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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What I think about the submitter

[Anonymous Coward]

tête de lard

Re:What I think about the submitter

[Anonymous Coward]

You're calling me fat?!

Well, you're right. So what?

Re:What I think about the submitter

[Anonymous Coward]

Andouille !

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[Anonymous Coward]

Dupe. Dupe-tiy-dupe, dupe.

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?

Re:Google Maps doesn't work right

[stratjakt]

Like I said, I'm pretty much close enough to throw a rock into the Bay from my porch, I mean I'd have to throw pretty hard and arc it over my neighbours house and a little strip mall, and hope I don't bust a window out of the bridge authority HQ, but google's way off, I can't even tell what I'm looking at, since there's no water shown anywhere close.

Terraserver, interestingly enough, gives the exact same "location" of my house. Ie; it's wrong too. Maybe there's another street with my name, and both get confused, or maybe Google gets their pinmapping data from terraserver? I don't know. ...

Zonk, just go ahead and ban my IP again. Why waste your time trying to wreck "karma" that I don't give a flying rats ass about? Yeah, I know I told you off when you just started and attached a lame michaelesque comment to a story, and got modded +5 funny/informative, and it got under your skin enough for you to respond. Frankly, you're taking yourself way too seriously.

I could really not give a ripe shit. Actually I'm somewhat honored that you take the time to track all my posts to downmod them as "overrated".

Re:We'll send something else

[Anonymous Coward]

ought to be a felony to mod down pulp fiction

Is that Janet Jackson?

[DiztortN]

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

Careful, you could be blinded by a

[Anonymous Coward]

Barbara Streisand beaver shot

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.

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