Post your favourite Google Earth images here.

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https://www.boredpanda.com/interesting-google-earth-map-finds/?afterlogin=savecommentvote&comment=3029696&score=-1

What is this hole off the NSW coast?

Ian said:

What is this hole off the NSW coast?

The Earth is flat, remember. The hole is where the post at the centre of the turntable goes.

Rule 303 said:

Ian said:

What is this hole off the NSW coast?

The Earth is flat, remember. The hole is where the post at the centre of the turntable goes.

:)

But the centre is at the north magnetic pole. Everyone knows that!

Ian said:

What is this hole off the NSW coast?

There’s an island, so it and a small patch of the surrounding ocean is displayed as photographed. The rest of the ocean is just coloured generically with some variation in colour for depth.

party_pants said:

Ian said:

What is this hole off the NSW coast?

There’s an island, so it and a small patch of the surrounding ocean is displayed as photographed. The rest of the ocean is just coloured generically with some variation in colour for depth.

What island? Are you just making shit up?

Ian said:

What is this hole off the NSW coast?

I give up. You tell me.

Ian said:

party_pants said:

Ian said:

What is this hole off the NSW coast?

There’s an island, so it and a small patch of the surrounding ocean is displayed as photographed. The rest of the ocean is just coloured generically with some variation in colour for depth.

What island? Are you just making shit up?

they are exposed rocks. you can see the waves breaking on them.

Michael V said:

Ian said:

What is this hole off the NSW coast?

I give up. You tell me.

Looks like a hole, a whole one.

ChrispenEvan said:

Ian said:

party_pants said:

There’s an island, so it and a small patch of the surrounding ocean is displayed as photographed. The rest of the ocean is just coloured generically with some variation in colour for depth.

What island? Are you just making shit up?

they are exposed rocks. you can see the waves breaking on them.

it is Mermaid Reef.

Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater.

• What is this hole off the NSW coast?

It is the shadow of the satellite taking the picture…

yeah, I know that it is not…

Ian said:

party_pants said:

Ian said:

What is this hole off the NSW coast?

There’s an island, so it and a small patch of the surrounding ocean is displayed as photographed. The rest of the ocean is just coloured generically with some variation in colour for depth.

What island? Are you just making shit up?

rocks, islands, exposed tidal reefs, sandbars etc… a speck of land, I can see the waves breaking on.

Michael V said:

Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater.

what’s that needle thing next to it?

:)

ChrispenEvan said:

Ian said:

party_pants said:

There’s an island, so it and a small patch of the surrounding ocean is displayed as photographed. The rest of the ocean is just coloured generically with some variation in colour for depth.

What island? Are you just making shit up?

they are exposed rocks. you can see the waves breaking on them.

Ah ok.. optical trick… is it sinking down or sticking up?

Ian said:

Rule 303 said:

Ian said:

What is this hole off the NSW coast?

The Earth is flat, remember. The hole is where the post at the centre of the turntable goes.

:)

But the centre is at the north magnetic pole. Everyone knows that!

Fair to shake the very mandrels of the world

dv said:

Ian said:

Rule 303 said:

The Earth is flat, remember. The hole is where the post at the centre of the turntable goes.

:)

But the centre is at the north magnetic pole. Everyone knows that!

Fair to shake the very mandrels of the world

mandrills

We check addresses for clients to make sure they are real and spelt correctly, etc often what’s recorded is wrong.

I remember checking one and the client was in Google street view with a police car out the front and him looking disheveled and angry

• We check addresses for clients

Is that what you have to call them? Clients?

furious said:

• We check addresses for clients

Is that what you have to call them? Clients?

Supposedly, offenders really

OK. Aerial photo, not Google Earth. Southern Iceland

mollwollfumble said:

OK. Aerial photo, not Google Earth. Southern Iceland

Frozen lakes?

Ian said:

mollwollfumble said:

OK. Aerial photo, not Google Earth. Southern Iceland

Frozen lakes?

I think so.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-21/why-large-parts-of-earth-are-censored-by-google-maps/10826024

sarahs mum said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-21/why-large-parts-of-earth-are-censored-by-google-maps/10826024

Got it. Image is of a “The MIM-104 Patriot is a surface-to-air missile system, the primary of its kind used by the United States Army and several allied nations.” In Taiwan.

Once looking at a Chinese Earthquake zone on Google Earth I stumbled across what looked like a giant Aeroplane in the Chinese mountains.

