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Giant Insect Invades Germany
Noryungi writes, "It seems the alien invasion of the Earth has just started! A 50-meter insect has been spotted roaming the German countryside! Let the 'I, for one, welcome our new giant insectoid overlords' joke contest begin!" A moderator at a Keyhole forum IDs the bug as a thrip, about 1mm long, squished under a glass plate during scanning.
It seems the alien invasion of the Earth has just started!
No.. it's really Richard Branson's newest Eco-Friendly transportation mode. See, we'll strap seats to the backs of these giant genetically modified insects and they'll run us or fly us anywhere we want to go. What could possibly go wrong?
microsoft europe strenuously denied it was a bug from their code, "ours are a few metres smaller."
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
... Willkommen unsere neuen Insekt overlords
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
I wonder what other shit like that is in google maps.
They're called Thrips with an S
That doesn't look anything like Germany.
Looks like Google Maps still has some bugs.
Oh, let's not.
Alternatively, everybody can get it out of their systems today if I never have to hear it again.
Bugs taste bettter
Just paste in 48.857699 ,10.205451
Jess
There seems to be a "bug" in the Google Maps software..
....nah, too easy.
Beware of Sales Reps bearing gifts.
You know... I don't think it was really neccessary to have right there in the heading the little note that it's some tiny bug squished during the scanning process.
The fact it was posted with the Monty Python foot should be enough for anyone to know it shouldn't be taken seriously.
We could have had hundreds, if not thousands, of posts as to exactly what it could all mean, how it got there, why it was taking a large dump at the time of the photo...
But now... now you've ruined it.
I hope you're happy... go and sit in the corner and think about what you've done.
Re:Ich fur ein...... Willkommen unsere neuen Insekt overlords
In Soviet Russia Google Maps bug YOU!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
we all know giant (fill-in-the-blank) overlords always appear in japan first, specifically in tokyo
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Here are two Escher-licious images from google maps:
...and an interesting effect that can occur when frames are spliced:
Boston
Dallas
Sidewalk ends
Of course, there are tons of these, including the popular ipod.
FairTax baby!
But from the Corp network, we have:
http://theblight.net/misc/germany.jpg
The Maps team is going to be -pissed.- It'll be awesome.
If i step on a bug with my sneaker, take a picture of it and upload it to the internet, will I make the front page of slashdot too?
Ok, so that's what they meant when they said they were using an in-house version of Bugzilla ?
Isn't Google's motto "Don't be evil"? Is this promotion of squished bugs? Just wait until PETA hears of this...
Shouldn't the bug be a thrips? FTA: Thrips is the singular and plural - like fish
Das korrekte Wort ist Überlords !!
Check out this giant fly attacking Mt. St. Helens!
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
farfromgnugen?
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&z=19&ll=42.349 616,-71.072268&spn=0.001399,0.003712&t=h&om=1/
Please note the shadow of the trees underneath (hence you can guess where the sun is) and the image of the plane seems to be above the plane....I'm a bit baffled to explain this by simple optics.
I, for one, welcome our new RAID-wielding overlord killers.
That kinda looks like... Tom Selleck!
Serve the hive!!!!!!!
they control the groove......
serve the hive...
they control the way you move.
I think it's a Volkswagen bug...
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Mauritius& ie=UTF8&om=1&z=18&ll=-20.13152,57.710581&spn=0.003 677,0.004812&t=k/
I'm a Frenchman. And a Spanishman.
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
That's a fucking feature, alright?
tag the article with something sly Mine was "tomcruise" 'cause I couldn't remember his character's name in WotW
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
who the hell would "scan" satellite pictures? this should be digital, morons. hello, it's 2006.
this was on digg yesterday. /. is behind the times. prolly too busy doing linux geek stuff
grep -asdflkjasdlkfj > gnustew.cgi.bin.out
Looks like Kim Jung Il to me.
call gordon freeman, the combine is invading.
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink =2294440
There are some really great shots in that thread as well
as some co-ordinates to follow up on. One is a wierd land
area in New Mexico where some scammers had built out all
the roads for an entire city development and then skipped
out with the money and never built a thing.
