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Google Earth Used to Find Ancient Roman Villa
cavehobbit writes "Google Earth leads to an archeology find, according to a Nature article. From the article: 'Using satellite images from Google Maps and Google Earth, an Italian computer programmer has stumbled upon the remains of an ancient villa. Luca Mori was studying maps of the region around his town of Sorbolo, near Parma, when he noticed a prominent, oval, shaded form more than 500 metres long. It was the meander of an ancient river ...' What's buried in your back yard?"
WMD's in Iraq found!
...to find my remote control. Though I guess it's hard to miss anyway, being 10 feet long.
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
Aw come on. You never mentioned "All your base" or a "beowulf cluster". What type of slashdotter are you? ;)
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
It can't find you a date!
ZING!
Thank you, I'll be here all night folks...try the salmon!
I feel like I'm taking CRAZY pills!
.. So long as he doesn't kill himself geocaching
at that site his find might be worthwhile!
deadbodies.
My ex-wife.
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.
Googe Earth can find where I left my damn keys
Perhaps google maps can find your sense of humour?
Welcome to the wonderful world of AJAX...
You thought the HTTP protocol was stateless? In the words of Bachman Turner Overdrive, "You ain't seen nothin' yet..."
What's buried in your back yard?
Those meddling kids and their dopey great dane
this guy is doing archaeology.
"Italian computer programmer"
Sheesh, imagine the spaghetti code!
New /. insult.
Your Mama, She's so fat, I typed her name in on google and saw a satellite photo of her!!
I'd really like to be able to explore places I can't easily get to otherwise.
I think GoogleDatesForNerds is currently under development...
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
"©2005 Google"
It's HUGE. How did I not notice that before?
Okay, so a philosopher, a philologist, and a philatelist walk into a bar...
Well, me and my friends just used a beowulf cluster of computers running Google Earth to find all your base... They're now belong to us. As well as your statue of Natalie Portman. Yes, the naked and petrified one with the hot grits.
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
Hey...I can see Uranus from here!
A fellow used google maps to discover some ruins in his own back yard. while digging up the ruins, he comes across some cable, and tells his his neighbour "well there you have it, this proves that our ancient ancestors had internet".
His neighbor replies "that's nothing, yesterday I used google to find some ruins in *my* backyard. When I dug them up, I didn't find ANY cable at all. That proves that our ancient ancestors had wireless".
"Is this just useless, or is it expensive as well?"
I was able to find a lost baseball in my back yard using Google Earth.
-pyrrho
Jimmy Hoffa...
The island where they found King Kong... a big blur of cloud cover.
Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
I'm sorry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
What's it called now? Urectum.
My other car is first.
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