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."

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Google Maps doesn't work right

[stratjakt]

At least not for my home address or work address, I'm not sure what it's showing me, but I just know the images aren't right since I live right next to a major geographical feature (ie; the Chesapeake bay), so it's pretty easy to tell.

Still, it's neat to scroll around and whatnot online. The technology isn't really new, our mapping software has had layers for aerial photos for a long while now.

Anyhow Zonk, why is it that every post I make to one of your stories eventually gets modbombed with "offtopics", after it's been modded up? Coincidence?

Is that Janet Jackson?

[DiztortN]

Ya I think I just saw a titi! Ya thats a fully man.

Image Misconceptions

[JJ]

Everytime I turn around I keep hearing about how wonderful spy satelitte's are. The problem is, unless they know where to look, they can't find anything. A typical spy satelitte is in a useful location once or twice a day for 5 minutes tops each. This was also demonstrated in Clear and Present Danger when the Irish thugs hid while the US satelitte was overhead and were replaced by Libyans. It was only when the satelitte was 'retasked' that useful images were captured. Quit telling me about counting the hairs on a man's head, start telling me about how to find things.
BTW: Sadaam spending billions of dollars looted from Oil-for-Food on tricking US satelitte images was itself an 'act of war' as identified in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (and about twenty other international treaties) which fully justified the invasion of Iraq.