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- clubmasta2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+123looks like a raindrop...
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OF TERROR - kuj007, on 10/12/2007, -1/+96actually that part of Kentucky is just naturally blurry
- beelz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+42http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=37%C2%B058%2747.21%22N++84%C2%B025%277.99%22W&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=16&ll=37.979775,-84.418881&spn=0.01052,0.02414&t=k&iwloc=addr
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42Lol I live about 3 hours away, I can go find out myself and take pics...
Metal Gear time! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37stop the ***** presses, there is a BLUR on google maps!
- PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -9/+37> yea cuz it rains in space all the time
Picture was taken by an airplane. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28It's Dick Cheney's secret lair!!!!
- PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29OK, now I'm scared:
http://external.pathdaemon.com/nowimscared.png - dan2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25It looks like a baby dinosaur with a brick on its head.
- P3ST4, on 10/12/2007, -23/+36yea cuz it rains in space all the time
- Pic0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Yahoo.....
http://maps.yahoo.com/beta/#tp=1&tt=Athens+Boonesboro+Rd+Lexington%2C+KY+USA&mvt=h&trf=0&lon=-84.418328&lat=37.978689&mag=1 - eplawless, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14The take the pictures from planes, then scan them. It's a drop of water, either on the camera lens or on the scanner. They don't have higher resolution images because they use the hi-res images to assemble the lower res ones and that spot has a drop of water on it.
Or maybe Google is running secret alien terror camps you aren't supposed to know about. - jkirk7msa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Exactly.
- IvanB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Maybe the photographer was slurping a Sprite and eating a tasty burger?
- fatlip, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14you're dumb
- idiggeverything, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The whole internet discussed it? WOW?!
- lukas88, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12No, it is not a rain drop. The distortion would be different. Plus there would be a sequence of raindrops because of the different pictures taken with the same camera.
I have seen this blur thing before when I was looking at yemen. I think google earth probably just blurrs areas when the private land owners request them to. - razrielle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Big Kahuna burger
- Fascist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=37.979073~-84.419342&style=a&lvl=18&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=2023607
- hackbot205, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7i looked on that live local search thing and that blur is just 2 crappy houses with a pool lol i was hoping for something more than that...
- FrankieB078, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I live in Lexington. My girlfriend has lived here her entire life, and we can both attest that there is nothing there but a barn, and some farm land. I actually live right around the corner and might be tempted to drive down there and go look.
- Arnold22, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Wow, my whole town is a strange blur also, maby its a big conspiracy chough *sarcasm* cough
- akira117, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Yea its nothing......(unless not watering you grass is a crime, then they blurred the wrong house)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/341771585_2da59732bb_o.jpg - G-RaZoR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7With all of the google crap thats been happening today, I would assume you are on your 14th pot of coffee today?
- idiggeverything, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Your mom is old.
- olystice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Whew! It's just a house.
We can all live in peace now.
...maybe an alien house? - spargett, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Can't assume anything super special is being hidden RIGHT NEXT to a 4 lane interstate.
- Cojawfee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5LOLZ U PUT A DOLAR SIN INSTED UF N S WEN U ABREVERATED MICORSOFT!1! U R A GENYUS!1!!11! LOLZ
- bigd063, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5If you look closely, you can see that google branded their logo on the poor fella.
- akira117, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Another View (yea I'm bored):
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/164/341786976_0a1f244c68_o.jpg - autodata, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If you zoom in on google's image, there's actually a well-defined rectangle in the blur. The blur looks very deliberate, although there probably is some trivial reason behind it. Maybe some paranoid googler's parents live there or something. :-
- Nydas, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Its an alien scout spaceship. Duh.
- idiggeverything, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Its Gebus!
- PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's possible that this picture showed something temporary that wasn't there when MS's picture was taken.
- axiomflash, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4im more curious about where this herd of sperm is headed
http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=37%C2%B058%2747.21%22N++84%C2%B025%277.99%22W&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=18&ll=37.982769,-84.427603&spn=0.003315,0.006936&t=k - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Some people need to realise that UFO doesn't automatically mean an alien spacecraft.. it means it's an unidentified flying object
It could be anything...
But it is weird that they would blur the image out, what would their reasons be for bluring it? - Sp0rAdiC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If it were just a drop of water, then why can't you zoom in on the blurred area as much as the surrounding area?
- mccarron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It appears to be some home there, and they have a pool. Wonder how they got their images blurred on Google Maps.
- Hoovooloo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If you want to see real censorship in google maps, look at the white house, and notice how the roof is flat and featureless, when in reality there is a garden and clusters of antenna.
A fun game: Google map DC and try to find government buildings by looking for blurred roofs - lmushl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Man, EVERYTHING from Google is falling to pieces...
- idiggeverything, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Thats right. Gebus.
- etoiles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3... zoom out a bit, looks like the older map on the right. It is just a bunch of 'old' pixels from a previous shot.
- lmushl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Looks like a blurry skydiver. Squint and use your iMAAAGination
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Must be the area where they make Jack Daniels? Would explain the blurriness.
Ah *****, except thats made in TN. Well, KY and TN are basically the same anyway.. - DarkSunlight, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Google calculator used to stand on that exact spot.
Something really terrible must have happened...
Damn, now I'm really worried... - oceanmoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Cover your face!
- fjacky66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's the entrance into the Bizarro world.
- octavius8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It might be just like the previous google maps ufo that made its way around the web. http://www.googlesightseeing.com/2005/05/12/ufo/
- upsidedork, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Here's my guess:
Because users get a "we don't have imagery" error if they zoom in very closely, I suspect that the image data at that zoom level is simply missing or corrupted. The blur is a result of a blending algorithm that doesn't have enough data; software that stitches multiple images together usually attempts to blend images so that it looks like one image flows smoothly into another without seams. Google Maps is probably trying to automatically blend over the missing images, but isn't doing a very good job because it simply doesn't have enough information. The blurriness is probably a result of image data being taken from a higher-up level of zoom and blended in with a lower-down level. (Note how the blurriness of that one small region matches the blurriness of the larger region to the East:
http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=37%C2%B058%2747.21%22N++84%C2%B025%277.99%22W&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=14&ll=37.976883,-84.381266&spn=0.046413,0.103254&t=k&iwloc=addr
Like I said, it's just a guess, based on my experience using Realviz Stitcher to create QTVRs. - masterskill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's Bigfoot.
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