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NASA Releases World Viewer
Klatoo55 writes "Nasa has released a comprehensive world viewing tool that allows you to zoom from planetary resolution down to where you can pick out individual streets. Really cool, but it needs a good internet connection and a decent graphics card. There's all sorts of interesting features, such as the ability to tilt your view for a flight-sim like experience and a data display feature that shows current natural disasters, political boundaries, weather patterns, and landmarks on the Earth's surface, all while providing a dynamic satellite's eye view of the planet."
This is cool. I can see my house! Now if my neighbor had been sunbathing at the time...
I ran to check out the sit and it is Cooooool, but Nasa's gonna have an astronimical bandwith bill today :)
-nB
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There's no Linux or Mac version. This means I'll actually have to pull the damn windows box out of the closet I stashed it in.
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that's just cool.
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I can finally see the world outside of my Mother's basement!!!!
This looks cool, but the download is 259M! Server should be slashdotted soon. How about setting a torrent someone? (That is, someone who is not behind a firewall on a work computer.)
I wonder if NASA made a version of this for the NSA with ummmm a bit higher resolution.
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Will we be able to zoom in on the smoking ruins of the slashdotted webserver? :)
Really cool, but it needs a good internet connection
Are you talking about me or their server?
Sorry I don't believe you really work at homeland security and are first posting. But your other comments seem possible to me.
The power to view a planet is insignificant next to the power of a slashdotting.
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Now you can play "enemy of the state" at home, without having to retask satellites on your own.
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It currently only works with ONE planet!
Due to the latency with which the images are updated, this can pose some awkward situations. Imagine a geek looking at their neighborhood, noticing a beautiful nude sunbather next door. Geek runs outside to peek through a knot-hole in the fence to discover that the sunbather has aged 50 years since the last time that the picture was updated...ewww.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, go into business for themselves.
You really think there's anything secret in Area 51? The whole planet knows where it is.... hardly the best place to keep secrets.
Area 52, on the other hand...
Here you go.
I wonder what engine the builder used to design that world? It's pretty fantastic! And the level design, simply AMAZING!
The elk hunt starts in 2 1/2 weeks, I look forward to the day I can bring my laptop and use a live feed to track the elk herd... :}
I know, I know, it will never happen, but a guy can dream.
Maybe this is a good problem for an aerial kite camera solution
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but then how often do streets and house move/change physcially?
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You don't live in Florida, do you?
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For a..... web site??
Why is it so slow if the program is a C#/.NET Win app that uses DirectX? Surely no one on Slashdot is using that configuration. We're all Linux or BSD and OpenGL, right? ;)
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Actually, the government erected huge white platforms above parts of the city to obscure the stuff that satellites were seeing. It blocked out the sun and all the plants died. They realized it was a bad idea, took the platforms down, and just used Paintbrush to erase the parts they didn't like.
uhh, ok so they give u access to this shit but i cant fricken zoom down on area 51, all it is is desert, kinda ripoff that i cant see secret government installations.
Only problem is that some of the images are a couple years old... but then how often do streets and house move/change physcially?
I live in a mobile home, YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!
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We just slashdotted the World.
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Tom: "Terrorists could use this to pinpoint places to strike." Powell: "Tom, I have a Hammond Street Guide to Washington D.C. in my back seat that they could use for that. Let's be realis..." Tom: "George, Dick, how in the hell did he get out of the basement? Agents Smith and Johnson, please escort Mr. Powell back to his cell. And get the CEO of Hammond on the phone." News Reporter: "Quickie Marts all over the country were raided by the FBI today in a massive crackdown on the selling of maps. Store clerks were rounded up and shipped to Guantanamo to possibly face charges of providing material aid to terrorists...or was that tourists. Either way, if they're ever actually charged, I'm sure the secret tribunal will execute justice...or was that Lady Justice...to the fullest extent possible."
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No, I can only find Area 51A.
"If you take a look at these aerial views of DC you can see how the federal government had the overhead views of the whitehouse and the capitol removed (or blocked)"
When the MI5 building was used in a Bond film, someone mentioned that MI5 were worried about the security implications.
To quote: "they feared that filming might reveal the location of one of London's most distinctive landmarks"
It seems obvious that removing the White House from maps is good for security - after all, if nobody knows it's there, they can't attack it?
how often do streets and house move/change physcially?
Ask the residents of Florida....
People in cars cause accidents....accidents in cars cause people
If you are expecting something here, I don't know what to tell you...
So this is what you get when you put a bunch of rocket scientists together and tell them to write a "Hello, World?" app?
-JT
I have a link to studies that support the parent's implications, but this comment box is too small to contain it. If the parent's poster sounds like a retard because of this blatent lack of evidence, that's why. The fact that this individual actually is a retard is completely coincidental.