A new pair of glasses: all of humanity at night

6:48but it was like I told you it wasn't that wasn't our job. I I and that's where a lot of our science staff began to ask questions about hey these are very bright lights but if it's like they've given you've given us a new pair of glasses and now we can see not just that activity but we're also seeing these lowlight pieces of our geography at night >> these places that before were being you know in a way these bright lights were shadowing over the smaller light. Rural communities, communities living outside the city. That's where the big

7:30reveal was. The fact that we can see all of humanity, not just the metropolitan areas that were being that were oluding the due to contamination of the the lice oluding these other pieces of society. And that's where the data became very powerful. For a lot of people, it meant that you could track things like energy access, >> right? you can track disasters and at the time we didn't know how powerful this tool was going to be uh for many different organizations and we were just I mean we were building on our research to do that. >> Yeah, that is that is an incredible like starting story um that you were

8:10effectively just trying to calibrate this thing and then you look like to the side and then there's just like these random high frequency events that are happening. That's that's pretty cool. And then from there, you know, this is sort of the first Sojourn of of the team. This is before even the team of um Black Marble was found was was formed, right? >> You were just two at the time.