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Fun with Google Earth

Buddy LeeBuddy Lee Registered User regular
edited January 2007 in Social Entropy++
I just installed Google Earth on my laptop last week after not using it for six months... it's just as addicting as it was before.

What places do you guys recommend looking at? Right now I'm looking at Los Angeles, and there are a lot of random things that can be picked out.

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  • FierceDeity666FierceDeity666 Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    i found my house

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I found a rock.

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  • OrestesOrestes Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I found a couple having sex in a yard.

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  • rockmonkeyrockmonkey Little RockRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    If I was stupid rich beyond belief I think I'd like to have a couple of my own staellites just to dick around with.

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  • Captain CthulhuCaptain Cthulhu Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    you can look at my house.
    My location is extremely accurate.

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  • Buddy LeeBuddy Lee Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    It's kind of sad to look at Skid Row of LA from a satellite image.

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  • GOJIRA!GOJIRA! Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Supposedly they're using Google Earth in Iraq to set up ambushes.

    Winz.

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  • World as MythWorld as Myth a breezy way to annoy serious people Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    This is exactly what it would be like if my spacecraft came plummeting back to earth unexpectedly.

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  • SephSeph Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    oh hell like we haven't done this thread 5 times fuckin hell people

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  • BarcardiBarcardi All the Wizards Under A Rock: AfganistanRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I found the black spot in china where they launched that satellite killing rocket from.

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  • OdenOden Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Everytime I download that shit I just spend like five minutes staring at the Golden Gate Bridge then uninstall it.

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  • BarcardiBarcardi All the Wizards Under A Rock: AfganistanRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Oden wrote:
    Everytime I download that shit I just spend like five minutes staring at the Golden Gate Bridge then uninstall it.

    jump

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2007
    Barcardi wrote:
    Oden wrote:
    Everytime I download that shit I just spend like five minutes staring at the Golden Gate Bridge then uninstall it.

    jump

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  • BarcardiBarcardi All the Wizards Under A Rock: AfganistanRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    The Geek wrote:
    Barcardi wrote:
    Oden wrote:
    Everytime I download that shit I just spend like five minutes staring at the Golden Gate Bridge then uninstall it.

    jump

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    now go ahead and jump!

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited January 2007
    tonight on the drive home, I rocked out far harder than was appropriate to "Sister Christian"

    I feel no remorse

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  • FramlingFramling FaceHead Geebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Orestes wrote:
    I found a couple having sex in a yard.

    pm

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  • World as MythWorld as Myth a breezy way to annoy serious people Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Rankenphile wrote:
    tonight on the drive home, I rocked out far harder than was appropriate to "Sister Christian"

    I feel no remorse
    I find it hard to believe that there is a harder than appropriate amount of rocking you can do to Sister Christian

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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    GOJIRA! wrote:
    Supposedly they're using Google Earth in Iraq to set up ambushes.

    Winz.
    FUD

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Framling wrote:
    Orestes wrote:
    I found a couple having sex in a yard.

    pm

    "hey baby my penis is visible from space."

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2007
    Jordyn wrote:
    Framling wrote:
    Orestes wrote:
    I found a couple having sex in a yard.

    pm

    "hey baby my penis is visible from space."
    Oh god your sig makes that twice as funny!


    No, really it does! I'm not just saying that because everyone else has.

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    i used google earth recently here to illustrate my destination in the event of a zombie apocalypse and the route to get there and stuff.

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  • WallhitterWallhitter Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Druhim wrote:
    Jordyn wrote:
    Framling wrote:
    Orestes wrote:
    I found a couple having sex in a yard.

    pm

    "hey baby my penis is visible from space."
    Oh god your sig makes that twice as funny!


    No, really it does! I'm not just saying that because everyone else has.
    I must see this. SEND IT TO ME.

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  • J3pJ3p Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Actually, imagery from space has a resolution of about 6m, though the military probably have their own special one that does higher resolutions. For the most part, Google Earth is a combination of Aerial and Satellite imagery.

