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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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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).
and even a 747 landing in Tokyo, something difficult to capture given that the satellite is moving at 17,000 mph.
Yes, I am often amazed that I'm able to jump on Earth while moving at 29.77 km/s*.
*Speed of the Earth in Orbit
Catching planes on Google's Satellite Imagery. [url=http://maps.google.com/maps?q=castaic,ca&ll=3 4.517348,-118.607926&spn=0.005697,0.007027&t=k&hl= en]One of the cooler ones.[/url]
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In every USA satellite photo of Castro, he appears to be mooning.
Coincidence?
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Okay, so it's not so much discovery as rediscovery, but an industrial archaeologist like myself can find all sorts of interesting railroad remains using mapper.acme.com or my interface to the same data mapview. I like to play "spot the hidden trolley" north of Canandaigua, or south of Minneto.
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Who cares? Helicopters? I hear at least two of those every day, and I never bother to go outside to look at it. When I read the headliner for this post, I expected something like a satellite photo of someone famous picking their nose. Now THAT's interesting!
that this is similar a bit to Google Sightseeing
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Easter Eggs are intentionally hidden objects. How do these qualify as an Easter Egg? Google did not try to hide anything in the images. They just happen to be real life things happening at the time the images were taken.
Sure, Google Maps is great if you want your route overlayed on the images, but for finding easter eggs it's nothing special.
I think the most interesting thing about the plane capture is that the plane appears double. This is probably due to the combined speed of the plane and satellite as well as how the image was taken. It seems that the plane had moved 30 feet or so in the time that the blue channel was imaged. Does that sound right?
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...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.
After the article and captions, I was expecting more. Smoke over Bagdad- who'd a thunk it? Cars parked at a stadium- what are the chances of that? This is more like reality television meets satellite photos. Yawn.
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Here are some google sightseeing sites- mine first, of course!
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http://www.paulrademacher.com/housing/
www.shreddies.org/gmaps/
cryptome.org/usndc-eyeball.htm
del.icio.us/knodi/google_maps
www.returnofdesign.com/feature.php?article=12
gmaps.nicj.net/
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I see my truck in the parking lot. Cool.
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Read more and see the image
Iran captures three CIA agents
My friend rents a house that's relatively new (two or three years?). If you check out the street map, you can get to his place, but if you look at the satellite map, all you see is a bulldozer, a port-a-john, and bunch of construction workers standing around scratching themselves. (Ok, slight exaggeration, but yeah, there's nothing there.) It would be nice if google could get these maps more up to date.
Tristan Yates
And the really weird part is that the US military says it doesn't exist.
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I did take a look at the google sat pictures, and they don't have my hometown in very good resolution, but it is good enough to see my parents' acreage.
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Check this one out >> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=chicago+illinois&ll= 41.857975,-87.607298&spn=0.014849,0.020878&t=k&hl= en
You'll notice the airfield still seems operational in downtown Chicago... And you can see the construction going on in Solider Field!
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If you view the pictures of Atlanta's airport, you can see 4 planes taking off (in the air). ATL must be one heck of a busy airport!
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?
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You could spend some time looking for these.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Therefore, as a person with too much timne on their hands, he contrived moved the rocks, pebbles, and bolders around on the extensive flat surface. After about 6 months, he had managed to spell out a classic Anglo-Saxon Expletive Deleted viewable only from appropriate altitude in the air, which served as an appropriate warning to those arriving for duty there.
These are supposed to be fairly huge, so I wonder how long it will take for some to find them?
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"Google site-seeing":
http://www.shreddies.org/gmaps/
Cool to see planes in the air
Anyone else notice the U.S. Capitol building is intentionally blurred out? For "security"?
People say that picture is before the event, but the roads seem like they have been driven on an awful lot at this point, and not just the roads, but the various side paths too. I know they water down the roads before people arrive but there is limited desire to actually drive them. They don't go anywhere yet. So why is this reported as a before picture?
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Reminds me of the California Coastline Project that got launched a few years ago. The idea behind it was to help people spot environmental crimes, building violations, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if Google's maps will soon be used for similar things - although it would help to have a more frequent update than 18 months, and to be able to browse in the past. While that information is available now (for a fee), it'll have quite a different impact once it's free.
