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Google Earth Reveals Oddities and Secrets

popsci.typepad.com — The editors at PC World spent some time using Google Earth to scour the surface of the planet, and they turned up some incredibly strange sights.

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  • Accutron, on 10/10/2007, -24/+6Boy, this is neato!
    • alittleroy101, on 10/10/2007, -2/+52Boy, this is blogspam.
      • mdhauke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3That's it, one pic and some blog spam?????

        who ever dugg this story up should be banned from the internet forever.
      • glinsvad, on 12/25/2007, -0/+1Totally agree... downright stolen from www.googlesightseeing.com
    • PARAPA, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11OMG how many times do we have to see this? More lame blogspam ffs
    • shortcircuit13, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6The 1980's wants its toy advertisement back.
    • themastersb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2This is just spam that references something that was already on front page a couple weeks ago.
      • zongamin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1its more than a couple of weeks old - it older than the REAL earth
  • goeatsmsht, on 10/10/2007, -2/+198Link to the actual article:
    http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134186/article.html
  • twrife, on 10/10/2007, -3/+89Blog Spam.
  • MasterThief117, on 10/10/2007, -5/+21This one confuses the hell out of me
    http://images.pcworld.com/opinion/graphics/134186-04_carParkedOnWall.jpg
  • XISUPERMANIX, on 10/10/2007, -0/+53WTF?
    http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=k&ll=33.39845000,44.48416800&q=Iraq&spn=0.002907,0.005869

    kool-aid?
    blood?
    • tgulden, on 10/10/2007, -11/+12That, sir, would be the blood of the infidels. Or the 6500 tonne jello mold that George W. Bush asked congress for. At least we know our $285 Billion has been well spent.
    • joefreeza, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Is the guy above being serious? What the hell is that?
    • xcheats, on 10/10/2007, -1/+29Algae
    • crydi, on 10/10/2007, -8/+2Seriously man! what the hell is that?!
      Algae aren't red.. are they? I mean, I believe that the green one are algae. but.. red?
      • corvairkid, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Yes, there are red algae or some other type of organism bloom. Happens in the Nile river every once in a while.
      • fotodevil, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Could be a Red Tide, which is an algae bloom. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_tide

        However, the location seems unusual. There is something add about it.
    • manogamez, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Iron rich soak-pond
    • harksaw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That's the first Plague. You've never seen the Ten Commandments, I guess?
  • Nizza, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7The 'crop circle' image looks like a SAM battery to me.
    • BennyBoy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3thats because that is what it is... think about where beaty nevada is... they do alot of "unofficial" testing up that way...
      • Atomic1fire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1or a black lady getting held from the back by a miner or something
        the the dudes arms are near the head and the black lady is listening to an ipod
    • CompIsMyRx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3You'd think that aliens could be a little more precise with that circle. It looks like a 4 year old drew it.
  • rushco, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I see a guy climbing it. I also heard of a guy who was found dead today after going out to climb a rock.Coicendence?
    • m0laria, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6So you're saying google earth kills whoever it takes a picture of?
      • Cloud7654, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Another reason to stay inside and Digg all day.
  • ImSmarterThanU, on 10/10/2007, -4/+29This is super! All the reasons I love Digg encapsulated in one post! I was in a coma from 2001 to 2006 and missed a lot of great stuff. I often visit Digg to catch up on missed items such as this.
    Can anyone fill me in on Sony, Iraq and Paris Hilton?
    • napsack, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7You forgot your '/sarcasm'
      • PsychoPNut, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Maybe he/she is telling the truth??? :-p
      • PaulOwen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Not with a login name "ImSmarterThanU".
  • treelovinhippie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+24"The editors at PC World spent some time using Google Earth to scour the surface of the planet, and they turned up some incredibly strange sights."

