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Thursday, 13 April 2006
Get me away from this thing!
Spike Jones 2

I downloaded Google Earth a couple of days ago, and have just been sitting at the computer zooming around looking at things. The Coliseum in Rome. The Great Sphinx. The top of Mount Everest. The Forbidden City. I can't stop...

And while looking at Florida landmarks, I just realized I've lived in Florida for fourteen years, and I've never been to Cape Kennedy. What am I, an idiot? (Don't answer that.) They've got a Saturn V just lying there. (A bunch of smaller rockets are upright, but the Saturn V is horizontal. Damn, it's big.) That's it, I'm taking the digital camera, all the memsticks I have, and a pocket full of batteries. And I'm not coming back until I've photographed everything I can.

(I couldn't have realized this fact when I lived a few hours closer to it, could I?)


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I can clearly see my car both at home and work.
Posted by Anonymous Coward on 14 Apr 2006 06:55
It's funny how different the detail levels can be; I can see individual specks representing people at the entrance to the Forbidden City in Beijing, but the house I grew up in is just an indistinguishable subpixel making up part of a grainy blur.

Posted by Godfrey on 14 Apr 2006 07:20
I think the Scientologists have blurred your house out as an obscenity.
Posted by The Lunchbox on 14 Apr 2006 08:26
Ah, that must be why Central Connecticut State University is also unrecognizably blurry — it's only about a mile away from 50 Cent's house. (And yet Area 51 is nice and sharp. Hangar 19's even marked.)

Actually, it looks like pretty much all of Connecticut is poorly photographed. But at least it's in color, as opposed to Rhode Island (which was also photographed in the winter, so it's hard to see the details with monochrome snow covering everything).

Your house shows up nice and crisp, though.

I really need to uninstall Google Earth; it's too addictive. I've got too many projects languishing for me to be spending entire nights just looking around the globe. ("Ooh, look, it's the Sphinx" "Ooh, look, it's the Quick Stop and RST Video!" "Ooh, look, it's a ship leaving an oil slick!")

Posted by Godfrey on 14 Apr 2006 09:11
Some of those satellite photos are from five years ago. I was zipping around on it and brought up my workplace. It showed that all the property around us still hadn't been developed, but it's a pretty booming place right now.
Posted by Lisa on 17 Apr 2006 20:30