The Old World in Darkness

Sometimes, we're just in awe of what the web has wrought. The image below is taken from die.net's World Sunlight Map, which incorporates satellite weather imagery with where the sunlight is striking at any given moment on the Earth's surface:

If you click the image above for a larger version, check out how dark the space is between China and South Korea and across much of Africa, which is a key indicator of a lack of economic activity, especially given the relative population densities of these areas with respect to genuinely unpopulated areas, like northern and western Australia.