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Entire Moon Added To Google Earth

Posted by Soulskill on from the no-sign-of-a-fully-operational-battlestation dept.

CNETNate writes "Complete with Street View-like panoramas, 3D models of spacecraft now left abandoned on the moon's surface, and guided tours from the voices of Apollo astronauts, Google's recent update to Google Earth marks the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with an enormous update. It's a collaboration with NASA and other agencies, and follows the launch of Google Earth 5.0 which, amongst other things, added the ability to explore our planet's oceans. There are a number of original creations — such as the 3D mock-up of the Apollo 11 spacecraft and its astronauts — and you can download the new version from Google now."

17 of 109 comments (clear)

  1. yahoo... by kevvraja · · Score: 3, Funny

    yahoo....

  2. So Fake by Stu1706 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is so fake. We did not go to the moon. I looked all over and could not find the dark side either. And where is all the cheese?

    1. Re:So Fake by interkin3tic · · Score: 4, Funny

      We didn't go to the moon? Alright smart guy, how do you think google got the street view team driving around the moon then?!?

    2. Re:So Fake by DavidTC · · Score: 3, Funny

      No, the earth will lock to the sun first, and one side of the planet would boil.

      ...except it won't, because the sun will supernova first, but pretending it didn't, the earth would stop spinning in relation to the sun.

      After that, the moon's orbit would continue to slow down until it, indeed, could only see one side of the earth. I.e., what you described, except it's not the earth stopping turning in relation to the moon, it's that the moon stopping moving around it.

      ...except, of course, it would have already crashed into the earth at that point, having no orbital velocity. You can't just sit there in orbit not moving.

      But pretending that all this would happen before the sun went supernova, and pretending that the moon could hover in orbit without any velocity, yeah, the moon will eventually see only one side of the earth. ;)

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  3. Moon "added to Earth"? by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 4, Funny

    So sweet. Finally together, after billions of years apart!

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    1. Re:Moon "added to Earth"? by Opportunist · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well, unless something akin to Space 1999 happens, they will eventually be together again. I just hope I won't be there to witness it, it would probably be a very brief joy.

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  4. And like Google Earth... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    And just as in Google Earth, if you go to the right places you'll find surprises. For example, the two space hookers standing in the Copernicus crater.

    1. Re:And like Google Earth... by An+anonymous+Frank · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh no man, ..., they're *dudes*!

    2. Re:And like Google Earth... by megamerican · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yes, but they scrubbed our secret moon base and all of the alien ruins!

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      If you have something that you dont want anyone to know, maybe you shouldnt be doing it in the first place -Eric Schmidt
  5. Sheep! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why are you all such mindless sheep? We never went to the moon, period. Think for yourself for a change why don't you? The information is out there, you just need to know where to look. Start with obscure self-published books and newsletters, and work your way up to poorly designed websites with blinking text. There is an absolute wealth of pseudo-science out there people that clearly proves the moon landings were a hoax contrived by the Pentablet at their secret meeting place called "The Meadows". Turn the TV off and go learn the truth...

    1. Re:Sheep! by DavidTC · · Score: 3, Funny

      We never went to the moon, period.

      You know, you're actually right. We certainly didn't go to the moon. I wasn't even born in the 1960s.

      People keeping saying we went to the moon....no, I really did not. I don't know what the hell you were doing, but I certainly didn't, keep me out of your moon alibi, I'm not going to pretend I was at this 'moon' you keep asserting we were at together. (If this is some legal thing, I will gladly testify in court that I was not on the moon at any specific date, because I have never been on the moon, no matter how many people assert we went there in there 1960s.)

      I'm mean, it's pretty stupid, as far as lies go. NASA, which as far as I can tell are the only people who've even been up there, keeps records of everyone who's gone up. Am I on that list? Um, no, I am not. How did I get to the moon if I didn't take NASA, huh? Walk?

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      If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
  6. You don't know Dick by whowantscream · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet you Dick Cheney's moon base is blurred out...

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  7. A Bit Buggy by DynaSoar · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's got a few problems still.
    I set my home location.
    I set a location on the moon -- Tranquility Base.
    I set it to give me directions.
    Rather than telling me to go to Cape Canaveral and turn up or some such, it placed Tranquility Base somewhere in Africa.

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  8. The "Moon": A Ridiculous Liberal Myth by goldspider · · Score: 3, Funny

    It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)

    Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors .. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.

    Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!

    Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.

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    1. Re:The "Moon": A Ridiculous Liberal Myth by DavidTC · · Score: 2, Funny

      Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950.

      WRONG.

      The original Moon was launched as part of the Second New Deal as part of the Agricultural Adjustment Act. It was launched in the 1934 or 1935. (Accounts differ.) The 'Multiply Optics Organization' was created as way to allow farmers, many of whom still had not electrified their houses, have enough light to see by using mirrors. It started out small, with mirrors lighting the insides of buildings, but then they started a program called 'Night Light' intended to light up the entire place at night.

      Hence the 'Multiply Optics Organization Night Light', aka, the 'Moon'. (Technically 'Moonl', but that would be hard to say.)

      And it, in fact, unlike the modern Moon, did simply reflect the light of the sun. (Which is where that urban legend comes from.) It was very efficient, just a large reflective surface. Although the Rural Electrification Administration proved rather too successful in actually getting people electricity, so this purpose was quickly forgotten.

      The original Moon was repurposed as a 'spy satellite' during WWII and was shot at by the Germans near the end of the war. Eventually, they crippled it, after years of failed attempts, although much too late to do them any good. This forced the Air Force to deorbited three years later in early July 1947, in the American Southwest, under the code name 'Mogul'.

      What you are referring to, with the 1950 reference, is commonly called 'the new moon', which was relaunched in November 11, 1950, under the code name 'Luna'. It was an information gathering device, with the 'database' (paper, of course, in the 1950s) you are referring to created the same time in Los Angeles, not Berkeley under the code name 'Mattachine'. A nuclear bomb was detonated over Canada the day before to divert attention away from the launch. It caused massive storms the rest of the month due to a miscalculation in the launch, suspected to be due to the metric conversion.

      The US had not planned to put another Moon after the first was shot down, but eventually designed and built one in reaction to the Soviets gaining the bomb in the early 1950. Because they were not planning on putting another up, they had already scrubbed all references to the previous Moon, causing no end of confusion to people trying to figure out what really happened.

      The base of operations was not moved to Berkley until the 60s, when it was computerized. And it wasn't until then that the entire program was hijacked by liberals. Before that, it was anti-communist, unlike the first Moon. That is what JFK was attempting to do with his Moon program...claim it for himself and the liberals. (Which is why the Italians killed him.)

      Also, the current moon is almost entirely powered by solar energy now. Jimmy Carter put a bunch of solar panels up there. The fusion reactors just move it in emergency situations, like an NRA convention.

      There is a lot of misinformation out there about both Moons, both amazing technological wonders of their time.

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    2. Re:The "Moon": A Ridiculous Liberal Myth by DavidTC · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh, and, of course, I am only talking about the American moons. There have been at least six other objects placed in the sky thought history, that were somewhat like the current 'moon'.

      The most famous, of course, being da Vinci wooden structure intended to defend Milan against attack, launched in 1497. Sadly, he could never figure out how to reach it after it was launched, spending the rest of his life attempting to construct some sort of flying device that would let him get up there. We are unsure what happened to it, although it is clearly no longer in the sky.

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  9. Re:Too lazy to check myself. by Convector · · Score: 5, Funny

    Enjoying your job is the same as stealing from the company.