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Terraserver was impressive in its day (circa 1998) but almost all the data is a decade or more old, in black and white, and 1p/m. Google's data is for the most part MUCH newer and in color. Same resolution though, i wont really be impressed until i can see a sat image of myself outside cutting my lawn.
If you look at this link, you will see the Pentagon building, and you will see there is a repair going on at the time. This was the repair of the September 11 attack, which was completed within one year. That dates these images to sometime before September 11, 2002 when the repairs were completed.
The lessons of history teach us - if they teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
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."
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You know, within the budget for the special effects in Hollywood movies they can see into your shorts from Geosynchronous orbit. If Hollywood can do it, why can't Bush's huge Defense Budget ? And Where the hell are the flying cars and Daily Space Ships to the Moon base ? Huh ? Huh ?
the good thing about google, is they don't white out area 51. see http://www.livejournal.com/community/the_unexplain ed/37956.html#cutid1 here for more
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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.
OK, it's Scotland. What's your point?
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I thougth shadow at first too, but I didn't think shadows appeared lighter or bluer than the surrounding land. /. effect prohibits me from double checking.
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Not quite an easter egg, but still pretty cool. Here's the CIA. See you guys in guantanamo. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=mclean,va&ll=38.9519 08349990845,-77.14489102363586&spn=0.0068557262420 6543,0.005804300308227539&t=k&hl=en
Tristan Yates
For those of us not willing to simply imagine the images mentioned in the Wired story, try the mirrored story over at Mirrordot.
For more sights to see...
Interesting Google Satellite Maps (virtual sightseeing)
highlights:
- Bill Gates' house
- White House- with "erased" rooftops
Google Sightseeing (blog; new sites often)highlights:
I can't read TFA, it appears WIRED is slashdotted:, 00.html# . wired.com/news/technology/0%2C1282%2C67190%2C00.ht ml%23.html
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,67190
So I see your mirror site:
( http://www.networkmirror.com/ )
and go to the Appropriate Link:
http://www.networkmirror.com/CC_qTtXVggGorP95/www
but that doesn't have any mirrored content.
Speaking of "Easter eggs" and the recent holiday, I can only imagine these photographs (since I can't actually see TFP's), perhaps one from the mideast with a big crowd throwing rocks at three guys hanging on crosses...
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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...
He also explained that because of things like fog and clouds, specific regional satellite images can be a composite of several stitched-together pictures.
To illustrate the point of stitching the images together, this link presents an interesting example of that: DC Buildings (Google.com). Notice at that the four buildings show a different side and shadow as though the vantage point were different for each of them.
Interesting enough, if you pan to the East and slightly to the South, you'll see a portion of the image is intentionally distorted. For those who would prefer to go directly to the area, click here.
sr71 blackbirds...
and I also thought they were de-commed...although i seem to remember a couple being brought back in the mid-90's...
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I think it's very interesting that the United States Capital Building has been intentionally blurred in Google's satellite image collection. Hmmm... Was Google asked by the government to do this?
What makes it nice using World Wind is that it is starting to bring together a few different sources of data into one interface.
Now.. if we can just get Europe to forget about their pocketbooks and open up some imagery for free use...
The new satellite photo feature in GoogleMaps comes from their aquisition of Keyhole. Their software has been around for a little while and has quite a following (myself included) of people who find all sorts of interesting things in the photos and share them on the message board Keyhole setup for users.
Attachments can be used to go right to the area using the Keyhole software. Current events are covered (recent posts include the Paris hotel fire, the San Jose Wendy's where a finger was supposedly found in a bowl of chili, the Neverland Ranch, and a detailed mapping of buildings within Vatican City).
Other forums are filled with geeky goodness. Recent posts there have links to show you the 7 wonders of the ancient world, the UNESCO World Heritage list, logos on rooftops, webcam locations, and lots of pointers to filming locations of TV and movies.
This is amazing, I'm afraid this'll get lost in the noise!
