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indi
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2005 17:17
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this is pretty cool, bummer it doesnt work on my mac yet

http://earth.google.com/

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PowerSoft
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2005 18:49
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Just downloading now

Looks cool, cheers Indi

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David T
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2005 18:54
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Installed it a few weeks ago. Pretty cool, but it takes ages to download new stuff for me.

"A book. If u know something why cant u make a kool game or prog.
come on now. A book. I hate books. book is stupid. I know that I need codes but I dont know the codes"
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PowerSoft
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2005 19:43
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Its fantastic, though slightly scary. I know which town David lives in I can search find all his details using Google. Big Brother is watching

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David T
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2005 19:51
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So? I know where you live. Ooh look. I can see a very very high altitude picture of your town too. Am I likely to come and try and kidnap you? Erm... nope.

What's more interesting is typing TGC's postcode into google earth

"A book. If u know something why cant u make a kool game or prog.
come on now. A book. I hate books. book is stupid. I know that I need codes but I dont know the codes"
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Drew Cameron
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2005 20:20
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Pretty cool!

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adr
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2005 21:26
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Quote: "What's more interesting is typing TGC's postcode into google earth "


Is it based in the Heinz factory? Oh no, wait - the offices will be above a Hampsons Pie Shop, I know it.

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Ian T
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Posted: 4th Jul 2005 01:27
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This is just Keyhole ported and made freeware, really, which is what they've been doing lately. Hopefuly they'll start integrating their various tools with each other soon.

If I looking for blog
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Lost in Thought
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Posted: 4th Jul 2005 01:32
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That is pretty cool. If they went in just a bit further I could see my land.

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Keaz
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Posted: 4th Jul 2005 01:40 Edited at: 4th Jul 2005 01:43
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http://maps.google.com/
Type in an address and then click on satelite. It's the same sort of thing I could see the slab my house was built on from about 8 months ago.


P.S. This is a 2 Meter satelite. 0.6 Meter commercial statelites (3 Times the resolution do exist)

Breaking Stuff=Fun!,Bug Testing<>Fun!, Bug Testing=Breaking Stuff, so...
Bug Testing=Fun! Hmmmm....
DOES NOT COMPUTE! SYSTEM MALFUNTION!

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Lost in Thought
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Posted: 4th Jul 2005 02:18
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Yeah that one doesn't have a good zoom level for my area either. Thats the down side of living in the middle of nowhere I guess.

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Ace Of Spades
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Posted: 4th Jul 2005 03:13
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I think this is pretty cool. 3D render of buildings and all.

Don't look at me like that!

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Three Score
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Posted: 4th Jul 2005 08:19
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hmmm
i have got to get a new graphics card
# 3D graphics card: 3D-capable video card with 16MB VRAM
# 1024x768, 32-bit true color screen
that sucks i got only 4mb vram and no support for 32 bit
ahhh guess ill make a trip to walmart tonight or tommorrow

http://free-space.myftp.org/thread1.html
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Ian T
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Posted: 4th Jul 2005 09:18
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Quote: "that sucks i got only 4mb vram and no support for 32 bit"


Holy cripes, get out of 1995

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Three Score
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Posted: 4th Jul 2005 14:04
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no get out of a 2001 sh*tty gateway pc (back when xp first came out)
i got 16bit at least though(couldnt imagine 256)

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Teh Go0rfmeister
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Posted: 5th Jul 2005 04:53
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my village is just a black blur inside a green blur south of the grey blur that is birmingham.

it seems you have to be in the US for any form of detail.

its fun looking around the world for varius features, i found the colloseum, pyramids, sphinx, varius places in london, cattle rustler's house, places i visitted in turkey... i also spent a while looking for area 51 before realising it was already bookmarked.

i'm now stuck looking for the wall of china. i've locatted all the towns it runs through, but theres no line linking them up. so much for "visible from outter space"
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David T
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Posted: 5th Jul 2005 05:25
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Quote: "it seems you have to be in the US for any form of detail."


Nah - Manchester is ultra high res.

