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Google Moon Debuts
Ian writes "From the FAQ: 'One small step for Google...
On July 20, 1969, man first landed on the Moon. A few decades later, we're pleased to cut you in on the action. Google Moon is an extension of Google Maps and Google Earth that, courtesy of NASA imagery (thanks, guys!), enables you to surf the Moon's surface and check out the exact spots that the Apollo astronauts made their landings.'"
If you zoom in to maximum resolution, you'll find "proof" we never landed there. ;-)
Now I can find the best route to work. If they get Google Moon Ride Finder up and running I'll be all set.
And who says Google doesn't have a sense of humor?
Example 1:
From their FAQ:
4. Is Google Moon a result of your Copernicus initiative?
Glad you asked, and yes, the development of our lunar hosting and research center continues apace. We usually don't announce future products in advance, but in this case, yes, we can confirm that on July 20th, 2069, in honor of the 100th anniversary of mankind's first manned lunar landing, Google will fully integrate Google Local search capabilities into Google Moon, which will allow our users to quickly find lunar business addresses, numbers and hours of operation, among other valuable forms of Moon-oriented local information.
Example 2:
On moon.google.com, if you zoom all the way in on the moon the imagery changes from satellite shots of the moon to a cheese template. Sense of humor at it's finest.
Looking forward to see what they come with next.
Side note: Does Google still offer satellite imagery of Mars in Google Earth? It was offered when it was Keyhole.
I'm a virgo and on Slashdot. Coincidence? Yes.
>> "What would the robut do? Frame someone!"
Google is planning a moonbase!
Google Overlords: Earth, check. Moon, check.
I, for one, welcome our new Moon overlords.
Since we all know that the moon landings were faked, I'm sure we are all looking forward to seeing the studio on the lunar surface where they filmed it all.
I can't even see Dr. Evil giant "laser" !
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Well, i never knew, the moon is made of cheese. Anyhow, i think that this is a great step for google (pun not intended). Hopefully we will soon see a google solar system. Google is doing a great job, and lets hope it continues.
If you zoom all the way in... oh, wait. Redundant, yeah?
Ydco co
I can't believe you did this!
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Google has a man on the moon as it's cartoon today....
This moon feature is beyond cool- but may be another productivity sapping item for me at work. What I wonder is if we will get full zooming. My understanding is that google maps is purposely limited so people can't "see swingsets" in back yards (i.e. pedophiles).
What will this do to Hoagland's career if they do this for other planets, say Mars? Is Cydonia over?
And All I Ask is a Tall Ship And a Star to Steer Her By
The patented GoogleCam(tm) is vastly superior to any telescope. Intentionally? The conspiracy deepens...
LROC goes up, we are able to view the actual remains from the Apollo missions.
What is humor if not pain tempered by time?
This proves it. NASA is giving us black and white pictures that consist of cheese zoomed up really close and living it up in some paradise with their riches.
"A Lisp programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing." - Alan Perlis
Seriously, with all the imagery Nasa has, Google Mars would be nice too.
i can't get driving directions to those locations
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
You can't even do a "from" - "to" direction option!
How I am suppose to get from A to B now?
No sig for now.
Hey, the moon IS made of- *by the time this message is posted, 500 other geeks will have beat me to the end of that sentence and have already posted what everyone is going to find out within 30 seconds of looking at the site*
Colin Dean Go a year without DRM
I was expecting to be able to browse some of the great Clementine or Apollo-era lunar images. I got juvenile humor instead. Is this the best those geniouses at google can do?
an ill wind that blows no good
and just when i was getting ready for christmas in july :(
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." - Rahm Emanuel
I note that Google have conveniently forgotten to place the Soviet (Russian) Lunokhod moon robots on the map (at Sea of Rains and Le Monnier, Mare Serenitatis).
Andrew Oakley - www.aoakley.com
but it's not bad
I hate getting lost there. I never remember where to turn left. The craters all look the same. My wife always complains.
Shazbat, Google!
The trouble with Karma is: it always gets worse.
Well, a reason not to do, say, oh, I don't know, ANY OF THE GAS GIANTS is because we can't freaking SEE any features that are solid.
