Stochastic Planet

Every day a PHP script picks a random spot on the land mass of Earth. The nearest photo to that spot is posted here. • FAQ • my main Tumblr blog • my web site •

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21.071695°N, 83.382227°E Bargarh district, Odisha, India photo by Hrushikesh Padhan — Closing the door on Stochastic Planet with a photo of Laumunda High School

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25.367669°N, 92.947559°E Dima Hasao district, Assam, India photo by Bijit Chanda

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3.067913°S, 30.900891°E Kakonko district, Kigoma region, Tanzania photo by antonfager — This orphanage was founded by Swedish missionaries in the 1960s and is now operated by the Free Pentecostal Church of Tanzania.

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18.481481°S, 55.588327°W Corumbá municipality, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil photo by gracielo

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58.543872°N, 53.386401°E Afanasyevsky district, Kirov oblast, Russia photo by Andrey Ivashchenko

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21.977421°S, 47.431458°E Ikongo district, Vatovavy-Fitovinany region, Madagascar photo by Victoria Rivas

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9.931978°S, 76.753584°W La Unión district, Dos de Mayo province, Huánuco region, Peru photo by Vicky — Today's photo is surrounded by pictures of scenic mountain vistas, but all were farther away from today's location than this snapshot of a sign on an overcast day. Ah well.

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5.769541°N, 2.505755°W Wassa Amenfi West District, Western Region, Ghana photo by weejen35

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21.848458°N, 106.741771°E Lạng Sơn, Lạng Sơn province, Vietnam photo by Tùng Anh

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42.098379°N, 45.930692°E Tsuntinsky district, Dagestan, Russia photo by Suleiman Abdurakhmanov

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28.970737°N, 79.681684°E Litoral province, Río Muni, Equatorial Guinea photo by Félix Corral Fernández — The photographer says that this jungle becomes so dense that taking this road feels like night driving even in the daytime.

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17.852240°N, 91.851873°W Catazajá municipality, Chiapas, Mexico photo by Martha y Armando

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13.952398°S, 49.435887°W Amaralina municipality, Goiás, Brazil photo by Udemar Correia

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36.440081°N, 93.500843°W Carroll County, Arkansas, USA photo by MiltonMan308 — While Arkansas's Cosmic Cavern was discovered in 1845, the formation above, dubbed "Silent Splendor", was not discovered until 1993.

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46.500423°N, 124.056677°W Ocean Park, Pacific County, Washington, USA photo by Chris Harmon — Today's location is on a long coastal peninsula just north of the Oregon border, in the side yard of an I Lane house with the Pacific Ocean view above.

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8.345571°S, 65.412680°W Lábrea municipality, Amazonas, Brazil photo by José Lima Batista — The Reserva Extrativista Ituxí, created in 2008, is one of seventy extractive reserves where the state owns the land but local communities are permitted to make use of the area's natural resources.

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2.188968°S, 29.993981°E Bugesera district, Eastern Province, Rwanda photo by Dave Proffer — Five thousand terrified Tutsis took refuge in the Ntarama church during the first week of the Rwandan genocide; on 1994.0415, Hutu paramilitary squads slaughtered them, beginning by throwing grenades inside the church and then killing the adult survivors with rifles, hammers, and machetes. The babies were murdered by smashing their heads against the brick walls. The total scale of the genocide was this massacre times two hundred: a million lives brutally cut short.