"A book. If u know something why cant u make a kool game or prog.
come on now. A book. I hate books. book is stupid. I know that I need codes but I dont know the codes"
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MiR
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Quote: "i'm now stuck looking for the wall of china. i've locatted all the towns it runs through, but theres no line linking them up. so much for "visible from outter space""

So am I. And that search is useless unless you´re looking for a restaurant.


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Ace Of Spades
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Posted: 5th Jul 2005 06:16
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Hey, if you find some cool sites around the earth, such as teh goorf, please post the coords, would love to check it out.

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Jeku
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Posted: 5th Jul 2005 06:51
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Awwww the download link is dead now


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Teh Go0rfmeister
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Posted: 5th Jul 2005 06:58 Edited at: 5th Jul 2005 07:20
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the eiffel tower looks bent while its shaddow is straight. i now declare the lunar-paris landing a hoax.

edit: ok, for the guy who requested a co-ordinate, spot the glitch:

53*21'21.00" N 6*17'32.00" W
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DBAlex
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Posted: 5th Jul 2005 07:27
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Whats the listing for Groom Lake Area 51? I found Nevada but then I cant find it...


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Teh Go0rfmeister
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Posted: 5th Jul 2005 07:38 Edited at: 5th Jul 2005 07:39
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dbalex, look in "my places", it's there by default.

in further news, the entire state of missouri is a graphical glitch... hahaha pwnd

and is there ANY green in indiana?
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Quote: "Whats the listing for Groom Lake Area 51? I found Nevada but then I cant find it... "


Rachael, NV.

"A book. If u know something why cant u make a kool game or prog.
come on now. A book. I hate books. book is stupid. I know that I need codes but I dont know the codes"
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I saw little ufo's flying about over area 51 and one of the aliens in it was waving at me !

*Ahem* I mean I didn't see anything..

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Kohaku
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It's a sweet program. Yay google.


You are not alone.

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Chris K
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Check out the detail in Cambridge, USA (near Boston).

It's down to about 5cm per pixel.

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Teh Go0rfmeister
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wow- i think chris gets the prize for the most detailled scope so far
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Benjamin
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Quote: " I saw little ufo's flying about over area 51 and one of the aliens in it was waving at me ! "

Huh.... I didn't think you could see me..


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Teh Go0rfmeister
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30*33'02.63 N , 47*48'55.76 E

check out the sunken freighter... just lying there...

the area around seems like a bombsite too

wonder why ¬.¬
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Quote: "check out the sunken freighter... just lying there..."


lol. How did you manage to find that? Its a very small object thats not even marked on the map in the middle of some desert.

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Teh Go0rfmeister
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i was actually being curius as to see if any of the iraq war devistation would show up on the images. (dont go starting on a pro/anti iraq war discussion here, i was just saying)
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no no lets start a anti handicap parking discussion

*parks in a handicap space* "hell no i wont go!"

@chris
god i bet if u looked real hard u could read the liscense plates

n00bs will be shot on spot...
i need some more ammo there are just too many of them better call in the moderators to help
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Teh Go0rfmeister
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god? where?
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@teh(obviously n00b name btw)

what do u mean God? Where that dont quite make sense with what i or anyone else posted

n00bs will be shot on spot...
i need some more ammo there are just too many of them better call in the moderators to help
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Quote: "god i bet if u looked real hard u could read the liscense plates
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Posted: 7th Jul 2005 17:08 Edited at: 7th Jul 2005 17:09
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Not as good as I thought it would be - the information can be up to 3 years old, and you can only zoom to around 700 feet before zooming in becomes useless (you have to buy it before you can zoom in more).


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Quote: "the information can be up to 3 years old"


No, some is much older than that. It doesn't show the dual carriageway through our town that was built over 10 years ago.

But it's still a damn good tool!

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I dont really see much use for it, especially as its not accurate.


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If you need it for world domination you might. . .

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What, 3-10 year old information ? I need... er I would like up-to-the minute information.


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The thing is..... your 3-10 years older. This is up to date information.

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And only the big cities are closely zoomable. My house looks like a green splotch. Actually my whole little suburb does


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Teh Go0rfmeister
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offset of reality (obviously the name of some noob trying to sound cool and cosmic and philosophical)

try reading the post before mine.
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