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And the other end dissipates about 10 mi east of the lake...
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A Furious Foetus posted:Awful lot of prostitutes on Street View. Awful lot of prostitutes on the streets.
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# ? Dec 3, 2010 23:08 |
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That's no highway. It originates just the same as it fades away from seemingly nowhere. Also, the 'lanes' look like they could fit an aircraft carrier.
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# ? Dec 4, 2010 00:26 |
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Looking around North Korea has always been interesting to me, since the entire country is unlabeled. A lot of the buildings are blue or red, too. Look around here for more of it. Once I found a part that looked like a burn mark on paper, but I couldn't find it again. If you want to look around, it's easiest to find a coastal city and find more from there. When I checked it to find this link, it suddenly got blurry, and when I zoomed in and out one notch, it suddenly took me to somewhere in Russia.
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# ? Dec 4, 2010 00:48 |
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Zaftig posted:When I checked it to find this link, it suddenly got blurry, and when I zoomed in and out one notch, it suddenly took me to somewhere in Russia. Google maps has been buggy for me too as of late. It keeps reverting to the lowest resolution image and then I end up looking at the northernmost tip of Canada. edit: While looking through North Korea I found this. At first I saw the northern half of the construction, and I thought it was possibly a military airfield, but the concrete strip is too narrow and short to be of much use to jets. Then I zoomed out and noticed that it appears to continue much further on the other side of that hill! I can't tell for sure but it looks like there's a tunnel going through the ground. I wonder what it is... The Casualty fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Dec 4, 2010 |
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Mein Eyes! posted:Related, though Google street view: http://9eyes.tumblr.com/ holy poo poo, thanks. this is a hell of a lot better than every other "funny street view images" site I've seen.
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# ? Dec 4, 2010 00:59 |
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Looking through a coastal city in North Korea, I found this:http://goo.gl/maps/dTGM, it looks like a massive beach resort complex of some sort, and if you go further down the coast you can find one that is bigger. I have no idea what it is, though I would like too.
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# ? Dec 4, 2010 06:31 |
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SyHopeful posted:I've always wondered why Lake Baikal has a superhighway disappearing into its depths... I'm glad I'm not the only one to notice that thing. Maybe something weird with the map itself? There's no way that's a real human structure, at least as it's not mentioned at all on Wikipedia.
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# ? Dec 4, 2010 06:38 |
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Lullabee posted:I love the one of the random kid sitting on a side walk by itself. There's more than one
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# ? Dec 4, 2010 07:02 |
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Skippy D. Doodah posted:It looks to me like an airplane on the roof of a building in Manhattan. Yup, there is. quote:77 Water Street actually has a WWI Biplane complete with a landing strip on the rooftop of the building. Apparantly its a full-size model of a WWI Sopwith Camel, designed by Rudolph de Harak, in 1969. It was built primarily to amuse the inhabitants of surrounding skyscrapers, notably the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
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# ? Dec 4, 2010 07:46 |
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I was randomly scrolling around iceland and suddenly my eyes couldn't figure out what was going on in this picture http://goo.gl/maps/OEvz (go to half zoom if it's not by default). Perspective is really strange, tilting my head to the left makes the left (now top) part of the picture look like it is stretching towards a horizon.
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# ? Dec 4, 2010 07:52 |
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It looks like an aerial view of iceland, mystery solved.
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# ? Dec 4, 2010 09:50 |
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SyHopeful posted:I've always wondered why Lake Baikal has a superhighway disappearing into its depths... My brain just broke looking at this and then trying to google it and finding nothing. What is going on here???
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ApexAftermath posted:My brain just broke looking at this and then trying to google it and finding nothing. What is going on here???
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# ? Dec 4, 2010 11:34 |
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ApexAftermath posted:My brain just broke looking at this and then trying to google it and finding nothing. What is going on here??? Just some sort of error either in the original photography or in the assembly of images on Googles end. If it were real it would be some monster 200 lane highway. And to contribute, more Ship Breaking, near Alang in India.