Helloooo?
I guess things of this kind are the reasons why Google valuation is ambiguos
wow...not only did Ian beat me on submitting the story, but then when I thought I was gonna be cool and show all of slashdot "the secret", I got beaten there too. I just can't win with this google moon story. Oh well, maybe I can submit a dupe?
"Plans are for fools! Oglethorpe, the plutonian (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
At the highest magnification, it is clear that the moon's surface looks just like the "test" (shell) of a sea urchin.
Imagine what it must have been like, aeons ago, when it was still alive and covered with spines.
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
Instead of putting down an American flag, they installed a big letter A! I wonder why I can't see it at night?
Zoom on in at http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~durda/Apollo/landing_ sites.html
http://uranus.google.com/
But don't zoom in!
Aside from the humour of this moon google, I would like to suggest that this is a brilliant piece of marketing on Google's part for their Google maps service, and Google Earth (note the link, "Looking for something on Planet Earth?").
With the humour and the cool factor this is going to spread around quite quickly.
So I reckon some very clever viral marketing from Google there.
Microsoft is developing a clone of Google Moon, called Microsoft Noom. However, to enhance the moon-viewing experience, Microsoft will give the user the ability to add virtual smiley faces on the face of the moon and change the color of the moon.
One of our members has created this:
http://hobbiton.thisside.net/advmap_moon.html
Its a take off of google maps, but extends some some functionality into it. It looks really nice. Enjoy!
Stop by #space sometime for a visit.
Its resolution is limited to the source material. In some areas its satellite and not too great, in other areas its from arial photographs and is MUCH better. Around Massachusetts, for example, its pleanty high enough to see things like that.
My parents live in Scottsdale and you can clearly see the fire pit in their back yard and, specifically to your comment, the playground thing in their neighbors.
Wallace was right! The Moon IS made of cheese!
Whoooooo hoooooo!
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Is that the whole of the moon, seems quite small :) I can't fathom the scale of things I guess :)
Jan
Jan
Yes it might be useless to you (and most other people) now, but who knows in the future? Also the backend to it is the same as that from Google Maps, which is definitely a very useful (and very cool) web application. I'm sure it took them a grand total of about 15 minutes to import the satellite images, 15 minutes to plot all the moon landing points and about 15 minutes to draw the amusing cheese picture. All done in the space of a lunch break, AND yet still supplied a laugh to many people around the world.
"Honey, would you plot the route for us to the fifth crater, I think it would be a great way for the kids to meet new friends."
I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
Everyone knows that the moon is made green cheese, not yellow!!!
Find something that looks like a face on the moon and post it in this thread. The challenge includes finding a way to indicate the point in the link...
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Okay, there were 6 moon landings, so let's see what the Google Moon grand totals are...
"Interesting" places to look at: 6
Boring places to look at: 6,000,000
There are plenty of decent resolution imagery of the gas giants that show a lot of details of the atmosphere. One issue I suppose would be consistent coverage. At any rate, a similar type of thing for even the gas giant would be a very interesting tool to use. But you'd know that if you weren't too busy responding to other peoples' posts like a complete ass.
"I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
-Hoban Washburn
No. Somebody else is already doing that too.
the face is on the mars...
Red Leader Standing By!
If you pay for Google Earth Plus you can choose the Mars database. If you had a previous subscription to Keyhole, they gave you the Plus version with a one year extension.
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Hey I landed on the moon you insensitive clod!
Where's the CHA?
"Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
You can't resolve something that's barely 4 meters from a terrestrial telescope with current technology.
Yeah, right.
It's not on "the mars", it's on Mars and you must be reffering to the famous "Great face of Mars" (as opposed to the great ass of Mars). Does this prevent people to find "a face" on the moon ?
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Curiously, I made a couple of years ago a moon map using the same NASA image as google, but projecting the map onto a sphere, You can find it in http://nautilus.fis.uc.pt/astro/ss/html-pt/terra/l ua/globo.php. It's in portuguese, but I guess that you can find your way around. There are also other maps (like mars) if you are interested.
