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Google Earth To Include Google Deep Sea
mikejuk writes "You may have heard about the swashbuckling adventures to be undertaken by Virgin Oceanic -- visits to the bottom of the deepest parts of the oceans of the world. As Sir Richard Branson said at the launch of Virgin Oceanic, more men have been to the moon than have ventured further down than 20,000 feet. As long as everything goes according to plan, everyone should be able to experience a virtual trip to the bottom of the ocean, courtesy of Google Earth."
I've had 47 deg 9'S 126 deg 43'W bookmarked in Google Earth for years; can't wait for the deep sea view to be available!
Let's hope we can finally find out what The Bloop really was then.
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A wonderful tool. Now we can locate places like Atlantis, Bermuda Triangle, and Davy Jones locker.
Obligatory: "I for one welcome our new deep-sea overlords."
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This turns out to be about 200 miles west of Seattle. Hmm...
I'm still waiting for Google Hollow Earth!
So atlast we can find the Air France black box!
The computer renderings I've seen show a large dome over the cockpit (please hold the bloody seamen jokes).
Considering that the other submersibles have (relatively) tiny portholes that are 6"(?) thick, how is this large dome possible? Is it made out of a different material (I think I heard somewhere it was quartz) whereas the other submersibles were plexiglass? Has there been some major advance in creating large convex transparent structures that allow the pressure to be optiminally distributed? Or are the computer renderings just pretty pictures and the real vehicle will have much smaller ports to look out of? :(
By the way this reminds me of the underwater transport in one of the first Star Wars that Ben Kenobi uses to visit Jar Jar Bink's undersea city. They appear to travel to great depths in their small craft but when they surface, the "dome" turns out to be a forcefield that can be turned off with a switch! Some forcefield; if that kind of technology was readily available for other uses (personal armor, shields) it would seem that it should play a much bigger role in the series. But I digress, who ever expects commercial science fiction to be logically consistent?
I've had 47 deg 9'S 126 deg 43'W bookmarked in Google Earth for years; can't wait for the deep sea view to be available!
The Great One beckons. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/hummingearth/
47 degrees South. Not North.
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I hope they include "Street View" . . .
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I think that would make them underlords.
Apparently they're having some technical difficulties with that location. Three Summer of Code interns have already been driven hopelessly insane by attempting to map the 3D Buildings layer to abnormal, non-Euclidean geometries loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours.
or the Deep Ones
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That doesn't sound wise to me. I would recommend to leave the ambitious trips for later. Use a series of incrementally more challenging trips to test the design and gain experience with the controls of the vehicle. Chances are there is software involved and I don't want to see more bad news on Slashdot.
Equipped with the FIN processor, amirite???
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I can think of one thing I'd love to view at the bottom of the ocean.
You would...but wouldn't it annoy you to have people visiting your home to map it?
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?