Google Earth To Show Ocean Floor

f1vlad writes "Google is expected to announce the addition of ocean floor imagery to its Google Earth project, which will complete digital representation of our planet. 'The existing site, to which an estimated 400 million people have had access, already includes three-dimensional representations of large cities around the world and includes images from street-level and aerial photography covering thousands of miles across Britain and elsewhere. The new additions to the website are expected to include views of the ocean, and portions of the seabed. They will also provide detailed environmental data that will enhance information about the effect of climate change on the world's seas and oceans.'"

Comments

Well, there goes my plan

[elrous0]

Anyone want to buy a slightly used underwater marijuana farm?

Re:Well, there goes my plan

[xch13fx]

is it in international water? Cuz you could make it a point of interest and have boats come take "tours." Just don't let the Somalians find out.

Re:Well, there goes my plan

[spartacus_prime]

I know a certain Olympic swimming who might be in the market.

Re:Well, there goes my plan

[Hoi Polloi]

Plus Emilio Largo is going to have to move his secret operations.

Re:Well, there goes my plan

[elrous0]

It's really an excellent starter lair. I'm hoping to sell to a young evil genius couple. Though it's not really ready for world domination, it's probably just fine for country-wide domination. And while it's true that I had to turn the shark tank into a grow bed, everything is still wheelchair-accessible and cat-friendly. The laser cannon still works too, but the power bill is a real bitch if you use it.

Re:Well, there goes my plan

[berend botje]

Even better is that the imagery of my part of the world has regressed! Two years ago the data was quite current. Now, however, the data seems about five years old.

So what's the deal with that?

Whoops

[MyLongNickName]

I wonder if a few of my "special jobs" as a concrete mixer will show up on these maps. If so, anyone got a list of countries without an extradition treaty with the U.S.?

Re:Whoops

[Kickersny.com]

If so, anyone got a list of countries without an extradition treaty with the U.S.?

Wikipedia has a list for everything.

Slight modifications

[Thanshin]

And now they'll have to adapt the vans that do the street level photography. Some fish are going to be quite surprised.

Who wouldn't want to spend a month in a van and take several hundred million identical pictures? (Any resemblance with your holidays is pure coincidence).

Re:Slight modifications

[owlnation]

And now they'll have to adapt the vans that do the street level photography. Some fish are going to be quite surprised.

Not to mention the van drivers will be surprised when they encounter the sharks with frickin lasers.

Re:Floating Garbage Islands in the Pacific Ocean

[darkitecture]

Perhaps now we'll be able to see those massive floating garbage islands in the Pacific Ocean that we're always hearing about.

You mean New Zealand?

Ocean, the (short term) final frontier

[gmuslera]

In the land version we can see even people and cars. What we will see there? Submarines? Fishes? Coral formations? Our sunken economy?

Re:Floating Garbage Islands in the Pacific Ocean

[jammindice]

Perhaps now we'll be able to see those massive floating garbage islands in the Pacific Ocean that we're always hearing about.

You mean New Zealand?

I believe he meant Australia, he did say massive

Re:Google's world domination

[TeXMaster]

Too late

Re:Two words.

[tnk1]

Marianas Trench.
Can't wait to see how that looks.

Really, really dark.

Thor's twins?

[sl8r]

Finally, the russians will be able to find Red October!

Re:in addition to shipwrecks...

[Anonymous Coward]

some "black smokers"

You racist prick. Why not mention the white smokers too?

Re:Two words.

[ionix5891]

remember goatse? well think deeper and darker

Re:Floating Garbage Islands in the Pacific Ocean

[foniksonik]

Yeah New Zealand is just one big Hollywood back lot nowadays....

Re:Ship Wrecks

[Chyeld]

Yeah, myself... I'm waiting for them to get Streetview of the ocean floor....

Re:Floating Garbage Islands in the Pacific Ocean

[Ihmhi]

Wow, that's like... some Morpheus shit right there.

Like... if a troll posts on a forum and there's no one to read it, does he still masturbate furiously to Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Willow lesbian fanfic?

Re:Hasn't this already happened?

[ignavus]

but I welcome higher resolution imagery of our planet

but I welcome higher resolution imagery of sunken treasure ships.