{"id":2672,"date":"2009-06-01T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2009-06-01T03:00:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T08:00:12","slug":"they-look-like-ants-from-up-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2672","title":{"rendered":"They Look Like Ants From Up Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>You get three ants together, they can&#8217;t do dick. You get 300 million of them, they can build a cathedral.<br \/>\n<del datetime=\"2009-05-30T14:35:57+00:00\">William Blake<\/del> Annie Savoy, <em>Bull Durham<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Look at what 6 &#8211; 7 billion people can do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2009\/05\/earthobservatoryvideos\/\">Time-Lapse Videos of Massive Change on Earth<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Over the past decade, the number of people on Earth shot up by more than 13 percent, to nearly 6.8 billion people. To make room for all the hungry, breeding, CO2-emitting bodies on our small planet, we\u2019ve ravaged Earth\u2019s surface with staggering feats of deforestation, irrigation and urbanization \u2014 and NASA satellites have captured it all. Here are a few videos, compiled from images posted on NASA\u2019s Earth Observatory, of some of the most impressive conquests of man over environment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You get three ants together, they can&#8217;t do dick. You get 300 million of them, they can build a cathedral. William Blake Annie Savoy, Bull Durham Look at what 6 &#8211; 7 billion people can do. Time-Lapse Videos of Massive &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2672\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}