I also live close to the bay (Northeast) and find it a little annoying i can't see as to where i boat on a regular basis.
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Guess it depends on where you live, the "urban areas" photos of my neighborhood in the SF Bay Area, is dated 2004. These are color and higher res than the "Aerial Photo" series from 1993.
I think these are "regular" aerial photos, not satellite.
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
Nice! The entire site is down!
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=CA+93524&ll=34.95342 135429382,-117.88429856300354&spn=0.00561118125915 52734,0.009237527847290039&t=k&hl=en/
8 296775818,-117.89728045463562&spn=0.00561118125915 52734,0.009237527847290039&t=k&hl=en/
And the USAF Thunderbirds (F-16s)
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=CA+93524&ll=34.9145
Now I hope and pray that I will But today I am still, just a bill
Unfortuanately, the satellite image isn't of a high enough resolution to see it in google maps. If anyone from Google is reading this, please upload high resolution pictures of a place called Vegerville, Alberta, Canada so you can have a true and authentic Easter Egg in Google maps.
Giant Easter Egg
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The google map isn't detailed enough, but Vegreville Alberta has a giant Easter Egg statue. If you can find a detailed enough satellite pic of Vegreville, you will see a huge black, yellow, and other coloured Easter Egg there.
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I'm surprised they don't have a satellite image of their web server just as it was being slashdotted.
Here's a mirror from coral cache, though it's having problems too. Same for mirrordot.
here Sure keeps his roof clean, it's all one color. No frisbees of nothing on there.
What does a /.ed server look like from space?
Looking at my neighborhood from space just reminds me how piss-poor my lawn is in comparison to my neighbors. Thanks a lot, Google.
At least Google Maps screws up my address, so that everyone else sees a nice green lawn from someone else's house when they search using my address.
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It must be coming from Wired's server!
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Right there under that plume of smoke.
Here an A12 Blackbird, circled by a few other relicts: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=minneapolis,mn&ll=44 .89333391189575,-93.2040274143219&spn=0.0078105926 513671875,0.008529424667358398&t=k&hl=en/
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."
Those are supposed to be exciting? I'd like to give whoever came up with abstract puzzles a great big thump in the face. If you can only solve something by acting randomly, it wasn't a puzzle, it isn't rewarding, and it shows the game authors either were too lazy to come up with decent puzzles, or they'd already spent all their money on washed-up actors for the cutscenes.
So maybe the guy could have picked a better example.
I'm scared of numbers that can't be written as a fraction. It's an irrational fear.
Thirty planes
Ditto on several addresses I've tried. It isn't off by much but it is off.
Does terraserver provide directions?
The adjacent buildings are colored so as not to reveal the location of the snipers. Yes, there are snipers on various buildings surrounding both the White House and the Capitol building. I've seen em with my own eyes during a rooftop party across the street from the Eisenhower building. They'll occasionally stand up to stretch and look around, sometimes they'll wave back to you.
How's this: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=montreal+quebec&ll=4 5.493226,-73.574066&spn=0.014205,0.017231&t=k&hl=e n Montreal cut in two
If you care to know, you can enter the code and it will take you right to the airport you need...lax...dsm...alo...ord, whichever. Works great.
much of it it whited out.
Lng -116.79302
Lat 37.12547
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I couldn't locate Area 51...
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Area 51 is not blocked out. You can indeed find the airfield, though it's not in high res like Metro areas. You need to find "Groom Lake", though it's a dry lake and so it's not mapped as a lake in the regular maps mode. It's a little NE of the middle of the huge grey area in Nevada. The lake bed is a completely white salt flat that is almost circular. The airstip is just beneath it.
There apparently are several image databases.
:-)
(Does anybody actually think that google has been launching their own satellites and aerial photography aircraft? Well maybe not yet)
Terraserver tells you when multiple databases are available (for example, I had two to choose from: 1993, and 2002). Since my house was built in 2001, naturally it only shows up in the 2002 picture.
The 2002 picture on Terraserver is actually identical to the googlemaps image-- they both appear to come from the same photo database originally. However, the terraserver version allows zooming down to 4X higher resolution.
