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Post September 18th, 2005, 9:46 am

hehe this program is fun but can't be live, cuz its nearly 12am here and on google earth its still day time.

found my way to school btw ^^

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Post September 18th, 2005, 9:59 am

I think I can see a short-cut to your school :D
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Post September 18th, 2005, 10:08 am

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I think I can see a short-cut to your school :D


hehe.. birds have it easy ^^

what will be in 10 years? can one look through someone elses window thousand of miles away through the internet?

Or live streeming would be cool.

Im trying to find Area 51... cant find it. oh btw, where is NASA located? Houston? anyone know where exactly, its kindda hard to find. :D
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Post September 18th, 2005, 10:11 am

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located 90 miles north of Las Vegas (which is in Nevada)


Maybe that'll help?
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NASA Headquarters is located at:
300 E Street S.W. (between 3rd and 4th Streets),
Washington, D.C.


Make that one easy for ya. ;)
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Post September 18th, 2005, 10:13 am

The 'houston' center that you're thinking of, most likely thanks to their "problem" reference...
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Space Center Houston is located at 1601 NASA Road 1, Houston, TX 77058
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Post September 18th, 2005, 10:16 am

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Anyone know how old these pictures are? Or are they live?


I found this in the GE FAQ:
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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...Not all cities are covered in high resolution (where you can see individual buildings and cars) detail. We have more imagery of the United States than other countries currently. And because the imagery comes from a variety of sources, and is mosaic-ed together, it is difficult for us to specify the date of a city or region (a single city may have imagery taken from different months).

We are adding high resolution coverage continually, but we are not able to tell you when a specific area will be covered. The best way to find out if your area of interest is covered is to download the free version of Google Earth and check it out for yourself (Google Earth, Google Earth Plus, and Google Earth Pro share access to the same database).
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Post September 18th, 2005, 10:19 am

thanks for the great research =)
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Post September 18th, 2005, 10:22 am

Don't thank me, thank Google. I think they have concocted some secret index related specifically to items that could possibly deal with their softwares...the results were incredibly easy to locate! :D
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Post September 18th, 2005, 10:32 am

I was gonna post a pic of my house, since it's pretty good quality for the fact that the city i live in is pretty small, but google earth isn't working for me ATM, I'll try again later.

I like turning on the building vew, then going to a big city like new york, new york, and seeing all the buildings in 3d. Or using the distance tool, to see how far things are, like my house to school, or the walk i did the other day, which I found out was about 4km.
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Post September 18th, 2005, 10:33 am

There is an Area51 plugin for Google Earth.


Available here.
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Post September 18th, 2005, 10:34 am

DOes anybody else find the zoom sequence rather dizzying to watch? :D
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Post September 18th, 2005, 10:47 am

I heard a story about Yahoo HQ ... it does not appear in Google Earth.

Google say it was because there was no available images of that area.

Others suspect that Google has left it out intentionally as some kind of
joke.


I don't know if it is included now, as that story is a few months old.
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Post September 18th, 2005, 10:47 am

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How long do you think before spammers start painting on rooftops ? Laughing *groan*


I think they already have...This is a shot of the...well it's obvious what it is is...here in Memphis, TN. (200 S 3rd St, Memphis TN, 38103) Yeah, yeah...I know....I'm advertising the 'competition'. Shut up. :D



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Post September 18th, 2005, 10:53 am

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I heard a story about Yahoo HQ ... it does not appear in Google Earth.

Google say it was because there was no available images of that area.

Others suspect that Google has left it out intentionally as some kind of
joke.


I don't know if it is included now, as that story is a few months old.


I looked up the address for yahoo (on the yahoo site), so just search for "701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, California 94089" in maps.google.com it works good, can't try in google earth atm, but I don't think it wouldn't be there.

actually if you search for "google hq" in maps.google.com the second entry is yahoo's hq. :lol:
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Post September 18th, 2005, 10:57 am

Oh yeah, they're both there...In fact, if you type in google headquarters into the address bar in GE, you actually get a tour containing Veritas, Google, Google Campus, & Yahoo Inc, all labeled on the map for zoom ease. :)

//EDIT: LMAO! If you double-grab the 'google' icon, you will see that google must be an underground facility because it's actually located in the middle of a field across the street from the google campus...must be their secret underground lab. :)
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