If you honestly think the moon landings were faked, you are mentally handicapped.
Does it worry anyone that the Google Copernicus "A brave new frontier in search science" graphic looks like a DeathStar?
Try this-- it's open source, Linux and windows compatible, does need Java Web Start
Mars MOLA ViewerThe full-zoom view of the Moon is worth the price of admission all by itself. ("That's it Gromit....che..eeese. We'll go somewhere where there's cheese!")
It's too bad that they don't identify all the other historically significant moon landing and lunar event sites -- Wallace and Grommit's landing site from "Grand Day Out" (1991), the big splat from "A Trip To The Moon" (1902), the nuclear explosions opposite Moonbase Alpha (September 13, 1999). Now that I think about it, it's probably only a matter of days before someone makes this as a Google Moon Hack.
-Mark
Amazingly, a local search turns up no Starbucks coffee shops in the area.
And I thought they were everywhere.
Chip H.
1) this was explained along the lines of "the lander also moved sideways, not just downwards" and that some very little dust could be seen. weak explanation..
2) the fabric is translucent, so both sides would be lit even if you only have one single light source; weak point
3) the shape and direction of the shadows do depend on the surface they fall on; very weak point.
4) while putting up the flag it was moved and shaken; in space, that movement will continue for a longer time and it might look like wind, when in fact the flag moved only after it had been touched. weak point, especially since there are quite a few images / flics where you see astronauts pass by the flag and it wouldn't budge (in a studio, it certainly would have!)
5) go to a beach near you, set up a single light source and photograph your girl friend (or light sabre, whichever is available to you). you won't see any stars on you photo (a matter of contrast, I think - maybe some pro photographer can explain that in technical terms). weak point.
the documentary refuted all but the first of your points quite plausibly; yet, I'm really not sure about that dust thing.
I hope I didn't brain my damage.
Whichever federal agency produced them had included a generic boilerplate stamp near the legend, to the effect that the maps weren't to be relied on for navigation purposes.
"Fundamentalism" isn't about divine morality. It's about human authority.
DivideBYZero of the Anandtech Forums noticed that Google actually messed up and is using the negative of the original NASA photos. Oops is right.
So when will they release maps on Google Earth of the other planets and complete moon (without the cheese)?
Curiout minds want to know - I could sure do with some extra terrestrial google touring.
There's a HUGE load of further potentials with mapping - after all, it's just another type of search (plus travel planning opportunities).
Sparks:Gadget:Beer Maker
*yawn* The same old "I-didn't-pay-attention-at-school" physics questions related to the moon.
Now, let's look at these...
1: The moon's surface dust which was now blown away when the craft was landing.
Uhm, yes, there was dust (of course !), and it was blown away (of course !). I don't know what you want to say with this one. I guess you propably mean the one were people say dust was raised, why is there none on the space crafts feet. Simply because there is no atmosphere, which is why the dust gets blow aways from the craft in a nice flat parable and can't swirl around like it can on earth where we have a gas atmosphere.
2: Both sides of the American flag were bright! This is impossible since we all know that in an environment lit on one side, the other most have a shadow.
Haven't seen this one. But what about light reflecting on the space craft ?
3: The orientation of the astronaut's shadow suggested a different light source other than the sun!
Haven't seen this one either... see number 2.
4: The American flag was shown to be being blown by some wind...yet we know that the moon has NO wind!
Since there is no atmosphere there is almost no damping (I'm no native english speaker, I hope it's the correct term). If you rattle on the flag it looks like blowing in the wind, and this effect last a lot longer than it does here one earth.
5: There were no stars in the moon's sky! Where did they go? Americans must have forgotten this one. Where do you stand on this?
You should go take some photography lessons. As noted a few times already, there is no atmosphere on moon. The sun's light isn't dimmed and the dust reflects the light as well (remember snow blindness). It's so bright on moon that the astronauts' helmets were propably the most expensive sunglasses (they used a gold coated visor, IIRC). In fact it's so bright on moon that the light reflected from the dust can illuminate earth on the night side considerably. So, if you take a picture on moon and adjust the camera to the brightness so that you can actually see features on the moon then the surrounding stars are just waaaaaaay too dim. Go to the dark side of the moon to see some stars.