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  • JohnHamJohnHam Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    The "insurgency" is using Google Earth, I think.

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  • scarlet st.scarlet st. Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Insurgency?

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  • [Tycho?][Tycho?] As elusive as doubt Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Iraqi rebels are supposedly using it.

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  • SpongeCakeSpongeCake Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Addicting is a fucking stupid word.

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    i'm addicted to you

    <3

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  • SpongeCakeSpongeCake Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    potatoe wrote:
    i'm addicted to you

    <3

    I guess that makes me addictive.

    Addictive.

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  • As7As7 Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    JohnHam wrote:
    The "insurgency" is using Google Earth, I think.

    How often is it updated?

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  • DeusfauxDeusfaux Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I stayed in Van Halen's Cabo house for a vacation once (southernmost one.... yeah thats the southernmost THING on the whole damn peninsula)

    http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=0&ll=22.873215,-109.916743&spn=179.977244,360&t=k&om=1

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  • OrestesOrestes Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Actually... I errm, was joking. I thought it was obvious that I was joking. I mean, you can barely see my school, let alone make out two tiny dots, with an even smaller dot sticking the smaller dot into the tiny dot. I did learn that my neighbour has a pool though.

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  • real_pochaccoreal_pochacco Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    SpongeCake wrote:
    potatoe wrote:
    i'm addicted to you

    <3

    I guess that makes me addictive.

    Addictive.

    Yeah you got put on Schedule I.

    I'm sorry <3

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  • J. GrantJ. Grant Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2007
    Arsenic7 wrote:
    JohnHam wrote:
    The "insurgency" is using Google Earth, I think.

    How often is it updated?

    Let's put it this way:

    We moved into this house 16 months ago. On Google Earth, my backyard does not show either of the two palm trees that have been here for as long as we've owned this place, and it shows a red car parked next to the garage. Neither of us have a red car.

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  • CogliostroCogliostro Marginal Opinions Spring, TXRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
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    Look it up.

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  • redheadredhead Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    scarlet st. wrote:
    Insurgency?
    Insurgence with an extra syllable.

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  • Der Waffle MousDer Waffle Mous Blame this on the misfortune of your birth. New Yark, New Yark.Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    J. Grant wrote:
    Arsenic7 wrote:
    JohnHam wrote:
    The "insurgency" is using Google Earth, I think.

    How often is it updated?

    Let's put it this way:

    We moved into this house 16 months ago. On Google Earth, my backyard does not show either of the two palm trees that have been here for as long as we've owned this place, and it shows a red car parked next to the garage. Neither of us have a red car.
    Apparently that was taken last weekend when one afternoon, a man with a red car ran off with your palm trees.




    Actually, in my old yard, I can see my mothers' old blue Focus.

    She hasn't had that car for a good 3-4 years.

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  • BibbleBibble __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2007
    redhead wrote:
    scarlet st. wrote:
    Insurgency?
    Insurgence with an extra syllable.

    emergency insurgency

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  • Buddy LeeBuddy Lee Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Seph wrote:
    oh hell like we haven't done this thread 5 times fuckin hell people

    Oops. Sorry.

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  • SlungsolowSlungsolow Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2007
    WHY wrote:
    J. Grant wrote:
    Arsenic7 wrote:
    JohnHam wrote:
    The "insurgency" is using Google Earth, I think.

    How often is it updated?

    Let's put it this way:

    We moved into this house 16 months ago. On Google Earth, my backyard does not show either of the two palm trees that have been here for as long as we've owned this place, and it shows a red car parked next to the garage. Neither of us have a red car.
    Apparently that was taken last weekend when one afternoon, a man with a red car ran off with your palm trees.




    Actually, in my old yard, I can see my mothers' old blue Focus.

    She hasn't had that car for a good 3-4 years.
    some areas are updated more frequently than others. it's not like they take a snapshot of the whole planet every damn day. They have folks who fly out in special planes that take pictures from different altitudes. some areas only have satellite photography from 10 years ago... some areas don't even have that.

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