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."

Comments

If...

[BlueCodeWarrior]

...you only show up as a 'blurry fleck,' how are you supposed to do something obscene?

Re:If...

[NinjaFarmer]

You turn the local observatory into a giant breast.

And this isn't even the poll.

Re:If...

[Tibe]

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.

Re:If...

[kryptkpr]

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.

Only a blurry fleck? Hubble to the rescue!

[tquinlan]

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... ;)

Right.

[Markus Persson]

If a guy mugged me tonight I'd just look at him with an uncertain smile until he shot me. I hate april fools. :-/

Hey!

[InterruptDescriptorT]

I can see my house from here!

gSat

[acb]

If they're capturing all of each timezone at 10-11AM of each day, gSat must either be shaped like a curved tube stretching from pole to pole, or orbiting the earth from pole to pole once every hour.

Re:Gotta love April 1st

[buro9]

I shouldn't worry, the dupes will fool people tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, and...

Google Gulp

[rchatterjee]

Be sure to be drinking or holding a bottle of Google Gulp when they take the picture.

April Fools Day Sites

[Urgo]

Isn't April Fools Day just the best? =] For a 'full' list of sites pulling pranks today check out this list here

Here is a sample:

kellyosbourne.org - Sanctuary records group shut us down
nukefreezone.net - Making fun of atrios.blogspot.com
weebl.jolt.co.uk - Replaced with Cats-By-Mail
telecom.co.nz - Click 2 Brick
ytmnd.com - (NSFW) hacked by teens for christ
wingus.ampedhost.com - Site converted into Mingus' Gently-Used Furniture store. Oh dear. Why won't he be kind?
homestarrunner.com - Now a pay service.
whirlpool.net.au - Australia's biggest Luddite to head Australia's largest telco
thinkgeek.com - Fake product listings.
theregister.co.uk - Bush twins to join Air Force tech unit in Iraq
creativebits.org - Site purchased by Microsoft
ocremix.org - Now partnered with EA (or something like that). Called EA ReMix.
spacedaily.com - Bush Cancels Space Shuttle Program
planet.gnome.org - Switched sites with planet.kde.org
planet.kde.org - Switched sites with planet.gnome.org
ietf.org - RFC: Efficient Transformation Formats of Unicode
beejaysworld.de - Gentoo dropping livecds for x86
nature.com - Apollo bacteria spur lunar erosion
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov - Water On Mars
smh.com.au - (Free Reg Req) SMEGmail offers 1 terabyte storage
smh.com.au - (Free Reg Req) Linux looks to Hilton for exposure
thetoque.com - Canada Builds Own Missile Defense Shield
onion.com - U.S. Dog Owners Fear Arrival of Africanized Fleas
chron.com - Bush Twins in Maxim
ask.com - Jeeves has been replaced by a robot
animenewsnetwork.com - Viz Unlicenses Naruto
uninventthewheel.co.uk - New BMW technology to get around the EU ban on right hand drive cars in Europe.
newgrounds.com - changing to numagrounds.com
neopets.com - neopets adds 50 new pets
www.firstloox.org - The Loox is being recalled
packages.gentoo.org - Adobe doesn't sell products for Linux
pc.ign.com - Microsoft World of Wordcraft (Extremely Obvious)
spamusement.com - Page full of spoof banner ads
gentooexperimental.org - Gentoo using the NT kernel
moddb.com

This is great!

[AtariAmarok]

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!

Re:Only a blurry fleck? Hubble to the rescue!

[funk_phenomenon]

What would they call it? Gooble? Gobble? Hoogle?

Space Resume

[TimeTraveler1884]

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?