The whole vertical scale of Google Earth is badly out of whack anyway. So you couldn’t use it to direct missiles there anyway. And any adversary worth their salt is going to have better access to the original images.

mollwollfumble said:

sarahs mum said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-21/why-large-parts-of-earth-are-censored-by-google-maps/10826024

Got it. Image is of a “The MIM-104 Patriot is a surface-to-air missile system, the primary of its kind used by the United States Army and several allied nations.” In Taiwan.

Once looking at a Chinese Earthquake zone on Google Earth I stumbled across what looked like a giant Aeroplane in the Chinese mountains.

The whole vertical scale of Google Earth is badly out of whack anyway. So you couldn’t use it to direct missiles there anyway. And any adversary worth their salt is going to have better access to the original images.

A typical example of how good the vertical heights are in Google Earth.

mollwollfumble said:

mollwollfumble said:

sarahs mum said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-21/why-large-parts-of-earth-are-censored-by-google-maps/10826024

Got it. Image is of a “The MIM-104 Patriot is a surface-to-air missile system, the primary of its kind used by the United States Army and several allied nations.” In Taiwan.

Once looking at a Chinese Earthquake zone on Google Earth I stumbled across what looked like a giant Aeroplane in the Chinese mountains.

The whole vertical scale of Google Earth is badly out of whack anyway. So you couldn’t use it to direct missiles there anyway. And any adversary worth their salt is going to have better access to the original images.

A typical example of how good the vertical heights are in Google Earth.

Seems legit.

mollwollfumble said:

I can’t see the issue….

mollwollfumble said:

sarahs mum said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-21/why-large-parts-of-earth-are-censored-by-google-maps/10826024

Got it. Image is of a “The MIM-104 Patriot is a surface-to-air missile system, the primary of its kind used by the United States Army and several allied nations.” In Taiwan.

Once looking at a Chinese Earthquake zone on Google Earth I stumbled across what looked like a giant Aeroplane in the Chinese mountains.

The whole vertical scale of Google Earth is badly out of whack anyway. So you couldn’t use it to direct missiles there anyway. And any adversary worth their salt is going to have better access to the original images.

Boy picky, back in the day you had to be satisfied with informed guesses and measuring shadows. Though I did hear one trick, minefields and barbed wire give themselves away as bands of different growth even when you cannot see them.

OCDC said:

mollwollfumble said:

mollwollfumble said:

Got it. Image is of a “The MIM-104 Patriot is a surface-to-air missile system, the primary of its kind used by the United States Army and several allied nations.” In Taiwan.

Once looking at a Chinese Earthquake zone on Google Earth I stumbled across what looked like a giant Aeroplane in the Chinese mountains.

The whole vertical scale of Google Earth is badly out of whack anyway. So you couldn’t use it to direct missiles there anyway. And any adversary worth their salt is going to have better access to the original images.

A typical example of how good the vertical heights are in Google Earth.

Seems legit.

If you’re peaking on LSD.

mollwollfumble said:

mollwollfumble said:

sarahs mum said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-21/why-large-parts-of-earth-are-censored-by-google-maps/10826024

Got it. Image is of a “The MIM-104 Patriot is a surface-to-air missile system, the primary of its kind used by the United States Army and several allied nations.” In Taiwan.

Once looking at a Chinese Earthquake zone on Google Earth I stumbled across what looked like a giant Aeroplane in the Chinese mountains.

The whole vertical scale of Google Earth is badly out of whack anyway. So you couldn’t use it to direct missiles there anyway. And any adversary worth their salt is going to have better access to the original images.

A typical example of how good the vertical heights are in Google Earth.

ahh, is that what does it. And gives birth to multiple websites called worlds craziest bridges etc.

mollwollfumble said:

mollwollfumble said:

sarahs mum said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-21/why-large-parts-of-earth-are-censored-by-google-maps/10826024

Got it. Image is of a “The MIM-104 Patriot is a surface-to-air missile system, the primary of its kind used by the United States Army and several allied nations.” In Taiwan.

Once looking at a Chinese Earthquake zone on Google Earth I stumbled across what looked like a giant Aeroplane in the Chinese mountains.

The whole vertical scale of Google Earth is badly out of whack anyway. So you couldn’t use it to direct missiles there anyway. And any adversary worth their salt is going to have better access to the original images.

A typical example of how good the vertical heights are in Google Earth.

Salvador Dali Freeway Bridge

NASA photoessay of the Earth as seen from space.

https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/earth_detail.html

Separate chapters for Atmosphere, Water, Land and Ice/Snow.

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