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- declawedpaw, on 02/12/2008, -12/+88Instead of whining and blaming the government, the citizens of San Francisco rolled up their sleeves and rebuilt the City.
- 93TILL503, on 02/12/2008, -2/+66How do Aerial kite shot's work anyway.
And why don't I see more of them. - andregriffin, on 02/12/2008, -2/+53Here's roughly the same view, but looks like it was shot in the 70s or so...
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/7183/sf71lv0.jp ... - legendofea, on 02/12/2008, -2/+49Probably the earliest version of Google Maps
- chadillak, on 02/12/2008, -3/+41I see my house!
- asskicker32, on 02/12/2008, -2/+31Leave it to digg to bring back something thats almost 102 years old...
- tomj88, on 02/12/2008, -3/+30Because the plane has superseded the kite. This is just an early example of aerial photography
- Ajajadude, on 02/12/2008, -2/+28It reminds me of building cities in SimCity and then unleashing disaster after disaster so I could watch it burn.
No, I don't think of myself as God... - demosthenes, on 02/12/2008, -2/+27"perhaps 1000 feet above"? I mean, it says the height right on the picture.
- Vostok, on 02/12/2008, -0/+23The ultimate weapon of mass destruction, nature.
- legendofea, on 02/12/2008, -1/+20kites are not destructive...unless you tie a key to the string holding the kite,
I've seen kite damage in the past, but it usually makes a small hole in ground, it rarely flattens whole cities, then again I am no scientist. - cwolves, on 02/12/2008, -1/+19so in 100 years we go from 19MP images to 8?
- tchynerd, on 02/12/2008, -4/+20Holy ***** the earthquake destroyed all their cars?!
- TheTaoOfBill, on 02/12/2008, -0/+16People still do them. Mostly because not everyone owns a plane or a satellite. Plus they can be pretty fun to do.
http://scotthaefner.com/kap/360panos/ - inactive, on 02/12/2008, -2/+18Ok... so... you liked the pic?
- bperin, on 02/12/2008, -7/+22Odd how something so destructive is beautiful at the same time
- ggko, on 02/12/2008, -0/+15Many ways. At Is basics, you need a kite, a camera, (obviously,) and some kind of delay mechanism to trip the shutter. A pivacet suspension is helpful too to keep your camera rig stable.
While delay timers are ok, you have to reset it for every shot, and your height is limited to how much line you can let out before it triggers. An alternative is an electronic timer that triggers periodically, it'll then just snap photos until your camera runs out of memory. The more serious KAP hobbyists have remote control mechanisms (appropriated from RC helicopters) that allow them to pan, tilt, and trigger the camera while it's in the air.
Do a search for "kite aerial photography." - FatLoser, on 02/12/2008, -3/+17If you look really close you can see the Westboro Baptists Church members with their signs...
- mvanwing, on 02/12/2008, -17/+30This was front page a few months ago:
http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Stunning_High_Res_Photo_ ... - TheTaoOfBill, on 02/12/2008, -4/+17Exactly! Other than emergency funding the federal government should not have any power whatsoever to rebuild a city or even to provide housing for a city. That's up to the people of the city and the state. All FEMA did was hire out of state contractors instead of hiring the people of Louisiana who had their jobs destroyed by the hurricane and were desperately in need of work. New Orleans would be completely rebuilt by now if they left it up to the people who lived there instead of hiring Haliburton. Why is it that every time a disaster happens to this country, Dick Chaney benefits somehow?
- MarCrawford, on 02/12/2008, -1/+14This is the best photograph I have ever seen.
The moment it captures, the angle, the setting, the fact that black&white allowed this photo to be much better than if color existed back then, and, you know, the fact that this is from 102 years ago. - statik99, on 11/03/2009, -0/+13Saw this here quite a while ago. Still worth the repost... truly an amazing piece! For 1906 that's some damn fine photography!
- Jalh, on 02/12/2008, -8/+20nice panoramic and good quality
- mwomorris, on 02/12/2008, -0/+12For one, as is stated on the image - a kite did not take this photograph, but an airship.
Also, it was taken from 2,000 feet not 1,000. - opticwind, on 02/12/2008, -2/+13Holy crap, the earthquake was so strong, it shook off color!!
- getoffmybridge, on 05/05/2009, -2/+13Imagine what kind of destruction the next "big one" will bring.
- nick415, on 02/12/2008, -0/+11the plane will never supersede the kite in my heart.
- archivist, on 02/12/2008, -14/+25awesome. great wide-angle lens... from the 1900s...
- dvsbastard, on 02/12/2008, -1/+11Woah... 7000 x 2748 image?!
Does anyone have a high resolution shot?! :P - DaviDTC, on 02/12/2008, -0/+10Saddam had nature. Damn, bush was onto something.
- techlyc, on 02/12/2008, -1/+11It was a VERY big kite, mind you.
- inactive, on 02/12/2008, -3/+12He perished in the fires.
- FatLoser, on 02/12/2008, -7/+15Thanks! Now all I have to do is get in my time machine to experience it that time.
- Dubbsacc, on 02/12/2008, -0/+8Uh...Firefox does the same thing.
- wondertwins, on 02/12/2008, -0/+8Looks like a blitzkrieg or a bomb raid happened. Such a tremendous amount of destruction.
- Mpwns, on 02/12/2008, -1/+8yes and all planes as well
- upnortherik, on 02/12/2008, -0/+7They didn't, they had film...
- huskerdude, on 02/12/2008, -0/+7I see the smoking pile of rubble where my house was subsequently built!
- grimward, on 02/12/2008, -0/+7repeat after me: I shall always run trendmicro, a nice firewall, some nicer antispyware solutions, and defrag my computer.. and use a processor that's made somewhere in this decade .. and I shall not whine regarding images that everybody else but me can accurately display :P
- huskerdude, on 02/12/2008, -0/+6You mean the response where they let the city burn while they squabbled and then sent the army in and shot people? I agree with decllawed paw, though. The city was rebuilt better than ever in record time due to the civic pride and hard work of thei citizenry.
- FatLoser, on 02/12/2008, -3/+9Cleary God was punishing him for being a homosexual.
- roosterjm2k2, on 02/12/2008, -0/+6boosack...nope, fail for you. Firefox and safari resize images too large for the screen as well by default...
as for the picture...its awesome...but maybe someone could have wiped the pubes off of the scanner first... - LiquidIse, on 02/12/2008, -0/+6Fear not! Bush has been at war against that for atleast 4 years now.
- BrianCrosbie, on 02/12/2008, -13/+19Even in shambles it still manages to be the most beautiful city on earth. Great photo.
- bubba9999, on 02/12/2008, -0/+6They were probably better off without FEMA.
- hmcook87, on 02/12/2008, -1/+7you want to have an image of a natural disaster that killed a whole lot of people and destroyed an entire city as your background?
- milkmage, on 02/12/2008, -1/+7well why didn't you call me? i missed it.
- kss42, on 02/12/2008, -1/+6Magneto stole it in an expensive and ultimately unnecessary CGI setpiece.
- rspeed, on 02/12/2008, -0/+5Heh. Check out the half-finished Transamerica building.
- omenmedia, on 02/12/2008, -0/+5Wow, just wow... I knew about that quake but I had no idea it was that bad. Isn't it amazing looking at that and looking at San Fran today... it was almost completely decimated and rebuilt... shows the resilience and determination of humankind against all odds.
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