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- benologist, on 11/06/2008, -25/+662WOW!!!!!!!
I'm so glad the election's over and digg can get back to the quality content. - longtrekhome, on 11/06/2008, -14/+340There must be different satellite images that have been spliced together to create the satellite map (looks like 3?), each positioned at a different angle. Very interesting effect!
- AmyVernon, on 11/05/2008, -6/+220wow. That totally made me dizzy.
- rstarr, on 11/06/2008, -3/+151Goin' up the stairs and goin' down the stairs...
And goin' up the sideways stairs. - hawk3210, on 11/06/2008, -6/+137No, no, you guys have it all wrong. Those buildings are just learning over. Must be exhausting standing there all the time. It's a wonder that more buildings don't follow suit...
- Primatelord, on 11/06/2008, -3/+110First in my class here at M.I.T.
Got skills, I'm a Champion of DND
MC Escher that's my favorite MC
Keep your 40
I'll just have an Earl Grey tea - KragTheDigger, on 11/06/2008, -5/+72No no... it's not the satellites, nor airplanes... they are actually built them like that.
- ldkronos, on 11/06/2008, -0/+56planes
- apophenic, on 11/06/2008, -4/+58R'lyeh has been found.
- analogkid01, on 11/06/2008, -1/+51My rims never spin, to the contrary
You'll find they're quite stationary
All of my action figures are cherry
Stephen Hawking's in my library - backflipper, on 11/06/2008, -0/+48"they are not aloud to use them."
but they can silently use them. - Sabretou, on 11/06/2008, -2/+48O R'lyeh?
- SreyaNotfilc, on 11/06/2008, -2/+42My MySpace page is all totally pimped out
Got people beggin' for my top 8 spaces
Yo, I know Pi to a thousand place
Ain't got no grills, but I still wear braces - loobis, on 11/06/2008, -0/+39Look at this one (a little southwest of the original).
These buildings are totally making out.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=k&ll=40.754877,- ... - KayIslandDrunk, on 11/06/2008, -3/+42Thanks Captain Obvious!
- Harbinger67, on 11/06/2008, -6/+42Quality is a very subjective term....
- evil-doer, on 11/06/2008, -2/+38actually planes can do straight down better than satellites can ever do. a satellite is either in one place or in one orbit thats a straight ring. anything not right under it will be on an angle EXACTLY like in the picture.
- dougmidkiff, on 11/06/2008, -1/+37I order all of my sandwiches with mayonnaise
I'm a whiz at Minesweeper, I can play for days
Once you see my sweet moves you're gonna stay amazed
My fingers movin' so fast I'll set the place ablaze - pault107, on 11/06/2008, -2/+35palins
- Tbyrd073, on 11/06/2008, -0/+32Google divided by zero and the world is folding in on itself.
- Halokhan, on 11/06/2008, -1/+33There's no killer app I haven't run
At Pascal, well, I'm number 1
Do vector calculus just for fun
I ain't got a gat but I gotta soldering gun - iamichi, on 11/12/2008, -9/+40The photos are taken from aeroplanes which give the buildings at different angles...
Here is the live.com version...
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP& ...
And the birds eye view...
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP& ... - evereddie, on 11/06/2008, -0/+29The Google photobots did a good job with that. Would have taken an hour to do it in Photoshop!
- post3r3r, on 11/06/2008, -0/+29bacon
- jakobmakob, on 11/06/2008, -0/+29Happy Days is my favorite theme song
I could sure kick your butt in a game of ping pong
I’ll ace any trivia quiz you bring on
I’m fluent in JavaScript as well as Klingon - theOster, on 11/06/2008, -0/+28i don't know if i want to pay for a dimension i'm not going to use.
- AgentVladimir, on 11/06/2008, -2/+29I heard MC Hammer was.
- AboveandBeyond, on 11/06/2008, -0/+25can't buildings flirt with each other?
- geodebug, on 11/06/2008, -0/+25mmm, plantains
- SmellyGeekBoy, on 11/06/2008, -1/+26I think it's called... "Crazy Stairs"
- duckduckgoose1, on 11/06/2008, -1/+24Do you mean the computer algorithm that splices the images together?
- ulmanor, on 11/06/2008, -1/+23Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn…
- jasdf, on 11/06/2008, -1/+23I understand why the perspective is wrong, but I cannot figure out how it is stitched together.
- sexybobo, on 11/06/2008, -7/+27Google doesn't the US government restricts private companies from getting to high resolution. The GeoEye-1 satellite which google uses a lot can actually give them a higher resolution image but they are not aloud to use them.
But yes i have seen satellite images that you can see brand names on cigarette packs. - darookee, on 11/06/2008, -0/+20planies
- Calibur, on 11/06/2008, -0/+19Because you touch yourself at night
- Elementix, on 11/06/2008, -0/+19The meeting point of these 3 photographs is actually the gateway to hell... duh.
- TekTrixter, on 11/06/2008, -10/+28At the level of zoom the photos are taken by aircraft, not satellite.
- shortyjacobs, on 11/06/2008, -0/+18no no no, they shoot from helicopters
- adt41287, on 11/06/2008, -1/+18dugg for aeroplane. sorta like aluminium, never knew they called them that in Britain. i learned something today!
- Tyrghast, on 11/06/2008, -1/+18they have satellites that can reaed yer brainz!
- graemee, on 11/06/2008, -0/+17no no no, they shoot helicopters from planes, with snakes
- BiggestAl, on 11/06/2008, -0/+17especially as the different perspectives are intertwined within each other..
- shauryashaurya, on 11/06/2008, -4/+19the effect is really interesting! total disorientation.. kinda ironic, now you can get lost in trying to find your way in a map!!! hehe.
- jehan60188, on 11/06/2008, -11/+26they have satelites that can read newspaper headlines...
- banthis, on 11/06/2008, -1/+16plaines
- RuthlessPirate, on 11/06/2008, -0/+15I heard he wants to find another job but he's too legit to quit.
- hazelnoot, on 11/06/2008, -0/+14Where MC Escher grew up...
- buryyourhead, on 11/06/2008, -0/+14..
- DubiousDrewski, on 11/06/2008, -1/+15+1 digg for the effort, -2 diggs for not following the assignment guidelines.
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