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Giant Insect Invades Germany

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the our-thrip-overlords dept.

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.

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  1. Re:No... by diablomonic · · Score: 4, Informative

    lets see, chemical to kinetic, hmmm.. battery efficiency: maybe 90% on each of charge and discharge, lets say 80% overall. electric motor efficiency, good ones are >90%. total efficiency: >70%. thousands of times more than this: 70,000% efficiency..... LISA! in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

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  2. Re:I checked the photo and by doti · · Score: 3, Informative

    Zoom out, put in map mode, and you'll se it's in the same country as Berlin, so it's Germany.

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  3. Re:during "scanning"?? by Cid+Highwind · · Score: 3, Informative

    Most of the high-resolution imagery on Google Earth is from aerial photograpy not satellites, and even in 2006 the vast majority of that is still shot on positive-color film. Satellites are sexy and high-tech, but not the most cost-effective way to get very high reolution true-color images.

    Now the fuzzy, false-color "aww, they don't have good pics of this area" imagery *is* from a satellite (Landsat 7, IIRC).

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  4. Google Sightseeing by Anonymous+Cumshot · · Score: 4, Informative
    Google Sightseeing (the site from which the submitter likely found the giant bug) has lots of similar mishaps chronicled...

    Including boobies!

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