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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.
Oh, let's not.
Alternatively, everybody can get it out of their systems today if I never have to hear it again.
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.
One of my favorites is Versailles. Yes, that Versailles.
Did you realize that the world's most famous palace, it's grounds, and the community in front of it are laid out like an enormous happy-face stick figure? Take a look at that aerial photo, then go back and look at the Google view -- it's obvious once you look for it. And this all goes back to, what, 1500s and earlier?
It almost makes you think that the French first sent people up in hot-air balloons just so that they'd get a chance to see the joke that architects & urban planners had set up centuries earlier...
:-)
DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL
ehh thats nothing.cars fall off the bay bridge every day! http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=san+franci sco,+ca&ie=UTF8&z=19&ll=37.791553,-122.38519&spn=0 .001253,0.005107&t=k&om=1
I fear the Y2038 bug
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?