I think google has to invert their images...The surface appears to have a series of convex bumps on the surface rather than craters...If you invert the image, it correctly resembles the moon's surface...
-eric
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I'm of the opinion they should have a floating scale bar somewhere on google maps... I can't tell if they only have part of the moon, if this is the entire moon, or what.
-Rob
Biblical fiscal responsibility
I'm quite disappointed. I was clicking on Apollo 11 fully expecting to find "To Here" and "From Here." Alternatively, they could supply that info to NASA to help them with their shuttle shuffle.
A few missing pieces though - please locate the "man on the moon" and I'd like to see where the cow jumps over the moon. Plus, it would be nice if someone could build a hack to show current real estate prices on the moon.
Now, if they could only integrate it with Google Earth...
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I would have thought that with the holes they were going for a swiss, but the color says cheddar. I've never seen Google have anything questionable in their art before this, but if it had been up to me I would have stuck with a real swiss image. If they really wanted to be clever about it, they could have image mapped the holes to the craters for that added surrealistic effect!
"Can there be a Klein bottle that is an efficient and effective beer pitcher?"
They actually mention that in their blog.
I really dont want to see what is shown if you zoom all the way in on Uranus :)
Is it just me, or do all the craters look like bumps.
I've tried rotating my head to find a lighting direction which works - but can't - they are still just bumps.
There have *got* to be some cool easter eggs hidden in there somewhere. Come on people, let's find them :)
Love many, trust a few, do harm to none.
Cheese....
Need some wine and crackers to go with that.
"God of Rock, thank you for this chance to kick ass. "
I wish they would have taken this more seriously. The moon actually have a massive number of named points of interest which would be nice to be able to look up.
Personally, I name all of my software projects after features named during the Apollo landing missions. For a second there, I thought I might be able to provide a url in the javadocs to a map of the actual landmark for the team. While not very useful, it certainly would have been educational.
You are checking your backups, aren't you?
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The Mars Orbiter Laser Alitimeter experiment carried on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft produced a topographic map of the entire surface of Mars. The data for this map is available on the Internet. The Mars MOLA Viewer will download this data for you and render it as a 3-D landscape which you can "fly" through in real-time.
It's open source (GPL), and will launch from your browser (with Java Web Start).
hmmn.. I can see that you want to visit the moon, do you need my assistance? - Clippy
I knew google was ambitious, but this makes it seem like they're trying to make to take over the universe...
I like google, but not THAT much that I won't go and watch the moon with a telescope with my own eyes in the middle of the night.
I mean, come on, they're doing this, and now lots of people won't bother taking a look in a telescope to try and locate the landing sites...
Google Moon took all the fun away...
We should rename Google Moon to "Google fun-robber".
---- I am certain of only one thing : I know nothing else.
Just to be through and for those lazy moon consipiracist...
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1. If you mean the lack of surface dust being blown away, that's because the rocket was reduced to low power during landing. Further more, the whole capsule is moving across the landscape, further spreading the rocket's blow over a large area, hence the near non-existence of dust being blown away.
2. Looks at flag on earth, tell me its dark at the side away from sun. The flag used on the moon have a relatively thin fabric, hence the sunlight ACTUALLY filters through them (against, look at several flags on earth, you can see this is the truth.
3. Don't go out much? I know you're refering the the non-parellel shadow argument. Go out to some area with rolling hills during sunset, take note of the shadow created by object, you'll see that they're not-parellel.
4. YOu're right, there's no wind on moon. But that's actually the reason the flag appears to wave. Try this at home. Get a piece of cloth, hold it by its upper two corners (so it resembles the flag on moon). And wave it a bit, notice how it continues to wave for a bit before stopping? The reason it stopped is because the air dampens its motion. On moon, having no air, when the astronaut planted the flag and jostle it, the waving motion can be maintained for a while. (If you're talking about how the flag stays open, there's a second, horizontal alluminum bar above the flag holding it up).
