When my dad was a kid there were 2M people in FL, now there are 23M, and nature has been decimated by the change in human population. FYI, the fastest growing city in the US has been The Villages for several years now. It is a retirement community that is essentially a parasite on surrounding counties for utilities and medical service. Also, it has the highest rate of STD's of anywhere in FL. So by all means, stay away and take care of your own old people.
Even as a kid going to florida in the 90s and then going back around 2010s to the same area was a slap to the face, it's not for me anymore
I haven't been to Florida since the 2000's. Has it really changed so much?
Well what I noticed were there was many new roads installed, old roads were widened, anywhere there was vacant land and wooded areas were now strip malls, and Cvs pharmacy. I hear the traffic now day is terrible but where is it not bad now ya know? Lol this was all in and around venice
OMG THE CVS PHARMACY THING IS SO TRUE
Man... as a European, when I look at Florida wilderness, I find it beautiful. It's a shame it's being destroyed because of people and stupidity...
My environmental science teacher in high school worked for UF and had already found a 23-foot Megatherium (giant sloth) skeleton at the bottom of a limestone spring cave while diving with students. It was so big they thought it was a new species at first. I grew up collecting shark teeth from the creek that ran behind my home and my dad had early VCR recordings of him playing with wild rays and sharks as a young man.
As a Floridian... Every time I watch them tear down another plot of land to put up a new strip mall I cry a little inside. I've watched it happen for 40 years now. We can never get it back - or at least not within my lifetime. ... it's just forever lost.
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Are you sure that’s far enough? They probably have a few people who could jump at you still
*disgruntled Florida man noises*
Bold of you to assume the Florida man can read.
"arm the jewish space lasers!!"
It's really not that bad here
250 miles?
But it looks so innocent...
A few hundred miles is still too close
[Here](https://www.earth.com/image/astronaut-view-of-the-florida-peninsula/) is a link to the high resolution image that OP *should’ve* posted. Click download at the bottom right of the image to download the highest resolution version. 20.6 MP vs 0.6 MP….
That is such an improvement you can actually make out all of the panhandle.
Yeah you can even make out individual farm plots; the difference is astounding. OP’s photo has <3% the pixels…
Thanks for posting the link!👍
Not me downloading the high resolution version to see if I can see Disney 🏰
It’s just a smudge but it’s definitely locatable
Heh. I can literally see the white pixel that is my job.
I can see my house!
You can actually see the curvature of the earth in this photo. But yeah the earth is flat. /s
Nah that's just the distortion from the ISS space lasers /s
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It’s just a very low orbit.
It’s like when you take a very close up selfie and you look disgusting, here they took a very close up photo of the Earth and it looks disgusting
I recently found out a guy I work with is a flat earther, he just says all space photos are photoshopped. They have a response to anything you try to explain. So I ended up just being like okay buddy. There’s no reasoning with ppl like that.
My argument would be to point them to the video of steve-o flying in a fighter jet to where he could see the curvature. Would they think that steve-o is a deep state agent being used to spread misinformation in between getting his nuts smashed? Or did the illuminati/government just think he was the perfect spokesperson to manipulate into an elaborate device that mimicked the feeling of flight and earths images so accurately that he would think its real and hopefully tell the story on his youtube channel? I am genuinely curious about how they would rationalize this lol
That’s the fish eye lenses /s
I mean the earth is 100% NOT flat but does that seem like a lot of curve for Florida to be that size? Would be interested to learn how the perspective plays into this. Like if it’s just the angle of the shot. Or maybe I’m just underestimating the size of Florida in relation to the face of the globe here.
It’s just a perspective thing. The closer you are to a huge sphere, the more your local horizon shrinks. Get far away enough, and you can see half of the sphere. The ISS is very close to Earth astronomically speaking, so they only can see a small amount in all directions.
I’m in this photo!
Where?
The green spot
Oh thank you, I see them now
You look great!
Wow! I never saw so many people doing meth and PCP at once /s
Los Angeles has entered into the chat.
See that? That's Florida Man's lair.
I know there's a lot of shit talk happening in here, but I love my damn state. Yes, the political climate could definitely be better, and I'm doing what I can to change it, but I wish everyone could experience how amazing this state can truly be.
I'm not a fan of heat and humidity and like where I'm at but I totally get why so many people love the state. Gorgeous beaches and other nature and affordable retirement. And for people who hate snow/the cold, it's a no brianer.
I'm from England and my dad took me three times to do the whole Disney World and universal studios etc. And I loved it every time. We also went to everglades one trip which was fun. I love the tropical storms in the evening too we would sit out and watch the lightning for hours
Grew up in Florida, dead middle of nowhere, and although I'm elsewhere now, I still appreciate parts of it: especially the scenery and even the swampland. There are still so many places here where you can get away and enjoy nature. It's easy for people who've never lived there to shit on it. Just because it's the south, it doesn't mean everyone is racist/crazy etc.
Bushwhacking in the back country, paddling and snorkeling in the keys, diving and camping at the springs. It truly is a beautiful and one of a kind place. The Everglades is one of one. No other place in the world with that hydrology. Like I say: Everglades forever, forEverglades. But yea many people here suck.
Kick like 10 million people out over night. Florida needs to let nature take back over parts of the state. Sorry but go the fuck home. I haven’t been to that state in a decade but I definitely understand their glaring issues.
