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Sabel posted:How are you people finding these things
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I drag street view around any major populated city and the world looks so samey
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Feb 21, 2014 10:26
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Sabel posted:I drag street view around any major populated city and the world looks so samey It's a little easier to find interesting stuff if you are using google earth, not street view imo and also major populated city centers are going to look more similar to each other than other kinds of areas, you got to broaden it. the outlying areas of a Russian city look pretty different from a typical town in Colombia or rural England. also, use mapcrunch
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Feb 21, 2014 15:13
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Feb 21, 2014 17:53
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nice north korea overlay.
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Feb 21, 2014 17:57
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Sabel posted:How are you people finding these things We basically do nothing but pan around gmaps all day.
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Feb 21, 2014 18:08
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I wish I had heard the term "Pyongyang Ostrich Farm" when I registered my account, here...
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Feb 22, 2014 03:02
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MrYenko posted:I wish I had heard the term "Pyongyang Ostrich Farm" when I registered my account, here... Admins, please rename me "Pyongyang Ostrich Farm."
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Feb 22, 2014 03:35
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DeepThought posted:Creepy holes.
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Feb 22, 2014 03:47
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I'm not sure whats creepy about them they just look like small ponds?
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Feb 22, 2014 04:14
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Earwicker posted:I'm not sure whats creepy about them they just look like small ponds? At first glance their depth is difficult to make out.
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Feb 22, 2014 05:08
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Shifty Nipples posted:At first glance their depth is difficult to make out. They look pretty shallow to me like most other ponds but I guess I'm just not seeing what you guys are seeing. Here's an area that I've always found not creepy exactly, but definitely weird, like the Earth was "scraped" here by something large, and I've only seen it at this one spot (an area southwest of Astrakhan)  https://www.google.com/maps/@46.199179,47.6235026,53848m/data=!3m1!1e3 withak explained to me what it was caused by once, but I forgot
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Feb 22, 2014 05:34
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That whole "creepy holes" part of Alaska is really crazy to look at from space: Anyone know what specifically caused this? I know glaciers have something to do with it, but I've never seen this specific thing form anywhere else.
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Feb 22, 2014 06:06
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Glacial striations. Huge drag marks basically.
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Feb 22, 2014 06:08
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Earwicker posted:I'm not sure whats creepy about them they just look like small ponds? 
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Feb 22, 2014 09:58
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Shifty Nipples posted:At first glance their depth is difficult to make out.
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Feb 23, 2014 04:24
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 Just east of the California Salton Sea.
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Feb 23, 2014 07:40
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I found an amusing artifact here: http://goo.gl/maps/bwE0X Is this what really happens when we die?
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Feb 25, 2014 08:03
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withak posted:Glacial striations. Huge drag marks basically. This. Glaciers and continental ice sheets scar up the planet in the most awesome ways. I live in a region that was covered in a kilometer of ice 20,000 years ago and it's just so amazing we can still see the effects of that now whenever we go outside.
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Feb 25, 2014 08:41
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Maybe this is somewhere in the thread, but there's a Russian site where you can walk around Pripyat and near the Chernobyl power plant in streetview. The reactor is along the road that goes to the southeast.
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Feb 25, 2014 09:45
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copy of a posted:
http://goo.gl/maps/u3nbt
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Feb 25, 2014 15:14
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This thread has been around since December 1st, 2010. Holy poo poo.
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Feb 25, 2014 16:01
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rcman50166 posted:This thread has been around since December 1st, 2010. Holy poo poo. And I have had it bookmarked all this time, always a joy to see a burst of 30 or so posts. Really with this was more popular! edit: I regret deeply unbookmarking the ant story thread 
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Mar 11, 2014 19:05
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Because we're all so brilliant at finding things in satellite photos, help pore over lots of raw footage from Digital Globe satellites in the hunt for the missing 777 that might be in the Indian Ocean: http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/mh370_indian_ocean/ Be warned: there's a lot of water without many feature at all. Also check out the front page or things people have found (eg, oil rigs): http://www.tomnod.com/nod/
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Mar 21, 2014 14:54
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Was flying into EWR the other day, and on approach I noticed what looked like the hulls of some old boats in the Raritan River in NJ. Anyone know anything about these?
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Apr 1, 2014 21:34
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few more a bit south of that spot as well just some old rear end boats that got sunk there I guess.
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Apr 1, 2014 23:42
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Not that strange, but I'm mostly surprised there aren't more things like this. I'm assuming it's glare, but I'm not sure how the purple and green and yellow came about. Victoria, B.C.
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Apr 2, 2014 21:52
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Megadyptes posted:just some old rear end boats that got sunk there I guess. So called "Ghost fleets" are all over the northeast. Mostly reserve-fleet merchants from the First World War.
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Apr 2, 2014 22:06
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Apr 3, 2014 09:22
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Fors Yard posted:Not that strange, but I'm mostly surprised there aren't more things like this. I'm assuming it's glare, but I'm not sure how the purple and green and yellow came about. Probably chromatic aberration
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Apr 4, 2014 01:27
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Apple maps, but still. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2607667/Is-THIS-Loch-Ness-Monster-Apples-Maps-satellite-image-Nessie.html
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Apr 19, 2014 08:04
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7thBatallion posted:Apple maps So that's probably actually Lake Michigan or something
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Apr 19, 2014 14:52
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It's a boat.
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Apr 19, 2014 15:09
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withak posted:It's a boat. I WANT TO BELIEVE
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Apr 20, 2014 07:19
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It's great that even the outline of the boat is still visible and the whole thing is just low contrast because of mist but after a six months analysis by the experts at the Official Loch Ness Monster Fan Club...
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Apr 20, 2014 09:07
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That looks nothing like a 100 million year old plesiosaur, sorry guy.
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Apr 20, 2014 09:15
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'For six months the image has been studied by experts at the Official Loch Ness Monster Fan Club lol
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Apr 21, 2014 15:57
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that reminded me when the local newspaper ran a story about some idiot seeing a ghost on google maps. I googled it and the daily mail also ran the story lol http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2278635/Image-ghostly-man-spotted-Google-Earth-remains-village.html it's the shadow of some radar mast or something that you can easily look at in the loving street view.
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Apr 21, 2014 16:03
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Megadyptes posted:that reminded me when the local newspaper ran a story about some idiot seeing a ghost on google maps. I googled it and the daily mail also ran the story lol As much as I hate the DM, that was clearly just them using it as an excuse to run a piece on Filton airport & the Brabazon
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Found a plane flying over the Columbia River. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.936274,-119.187155&ll=45.935979,-119.186184&spn=0.003276,0.004823&t=h&z=18
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