5. Again, do this simple experiment. Take a camera (no, ANY camera). Wait for a clear night, where you can see stars. Now, find a relatively big subject and shine a VERY bright spotlight (the sun in vaccum act as a VERY bright spotlight). Car light works well. Now, try taking the picture of said subject WHILE keeping the star visible. Impossible, right? That's the reason there's no stars. The brightness on the moon is so bright that the camera couldn't get the exposure length required to get the star in without having the rest of the scenery whited out.
Here's one website where I got most of my rebuttal from.
http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/NOT_faked
Finally, go ask the people who does this. They'll tell you EXACTLY what the Apollo program give them. (If you ask nicely enough, they'll even show you, "Look there's the mirror where we bounce laser off of.")
In US, you can easily buy enough major firearms to wipe out your neighbourhood but a few little fireworks are banned.
2. is easy. Look at flag on earth, particular those on high mast (reduce any possibility that its ground reflection), you'll note that the flag is bright on both side too (when made with the right material). The flag on the moon is made with materials that allows the sun to filter through.
:-).
3. It has also been debunked. The shadow differences is due to terrain difference (find rolling hills in afternoon, note shadow).
4. You term of damping is correct. Thumbs-up for the correct word usage despite being a non-native speaker
In US, you can easily buy enough major firearms to wipe out your neighbourhood but a few little fireworks are banned.
I think, therefore I doh.
It's full of cheese!
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
The Government is spending billions to conquer and protect its monopoly on cheese!
Take that, France!
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But I absolutely refuse to Google Uranus!
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
It's the Death Star!
That might be true of Jupiter or Saturn, but I'm sure they'll find solid matter on Uranus.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
John Walker's wonderful Earth & Moon Viewer has been around for as long as I can remember. See this page for a catalogue of formations, landing sites and other points of interest.
you had me at #!
For thousands of years, people thought the moon was made of cheese.
But then we went there and found out it was made of rock.
We haven't been back since.
Behold the power of Cheese.
You cant zoom in as well, but this is still worth a visit if you interested....
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I see there's already a dog pile going on, but I have just one thing to add regarding point 4:
If the moon "landing" was filmed on a soundstage in Burbank like some people claim, then why the hell would there be any wind at all?
Check out the Old Negro Space Program ...
According to this absolutely historically and politically correct documentary, Loopie Louie et al landed their modified Caddy Coup de Ville near Mare Tranquilis a full three years before Apollo, if i may.
But sh*t woman, it was motherf*cking cold up there
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and didn't see any Dark Side. I'm calling baloney sausage!
I really thought I was getting a zoomed up shot on either Bryan Adams, Ray Liotta or Manuel Noriega. That is until I zoomed out a little more. =)
Another urban legend re: Google earth and maps has been circulating recently. Several people have told me that the satellite imagery is intentionally old, because after 9/11 the US gov't passed a law saying no satellite photos newer than 2 years could be provided to the general public.
This is of course hogwash. Google will actually tell you how current their data is (can't remember how to look this up at the moment), and besides, there are MANY instances of pretty new buildings and construction (well under a year old) that show up very clearly.
I've even shown examples of this to people who know full well what date a building/overpass/etc went up, and they still insist on parroting this legend. Urban legends die hard.
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
That's great and all but, where do i click to get driving directions?
Yes relief!
:-)
At close up, I was sure I would see an old man waving his hand and saying:
"That is not the Moon you are looking for, err At!"
I prefer the Cheese version..
Happy mooning!!
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Pssh, Google and their *earth centric* attitude. What, we people from other planets are just supposed to ASSUME that the word "moon" is automatically referencing the EARTH'S MOON?
Everyone knows the moon is made of GREEN cheese!
IIRC, this saying doesn't mean that it's green as in the color green, but green as in underripe or not matured. Did you know that blackberries are red when they're green?
I'm making a
1. Find obvious joke;
2. Explain it even further for the mongs that don't understand;
3. Wait.
Oh, like you know anything about how planets are made...
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
My site lists as many of the impacts and landings as I could find, both Russian and U.S. Despite the good info, its interface kind of sucks, particularly in light of Google's nice one -- looks like it's time to get hacking Google Moon.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."--Feynman
Didn't anyone ever tell you not to feed the trolls? Especially after midnight!