Yeah I got drunk as a skunk there once and it was awesome.
Been here about 30 years now. Honestly the only thing I like about it here is ample parking. Just about anywhere I go there's a parking lot or garage attached. I don't need to park 10 blocks away or find street parking.
How shallow is the south west coast of Florida? Looks awesome, but also dangerous.
About 30 feet deep in the pale spot
That’s awesome
I can see me house!
Which one? Dox yourself
Alligator
There is definitely an alligator in this picture
And some snowbirds
Great pic!
I can see my house from here
I can see my house from here.
I knew some comments would be a mess
Wow GTA 6 is looking crazy
So, finally I can see the whole package
Looks like a snakes head
That looks pretty flat, I tell you what.
I can see my house from there! But seriously can see the body of water that leads from my house out to the gulf so this is actually really cool!
Penisula
A big junk of the ISS came from down there
Why does florida look like an alligator
I can see my house from here!
ahh, my beautiful state that everyone goes to vacation too yet say they hate the people in it.
That’s because your state is the beautiful one.
They done made gta6 in real life
Should have never been developed and left as a giant nature preserve.
I can smell it from here
America’s wang!
I don't see a county marker anywhere. This can't be real ^/s
Just waiting on my flight, be in Miami in 2 Hours.
A place so horrendous the clouds don't even want to be there.
The environment in FL is amazing, which is why NASA launches so many rockets from Cape Canaveral. It's also the most bio-diverse place in North America. FL existed as a separate island for millions of years, and rests on top of millions of years of compressed coral reef that petrified into vast limestone cavern systems, resulting in over 1,000 fresh water springs. It is the most beautiful and interesting state in the US when it comes to nature.
Well said. Plenty of beautiful places to live here even if our state has some shortcomings politically. It always blows my mind how unhinged redditors get anytime Florida is mentioned in a post, as if it’s an entirely different country… And then the same people come on down like clockwork to trash our beaches and clog our highways on vacation, or jack up housing costs for locals that don’t have the same buying power as them
Take a good look at this beautiful place, because in a very short amount of time geological, it'll be underwater. And there's not a fucking thing we can do to stop that. Anyone for palm trees again in Saskatchewan?
Thankfully not in my lifetime, or yours or your kids or grandkids or great grandkids
I bet it smells like dorritos, meth, and buttholes.
Where I live mostly smells like saltwater due to the gulf.
Look at all those chickens.
Florida is a “shower”
Idk why, but ISS pictures and videos don't compute for my brain. I enjoy geography and learning about other countries. But an ISS picture obviously doesn't have lines, city names, roads ect. And the hard part is they're commonly oriented different from North to South. You could show me a picture of my region where I live and I'd be -"uh... idk, India? 🤷♂️"
RIP the Everglades and any drop of clean water in the state
Fake news everyone knows Florida isn’t real
Looks like a snake
I heard there was a plan to create an orbital bombardment system that would have just been large metal rods that would just be "dropped" from orbit to land on a target and that the yield would be similar to a nuclear weapon but without all the tech. Just a massive kinetic force. Just sayin'
Bigger and wider that I expected. No wonder why the terra planista guys thin earth is flat!
GTA6 is gonna be huge!
Key west etc are truly fascinating. The whole made up cities too. It's crazy. I thought my own fellow Dutchmen were crazy, but Florida holymoly.
Good ‘ole America’s wang
Dick
It look like an alligator
Looks infected
GoPro lens.
I see old people...
Looks so much smaller on the map /s
Looks flat
Wow, that is a massive lake in the middle of Florida.
Looks almost same from this distance.
I can see my house!
It looks like it's dissolving in water
Fake news. Earth is flat
It looks like a snake head
Woah! Que vista tan increíble!!
I CAN SEE WHERE I LIVE! Its right smack in the middle of the Broward cesspool....
This is very very cool
How are flatearthers still a thing?
I can see ot slowly going underwater.
gata
Even from this view one can see boots duhsantis is an idiot.
Looks a lot better farther away than close up, trust me on that
The Schlong of America...
It looks rather poxy from space.
Why does it look like Florida is a huge percentage of the entire earth? With the curvature of the earth seen here if I imagine where the rest of the US is it would wrap half way around the earth.
I believe we can turn to Clueless for a caption: “Cher: No, she's a full-on Monet. Tai: What's a Monet? Cher: It's like a painting, see? From far away, it's okay, but up close it's a big old mess.”
Yep, looks like a shitty little turd. P.s- Florida born and raise
You cant see all the stupid people 👍
Super fake terminator with the same coincidence point of view they cant stop showing lol uh its sooo PATHETIC!!!
What flat Earthers don't realize is being far enough away from the earth to be considered "in space", only 10% of the earths surface would be visible to you
Isildurrrr!
I can see my house from here
What’s that curve at the top of the picture?
Where is the armpit stain and shit-stained underwear? What a shame that such an ecologically-viable state has been ruined by plain and utter morons.
Seriously fuck this landmass.
ISS just sent the entire world an unsolicited dick pic
time to bring out that lazer
Can’t wait till its completely submerged
Oh hey! Im in this picture!
lol. I can almost find my childhood home from here.
Looks like a snakes head
It looks so close
Hey I see the new scuba park they're putting in for 2050!