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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
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.
Just paste in 48.857699 ,10.205451
Jess
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 ?
Check out this giant fly attacking Mt. St. Helens!
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
That's a fucking feature, alright?
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/06/kc 135_caught_re.html
-- perl -e'print pack"H*","6e656d6f406d38792e6f7267"'
who the hell would "scan" satellite pictures? this should be digital, morons. hello, it's 2006.
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.
Zoom out, put in map mode, and you'll se it's in the same country as Berlin, so it's Germany.
factor 966971: 966971
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.
...and invaded Germany.
It is just Google's new crawler.
If you tell us what this is hiding, will they have to kill you?
"That doesn't look anything like Germany."
Because in Germany, bugs don't leave their excrement in the middle of a nice clean field like that?
Ok, I admit it. You got modded both +1 Funny and +1 Informative, and I'm left very confused. Not by the usual random moderation, mind you, but by what I'm supposed to be thinking right now....
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?
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.
In other news, world renowned military strategist, The Ghost of Sir Basil Liddel-Hart has commented that the bug made a major strategic flaw. "He, and we are assuming this bug to be a 'he' made a serious error." Sir Basil's Ghost, said. "Making his initial landfall target in one of the most millitarily keen nations the world has ever seen was a very poor idea. Because of this mistake the bug has triggered the full mobilisation of the german armed forces and a full scale search and destroy mission has been initiated by the Luftwaffer. My own strategic analysis of the situation leads me to conclude that the bug would have done better to land across the border in France where he would have been almost immediately surrendered to and would have been able to demand any surrender terms he so desired. My advice to the bug now would be to make for France with all haste and use the freshly-surrendered French army to fight the Germans." When queried about how long the French army could be expected to hold out against the most dedicated military machine in the world Sir Basil's Ghost spluttered into his tea and continued: "Oh good gracious me no. The plan wasn't for the French to FIGHT the germans, no-one would expect that and if the French actually tried firing back the Germans would just laugh anyway. No the idea is that the French will immediately surrender again (as is to be expected) and dealing with all the PoW's will hinder the panzer divisions persuing the bug. This should give him the time necessary to hop across the channel and claim asylum in Britain. I hear the benefits are very good".
In a further development, Russia has started to mobilise its troops onto it's western border in anticipation of a German attack. President Putin said: "Germany has a history of doing this, they did it in the first world war and they also have a history of ripping off old first world war battle plans for use again."
Asked to step in and resolve the situation by bombing the lot of them back to the stone-age, President George W. Bush said "It is not the policy of the US Government to interfere in the internal issues of sovereign states. We also don't bomb places that don't end in -stan or start with an 'I'" he said, "It's apples and grapefruits really. None of our turtlewax."
FGD 135
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!
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, for one, welcome our new overlord-joke hating overlords!
None of us are! There's a giant fucking bug out there!
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.
Hey dude, turn left, Oktoberfest is definitely not this way...
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?