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Satellite Easter Eggs
TheChocolatay writes "Wired has a story on hidden finds in satellite images. They range from sporting events to natural disasters to bombs and firefights in Iraq. Some very interesting and cool pictures." From the article: "Part of it is that we collect so much imagery that a lot of times no eyes have seen a lot of this stuff,...And so (we) go to an area, pop it open, and wow, we didn't intend to capture this icebreaker pushing this submarine."
Hi this is where I'm staying, please send beer. Suite 315, thanks!
That'll teach me to do the bosses daughter outside.
Beep beep.
"It was the Babylonians in 2300 B.C. that first etched the lay of the land on clay tablets. Google will be taking this to a whole new level."
Indeed, the engravers were working so fast that they hardly noticed they had captured one of Sargon's armies on the move.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
In one I saw Italy and Greece kissing when they thought we weren't looking.
Didn't that old movie "Clear and Present Danger" already demonstrated satellites watching real events, real time somewhere 1000 miles away with no lag.
All I see are pictures of dirt and fields and water & junk. Not a dammned egg in the bunch! :)
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
I could only find that image that when viewed from a distance looks like the Virgin Mary with her arm around Pope John Paul II I'd be an eBay millionare (and prob. have a /. article as well).
Where's Waldo?
The Blaster Master Fighting for Truth, Justice, and Evil Pie since 1979
In every USA satellite photo of Castro, he appears to be mooning.
Coincidence?
-- www.globaltics.net
Political discussion for a new world
...Soviet soldiers stationed at missle bases in the USSR used to carve "Fuck you USA" into the tundra and on tarmacs in huge letters with their snowplows.
I see my truck in the parking lot. Cool.
"A REAL computer has ONE speed and the only powersaving it permits is when you pull the power leads out of the back!"
And the really weird part is that the US military says it doesn't exist.
You have two hands and one brain, so always code twice as much as you think!
It seems that pretty much the whole world seems to be covered with the same giant, repeating letters. Is someone trying to tell us something?
my comic
In a dimly lit board room, a man sits at the end of the table with his back to the others. One of his lieutenants is giving a progress report.
"...and our satellites have just gone online."
"How did we hide this from the public?" the man asked still facing away.
"We told them that it was another beta feature being added to Google Maps" his underling replied.
"So everything's on schedule then?" asked another man at the table.
"Yes" the dark figure replied.
The chair slowly turned until it was facing them. His face is barely visible in the shadows.
He smiles as he pets the cat in his lap.
"Our plans for world domination are proceeding nicely."
Coder's Stone: The programming language quick ref for iPad
Not exactly satellite photos...
The first mapping company I worked for flew aerial photos flights for counties. For the type of mapping we did (cadastral, planimetric, and topographic), we generally took the photos in late Fall (after the leaves were pretty much off the trees and before the snow fell) or early Spring (after the snow and before the leaves appeared). For a particular job, we unfortunately caught a major civil war re-enactment where they were shooting off a lot of cannons. Needless to say, the counties requirements for ground visibility required us to refly a portion of the county to retake the photos.
It's not blurred out. That's just the alien technology force field which is protecting it.
*runs to the kitchen for some more foil*
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
Yet another reason is the terraserver-usa.com maps are black and white. Google's are in color. Plus, Google's interface is 10^100 times better!
What you think you're seeing is just an artifact of the imaging system. Nothing is really there.
Under the USA PATRIOT act, you are hereby ordered to the nearest Federal Reporting Station for re-education.
--- Asking inconvenient questions for over 30 years...
maybe it moved ....
Right there under that plume of smoke.
USA fucks YOU!
Join Tor today!
There was no artificial blurring of the US Capitol building - you are watching Ameican democracy fading away in real time.
Winnar!
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. --Winston Churchill
Nope
Even better! I found the Stargate!
"Unheard of means only it's undreamed of yet,
Impossible means not yet done." ~~ Julia Ecklar
I think you've stumbled on to something. Obviously that particular map was pieced together from images taken before the 4th Avenue Plaza was completed in 1969. Looks like you've just discovered the double secret Google U2 feed. Congrats.
...It's OK for us to sell hires maps of other countries...who cares if anybody bombs the fuck outta them...but not Holy Israel?
Israel has a long history of its own of pre-emptively bombing the living fuck outta other people. Have we stopped selling hires images of other nations to Israel yet? No? Thought not.
aren't yet in the u.s. ...
Grammar nazi with a sense of of humor...
gosh, I'm doomed 8)
It takes 40+ muscles to frown, but only four to extend your arm and bitchslap the motherfucker