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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.
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I can see my house from here!
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I keep going outside and waving but I don't see myself.
Be sure to be drinking or holding a bottle of Google Gulp when they take the picture.
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!
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how are you supposed to do something obscene?
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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?
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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!