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Nasa Satellite Map Reveals 99% Of Earth's Land Surface !

dailymail.co.uk — An astonishing new map has revealed the elevation of nearly every place on Earth.

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  • 3tcp, on 07/01/2009, -1/+58You have discovered Satellites!
    You can now build SS docking bay or The Space Elevator
    World map has been revealed!

    What would you like to research now?
  • legionfalls, on 07/01/2009, -2/+37But can it see why kids love cinnamon toast crunch?
  • bigplrbear, on 07/01/2009, -2/+2399%? I guess that last 1% just wasn't important enough eh?
  • juzz101, on 07/01/2009, -1/+19Now we know where to run when the ice-caps melt!
  • Khast, on 07/01/2009, -1/+17Wonder how long before the information is updated in Google Maps/Earth?
  • stoobywon, on 07/01/2009, -1/+15So where's the 1% it can't find?
  • QueEsAmor, on 07/01/2009, -0/+14Fiber Optics
  • rtypo, on 07/01/2009, -3/+17In my pants
  • froggger, on 07/01/2009, -5/+17high res version please?
  • kenhatesemos, on 07/01/2009, -0/+11small percentage. if you know what i mean.
  • Dotcommer, on 07/01/2009, -1/+12General / this forum

    Q: "Is this site for real?"

    A: This site is real. There are members who seriously believe the Earth is flat. However, there are also members who do not.

    Q: "Why do you guys believe the Earth is flat?"

    A: Well, it looks that way up close. In our local frame of reference, it appears to take a flat shape, ignoring obvious hills and valleys. Also, Samuel Rowbotham et al. performed a variety of experiments over a period of several years that show it must be flat. They are all explained in his book, which is linked at the top of this article.
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    ARE YOU ***** KIDDING ME?! Holy *****, talk about ignorant out the ASS.
  • apraxia, on 07/01/2009, -0/+9I just kind of assumed this already existed.
  • ATL, on 07/01/2009, -1/+10where bin laden is
  • BalooUrsidae, on 07/01/2009, -0/+9The polar regions, because it's hard to put a satellite into an orbit longitudinally, especially when all other orbital traffic runs laterally.
  • rusty11, on 07/01/2009, -4/+12so in that one% is where bigfoot, nessie and all the other monsters live!?

    sweet!
  • inactive, on 07/01/2009, -1/+9The most important tech to me in that game was railroads... it lets you cut your military hardcore and have a small maneuverable stack to handle everything and then the money starts rolling in
  • fxu1989, on 07/01/2009, -0/+6Yeah... ***** Zimbabwe.
  • constchar, on 07/01/2009, -0/+6There are two technologies that give you huge balls in that game; Satellites and Gunpowder.
  • jimi1337, on 07/01/2009, -1/+7I realize that the raw data itself is of more use to most people interested in this kind of thing, but I want some of NASA's awesome, ridiculously-sized JPEG's and TIFF's!
  • SRSco, on 07/01/2009, -0/+5You're getting buried because we *did* get the "joke." Very lame attempt at humor.
  • Ohnodonho, on 07/01/2009, -3/+8Did anyone else notice the enlarged pop-up image for the first image is a bit redundant?
  • XxEric03xX, on 07/01/2009, -0/+5Silly NASA Satellite! It's because it has swirls of cinnamon sugar on every bite!
  • robby007, on 07/01/2009, -1/+6The Poles
  • regularsteven, on 07/01/2009, -0/+5i couldn't even imagine what the scientists at NASA would think about what you stated
  • Phi01, on 07/01/2009, -0/+4Kim Jong-il placed a mirror over North Korea.
  • ATL, on 07/01/2009, -0/+4not only an exclamation mark, but a SPACE and THEN an exclamation mark !
  • Flytrap, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3Now there just one tiny patch of unmapped surface area (making just 1% of Earth's land surface) where man can hide, undetected by NASA satellites. If anyone knows where this piece of earth is, please let us all know... with some luck, it is probably as yet undiscovered by Google street view and is not at the South pole, or Papua New Guinea
  • Ev3nt372, on 07/01/2009, -1/+4Many times I end up playing it until 3AM and then I start hearing hear Nimoy in my sleep.
  • wolfimus, on 07/01/2009, -2/+5Bin Laden, naturally, is hiding in the 1%, along with Elvis and Waldo.
  • Sparq, on 07/01/2009, -1/+4Appearantly that 1% is the western Half of the Netherlands. They haven't lost that battle yet NASA.
  • Atario, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3So when are they updating Google Earth with this?
  • BalooUrsidae, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3If you want to see this data already applied to another project, take a look at http://www.opencyclemap.org/ which is importing this data as we speak to warn cyclists about potentially steep climbs when planning crosscountry rides.
  • Ghostalker, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3So.... can I torrent it yet?
  • Contrarius, on 07/01/2009, -2/+5Did this story really deserve an exclamation mark?
  • snapcase, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2Yes it is.
  • BalooUrsidae, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2Probably a while, since Google sources most of their data from TeleAtlas. If you want to see this information in action, take a look at http://www.osm.org/ and http://www.opencyclemap.org/ . Enjoy!
  • 64bitllama, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2Someone please turn this into bump-map data for celestia!
  • josh22, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2Really? How can these people have computers and internet connections and still believe the earth is flat. The information is at their fingertips. I thought that school of though died out completely in the 16th century.
  • inactive, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2There's still parts deep in the grand canyon that aren't explored according to this book I'm reading
  • lorddazzer, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2Buried due to the absence of turtles.
  • RagManX, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2I'm looking for the ASCII graphics version.
  • dsmx, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2rifling and railroads were the most important techs to get I found.
  • kman2k1, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2[Enter]
    war aint what it used to be
    [Enter]

    Cheat Enabled
  • jgubbe, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2Nero's space drill could have used this and sped up the process. Aim for the purple spots.
  • snarkastic, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2Can you post this from a credible source in future please? Thanks.
  • KMartSheriff, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2Who cares, let's build the Manhattan Project and the UN.
  • yujie, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2Where is Atlantis?
  • mirzadeh, on 07/01/2009, -1/+2Boy! Sometimes science scares the hell out of me
  • Shendare, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1NASA page links to a 27 MB TIFF.

    http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/20090629 ...
  • Shendare, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1Direct TIFF link (27MB):

    http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/363790main_PIA1 ...
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