I think we can't see the H because that's where a million, zillion ninjas are hiding.
"Imagery ©2005 NASA"?
NASA is part of the US Federal Government, which does not hold copyrights -- its works are in the public domain.
The correct tag would have been "©2005 Google - Imagery courtesy of NASA" or somesuch, but NASA can't hold a copyright.
Other than that, interesting imagery with a good Easter egg.
...But for April fool's day next year, I want "Google Moon", any query, to return a picture of the Google founders mooning with the caption "Billionaire Asses, Bitch!"
But I watch a lot of Dave Chappelle, so...
Who did what now?
You call him a fool, he shoots you down with brilliance and you come back with...
...demonstrating that you cannot comprehend the concept of "indirect reference".
(With that in mind, I hope you don't intend to take up C programming.)
He did say "swing set"; you made up the "paedophile" part.
If you replied with, say, "Touche!" you would have been both acurate and humble. To have ignored his reply would have been predictable. The reply you chose, let's just say I smell a whole lot of karma burning.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Here's a first broken promise. Where will the evil end? Oh, *sob*, the children!
You know what?
Six Apollo mission center round here where you can zoom in to find cheese. The answer must be pizza shop.
I thought it was quantum foam at really high resolution.
WOW! The first Google app to make it into live production.
and open-source Mars MOLA Viewer Fly through 3D rendered topographic data, global coverage, launches from your browser (Java Web Start), Linux and Windows compatible
It sucks to have everyone spoiling the surprise for others though.
/. comments, they wouldn't see these as spoilers. "-1 Redundant," maybe, but not spoilers.
Well, if everyone R'ed TFA (or TFWS as the case may be) before they read the
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.
I would have prefered more adult oriented humor -- Like when you zoom in on the moon it turns into a goatse moon!
At least it was american colored cheese and not green, after all it is american moon!
I assume it was of Houston losing radio contact and couldn't help if anything went wrong?
Jonathan
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this proves it! the moon is indeed made out of cheese. when you zoom in all the way, you can clearly see... well... cheese!
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We have the technology. The time is right. Children are our future. We WILL blow up the moon!
Damn no
Or to put it like dictionary.com:
Moon: Slang. The Bared buttocks.
But I guess that would have been buttocks.google.com.
The production of which would undoubtedly cause yet another jump in their stock value.
Treo + Kaffi = Traffi
Oh yeah, and...
Google executive said: "We cannot see your swing set, and we're not trying to. The value of more information so overwhelms its misuse that we've not had material problems there."
Alex said: "my understanding is that google maps is purposely limited so people can't "see swingsets" in back yards (i.e. pedophiles)."
Google Middle Earth, both maps and satellite views?
Of course, if they'd really been on the ball, on Saturday they would have announced the password that when used with the UK google maps, would unmask all the places in the Harry Potter books.
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
Really, get off your high horse. Someone at google probably put this together on their own time. It's clever and a nice way to salute the anniversary. I'm sure they know all about the other interesting landing sites but could only do so much.Complaining because you don't think it's complete is very lame. If you feel so strongly about it why don't you shut yer hole and build it yourself.
"Our interests are to see if we can't scale it up to something more exciting," he said.
Pretty good, but I'm waiting for Google to take over the Celestia project, combine it with Google Earth, acquire all of NASAs imagery and mapping data, then release Google Universe.
Imagine, smooth zooms from Olympos Mons to your house or zooming to your house, panning the camera up, and seeing a correct representation of the night sky. Or watching the ISS orbit the zoomed out view of GE.
-- stream of did I lock the front door consciousness
The Moon is a cylinder!
On the moon, the old Korean Overlords welcome you by saying "All moon base belong to us"?
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Read some of the religious texts, you'd realize that the ones that cause problems are not actually doing that they are supposed to and can barely even be called by the name of the religion they represent. Next time you try and spout hate, do your research.
So you see what had happened was....
