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Say 'Cheese' to Google Satellite at 10AM
13.7BillionYears writes "Google's recent purchase of Keyhole and its jaw-dropping 3D earth-browsing software has apparently netted them ownership of an imaging satellite as well, now named 'gSat.' This Friday, April 1st, gSat will be capturing a new dataset (neighborhood of 1meter/pixel), passing over each time zone between 10 and 11AM. If you stand outside and wave you will supposedly show up as a blurry fleck. Even better news is that the dataset will be available within months not only to Keyhole but also to the equally jaw-dropping and open source NASA World Wind. It all seems aimed at answering a question that has plagued mankind for ages: What foolishness can we wreak upon the Earth on the Day of Fools with only 3 days' notice? I'm guessing the obscene stuff will be Photoshopped out. Thanks to the World Wind Forum for the tip and let's hope those April showers come late."
Ah yes, April 1st on Slashdot. If every single story is an April Fools joke, we will just fool people over and over again because it totally isn't predictable!
I suggest we have Google take over the Hubble project, and have them turn that on us! Then we'll see what's really going on down here... ;)
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If a guy mugged me tonight I'd just look at him with an uncertain smile until he shot me. I hate april fools. :-/
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You turn the local observatory into a giant breast.
And this isn't even the poll.
I can see my house from here!
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because today is April 1 and this lame excuse for an April Fool's Day joke won't work unless you're gullible enough to do it.
I keep going outside and waving but I don't see myself.
By gathering 50 people, forming the outline of male genitalia when seen from above?
Be sure to be drinking or holding a bottle of Google Gulp when they take the picture.
and the next thing you know some vanilla copycat release from Redmond is kicking their butt
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WOAH!!! hello! what a sniping remakr at Microsoft! oooouch!! call in the lawyers!
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Maybe we're jaded, but we've seen all these other companies leap headlong into 1.0, thinking their product is exactly what they've been dreaming of all their lives, that everything is perfect and hunky-dory - and the next thing you know some vanilla copycat release from Redmond is kicking their butt, the Board is holding emergency meetings and the CEO is on CNBC blathering sweatily about "a new direction" and "getting back to basics." No thanks, man. We like our freedom.
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If you want to capture all of me :-)
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Slashdot is accumulating all the tech related April Fool's jokes onto one page for my easy access.
In Soviet Russia, asses suck this joke.
This is great. Now I can go to google and enter "find my lost car keys" and get a nice picture. Thanks again, Big G!
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Great! Now after a night on the tiles google will not only find you a cab but also remind you where your house is.
Google does not own a satellite. I Do!! Bow to me as I expand my search for Waldo to a Global scale!
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how are you supposed to do something obscene?
500,000 Highly technical, porn addicted minds are now obsessing over this.
You MUST be new round here.
Sorry had too.
Now this is a funny joke. The only thing is that it isn't a joke. This is a new low for dorkdom.
I have just done that, I really want to see what it looks like.
Can any body help me finding it with Google? Are there any language I can describe my face in the search box? Any standard? Don't RT?M, because I have just google but found none that satisfy.
Thanks in advance.
Hope you all get a good time. Until next.
mirror. Aimed right back at it.
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Not very creative, are you?
Get a bunch of people together in a circle (1 in the middle) and make a big, blurry fleck of a breast.
If you can get enough people together, go for two breasts.
If you still have people left over, form a giant penis below it.
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What would they call it? Gooble? Gobble? Hoogle?
Even the samurai
have teddy bears,
and even the teddy bears
get drunk
I think I had my eyes closed on that last one.
Sweet informative mod.
They spend all day rolling their eyes and posting complete snark just to show the whole world they weren't fooled. "I WASN'T FOLLED YOU KNOW --- THIS SI APRIL FOOLS DAY AND SLASHDOTT IS TEH SUCK
Idiots.
Windows? no way, Sun runs Java, only something with a lot of bloat can cause fusion via it's own mass.
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oh man, this is going to be modded troll faster than you can say "frist piss", but in my defence I know all the arguements about java and its speed. It's a joke, laugh.
I am going to mow my resume into my lawn. Maybe then I will be considered for a job at Google. They like the creative thinking types right?
she takes up TWO pixels!
So, you're saying that with enough people we could make a pre-op transsexual visible from outer space!
Wheee!