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[QUOTE=Ignhelper;46098170]They could use a google street view from a drone/helicopter POV. Imagine, looking from 50 meters above. It'll be incredible. Though privacy issues will be an ass.[/QUOTE] Satellites can already see an amazing amount of detail, like SkySat-1.
[QUOTE=Scot;46098339]Satellites can already see an amazing amount of detail, like SkySat-1.[/QUOTE] It'd have some better depth though, and could probably also scan 3D models of buildings more effectively.
google earth/maps is truly a statement about humans curiosity. We didn't [I]need[/I] to be able to see anywhere in the world in an instant, but... we did. Why? because why [I]not.[/I]
[QUOTE=Scot;46088857]i never joke have 5mb of donuts [t]http://u.cubeupload.com/callumshell1/1409993982509.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Now where did I put that 3D food printing machine... [editline]29th September 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Scot;46091191]speaking of street view [video=vimeo;28725366]http://vimeo.com/28725366[/video][/QUOTE] That's south Italy... Didn't expect that tbh. [editline]29th September 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=booster;46098175]This is a repost, but relevant. [url]http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=17.68,45.44,462[/url] Shows winds and stuff.[/QUOTE] This one used to show lightning strikes in real time around the globe. [url]http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en[/url] Head [URL="http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/"]here [/URL]for map-related stuff. Here are some of my favorite maps: Road network in the world: [thumb]http://bioval.jrc.ec.europa.eu/products/gam/images/large/roads.png[/thumb] Inland water bodies: [thumb]http://bioval.jrc.ec.europa.eu/products/gam/images/large/waterbodies.png[/thumb] Cities with large foreign-born population: [thumb]http://i.imgur.com/XgsywBG.jpg[/thumb] "Three approaches to the U.S." [thumb]http://i.imgur.com/aiD7sBl.jpg[/thumb] The world in 1815, 200 years ago: [thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/World_map_1815_%28COV%29.jpg[/thumb] Legacy of the Roman Empire: [thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Western_and_Eastern_Romania.PNG[/thumb] Food staples by country: [thumb]http://jefmcdonough.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/fao-staples-map1.png[/thumb] The anthropocene: [thumb]http://globaia.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/gts1.jpg[/thumb] One world, one war(WWI), made by the greatest mapmaker ever imo, David Rumsey. His whole collection is to be found [URL="http://www.davidrumsey.com/"]here[/URL]! [thumb]http://sunnycv.com/steve/maps/1900s/1942fortune-map3200.jpg[/thumb] Regional organisations: [thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Regional_Organizations_Map.png[/thumb] Crops yield per hectare: [thumb]http://photos.mongabay.com/j/map_yield.big.jpg[/thumb] Cattle density: [thumb]http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/resources/en/glw/Density_maps/cattle_census-2005.jpg[/thumb] "Ethiopia at stake, the oldest unonquered nation", David Rumsey [thumb]http://www.fulltable.com/vts/f/ffa/03.jpg[/thumb] Analysis of telecom data (for Portugal) shows the extent to which communications networks (at left) may correspond to existing political or geographic regions (represented at right). Image: MIT Senseable City Lab [thumb]http://newsoffice.mit.edu/sites/mit.edu.newsoffice/files/styles/news_article_image_top_slideshow/public/images/2013/20131218003233-1_0.jpg?itok=r_efaYKx[/thumb] "South America revealed", David Rumsey [thumb]http://i.imgur.com/J2PrUVl.jpg[/thumb] "Northwest to Asia" [thumb]http://i.imgur.com/Uen7Jmf.jpg[/thumb] "Great Lakes to Greenland" [thumb]http://i.imgur.com/Xw7uvLL.jpg[/thumb] "The world divided, 1941" [thumb]http://i.imgur.com/dr1ZIZF.jpg[/thumb] The commentaries are just great on those. [editline]29th September 2014[/editline] "The world Island" [thumb]http://i.imgur.com/3mmv9c4.jpg[/thumb] "Southeast to Latin America" [thumb]http://i.imgur.com/klpArk7.jpg[/thumb] "Hitler's eye view of the Middle East" [thumb]http://i.imgur.com/MDhU5cB.jpg[/thumb] "8 views of the world": [thumb]http://www.davidrumsey.com/rumsey/Size4/D5005/1970033.jpg[/thumb] Soil moisture content: [thumb]http://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/en/imgdata/topics/2012/img/tp120111_01.jpg[/thumb] "Pacific arena, WW2" [thumb]http://i.imgur.com/f5qtUsX.jpg[/thumb] Anticipated climate refugees: [thumb]http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/un_50million_11kap9climat.png[/thumb] The modern old world: [thumb]http://globaia.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/europa2.jpg[/thumb] "Europe from the south-west" [thumb]http://www.davidrumsey.com/rumsey/Size4/D5005/1970021.jpg?userid=15&username=lunaadmin&resolution=4&servertype=JVA&cid=8&iid=RUMSEY&vcid=NA&usergroup=Rumsey3x&profileid=13[/thumb]
Those maps are really cool. I would love to hang some of them on my wall.
Annual income spent on food. The size of the country represents the percentage spent on food.The darker the color, the higher the rate of malnutrition. [thumb]http://i.imgur.com/zfSvUph.jpg[/thumb] [editline]29th September 2014[/editline] Oh and one insane,although unrelated fact. Italy had, 2.000 years ago, a gdp(ppp in 1990's international $) of 6,5 billions. 1.000 years ago, it had a gdp(ppp) of 2,2bln, so almost 3 times as low !!! 500 years ago it had grown to 12bln. Finland 2k years ago had gdp of 8 millions,1k years ago had a mere 16 Asia excluding Japan, had a yearly gdp of 75billion in year one Complete stats for all countries [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(PPP)#World_1.E2.80.932003_.28Maddison.29"]here[/URL].