What's cool about terraserver, if you have multiple years to choose from in your area, you can compare what it looked over time. Comparing satellite photos of my town from between 1993 and 2002 was eye-opening.
Google provides a better interface for the purposes of mapping, but terraserver supplies you with more information overall. I'm sure google will be adding a few things in the future though.
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If Google does not show Chesapeake bay, then its not there, simple! But you still see it? Must be something wrong with you.
Try locating somewhere which has correct google map of it. Will be good for you.
After seeing the Capital buildings blurred link I did a little surfing and found this
6 72,0.033817&t=k&hl=en
8 78,-115.308166&spn=0.063343,0.067635&t=k&hl=en
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Rachel,NV&spn=0.031
Rachel, NV is the town near Area 51.
This is the most you can zoom in on it
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Rachel,NV&ll=37.325
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I can't RTFA, it's
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The most impressive Google Maps sight I've seen so far is The Boneyard, where all the retired air force planes go. This location is at Davis Monthan Air Force Base. It is nicknamed "the boneyard" for obvious reasons and also "the world's largest airforce," as it holds more military airplanes than any nation's standing airforce. It's somewhere around Tucson, Arizona. Apparently there are also guided tours you can take.
I've taken another look and it's definitely not a shadow. The shadows of the boxes on the ground point in the opposite direction and the portion in question is brighter than the surrounding area. It's either a product of the moving plane/satellite (my money's on the plane) or an artifact of reflected light (I doubt this).
not that anyone cares at this point...
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Do a google map for Clermont FL. If you then go south on Hwy 27 your will see a Mickey Mouse Head in the middle of an orange field. The head is off of Disney property. Not sure who owns the property or why it is there. But it's cool.
The SBC Logo on top of the SBC Center (where the Spurs Play)
Airplane on landing path to SAT
Northside Stadium
Pan southwest from the SR71s and you'll see a couple of YF22A Raptors.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
TerraServer is way better than google satellite imagery.
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Kind of arrives suddenly in these parts!
I am not a crackpot.
The white house also has some odd rectangles over it, Very strange click here
I live in one of the places that is lucky (ha ha) enough to be photographed in hi-res (Boston area). The resolution was high enough so that I could see the ham radio antenna on my roof. This isn't a large antenna: it's a magnetic loop antenna which is a 2.5 foot in diameter ring of 3" aluminum tube. And it was visibile, along with its shadow. Quite amazing!
What was disturbing is that I had to use the up-arrow on the map a few times. Google/KH was approximately 300 feet off of my actual location. Yahoo maps was quite accurate, so what gives? I am wondering if these were intentionally skewed to prevent people from launching missles, or something. Sort of like 'selective availability'.
I noticed that the KH program has the capability of much higher resolution that google maps. I guess that keeps the servers from being swamped. Or mapes people buy keyhole.
I wouldn't pay for the service, with the accuracy and coverage problems. And the fact that there's nothing in Europe.
If you pan down the Mall to the White House and its offices, it seems as if the roofs were intentionally covered. http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=1600+Pennsylv ania+Ave,+Washington,+DC
This one is very nice - the map side is blank7 57&spn=0.007725,0.013293&t=k&hl=en
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.901311,-117.871
My spelling and grammer combined with the fact that I have college degree, proves a problem with the educaion system.
READ THIS: "plane" "accelerating" "basic literacy" "long jumper"
Give his sig, are you sure it's not his pitiful excuse for a joke?
This sig has absolutely no significance and serves only to take up screen space and waste the time of the reader.
See the runway? Look just northwest of the northwest end of the runway. Upper-left quadrant of the highway cloverleaf there. Zoom in.
Cool, no?
We need 3D maps I tells ya'
Well it seems there aren't too many French speaking guys on /.
For those who don't...
Tête de lard actually means something like 'fuckface' and andouille is eel but you should read "slimey weasel"
x_terminat_or_3: watching for French insults
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. T. S. Eliot
For further proof, look at downtown Seattle. They had such a difficult time stitching together all the skyscrapers -- from images taken at different angles -- that they finally opted to leave out the 48-story building from which I'm typing this message (1001 4th avenue).
