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#26 2005-12-11 9:29 pm
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Re: Google Earth, eh?
hal9k wrote:
They won't even let me GMail using my lowly X.2.8/Safari 1.0.3.
Then use Camino or Firefox.
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#27 2005-12-12 1:43 am
- TheConfuzed1
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Re: Google Earth, eh?
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I looked for WMDs in Iraq, but came up empty.
If you're looking for a controversy-fueled conspiracy theory, search for Area 51 and watch what happens. It's almost eerie.
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#29 2005-12-12 4:30 am
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Re: Google Earth, eh?
omg liek aluminunmum tin foil hatz!
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#30 2005-12-12 4:38 am
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I'm really looking forward to more streets and addresses around the world, and of course more hi-res areas. Also, I can't wait until hard disk space is huge enough that downloading the entire mult-kajillion terabyte hi-res image of the earth is possible, so I can stop streaming this smurf.
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#31 2005-12-12 11:16 am
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Re: Google Earth, eh?
Very cool.
Yet another mirror: http://www.mattelmore.com/~matt/Google_Earth.zip
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#32 2005-12-12 3:30 pm
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Re: Google Earth, eh?
arkayn wrote:
All black and white!!
You got it to work with Area 51? It crashes for everyone else that I know.
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#33 2005-12-12 7:34 pm
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Re: Google Earth, eh?
It's normal for me. I guess I've got a higher clearance.
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#34 2005-12-12 8:41 pm
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Someone posted a high-res sat photo of area 51 in unplugged a while ago. Looks pretty boring.
As for google earth, ouch, started it up for the 1st time and itunes started screaching. After I quit all other apps and gave it 128mb of memory it ran smoothly. I only wish it had more resolution, come on google we need more pixels, I still can't see my house.
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#35 2005-12-12 8:44 pm
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Actually, Area 51 is showing up just fine for me too. Yesterday, everyone was posting at macdailynews that it was crashing, as it did for me.
I guess they moved the evidence. 
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#36 2005-12-12 9:00 pm
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Re: Google Earth, eh?
Greywolf wrote:
Someone posted a high-res sat photo of area 51 in unplugged a while ago. Looks pretty boring.
Probably was me, I can't recall. Area 51 is very boring. Lots of white sand, and a couple of runways, and some shiny round things and stuff.
Here's a link to it, it's a pretty big filesize (aboot 1MB): http://www.long-boy.com/images/satellit … rea_51.jpg
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#38 2005-12-13 10:22 am
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Re: Google Earth, eh?
arkayn wrote:
You can acutally get closer with google earth.
Yup. And I can see the same from my archive 
[Did I mention I work at a satellite imaging company?]
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#39 2005-12-13 8:25 pm
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http://homepage.mac.com/hogfish/.Public … _Earth.zip
new permalink ^
In my opinion, Google Earth is the most amazing technology of 2005 I've ever seen.
The hands-on ability to view EVERYTHING in such an amazing way is phenomenal. I'm completely smitten with the omnicience it gives me. I feel like God the Almighty.
All I want is for the cars to be moving, and to have a bazooka like GTA.
lol...I remember having EarthViewer 3D in 8th grade...that's 2001ish...it's not that new technology. Back then though, you had to pay for it. I had a 3 month subscription at $10 per month and I said screw it ive seen the earth...but it was really cool to show to friends and stuff. After google bought Keyhole (Google Earth is essentially a repackaging and tweaking of EarthViewer), it became free, which was like holy crap cool.
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#40 2005-12-13 9:00 pm
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Re: Google Earth, eh?
longboy wrote:
arkayn wrote:
You can acutally get closer with google earth.
Yup. And I can see the same from my archive
[Did I mention I work at a satellite imaging company?]
Well for god's sake send some more hi-res imagery Google's way so we can all see! 
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#41 2005-12-14 9:24 am
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Re: Google Earth, eh?
lord funk wrote:
Well for god's sake send some more hi-res imagery Google's way so we can all see!
No can do on my end. Google has a contract with my competitor
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#42 2005-12-14 11:43 am
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Re: Google Earth, eh?
Macskeeball wrote:
hal9k wrote:
They won't even let me GMail using my lowly X.2.8/Safari 1.0.3.
Then use Camino or Firefox.
Thank you. Since recent cleaning of cookies in Safari, I lost my google news 'personalization' (which worked prior -- added keywords and got new section) Won't let me do that now.
Tried Firefox last spring when upgraded to Jag. Flaky. Trashed. Wondering if this new 1.5 (supposedly runs under Jag) will act better.
Seen good things about Camino also.
Hate that Safari is leaving me crippled for certain fun thingies.
Hopefully '06 will see acquistion of less obsolete iron (and OS and browser).
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#43 2006-01-08 11:05 am
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There's something whited out on area 51.
Just because something is legal, doesn't mean it's right. Just because something is illegal, doesn't mean it's wrong.
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#45 2006-01-08 8:04 pm
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Re: Google Earth, eh?
google maps:
Sorry, big pic
yeah, they're definitely something there. But if Google can see what's there, then that means anyone with a satellite (Bill Gates, Russia) can see what's there. The alternative is the US gov't has a Satellite cloaking field. The latter sounds cooler. And scarier.
Edit: linker winker dinkers
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#46 2006-01-08 8:23 pm
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o and btw, google earth for mac is nice. Looks like they finally listened to our complaints. The reason this is not on google's site is because it hasn't even reached beta (the PC version is beta). This is like alpha. You can tell because when I type a destination in, it zooms into it to the utmost extent and then crashes. Bummer.
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#47 2006-01-08 8:34 pm
Re: Google Earth, eh?
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yeah, they're definitely something there. But if Google can see what's there, then that means anyone with a satellite (Bill Gates, Russia) can see what's there. The alternative is the US gov't has a Satellite cloaking field. The latter sounds cooler. And scarier.
Check out a satellite pic over the Denver International Airport and see if it has the same look.
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#48 2006-01-08 8:49 pm
#50 2006-01-08 10:25 pm
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I thought we went over this already.
It's freaking sand.
Or at least that's what it's supposed to look like to civvies.
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