    You mean the editors had nothing else to write about, so they did a 5sec search for "google earth images" and copied the same old stuff everyone with any knowledge of how to operate a mouse and browser have already seen. No Digg.
  • gregharmon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22I know that digg is about user control -- however, I think it would be a great idea to have moderators who change the links to the original articles, when blog spam reaches the front page. ( For Videos and News )
    • DeFex, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1and temp ban first offenders from posting for a week, and second offenders perma banned.
    • joefreeza, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4This article would have probably never gotten on here if Digg was like that.
    • endlessoul, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Quite honestly, if you want moderation of submitted articles, go to Slashdot.
  • Tckob, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3yeah, crop circle??? What an idiot...............Its a dirt circle right?
  • graemee, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1No flying car from Perth.

    http://googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=749&c=&ll=-32.011915,115.786403&spn=0.004276,0.007231&t=k
  • starfisch, on 10/10/2007, -4/+5I'm really glad to see this! Digg needs more new and exciting articles that haven't been on the frontpage 6 or 7 times yet!
    • PsychoPNut, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I hope you're being a smart ass, if not, you're a dumb ass
  • kakifry, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Nobody cares about your weak ass blog... link directly to the article next time chum.
  • DeFex, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5PCworld stole this from some "top 10 google earth" thing i saw here a while ago.
  • hansning, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7the jet plane in paris looks like the canadien Avro Arrow. they were supposed to be destroyed.
    • Azertyqsdf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's more likely a Mirage 2000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirage_2000
    • corvairkid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Back in my Air Cadet days, I heard a story about how one of the Arrow's was flown out to Cold Lake, Alberta and ditched. The lake is about 500m deep and freshwater so any plane down there would be preserved quite well and yet still be recoverable. The last part of the story is that due to the RCAF base there, the Canadian military won't allow the lake to be searched for national security reasons.
  • fernB, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3does it now where my lucky charms are?
  • The0, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18***** BLOGSPAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • puddi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Pretty sure that this same exact thing was posted a few weeks ago, dupe.
  • VeganG, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I don't know who has more time on their hands: PC World, or the people who made the giant Oprah.
  • patientXero, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Gogle Earth is so ***** cool.
  • guerchmann, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Why digg a blog post that doesn't add any information, intestead of digging the original linked article?

    People are attention seekers, really...
  • Jamesblonde1979, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1This is pretty cool but I was dissappointed that the title alluded ti 'OdditieS' and 'secretS' but showed only one pic.
  • wharlie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5The blood lake in Iraq is plain scary.
    http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=k&ll=33.39845000,44.48416800&q=Iraq&spn=0.002907,0.005869
    • mgagne, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3This might really be blood as well:

      "Bryan William Jones says,
      Regarding the canal of blood: I was told by a friend of mine (US Army Captain who spent a not inconsiderable time in Baghdad) that in parts of Baghdad, there are slaughter houses that dump the "waste blood" of animals into canals, turning them red with blood."
      http://boingboing.net/2007/02/14/google_earth_helpful.html
      • docbob84, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Nah, this one's the wrong color for blood. Not to say it *couldn't* happen, just not this one. It's red algae, that or a red type of halophilic bacteria.
        • Atomic1fire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Anyone reminded of the story of moses and the pharoh
          Looks like sadam didnt let his people go
  • CaptainSponge, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0I thought this was pretty good when someone posted it last week...
  • crapmatic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I want an option to Bury as Blogspam. Speaking as someone who is on a slow Internet connection, I don't appreciate my time wasted like that.
    • musicbear, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Here here, surely there could be a way for digg itself to not allow links to blog domains? Or to mark an article somehow that says, despite being told that this has already been submitted, the user went ahead and submitted a duplicate article? Maybe?
      • JudgeMonkey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1yes, completely block certain domains. Because some of the most interesting things never came from blogs but only big name sites.....
  • crapmatic, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Quick summary:
    * Badlands Guardian in Alberta that looks like a head
    * 200-foot artsy bunny in Prata Nevoso, Italy
    * Symbol written in dirt outside Beatty, Nevada
    * Portrait of Oprah carved into crop field in Arizona (groan)
    * Scale model of India-China border region on Chinese military base
    * Sunbathers on Bondi Beach, Australia
    * National Geographic ultra-high res imagery over waterhole in Nigeria
    * Car "parked" on vertical wall in Westenbergstraat, Netherlands
    * African elephants in ultra-high res imagery
    * Victoria Falls in Africa
    * Giant Ford logo in Detroit
    * WWII bomber inflight over England
    * Ship lying on its side in Basra, Iraq
    * Aftermath of overturned truck near Bismarck, ND
    * Jet fighter parked in Paris neighborhood
  • Leefa, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1The tipped over ships occur all up the river from the gulf inland to iraq. I don't think that they are tipped over, i think that it is a mistake in the compiling of satellite images.
  • thekauf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7wow, you couldn't just link to the actual thing?
  • SquigglyP, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Way to spam your blog.
    I hope you trip and fall on a steak knife.
    Digg your blog when you manage to write something original and interesting on it, not just when you take a ***** article that's already got it's own ***** url, and link it through your blog. That people allow this to go on without saying something, burying ***** is beyond me. Thank you people for digging this ***** up to the front page. In a few years I'll bet 90% of the internet will be blogs with links to other blogs with links to blogs with links to articles. Here's hoping advertisers find a better way to buy ad space, thus making this sort of behavior worthless to the money worshiping greedy coniving ***** that pull this kind of *****.