In the words of Doctor Emmett Brown ("Back to the Future"):
"Erased from existence..."
"And so (we) go to an area, pop it open, and wow, we didn't intend to capture this icebreaker pushing this submarine" and would this submarine by any chance be the sub that the UK sold Canada.
I love the color correction on some photos.
See it here.
While it could be the difference between winter/summer, the Missouri river is never that blue.
Resolution is different as well.
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I've always wondered why they don't fit the bottom of airplanes with cameras for aerial images, with the number of airplanes flying around it seems like we could have many many up to date photos of the entire U.S. Then when the plane lands the hard drive could quickly be swapped out and processed instead of having to transmit the information from orbit. Is there a good reason why this isn't being done?
The article states that capturing Airplanes landing is pretty rare, so I was pretty suprised to see one landing at Atlantas Hearts Field Airport. I'm too lazy to link, but a plane is coming into land on the southernmost runway, from the west. It's easily viewable if you zoom in but more difficult to see if your zoomed out as it's over a parking lot when the shot was taken.
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.
I was looking at a different image because I'm a retard.
That's right. All your base.
Not on Google Maps, and not much of an easter egg, but while looking at my place of work on TerraServer, I could clearly make out my own car parked outside of the building. Pretty neat, but not cool on the scale of a firefight captured on satellite.
NSA headquarters:
. 105020,-76.766410&spn=0.033131,0.026307&t=k&hl=en
= 38.834428,-104.697948&spn=0.008283,0.006577&t=k&hl =en
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=fort+meade,md&ll=39
Headquarters AFSPACECOM (the left building), USNORTHCOM (middle building, still being built), and Army Space (right building, still being built):
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=schriever+afb,co&ll
Here is a picture of the Confederation Bridgewhich links my home province Prince Edward Island with New Brunswick.
You can see each end but the middle is missing due to the way the pictures were put together. There's really a middle...honest.
On the contrary, the reason gambling is so addictive is the very nature of random rewards. It has been proven to be the most effect method of conditioning.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
One of the more unintentionally funny images I found at maps.google.com is of the Anaheim "Big A" Stadium (home of the 2002 World Series champion "Los Angeles Angels at Anaheim," formerly Los Angeles/California/Anaheim Angels).
h eim,+CA&ll=33.800307512283325,-117.88272142410278& spn=0.005332231521606445,0.005525350570678711&t=k& hl=en
Instead of seeing the signature baseball diamond, we see the entire field turfed over for a monster truck rally:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Anaheim+Stadium,Ana
...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.
The google maps entry in wikipedia has a long list of intesting images found in google's sattelite database, including the Hollywood Sign, Golden Gate Bridge, and Ground Zero.
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The picture of the 747 is more spectacular than anyone really knows... I dont know about you but I dont know of any 747's that can go 17,000 mph. I would imagine at that speed it could probably make orbit...
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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
You can also just click here.
If you go far enough southwest, it looks like you get a view of all four seasons in one shot. See here.
---John Holmes...
Edwards Airforce Base is in California..
The image the grand-parent linked to is in Nevada..
maps.google.com of the real EAB
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On approach for LAX
h eim,+CA&ll=33.943144,-118.334031&spn=0.007725,0.01 3293&t=k&hl=en
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Anaheim+Stadium,Ana
is in Augusta, Michigan.
The entire village, from one end all the way to the next major city, has no close up shots at anything better than about 5 clicks out from max zoom on google.
I'm not sure if it's because it's hte middle of nowhere, or because there's an army base with a gigantic armory there.
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http://maps.google.com/maps?q=groom+lake,nv&ll=37. 129326,-116.051846&sll=36.518555,-115.561924&spn=0 .121536,0.170631&sspn=0.127029,0.120678&t=k&hl=en
I notice that apparently someone's been taking a bulldozer, and marking "(c) 2005 Google" in the dirt. I think that I'm going to take a buldozer, and mark "(c) 2006 MickLinux" in a few places around my town. Then I'll check periodically, to see if anybody publishes a reprint...