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# ? Dec 4, 2010 11:41 |
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The Casualty posted:Google maps has been buggy for me too as of late. It keeps reverting to the lowest resolution image and then I end up looking at the northernmost tip of Canada. It is likely a military airbase of some sort. I remember reading something years ago that stated they store the fighter aircraft inside hollowed out mountains to prevent them being bombed and just roll them out and take off.
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# ? Dec 4, 2010 12:06 |
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There are some strange landforms in Central Asia that I can't quite figure out. You can see them even at a pretty low zoom, they're that big: http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=54.252389,82.836914&spn=8.104975,30.300293&t=h&z=6 I'm referring to those parallel strips of alternating high and low terrain. Perhaps the extremely weathered remains of some ancient continental collision belt, even older than the Appalachians? It might be clearer on a terrain map: http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=53.350551,81.013184&spn=4.138461,15.150146&t=p&z=7 If you zoom in, it's one of the weirdest looking terrains I've ever seen: http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=52.772863,81.870117&spn=0.524237,1.893768&t=h&z=10 But it gets weirder. Zooming in on one of the lakes in the northwest corner of this weirdness, you find this: http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=54.85843,78.024902&spn=0.49878,1.893768&t=h&z=10 Still following that same southwest-northeast trend of the landform, What the hell is it?
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# ? Dec 4, 2010 16:32 |
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The closeups look recently-glaciated to me. The larger scale could just be tilted layers exposed at the surface. Some types of rock may not be as suitable for agriculture so they stay forested over.
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# ? Dec 4, 2010 16:38 |
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It's definitely post-glacial. What you suggest about tilted rock layers would make sense, except that's a really consistent alternation across a big chunk of country. I could see it being alternating layers of, say, sandstone and limestone; the sandstone would have resisted the glacial erosion better than the limestone, which would become the lowlying, lake-dotted bands of terrain. Whatever it is, I've never seen anything like it on such a scale.
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# ? Dec 4, 2010 16:52 |
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Snake Plisskin really went low tech this time, I guess. drat budget cuts.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Just some sort of error either in the original photography or in the assembly of images on Googles end. If it were real it would be some monster 200 lane highway. This actually appears in World War Z.
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# ? Dec 4, 2010 17:46 |
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There is a reason why Google Earth is centered over Southeast Kansas as a default - that is where one of the creators of Google Earth is from, my hometown actually! The Mac version of Google Earth centers on another Kansas town - the hometown of another one of the creators. The geodetic center of the USA is also in Kansas, but that is not why Google Maps defaults to Kansas. Just gotta throw that little bit of Kansas fame out there because we don't get much notice
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# ? Dec 4, 2010 18:25 |
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Mein Eyes! posted:Related, though Google street view: http://9eyes.tumblr.com/
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# ? Dec 4, 2010 18:31 |
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Zaftig posted:Looking around North Korea has always been interesting to me, since the entire country is unlabeled. A lot of the buildings are blue or red, too. When Kim Jong-il wants to play a game of Team Fortress 2, the people obey.
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# ? Dec 4, 2010 18:59 |
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Blind Rasputin posted:I hear there is some bunker complex somewhere where all the world's seeds are kept in case of some catastrophe? We gotta find it on google maps. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/sites2.pl
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# ? Dec 4, 2010 19:23 |
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What about this little bugger? http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q...5,0.676346&z=11 wikipedia posted:The Richat Structure is a prominent circular feature in the Sahara desert of Mauritania near Ouadane. It has attracted attention since the earliest space missions because it forms a conspicuous bull's-eye in the otherwise rather featureless expanse of the desert. The structure, which has a diameter of approx 50 kilometres (31 mi) and is located 400–450 metres (1,310–1,480 ft) above sea level, has become a landmark for space shuttle crews.
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# ? Dec 4, 2010 20:27 |
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I still can't figure out what these little pits on Attu Island are about. If you scroll up a little, you can see hundreds of them scattered everywhere. I googled the island for a bit and can only conclude that they were maybe made by the Japanese before the Battle of Attu during WWII. Storage pits, foxholes maybe?
