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First Company Logo Visible From Space
Albert Sandberg writes, "KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) has created the first logo that is visible from space. The construction was made by 65,000 1x1-foot tiles and covers about 2 acres. The logo was built and assembled over about a month and is located in the Nevada desert near Area 51. The article also has a short video showing the construction in time-lapse. Now the aliens know where to get their slimy food :-)"
uh, in TFA? About 3/4 of the way down?
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Didn't Maxim already do this by putting a magazine cover of theirs somewhere near Las Vegas? It showed up as an overlay in Google Earth so I wasn't sure if it was just a bitmap they paid Google to show, or if it's a representation of the actual billboard but overlaid on older satellite images.
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They do look at the picture about halfway down.
As other have ponted out, Google Earth uses aerial orthophotos.
But in essence you are right. Consider this 5m resolution image. You can see a municipal baseball field in it; you could easily set up an array of a hundred or so people with cardboard placards to make something recognizable in it. And there are commercial images with 4x the resolution.
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Apparently KFC never heard of Maxim's giant magazine cover of Eva Longoria.
This is bollocks.
I remember reading, decades ago, in the Guinness Book O' Records about the worlds' biggest sign - "so big it's visible from space" - being the Readymix sign in the Nullabor Plain.
You may or may not have heard the rumor that they were forced to change the name to KFC because the FDA said their chicken was not longer chicken... but apparently that is not true. According to snopes, here are the reasons they changed the name:
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Google maps link: http://www.google.com/maps?q=41.66870852724252,-86 .49160929064662
There, fixed the headline for you.
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yeah, i think there's plenty more logos than that visible from space. like this one http://www.masteroni.com/show.php?itemId=12203175
Google maps isn't all satellite photos. Lots of its content is aerial photography - from planes.
I doubt they'd be able to get a hold of satellite photographs at better than a meter or so per pixel.
Besides, I think they mean "Human eye visible from space". But for that, it's not big enough. At 100km altitude (the 'official' edge of space) an object needs to be at least 150 meters across to be visible at all (ie as a little dot that you can't read as a logo). This sign is only about half of that size. You can't see it from space at all without a telescope or something - and if you have that (eg on a military satellite with maybe 10cm resolution) then you can see regular storefront Logos.
Bah.
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You are aware that most Google Earth images are from aerial photographs and not orbiting satellites?
You are under the common misconception that everything on Google-Earth is a satellite photo. The photographs that features your car were taken from a plane.