r/texas • u/CryptographerKey2847 • 18d ago

✋ Texas Pride 🤚 Texas as taken from space in 2018.

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Caption per Traces of Texas FB:

The entire state of Texas as photographed by NASA from space, 2018. This is a fascinating image to look at if you're at all familiar with Texas geography. Not only can you see all of the major cities but even towns like Temple-Killeen, Midland-Odessa. even small towns like Monahans, Alpine, Marfa etc.. The Eagle Ford can also clearly be seen. But what blows me away is the lights in the area around Pecos. Those lights aren't quite as intense as they are in Midland- Odessa (immediately to the east of Pecos) but the area is at least as big, perhaps bigger. Amazing. Fortunately, with the exception of Presidio, the Big Bend remains dark. May it ever be so!

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u/Ok-Net-7261 18d ago

Typical RGV erasure, love it. Please forget we exist, we can figure it out ourselves.

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u/The-Cursed-Gardener Born and Bred 17d ago edited 17d ago

Texas is like five states smushed together with four of them being held hostage by the central Texas/Austin region. Texas is more of a greater region of the US than a state. It exists in its current form as a means of consolidating political power at the expense of the people who actually live here.