[QUOTE=simzboy;46097159]Wow, I didn't know about the 3D models they have for houses now. That's pretty awesome. I feel like I'm playing SimCity. :v: [t]http://i.imgur.com/rZH9NnD.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] We need this shit in our Flight Simulators
[QUOTE=TheTalon;46102319]We need this shit in our Flight Simulators[/QUOTE] Can you still do that flight sim mode on Google Earth?
[QUOTE=TheTalon;46102319]We need this shit in our Flight Simulators[/QUOTE] iirc there is a plugin for one of the flight simulators that streams bing or google maps to the world
[QUOTE=godfatherk;46101779] Regional organisations: [thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Regional_Organizations_Map.png[/thumb][/QUOTE] Shouldn't this have the Arab Union and the African Union?
[QUOTE=Griffster26;46103988]Shouldn't this have the Arab Union and the African Union?[/QUOTE] "Commonwealth of Independent States" god damn that's such an oxymoron.
In reply to the Streetview pictures. I once accidentally found a little scene in Estonia. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/6KgVxxP.jpg[/IMG] Notice the huge knife in the hands of the man with the green pants. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Us2D3NW.jpg[/IMG] The shadows speak another story perhaps. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/HlFBlwO.jpg[/IMG] But who knows for sure what they did out there.
[QUOTE=Supermatic200;46105470]In reply to the Streetview pictures. I once accidentally found a little scene in Estonia. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/6KgVxxP.jpg[/IMG] Notice the huge knife in the hands of the man with the green pants. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Us2D3NW.jpg[/IMG] The shadows speak another story perhaps. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/HlFBlwO.jpg[/IMG] But who knows for sure what they did out there.[/QUOTE] If it was something bad, couldn't the Estonian police ask Google to reveal the number plate which would then give them the vehicle owner?
[QUOTE=matt.ant;46106297]If it was something bad, couldn't the Estonian police ask Google to reveal the number plate which would then give them the vehicle owner?[/QUOTE] Why would they need to? They can just zoom and enhance.
[IMG]http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8502/8300436006_392264743b_c.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2XcKLM68kfE/Tz8BqYLGkXI/AAAAAAAAEzI/nqfcSKlY5h0/s1600/Weary+American+Marines+of+7th+Regiment+catch+some+sleep+in+an+Amtrak+following+intense+fighting+in+the+area+around+Cape+Batangan+during+the+Vietnam+War..jpg[/IMG] [quote]Russian soldiers drink from frozen lake.[/quote] [IMG]http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos%20Two/Russ-POWs-drink-frozen-stream.jpg[/IMG]
[t]https://38.media.tumblr.com/17231bfbe5edc4f6d0d703750125c6d5/tumblr_ncjaqpW6xK1s7e5k5o1_1280.jpg[/t] [quote]Two American tourists trying out an [del]electrical headache relief machine[/del] Soviet Brain-washing Device at a spa in Sochi, Soviet Union, c. 1970.[/quote]
[IMG]https://38.media.tumblr.com/a8435445cf464bd8f538175581478dfc/tumblr_ncflh1rHZD1rh66jmo1_500.gif[/IMG] [IMG]https://31.media.tumblr.com/b9f2db27525d439b80a48e322ef0b9e4/tumblr_ncflh1rHZD1rh66jmo2_500.gif[/IMG] Here we see a weak mosquito failing to penetrate the skin of its victim. Soon, natural selection will take its course.
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Picked through my wallpapers. Some might be late, but you won't mind. [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/928fneg.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/r3aJKSG.jpg[/img_thumb] My attempt at long exposure [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/06UMUrv.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/6VxbeX7.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/csBdnoL.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/6yvFCDL.jpg[/img_thumb]
[QUOTE=Rofl_copter;46107170] [IMG]http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos%20Two/Russ-POWs-drink-frozen-stream.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Looks like a group of POW's. None of them have any weapons and most are missing their kit. What looks like a German Flak/Pak is heading in the opposite direction. Most of these guys probably died; either to starvation or disease or just outright extermination in death camps.
Yeah, Google reverse search says they're Russian POW's.
[IMG]http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/9eyes/905451377/1/tumblr_l6nolrEXTA1qzun8o[/IMG] Anyone know where this is?
City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia, Spain. [url]http://www.spain.info/fi/lugares-interes/valencia/ciudad_de_las_artes_y_de_las_ciencias.html[/url]
Oh, that's right. The place is in Gran Turismo 6 but I forgot. Thanks.
[IMG]http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--oQIPsq-L--/k9qwne383guhprs0vk2k.gif[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;46123819][IMG]http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--oQIPsq-L--/k9qwne383guhprs0vk2k.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE] Looks like a Marks and Spencer advert
[IMG]http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/sulsl2b0kkjgxqjwaxq6.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;46123861][IMG]http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/sulsl2b0kkjgxqjwaxq6.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] Fun fact: If I recall correctly, the food you're most likely to find on a menu in Massachusetts is actually chicken fingers.
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;46123819][IMG]http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--oQIPsq-L--/k9qwne383guhprs0vk2k.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE] I have an urge to buy a $30 steak now and cook it real nice like that.
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