    Die in a fire.
    • PsychoPNut, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I figured you'd have more thumbs up then just me... oh well
  • Takteek, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Can someone please tell me what this is:
    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=San+Luis+Drive,+San+Luis+Obispo,+CA&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=25.022005,58.710937&ie=UTF8&ll=35.296016,-120.634373&spn=0.003135,0.007167&t=k&z=18&om=1

    I've been within 10 feet of it, but the ground is raised up around it and there is a chain-link fence with barbed wire. I can't see inside.
  • kirkness, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12what really bugs me about dupes is that digg tells you youre about to post a dupe. and the douches do it anyway
    • zongamin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2yep there are some ***** idiots about.
  • nphase, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Heh. On the source page:

    "Do you remember the "face" on Mars, and how it was linked to life on the planet?

    Well, I think there is proof that there is "intelligent" life on Earth, too."

    Very nice.
  • zongamin, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3So far there are 840 idiots who have dugg this *****. *****.

  • varble, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4why is Google Earth so damn slow to update its image cache? I can see 90% of empty ass Africa, but still can't see my neighbors wife sunbathing dammit.
  • ktchpmn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3he couldnt post the actual article because that article was already posted
  • greeeg, on 10/10/2007, -4/+0Kind of I-Pod ad ?
  • greeeg, on 10/10/2007, -4/+0Kinf of I-Pod ad ?
  • robbielaney, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I thought this was actually going to be cool!
  • indorock, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Finally we found Saddam's WMD's! He's been hiding them (it) it Paris the whole time!

    http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134186-page,16-c,mapping/article.html
  • Kratos76, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=-18.529225,-70.25002&ie=UTF8&ll=-18.529055,-70.249988&spn=0.002736,0.004292&t=k&z=18&om=1
  • nesibus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1The page keeps referring to it as "satellite" images....when its not, most is done by DigitalGlobe... that takes photography of all the areas.
  • escapedspecimen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1title should be reveals "one" oddity that we've all seen before...buried for being lame
  • Wizer04, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2This was already posted.
  • tubaros, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1This is so old it wees into a bag.
  • louser, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2No nude beaches?
  • fazed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1http://mapofstrange.com/
  • hodgsonb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Most this has been seen before, and more, from http://googlesightseeing.com/
  • weedancer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Arizona Oprah FTW!
  • BlackPhantom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Ugh... again. I've seen these images so many times before. Buried because 1. It's Blogspam 2. A Dupe and 3.Inaccurate (PC World clearly didn't find these images, regular Google earth users did)
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