I will be truly impressed when it's possible to zoom in close enough to see the stuff left on the moon from the missions - like the rover. I wonder if there have been any imaging missions with that kind of resolution?
this tool will surely revolutionize the way scientists look at the moon
Does anyone know how to get driving directions? the search bar is missing.
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Google makes an ass of themselves...
Make America grate again!
I took a second look, and you're right. The shadowing makes it look confusing (note that all shadows are going in the same direction).
I zoomed out, and there is an image stitch that goes right throught that image (you can see the blocking on initial zoom out).
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
coming up.
Now, the next logical step, of course, is to get moon.google.com to work with earth.google.com as well as any future iterations of the product to provide decent, clear, accurate driving directions.
I would like to plan a vacation trip from the earth, to a solar flare, while stopping by to check out a crater on the moon, and perhaps stop by mars on the way back.
Nah... feeding the trolls would be "how dare you say something so bigoted, yadda, yadda...."
:)
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I was taking the piss out of what he was saying, not responding to the actual bait. If it had been a Warner Bros cartoon, I would have been feeding him a fizzing bomb that would have blown up inside his stomach and made smoke come out of his ears
It was either going to get modded as funny or offtopic, but who cares
BTW, that "after midnight" rule is useless unless you know when the prohibition ends.
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Zoom in all the way on the google moon map, then behold.
I would like to extend a heartfelt thanks to Google for validating my belief that cheese really does come from the moon...
Fact: the Crusades were a response to Muslim harassment of Christian pilgrims in the holy lands.
Most of the early Crusades were attempts to get the Holy Land back from the Muslims. Several of them had nothing to do with Muslims; and quite a few were also against Jews and other Christians.
Crusade is just the Christian word for "Jihad." Your attempts to minimalize and rationalize the Crusades is pretty pathetic. (It's kind of interesting actually, to most Westerners, a "crusade" is any worthy pursuit, and a "jihad" is a misguided narrow-minded slaughter of innocents. To Muslims, the opposite connotations hold true.)
Take it for what it really is: a shameful part of Christian past for which we are still answering today. Germany has managed to shake its history of Nazism and anti-semitism through an incredible campaign. Certain Christian groups can't seem to admit that their ancestors were wrong to have the Crusades, and therefore we all continue to suffer.
One of many causes of significant problems we face today.
Think of how different Muslim/Christian relations (and hence terrorism) would be if we didn't have the Crusades. However, you can't change the past, but we ought to stand up and denounce it more publicly.
What?
Is this an English-language thing or, does everyone know the Moon is really made of "fromage vert"? They got the color wrong.
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?"
As I recall, aren't they arresting people for this?
Lasers + Planes = JAIL
Honestly your honor, I was trying to hit the moon.
I was curious, too, and had a look around the web. The only images I could find from Clementine were 1 pixel == 1 km, though some National Academy of Sciences site says they took the surface at 100m to 400m per pixel (still way too big to see anything left on the surface).
Even Hubble can only "resolve objects as small as 280 meters" across (not sure how that translates to pixels per unit). Which is amazing, considering the views of the universe it's given us. Then again, the universe is a bit bigger than 280 meters...
I see the cheese but no sign of the mouse, not even any droppings...
Coz it is close to us
-- Boycott Shell
Still no support for Safari. I find this kinda strange. And yes, I do have Firebird installed on my machine, but still, I wonder what prevents Safari from being supported. Does anybody have a clue ?
did anyone notice that if you zoom in all the way...it's a picture of cheese?
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Thanks for the rational thought!
I have a friend who is a bit of a conspiracy nut. It's entertaining to listen to some of it. He told me a couple of "fake moon-landing" conspiracies that are variations of this.
(I know, I'll probably burn in Karma hell...)
If you will, the theory is that we never sent men to the moon because space-suit technology was just not up to the task, but we did send equipment. Thus, you will find lunar modules on the moon. But they were all remote controlled. It was quite obvious that we had the capability to land things on the moon--the Surveyor missions showed us that. But there were never any people in them.
Signals were sent to the moon from the fake landing site via lasers and sent back to Earth via radio. Thus, most of NASA didn't know, either--they were sending signals to the moon and receiving replies (yes, the astronauts were hearing mission control in real-time so the delay worked).
