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03/07/2006 10:08:45 PM · #1 |
It appears Google Earth now shows the tsunami off the coast of Banda Aceh, Indonesia...? Looks massive! (unless my eyes are shot and I'm seeing things?)
edit: Ummm...or is it a strange massive cloud?
Message edited by author 2006-03-07 22:09:50.
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03/07/2006 10:21:46 PM · #2 |
I believe those are just clouds.
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03/07/2006 10:26:56 PM · #3 |
Common questions about Google Earth
1. When were these pictures taken? How often are they updated?
Our images are photographs taken by satellites and aircraft sometime in the last three years. The images in Google Earth are updated on a rolling basis. Click here for more details.
2. Are Google Earth images captured in real time?
No, they aren't. Our images are photographs taken by satellites and aircraft sometime in the last three years.
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03/07/2006 10:29:30 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by thegrandwazoo:
Common questions about Google Earth
1. When were these pictures taken? How often are they updated?
Our images are photographs taken by satellites and aircraft sometime in the last three years. The images in Google Earth are updated on a rolling basis. Click here for more details.
2. Are Google Earth images captured in real time?
No, they aren't. Our images are photographs taken by satellites and aircraft sometime in the last three years. |
It's amazing how much data Google collects. Maybe in 10 years they'll be our overlords. |
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03/07/2006 10:44:16 PM · #5 |
| All bow to the great benevolent Google. |
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03/07/2006 10:46:57 PM · #6 |
Google rocks, everything they do is awesome.
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03/07/2006 11:28:54 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by SamDoe1:
Google rocks, everything they do is awesome. |
Perhaps but that company does have a long list of people who think the opposite. They include:
- Privacy advocates (Google's personal data collection schemes)
- Freedom of speech advocates (Google agrees to censor content in China per the Chinese government request)
- US government (Google refuses to help the US gov in regards to kiddie porn censorship)
- Copyright advocates (Google is sued all the time over copyright usage that web owners do not want spidered/indexed.)
And that's just a few. I agree their product is great but I personally don't like many of their data collection methods and how they use that data often against the wishes of the actual content owners. The most amazing thing about them IMO is how much they get away with while maintaining a very positive public image in general. That's their biggest success.
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03/08/2006 01:00:10 AM · #8 |
| If you like satellite photos, a good place to check is NASA's Earth Observatory site -- they publish interesting new pictures every week. This week, they have a photo of the landslide in the Phillipines, and an interesting one of Apataki Atoll in the Pacific -- be sure to go to the last paragraphs of the description to see how (and by whom) this was made. |
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