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Google Maps Updated With Skyfall Island Japan Terrain
MojoKid writes "The latest in the Bond film series, Skyfall, was certainly one to remember. And not all of those memories were pleasant. The head villain's island lair was a particularly spooky place. The decaying wasteland depicted in the film was a shadow of Hashima off the coast of Nagasaki Prefecture in Japan. Due to its unique flat shape, the island is most widely known in Japan by its nickname Gunkanjima — aka 'Battleship Island.' In some circles, it's called 'Dead Island.' Google actually sent an employee to the island with a Street View backpack in order to capture its condition and a panoramic view for all to see in 360 degrees. You can take a virtual walk across the island now, and Google also used its Business Photos technology to let you peek into the abandoned buildings, complete with ancient black-and-white TVs and discarded soda bottles."
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If they sent an intern
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All it took was 40 years to transform a modern island into something that looks like Mayan ruins. If something ever happens to humanity, in only a century or two we'll have been erased from history.
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Also featured much more in the Japanese movie Battle Royale.
Skyfall only used establishing shots from this Island.
TFA doesn't seem to provide a link to the actual location on Google Maps.
So here it is: http://goo.gl/maps/56fXN
They also have an abandoned/destroyed village from the area around Fukushima.
Now they just need to get Ukraine to let them drive the Street View car through Pripyat...
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I was born in the 50's you insensitive clod!
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Here's a thought problem for you.
Modern humans descended from ape-like creatures on the order of 3 million years ago. Bonobos are further back on the evolutionary scale, call it 5 million years before they become intelligent (massive guesstimate).
Suppose we leave the planet. Would the Bonobos be able to determine that another intelligent species came before them? I can think of no place on the planet that wouldn't wear down and wash away the signs of our civilization.
Suppose we leave the planet, but would like to leave a message. Where should we put it, and in what form? I can think of no place on the planet that would be safe from erosion, and any satellite orbit would decay long before 5 million years had passed. (LAGEOS 1 was predicted to remain in orbit for 8.4 million years, but may only last a couple of hundred thousand years.)
Now consider the reverse. Suppose there was an intelligent species on Earth before us. Where could we look for evidence? If they left a message for us; assuming that they want it found, where would it be?
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I see they have some pictures of spot locations, but a full street view walk around would be nice.
Somehow I found pics of this abandoned area creepier, even before I found at it was the place Typhoid Mary was locked up.
that movie was awful. no new gagdets whatsoever. horrible government underwriting/fearmongering "the enemy is all around us" bla bla bla
They don't even make a vague attempt at believability anywhere in the film. The movie was another disgusting hollywood piece of poop.
just because you can get part of the population to watch (and like) your "movie" doesn't mean it ain't garbage.
A few hints:
Consume all fosil oil
Leave artificial radioactive isotopes concentrated in thousand former nuclear power plants
Destroy all life form / biotope ( hmm that one feels like catch 22)
Needs more ?
Assuming that previous intelligent life went along the same path as us and got at least this far, i doubt we would be finding stuff like uranium so spread out and in 'raw form'. Just as we are mining and then storing the spent fuel, they would have too, making it pretty clear that someone else was here.
Don't know. Don't care. I don't give a fuck what happens to this planet more than 5 minutes after I die. I'm sick of being told I need to give a fuck about the future. I'm going to take what I want, shit where I want and if the future suffers for it then fuck them. That's their tough shit.
Bonobos are further back on the evolutionary scale, call it 5 million years before they become intelligent (massive guesstimate).
Is a Bobobo a primitive human any more than a fish is a primitive frog? Apes are as highly evolved as we are, just in a differrent direction. Why would they become intelligent? Would a bigger brain make them better at mating while dangling from a branch? Life on Earth thrived for about 3 billion years before we came along, and unless everything else is exterminated, we're unlikely to be evolution's endpoint.
If you go to the top there's a Torii that is missing the top beam, and you look down and the top is laying on the ground, in several sections. Pretty impressive imagery. Definitely worth futzing around with the CRAZY GOOGLE LINES to get up there.
I think I see the reason for the islands extensive degradation of the structures, re-bar. Its great stuff but you have to remember that it can still rust even inside concrete if you don't stabilize it, especially in a sea air environment. And when metal rusts it has a tendency to expand, kind of like putting a glass jar full of water in the freezer, when the water turns to ice it expands and shatters the jar.
More accurately, every single leaf on the tree of life is an "endpoint", exactly the precise spot where that particular evolutionary path "wants" to be. There is no looking ahead.
Thinking that homo sapiens is the endpoint of evolution is just one of our sillier myopic conceits, no different to thinking that the sun revolves around the earth.
If you watch the video, there's clearly someone pointing a video cam at the Google employee with the backpack as he walks around.
So a party of at least 2? Barring supernatural options, of course.
On a side note, Gunkanjima is seriously creepy/cool. Good job Google!
I scanned TFS and TFA for a link to no avail so I had search for myself.
Link for the lazy or busy
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Incidently, photos of that island can currently be seen in Paris ar Polka Galerie www.polkagalerie.com
It's just a bunch of ruins. Not interesting at all.
I want to see the elephant's foot.
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distribute the message around the world hacked into diamonds, jade, obsidian, all kinds of plastics, glass containers. short of the whole planet getting grinded they would find something. they would probably find something even without us trying to leave a trace.
what's with the everlasting impact fetish anyhow?
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
They will know we were around (if not anything else). I am pretty sure most of our stainless steel (eg knifes and forks etc) would survive indefinitely, and point to us, spread everywhere.
And something else. Look at the top of every electricity transmission line pole or tower, and you will see fairly large ceramic pieces. They are the dielectric, and they are built to last ages - extremely hard to destroy, very resistant to nature. Archeologists of the future would find nice patterns of those things connecting human dwellings.
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All it took was 40 years to transform a modern island into something that looks like Mayan ruins. If something ever happens to humanity, in only a century or two we'll have been erased from history.
And yet we the ruins of Roman, Greek, and many other civilizations that seems to lasted much longer.
Perhaps part of it is that a lot of what we build isn't designed to actually last ridiculously long periods of time because they are ridiculously long? If having something last more than 100-200 years costs twice (or triple), how many people are willing to pay for that?
> The decaying wasteland
For a second I thought they were talking about the location of Bond's family home in Scotland.
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