My favorite variation, though, is that we did land on the moon--just not in 1969. So all the missions to the moon weren't faked--just the early ones in order to hit Kennedy's "by the end of this decade" time-frame.
Essentially, the politicans, the military, and it's contractors knew that if they didn't hit the end of the decade deadline, there'd be a real public malaise and people might just give up on the project, especially after we had tried so hard. Consider that the Soviet Union gave up on being the second nation on the moon.
Remember the Vietnam war was going on and the popularity of the US Government was at an all-time low. So Apollos 11 and 12 were staged. Again, the same idea as above (ie, we landed equipment but no people).
They started up the PR campaign to let everyone know that 11 would be landing on the moon so that when you saw the grainy black-and-white blobs coming down the ladder with "Live from the Moon" emblazoned underneath, you'd believe it.
Apollo 12's camera "conveniently" got fried shortly after landing--sorry, no TV images. Apollo 13 didn't land. So it was one of the later missions--perhaps Apollo 14--that actually put men on the moon.
Personally, I think this is the "conspiracy nuts" trying back-pedal in the face of overwhelming evidence. But it is an entertaining concept...
Where can I find TMA-1?
Required reading for internet skeptics
"Mentally handicapped" is a very broad and generic term.
Impossible to connect at the moment..
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
You made the wrong connection. My point was the ability to overcome a shameful past, not that the Crusades and the Holocaust were somehow similar in their purpose and design.
What?
Love the sig.
Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
Max: "I'd be peeing my pants if I wore any!"
Google Earth's satellite photo of my house in Brisbane, Australia is less than 5 months old. I was covering the roof of a shed in my backyard with 3 x 1 m corrugated sheetmetal; I had done two panels in January / February and left the third off for a few months. The photo was taken in that time and the two panels are clearly visible. So they don't always have old images.
Fark 'em.
This might have been brought up already, but has anyone noticed that both the right and left sides of the image seem to blend together! Just seems a little odd to me. You need to zoom out to see where the image is supposed to be cut off, but it is blended. Just an observation!
</grumble mutter="mf gng rnk...">
Why would anyone engrave "Elbereth"?
At least, that's what i got from your subject line.
The thing is, the programmers at google have a lot of time and resources gifted to them in order to play. Obviously, someone there thought it would be neat to put this together for the anniversary of the first moon landings. Obviously, it's a bit of a hack. I think it's a pretty cool thing for someone there to have done. I also think it's fantastic for the company to put it live.
However, i do not have a problem with the fact that it does not locate many of the fascinating spots on the moon. I don't care that it does not include the entire surface of the moon. I'm not bothered that the resolution isn't down to 1 meter. I am, however, bothered by the cynicism (you think i'm being cynical?!?) that pervades many of the follow-up posts to articles about somebody doing something neat just for the hell of it.
I'll say it once again: if you really think this should be expanded upon, get off your ass and do it instead of complaining that it's so close and yet so far. Personally, i agree that a google moon could be amazing. I've even thought of a few more ideas today. However, you showed a complete lack of respect in your post.
Jackass yourself. Asshat.
"Our interests are to see if we can't scale it up to something more exciting," he said.
I submitted the exact same story nearly 6 hours earlier (a few minutes after Google launched the site)... Blast! Oh well, it's not like I actually expected my story to be posted anyway...
The bits on the bus go on and off... on and off... on and off...
Mars (as well as the Moon and even the Death Star II) are available for NASA's WorldWind toy. It's very much like Google Earth, but for some reason or other, I like it better. If only they could get better resolution pics...
See: worldwind.arc.nasa.gov .
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http://www.re-discovery.org/per_table.html
That's what I get for reading more than one /. article at a time....It was supposed to go on ther periodic table article
Sorry...
Except: some of us Slashtards predate Slashdot by a long shot, Junior(ette).
If you zoom all the way out, to an eye alt of 39400+ miles, and place India pretty much centered and north side up, you will be able to see Orion. The rest of the major constellations are there, with a sprinking of random background stars.
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?"