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- Signalis, on 11/10/2007, -8/+593I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.
- santiago1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+248 So they, uh, haven't quite worked out all the bugs in Google Maps, eh?
- BigPapi, on 11/07/2007, -8/+151The MIB have been slacking.
- jasper976, on 11/07/2007, -8/+142this is going to take one big ass can of RAID.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+103An earwig must have somehow found a way into the lens assembly.
Ths picture is probably from either a plane or helicopter (plane, I think).
Earwigs like crawling into tight spaces. - skaface69, on 10/12/2007, -9/+83Thanks Mr.Obvious for enlightening us. Boy your swell!
- skaface69, on 11/07/2007, -2/+74how does something like happen?
I've been to germany a couple of times and i don't remember seeing any 200 ft long bugs, but i was staying in cities. so who knows.
blackholes, transporters, and how huge bugs. these central european counties must be stopped! - SniperGX1, on 10/12/2007, -5/+76It wasn't a rock.... It was a rock... LOBSTER
- abbott75, on 10/12/2007, -3/+73Umm...?
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Scientists_explain_why_insects_dont_get_fat - swanny89, on 10/12/2007, -4/+70Ba Dum psh!
- heavensblade23, on 10/12/2007, -4/+70Bush's good twin.
- CanadaMan87, on 10/12/2007, -5/+70If a bug (or anything for that matter) was on or in the lens, it wouldn't show up so clearly. The lens focuses on stuff that is extremely far away; something that is ON the lens would just appear as a big black blur.
Maybe it's just a joke by Google? like moon.google.com - noodlez, on 10/12/2007, -4/+68why isn't it repeated anywhere else
- eplawless, on 10/12/2007, -5/+59lasers.
- Tarvok, on 11/07/2007, -20/+70roflol
- edzieba, on 10/12/2007, -1/+51My guess is not a bug on the lens, but a bug on a printout that was scanned.
- daprice, on 10/12/2007, -9/+51So that's where crop circles come from.
- upsilonh24, on 10/12/2007, -4/+41/////////what Germany needs is a good exterminator to get rid of the vermin.//////////
For some reason, that comment made my unconfortable. - Shabadoo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+41Who's Buch?
- GiggleStick, on 10/12/2007, -9/+44That's CAPTAIN Obvious to you, buddy.
- AWBoy666, on 10/12/2007, -5/+39Anyone else think that it looks like the big flying thing in HL2?
- Boor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30Thats the most dugg up comment Ive ever seen.
To not have a pointless observation as the only thing I post heres the youtube video, the quote happens at like 2:30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KVr757F0xw - ayeroxor, on 10/12/2007, -5/+33You guys are all very funny. Nobody realizes the simple: The bug was on this image when it was scanned off of paper. As stated many times, it couldn't be on the lens or it would be out of focus, and no, this is not a Google joke; it would be a stupid joke, and Google is more savvy than that.
As for the person who said it's like the fly on the lens, that fly was out of focus, and it's not unlikely that the fly was on a ground-based camera. It is however unlikely that this earwig or thrips or whatever was on what is probably a low-Earth-orbit imaging satellite lens assembly. - liquilife, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21I captured a screen in google earth so that we can see how enormous our beloved insect is when compared to buildings.
http://www.liquilife.com/insectoverlord.jpg
This is halarious. - hbvp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18It's not an earwig. It's a thrips (Thysanoptera). Very tiny insects.
See: http://tolweb.org/Thysanoptera
I like the scanner theory - marnaq, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Zoidberg!
- Technopundit, on 10/12/2007, -12/+29Round up the usual suspects. Inform the ambassador. Call-up the President.
I'll order lunch. - Shawnosaurus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Whoever dangles those needs to ***** right off. Too many squiggly strings!
- afex, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17left claw north
RIGHT CLAW SOUTH - Thuktun, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21His swell what?
- kolop1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Call Japan. They are used to being attacked by large creatures.
- awm4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I am a cartographer one of the things that I do is orthorectification and image mosacing. I have seen many odd things that have no explanation. However this is easily explaned. There are two different ways that a giant bug could find its way onto a photo like this.
1. If the image was ever scanned it is possible but unlikely that a bug could get into the scanner and walla. (I have seen some interesting things scanned on to images runing there quality, but never any bugs.) I doubt that this was the case here, be case of the lack of bug guts surrounding the bug and the clarity with which the bug appears on the image.
2. Extensive editing is needed to get these images to flow correctly when mosacing them together. (Just look closely at some of the bridges. Some are editted more closely than others. The ones that have noticeable flaw normally appear wavy.) Some of the editing is done in photo shop. The person doing the editing may have decided to have a little fun and then a cockroach ends up attacking Germany. This is the more likely scenario. - VipeNess, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15LOL look on google earth, you can zoom in better
just type in hulen, germany and move to the left alittle bit and youll see it - GiggleStick, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14I know a Cryptoentomologist., and I've forwarded the link to him. Hopefully he'll get back to me soon....
- archivist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14its just a space bug stuck to the lens of the satellite camera
- umdigger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13chrono,
What does a territory in the north part of Switzerland have to do with people from Sweden? I must be missing something here.... - bentrop, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Sure they do! Have you ever been to Germany?
I, for one, live in this wonderful country ... where the Buggalo roam ... - Technopundit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11He believed those crappy WMD pictures. I just want to see his reaction.
- crash331, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10The bug probably wasn't in the lens assembly in the plane, but in the place where the film is transfered to a positive image.
- glucoseboy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12I, für ein, begrüßen unsere neuen Insekt overlords.
Thank you google! - hodyoaten, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Has anyone heard of photo negatives? Sounds like some of the posters here would go to the movie theater, see those occasional random scratch lines streaming up and down on the screen, and wonder what prankster was in the studio dangling wires and string in front of the camera.
- rcflyr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The only way it would show up that clearly if it was anywhere near the lens is at an extremely high aperture. With an opening that small it would have to be a longer exposure which would cause blurring of the ground if taken from a plane moving at any kind of speed.
- MrFlibble1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Yep, certanly an earwig, I can't see the tail pincers though, and it certanly looks squashed. It could have been dead and dried up too, and been blown across a lens or similar, because you would think they would notice it if it was in every frame, and reshoot the area.
- pumacub, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Wait... they're not dangling string?
- SlechtValk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I don't suppose you know what kind of alien life form leaves a green spectral trail and craves sugar water, do you?
- transeunte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8As long as these things can't fly nor swim, I'm cool with that.
- xtr3m, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It's my guess too. I think that satellite industry still uses film.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9@noodlez
How do you know it's not? Have you been looked over the Google maps in Germany?
Also, though, it couldn't be a bug on the lens, because there's no way it would be in focus. It would just appear as a brownish stain on the picture. The focus is many miles away on the ground. - CharlesMay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Is it possible that some photos were scanned in later and this happened to be on a photo?
edit: Oops, edzieba beat me to it - farrellj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7They should have never started that super collider, I guess...
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