Google Earth

[Stanislaw]

Some screen captures I made while browsing Google Earth (earth.google.com)

I was really amazed to see the size of the great pyramids, I had not realized that they were so large!

btw: Google Earth, is a satalite imaging software thing, it can be downloaded for free using the above link, and at the same link is more google earth information.

[Koa]

Very cool!
Esepecially cos I had been wondering a while about what the hell (or what the earth ;)) Google Earth is!

Wow I didnt know the pyramids were so near to the city (if that's a city what I see)... I thought they were in the middle of nowhere!

[Stanislaw]

ai, thats cairo next to them, I never realized the proximity either untill I actually saw the satalite images!

more google fun: google moon (http://moon.google.com/)

a nasa supplied satalite map of the appollo landing sites. google is taking over!!!
google moon easter egg: zoom all the way in! wallace and grommit eat yer heart out!

[Stanislaw]

A few more Google earth Images.

[Stanislaw]

Does anyone know what the images entitled: notsure/notsure2 are? (notsure2 is a more zoomed out view of notsure), I was just cruising around egypt and found this weird mark: is it modern, is it some series of ruins, is it just a geographic anomoly???

I am not sure myself.

[Nightshade]

where were they in saqra or at the pyrimids??
I think it may be whats his face's latest discovery the living quarters of the builders its a camp and that would be their graves and on the other side woulkd be the living place!!

ohh BTW you do know that spralling black thing by the pyramids is a Road (a rubbish road but a road none the less)

[subterranean]

Can we google the wrecked ships lie in the sea?

[Stanislaw]

where were they in saqra or at the pyrimids??
I think it may be whats his face's latest discovery the living quarters of the builders its a camp and that would be their graves and on the other side woulkd be the living place!!

ohh BTW you do know that spralling black thing by the pyramids is a Road (a rubbish road but a road none the less)

The unknowns were quite a bit south of the pyramids from what I could reckon, there is not a very easy identifiable distance marker. But ye have the best identification yet!
The black thing, I assumed it was a road, but by rubbish road you mean one leading to a sanitary landfill, a road made up of rubish debris, or a bogus road?

[simon]

Does anyone find is lightly alarming that you can see such detail in an arial view on the internet?

[Nightshade]

The unknowns were quite a bit south of the pyramids from what I could reckon, there is not a very easy identifiable distance marker. But ye have the best identification yet!
oh in that case it could be the leaning pyramid I suppose? never beeen there but it was south.

The black thing, I assumed it was a road, but by rubbish road you mean one leading to a sanitary landfill, a road made up of rubish debris, or a bogus road?
I mena a0 a road full of potholes b0 a road that you cant drive your car on because only people like the police/security can and finall c) a road that goes no where.

Simon not really :D

[Stanislaw]

oh in that case it could be the leaning pyramid I suppose? never beeen there but it was south.

I mena a0 a road full of potholes b0 a road that you cant drive your car on because only people like the police/security can and finall c) a road that goes no where.

Simon not really :D

oh cool, why would the police need a road that goes nowhere?

and simon:
yup, its pretty creepy, ye can zoom into my house close enough to see one o the vehicles there.

[Shea]

Aren't the veiws are older images? My husband was able to zoom into the street where he grew up in Wichita. I think he said the trees were smaller than now.

[Stanislaw]

I have heard that they are anywhere between 2 and 4 years old, but I am not 100% sure. I f ye check out edmonton alberta, you can see that half of the pictures were taken during the summer, and the other half during the winter, tis pretty funny.

[Nightshade]

oh cool, why would the police need a road that goes nowhere?
.
you poor nieve biy theives of course!!
also it makes the tourist more comfortable to see security specially post 9/11
and your not allowed to climb the pyramids so they just circle around
oh and when you have foriegn dignitries (isnt that an odd word) they drive up in cars because youcant make them walk can you??
even thopugh its best seen walking :rolleyes:

[Stanislaw]

ahh, okay I understand now, but wouldn't it make sense to half the road say, actually go somewhere, or loop around or something?

[Nightshade]

err sense?
whoi ever heard of such a thing!!