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# ? Dec 4, 2010 22:08 |
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Zaftig posted:Looking around North Korea has always been interesting to me, since the entire country is unlabeled. A lot of the buildings are blue or red, too. North Korea fascinates me as well. Grab this nifty kmz file for GoogleEarth and explore the hell out of the place: http://www.nkeconwatch.com/north-korea-uncovered-google-earth/
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Time Cowboy posted:There are some strange landforms in Central Asia that I can't quite figure out. You can see them even at a pretty low zoom, they're that big: Came here to post something in the exact same area. http://goo.gl/maps/FXVb That double field line thing stretches away on either side for loving miles. When there's an obstruction like a river or something it stops nice and neat and then continues on the other side. It makes twists and turns, you lose track of it from time to time but it always reappears somewhere else along a bit. Came across that years ago on NASA WorldWind back before Google Earth was big and it's puzzled me since.
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Dacke posted:I still can't figure out what these little pits on Attu Island are about. If you scroll up a little, you can see hundreds of them scattered everywhere. I googled the island for a bit and can only conclude that they were maybe made by the Japanese before the Battle of Attu during WWII. Storage pits, foxholes maybe? The layout and the way they are spaced scream ammo bunkers to me. Bury them, spaced out, to keep one from setting off another in a sympathetic detonation if it goes up in smoke. You see similar layouts on a lot of military bases. Zooming out, I see the airfield, and would like to offer Avgas bunkers as an alternative explanation. Same principle applies. DILLIGAF fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Dec 4, 2010 |
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Looks like an unused right-of-way. Maybe originally intended for a pipeline or power line or railway or something. Though it's about 3/4 of a mile wide. That's odd. Bizarre Siberian property situation maybe?
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Catzilla posted:Go here in google maps (lat/lon)... It is indeed a terrain model, of some of the most worthless real estate to be contested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksai_Chin
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Time Cowboy posted:There are some strange landforms in Central Asia that I can't quite figure out. You can see them even at a pretty low zoom, they're that big: Those are indeed strange land formations. I couldn't help but pick out this... Guy smoking a decorative pipe with a little smiling dude on the bottom? Some of the detail is lost in zooming out to see the whole image but...wow.
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# ? Dec 5, 2010 06:57 |
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eightyeight posted:Those are indeed strange land formations. I couldn't help but pick out this... I see a Romulan Bird of Prey.
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# ? Dec 5, 2010 07:57 |
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eightyeight posted:Those are indeed strange land formations. I couldn't help but pick out this... That looks like Fry from Futurama vomiting to me.
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Skyworks posted:It is likely a military airbase of some sort. I remember reading something years ago that stated they store the fighter aircraft inside hollowed out mountains to prevent them being bombed and just roll them out and take off. Awesome if true. It's like something out of loving Ace Combat.
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# ? Dec 6, 2010 05:42 |
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Goreld posted:Secret Nazi training facility? Thats actually on Coronado Island in San Diego,
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# ? Dec 6, 2010 05:50 |
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Treasure Island in SF also has a bunch of swastika-shaped barracks buildings.
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# ? Dec 6, 2010 06:33 |
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razz posted:There is a reason why Google Earth is centered over Southeast Kansas as a default - that is where one of the creators of Google Earth is from, my hometown actually! The Mac version of Google Earth centers on another Kansas town - the hometown of another one of the creators. I found this pretty cool as I'm from Southeast Kansas. What town is it?
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The Casualty posted:On that note (and along with the ship graveyards), here's Mallows Bay, MD. 152 wooden steamships were abandoned here at the end of WWI, and as you can see, some of them on the northeast shore appear to have become artificial islands with vegetation growing from them. We kayaked out there over the summer. The large ship further out is the car carrier Accomac, and you can actually paddle your boat into the interior of it. The site is awesome, but I have to stress that it is crazy dangerous. Those old ships were put together with huge thick spear-like nails. Now they're all rusting just below the surface of the water. Visibility was bad, but every now and then you could catch a glimpse of a row of spikes as you passed over. I wasn't expecting that at all. The whole time I was very worried about accidentally capsizing and getting impaled.
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