Correct Horse Battery Staple: 72 bits of entropy. Enter "Correct H" into google. When it generates the phrase, that's
Every country violates treaties. Or as Stalin put it, "treaties are made to be broken."
Just becuase you can come up with justification for doing something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
Not to mention that Saddam didn't even have a nuclear weapons program... so how could the Nuclaer Non-Proliferation Treaty even come into play?
Furthermore, Saddam was allowing inspections until he discovered that the inspectors from America were CIA spies planting sureveillance devices at all his bases.
But no matter, you got your war. Does it fill you with pride to see the picture of the US bomb going off in one of Baghdad's residential neighborhoods?
Trolling aside, you are quite right about spy satellites not being all that useful unless we know where to look. Our reliance on overly technological methods hasn't really produced accurate intelligence.
But you must realize the powers that be like it that way, becuase that affords them the ability to model the threat to meet their political agenda. The value of the intelligence is not in its accuracy. No, the purpose of intelligence is to provide a rationale for a given course of action, such as war in Vietnam or Iraq.
Policy drives the intelligence gathering and analysis, not the other way around. And there's not even a feedback mechanism whereby intel has a chance to alter policy. It's completely ass-backwards. You can build up a "slam dunk" case for whatever preposterous assertion you wish, just by cherry-picking the few facts which, taken out of context, build a compelling case.
That's not an intelligence failure, that's a policy failure, and a systems failure. The intel was all there what Al Qaeda was planning for 9/11, the system just didn't process it. The intel was all there that Saddam had no WMD, but the system discarded that information because those facts didn't jibe with the goals.
And a large part of the reason the system failed to piece together the big picture was not too little intelligence, but too much. Far too much. And far too people to analyze the mass of data we've got.
But of course, those in power want it that way.
Not too many politicians are going to let the facts stand between them and their goals. It's a lot easier to say "we erred on the side of Democracy" than "we were wrong."
Yeah, I noticed that too. Also blurred is Kahnawake, IIRC. Dunno if this is intentional due to treaty negotiations or the result of the most-recently captured file date on what Google acquired when they bought Keyhole. Does Google own access to the bird or just the archives?
Magic Kingdom entrance & Disney World Speedway
Universal Studios Florida
Cape Canaveral / Kennedy Space Center
Palm Bay signs on I-95
Lake Eola, Orlando, FL
Life is irony, and nothing ever goes as planned.
Castillo de San Marco @ St. Augustine
Ft. Matanzas, with boat wake
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It is there job to intrest me into clicking their banner ad, it also thier job to keep me from blocking their ad, so in my opnion it is them who have failed us!
Also the company dose not get money if you do not click on a banner-ad, so seeing as I am NOT going to click on the banner ad, it dosn't really matter...dose it?
Arabian Sand Dunes
Also, if you scoot over & find Israel, you won't find higher-res imagery for any of this region, but you can clearly see where the Egypt-Israel border is.
Israel-Egypt Border
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Gitmo!
If you surf around on Cuba, actually has a higher-res set than most other global places. Lots of farms it seems. Yucatan has a similar level as well.
Life is irony, and nothing ever goes as planned.
Guy in ATL lives on this lake, actually in this cove. He found this the other day, kind of wonders if its anyone he knows.
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http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.118814,-84.70
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Not in google maps, but in the keyhole client. Cambridge, some parts of Los Vegas, and downtown San Diego. Probably mentioned before in another aticle, but it's pretty cool.
Je préfaire lecher des chattes.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. T. S. Eliot
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.366956,-64.69268 2&spn=0.007886,0.007392&t=k&hl=en
Bruce
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=chicago+meigs&ll=41. 860614,-87.612534&spn=0.015771,0.014784&t=k&hl=en
Bruce
I think they own the bird itself.
I can't believe this link has been modded down elsewhere!
NASA World Wind
It's a not only a great viewer for satellite images but uses a 3D card to combine it with DEM (digital elevation model) data, kind of like keyhole. Once you've zoomed in (both mouse buttons), use the right mouse button to change the angle and voila! And then, when finally bored of that, check out all the other good data/images like MODIS (fire/flood etc), tsunami, night earth etc with the WMS and Science buttons.