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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Intentionally placed?

[bonch]

When the issue of whether the images are intentionally placed in the database comes up, the Google guy kind of sidesteps it:

He also explained that because of things like fog and clouds, specific regional satellite images can be a composite of several stitched-together pictures.

That reality leads people like Leeds to wonder if images like the Burning Man setup and the Castro Street Fair show up because Google or Keyhole employees wanted them to be there.

But Hanke prefers to focus on the excitement users are getting looking for the unexpected.

"It's kind of like playing one of those adventure games," he said, "where you have to click on every part of the screen to find that box that will open."

Re:We'll send something else

[Anonymous Coward]

shutup you racist
everyone knows your replying to yourself

Goatse Crop Circle

[Anonymous Coward]

Now all someone has to do it make a 1 mile wide Goatse image in some field.