Most Detailed Image Of Earth Yet

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Most Detailed Image Of Earth Yet

Posted by Hemos on Wednesday February 20, 2002 @11:45AM from the lookin'-purty dept.

TomDM writes "BBC News has a story on how scientists created the most accurate and detailed image of our planet yet, composing the image from satellite data, and adjusting it for the correct colours. "

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United Corporations of Earth by resistant · 2002-02-20 11:50 · Score: 0, Flamebait

This oddly follows a story earlier today about continuing corporate mega-merging.

When the $%#@&! does the mothership return for their regular pickup, anyway?

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Re:Scientists where... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-20 11:51 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I am suprised you can use a computer, yet you do not know the difference between where and were. Bitch.
Re:Where? by pricorde · 2002-02-20 12:24 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Man, it already exists.
Grab the latest demo from x-plane. The worldwide environment to be soon released (version 6.10) is composed from the USGS GTOPO30, USGS landuse map and NIMA world vector map (roads, rivers, electric lines et al).
Re:Hey, Joe by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-20 12:30 · Score: -1, Flamebait

silly mormon. Go pray or something! We don't want your crazytalk and lying-britney-spears links on slashdot. I'd rather read troll posts than yours.
You sound... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-20 13:00 · Score: -1, Flamebait

like a fucking moron if you can't spell.
Re:I've been working on this myself. by ChazeFroy · 2002-02-20 13:33 · Score: 0, Flamebait

The first people to make use of this would be al Qaeda.