Very wierd stuff.
Well that's what happens when Google tells their employees to spend 20% of their time doing whatever interests them. Giant, mutant, killer insects.
Damn Ph.D's, with their genome maps and fancy internet tubes.
That explains it all.
EMail: 0110001101100010010000000110001101110010 0110000101111010011011100110000101110010 0010111001100011011011110110
Wait!!! The UN should threaten sanctions agains the insect first. We must also be sensitive and careful not to hurt the insect's feelings. Or our actions may provoke more insect insurgency. Surely the insect will respond to diplomacy. We should try talking to the insect before we fight. The insect probably doesn't understand that we respect it and mean it no harm.
Not unless you are God and the bug you are stepping on is the Earth.
...and invaded Germany.
This is obviously a bug in the Matrix.
It is just Google's new crawler.
At least some one benefited from Chernobyl.
If you tell us what this is hiding, will they have to kill you?
Cheepnis, anyone?
While looking for the Fort Worth Water Gardens, I found this.
Note the lake's color range, not just its unnatural appearance. Now zoom out a couple times.
They've obviously retouched the lake in the closer images, because you can see evidence of dodging and burning.
Buuuugg poooop....drool
What?
50 meter bug could be squashed with a few good lines of code. Still - I'll never think of anything else when logging into Bugzilla.
"Question everything, including this!" - http://technoracle.blogspot.com/
We don't have time for niceties when shooting for fp or sp or tp.
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
Bush said he would bring Mr. E. Coli to justice.
The terrorists responsible for this giant bug scare will also be caught.
(That is unless their families are connected to the Bush family, then they will never get caught.)
If you consider that it's a 1mm insect that appears to be 50,000mm in Google Earth... how high was the camera that took the photograph?
Nobody over there actually names things in German. That's just a myth.
I hear "Kugeltalstraße" is a really popular Chinese street name. Yep, sure looks like China to me.
Why is it that when you believe something it's an opinion, but when I believe something it's a manifesto?
I, for one, welcome our new giant insectoid overlords. :P
but it's yet only another marketing ploy. Wait till you see Snoopy or Scooby Doo turn up
on the map, or they start the Google Maps Treasure Hunt next year.
It is just Google's new crawler.
Clearly a mere robots.txt is not going to help against this...we're gonna need real robots! Giant ones!!
Soylent Green is peoplicious!
Finally, the secret ingredient... no, the only ingredient of slurm cola! *licks lips*
Difference between US and the rest of the world
t e/newsweek/k /
This goes both ways, of course. 'War on Terror'?
Here is what they see in China: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14975282/site/newsweek/si
Here is what we see in America: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14964292/site/newswee
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
These are satellite images, right? So WTF are bugs doing in space?
That's definitely not the lesser of two weevils.
(My wife is an incorrigible punster. I try not to incorrige her.)
I figure by 2030 or so my 6-digit UID will be something to brag about.
...I left Hülen just in time...
I, for one, welcome our new overlord-joke hating overlords!
And my submission about weird-looking buildings gets rejected, but bugs they post. Huh, I'm saying! :D
"It's time to take life by the cans." ~ Bender ("Bendin' in the Wind", ep. 3-13)
http://maps.yahoo.com/beta/#mvt=s&maxp=search&trf= 0&lon=-141.177063&lat=62.182169&mag=6
Just because you get modded "insightful" on Slashdot doesn't mean you actually are in real life.
That's a space station.
Yeah, I know, it doesn't make sense. Somehow I can still hear Alec Guiness saying that though.
Run Google Earth and see it in psuedo-3D! Just punch in the coordinates 48.857699,10.205451
How many Smoots in a Thrips?
Looks more like a Siemens manager to me.
... at a huge replica of a landscape the Chinese Army built in the middle of the central Chinese desert. It's a 700 x 900 meter (that means several football fields big) mock-up of Aksai Chin, occupied since the 1962 Sino-Indian War. It's complete with rivers, lakes and snow-capped mountains. You can see a base next to it with hundreds of troop carriers coming and going.
