Google Earth

Mr Smith · Post by **Mr Smith** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:15 pm

You got to downlod this its so awsome. earth.google.com You can almost see your house.

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Jack Potato · Post by **Jack Potato** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:18 pm

Dude, i saw that too.. it doesnt work on mine for some stupid reason..

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Mr Smith · Post by **Mr Smith** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:27 pm

Oh that really sucks. Its a really great program.

BTW If you downlod it it wont have a download time. If you have dial up then it takes about 40 minutes. Cable/DSL about 4 minutes.

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000 · Post by **000** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:44 pm

I've used this program at work. Very nice. I can see my house. Some parts of the country have better resolution than others. I could see the cars in my driveway but when I tried to look at the resort we stayed in when we went to Wisconsin, it wouldn't zoom in far enough to even see the hotel.
I don't have it at home. I have dial-up.

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Mr Smith · Post by **Mr Smith** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:47 pm

I do too. But I downloaded it.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:25 pm

Yeah really neat program. My city is too small for them to bother zooming in much though. I can sort of make out my house, but not really well. I also found a bomb in jamaica.

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Jack Potato · Post by **Jack Potato** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:43 pm

Mr Smith wrote: Oh that really sucks. Its a really great program.

BTW If you downlod it it wont have a download time. If you have dial up then it takes about 40 minutes. Cable/DSL about 4 minutes.

it does suck. AND I HAVE DSL! the closest thing i can get to is google maps, n when i find my house and zoom in, i just hit SATTELITE. tough to see stuff though.

it says somthin about that my program cannot support this system...I CAN TOO!!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 10:38 pm

Google earth is very video intense though. I had a 64 meg and it was fine, but when I put in my new 128 meg I found a huge difference. so if you have anything lower then 64 it may be slow/unstable/unusable.

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Mr Smith · Post by **Mr Smith** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 10:41 pm

Yes VERY VERY SLOW. It took about 2 hours to load about 50%.

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000 · Post by **000** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 1:49 am

Couldn't get it to downoad. Got to about 300k and quit everytime.

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Stasi · Post by **Stasi** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 6:51 am

Very nice program. Here's some interesting sites I got imagery of:

CIA Headquarters in McLean, VA

NSA at Fort Meade, MD

DARPA headquarters in Arlington, VA

DIA Missile and Space Intelligence Center in Huntsville, AL

Area 51 at Groom Lake in Nevada

Where I work

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Mr Smith · Post by **Mr Smith** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 7:53 am

Cool I'm going to start it up and look for area 51.

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Stasi · Post by **Stasi** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:53 am

It's in south-central Nevada. You can actually get a closer image but I was trying to catch more of the whole area around the Air Force Base since there are other facilities on it.

I looked at Falluja and Baghdad, Iraq to see if there was any smoke or other signs of conflict, but didn't find any, and didn't go over ever little part of the city. This is definitely a cool proggie. I'm using images from it on my website.

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Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 11:58 am

Red Squirrel wrote: Yeah really neat program. My city is too small for them to bother zooming in much though. I can sort of make out my house, but not really well. I also found a bomb in jamaica.

What the hell is that thing?

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Stasi · Post by **Stasi** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 12:01 pm

Look at the picture and think in three dimensions. Now think about other large ships and try to think about the structures they have topside.

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Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 12:08 pm

I see. . .

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Stasi · Post by **Stasi** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 12:14 pm

I'll make it easy... gimme a minute.

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Stasi · Post by **Stasi** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 12:17 pm

Go here and look at the ship.

Look near the back.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 1:01 pm

Hmm interesting. I had trouble believing it was a bomb, but could not think of anything else it could be. Did not know ships even had wings like that. I guess it helps control or something, or it's just a decoration.

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Cicero · Post by **Cicero** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 1:24 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: Hmm interesting. I had trouble believing it was a bomb, but could not think of anything else it could be. Did not know ships even had wings like that. I guess it helps control or something, or it's just a decoration.

How could you even think that was a bomb. I thought the ship shape would have been a clue.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 1:45 pm

I knew it was a ship, but I thought that thing on it was a bomb, silly.

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Cicero · Post by **Cicero** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 4:01 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: I knew it was a ship, but I thought that thing on it was a bomb, silly.

I suppose I'll let you away with that mistake.

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Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 4:08 pm

Stasi wrote: Go here and look at the ship.

Look near the back.

I already knew.

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Jack Potato · Post by **Jack Potato** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 5:42 pm

yeah...so did I...

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Mr Smith · Post by **Mr Smith** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 6:17 pm

No I think he means that the ship is carrying the bomb.

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