Identify strange things on Google Maps

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SulfurMonoxideCute: Feb 9, 2008; I was under direct orders not to die
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How about a giant motherfuckin' T-Rex?

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h...3,0.006899&z=17

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SulfurMonoxideCute: Feb 9, 2008; I was under direct orders not to die
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Earwicker posted:

Here's an insanely ugly building I randomly came across:

http://qsview.com/2llwucz3rmlv1z1y4zunz2u

Some very expensive but completely tasteless hotel I guess

So I clicked on your link, then started typing an address in the search bar, and as you type, you jump to different places all over the world. It's pretty fun. I like this new Google Maps.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2013 06:18

SulfurMonoxideCute: Feb 9, 2008; I was under direct orders not to die
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Glacier talk! I did a bunch of geology, geomorphology, and geography courses here in Canada and almost all of our terrain is wonderfully post-glacial. Those are all scour lines and various types of moraines, and indicate the flow direction of the glacier or icesheet as it advanced. The Northwest Territories is my favourite place, because you can see a clear line where the Cordilleran and Laurentide Icesheets bumped up against each other.

You can see it nice and clear up there because the landscape is mostly tundra, whereas farther south it's covered in forest and altered by agriculture. I just love how the different flow patterns on either side made completely different shorelines on Great Slave and Great Bear Lakes.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2013 04:05

SulfurMonoxideCute: Feb 9, 2008; I was under direct orders not to die
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copy of a posted:

Is this thread still (hopefully) at least semi-active? The last post wasn't too long ago, but I don't want to be reviving a dead thread..

Anyway. There's a few things on Google maps that I have found near me that have completely baffled me for as long as I've been exploring Google maps.

I found this a bit north of me. It looks like giant fountains coming out of some sort of pond? It's not really close to anything, just out in the middle of the woods, like most of the other things I'll be posting are.

I searched for this exact thing in PYF a short time ago when someone posted a picture of it from an airplane, it's a pulp mill with effluent ponds.

# ¿ Feb 6, 2014 21:10

SulfurMonoxideCute: Feb 9, 2008; I was under direct orders not to die
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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.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2014 08:41

SulfurMonoxideCute: Feb 9, 2008; I was under direct orders not to die
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That looks nothing like a 100 million year old plesiosaur, sorry guy.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2014 09:15

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SulfurMonoxideCute: Feb 9, 2008; I was under direct orders not to die
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Funny looking triangle.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2014 23:32

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