#1470: trees, fantasy, paralleluniverses
, last check: Mon, 24 Aug 2026. Post history
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trees
An international team of scientists has used artificial intelligence and commercial satellites to identify an unexpected number of trees spread across arid and semi-arid areas,
via @xurxosanz
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/counting-trees-in-africas-drylands-147612/ -
fantasy
Monsoon is an open source fantastic map generator that uses numpy with the code in sight and explained on a notebook,
via @vehrka
https://fangzhangmnm.itch.io/moonsoon -
paralleluniverses
If the results of the main elections, wars and other events had been different we would have maps that represent alternative worlds to ours, such as those in this collection
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201104-the-intriguing-maps-that-reveal-alternate-histories
Raf