/ Number/484568/
Nobody has figured out what it's for, though.
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0
Does anyone recall that giant bug in Men In Black I? Perhaps that "giant" thrip was hunting for the galaxy?
None of us are! There's a giant fucking bug out there!
It Came From the Desert anyone?
I assumed it must have been a fossil, since everyone knows that an animal with that large an exoskeleton would be crushed by its own weight.
So I completely missed the part where it said it was supposedly alive, until I read here that it was a hoax, and got cheated out of falling for it...
What the hell is going on?
Including boobies!
Best regards, A.C.
If the creature containing the cells serves some other purpose other trhan converting food into raw energy then one should not measure efficiency in such absolute terms.
Say a human being is only 30% efficient in converting food to energy/"work". Given the human already needs a certain amount of food to stay alive, one should also measure the additional amount of food the human needs to do an additional amount of work.
Think what they have done with the spiders they have made to control these insects
You can get it fast, you can get it good, You can get it cheap. Pick two!
I guess we won't know unless we try.
Movie buffs and historians will always remember 2007 (with a sigh or a shudder as the case may be) as a seminal year for Hollywood craeture movies. 2007 would see the release of not one but TWO creature movies that - while being no different from the other 1,353,532 that came before them - would feature such incredible concepts as the German countryside and the dreaded thrip. I mean, how much cooler can you get?
....its the only way to be sure.
"Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains..."
Hey dude, turn left, Oktoberfest is definitely not this way...
The glucose to energy conversion is used for everything, both in the necessary functions to stay alive as well as doing stuff like kicking ass. Glucose in, energy out... regardless of what that energy is used for.
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That's just a landmark that's just shaped like a bug. To be precise, it's a depression resulting from a martian meteorite that landed just last week! I can't believe nobody figured this out already...
You miss my point.
Say X = food required for a particular human to stay alive.
And Y = additional food required to do Z amount of work.
Then in many cases one should use Y and Z for calculating efficiency, since you are going to assume that you're going to have to "pay" for X anyway.
I doubt that the Y-Z ratio would remain constant to the max Z of a human.
So it could be more interesting to know the incremental efficiency.
There is a bug in Google maps.
http://www.infomotions.com/etexts/literature/ameri can/1800-1899/poe-sphinx-705.txt/
Someone enlighten me. I was under the impression that these images were coming directly from Satellite images. Maybe I was misled by the fact that the button on the map that says what mode it is in says "Satellite". Am I to believe that there are people physically getting these images on paper, putting them in a scanner and scanning each square of Google's whole database of images from earth's surface!? Of course if there were actual people involved, you'd think they would have noticed this, but even an automated process seems ridiculous to me... why would these images ever be in physical form?
The French army surrenders, just in case the bug chooses to crawl westward.
So, how do I report a bug in google maps? *groan*
How the fuck did that get moderated "4, insightful"? The grandparent post was at least funny.
Seriously... can someone explain why they are scanning a photo? I thought these were digital images from a satellite?
Because some people don't see any difference between a giant bug and certain nations' various _human_ enemies? And they think that's a great insight.
So long, suckers!!
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
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This bugs the question: It wasn't in digital format to begin with?
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Ben Hocking
Need a professional organizer?
It's the "other" white meat.
What's for dinner?
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
They'll sack Tokyo, then half an hour later they're hungry again...Now, if they attacked Thailand or Mexico, a half hour later they'd be wishing they just attacked Japan.
A goal is a dream with a deadline
it's a thrips.
Ends with an 's' even in the singular. Apparently.
That's a good pub game... how many singular English words can you come up with that end in 's'?
Actually, I did understand your point but I thought the parent to your post was just talking about raw conversion of energy in cells. I followed the thread all the way back up and saw that it's talking about insects converting energy to kinetic energy. In which case, you're correct -- you'd have to factor in the base energy requirements of the organism as a whole.
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Mod parent up!