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Say 'Cheese' to Google Satellite at 10AM
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CmdrTaco
on Fri Apr 01, 2005 09:03 AM
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13.7BillionYears writes "Google's recent purchase of Keyhole and its jaw-dropping 3D earth-browsing software has apparently netted them ownership of an imaging satellite as well, now named 'gSat.' This Friday, April 1st, gSat will be capturing a new dataset (neighborhood of 1meter/pixel), passing over each time zone between 10 and 11AM. If you stand outside and wave you will supposedly show up as a blurry fleck. Even better news is that the dataset will be available within months not only to Keyhole but also to the equally jaw-dropping and open source NASA World Wind. It all seems aimed at answering a question that has plagued mankind for ages: What foolishness can we wreak upon the Earth on the Day of Fools with only 3 days' notice? I'm guessing the obscene stuff will be Photoshopped out. Thanks to the World Wind Forum for the tip and let's hope those April showers come late."
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And this isn't even the poll.
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You get a couple of partners (Score:2)
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500,000 Highly technical, porn addicted minds are now obsessing over this.
You MUST be new round here.
Sorry had too.
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Re:If... (Score:5, Funny)
Get a bunch of people together in a circle (1 in the middle) and make a big, blurry fleck of a breast.
If you can get enough people together, go for two breasts.
If you still have people left over, form a giant penis below it.
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Re:If... (Score:3, Funny)
Wheee!
Space Resume (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:If... (Score:3, Interesting)
Use what's available to you.
Snow, sand, dirt
Draw it large baby.
(and send us the coords please?)
Re:If... (Score:4, Interesting)
Well, I was part of this arial photo [pomakis.com], in which the stick figure near the centre of the photo was composed of several thousand people. This particular image isn't obscene in any way, but it very well could have been!
(Bonus points for those who can name the event that this was part of!)
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Gotta love April 1st (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Gotta love April 1st (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Gotta love April 1st (Score:3, Funny)
I better make my big sign for gSat... just in case.
Note to April Foolers... (Score:3, Insightful)
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"Stop reading slashdot, and get back to work!" - my boss
Re:Gotta love April 1st (Score:2)
Re:Gotta love April 1st (Score:4, Interesting)
So if you run Ubuntu update today!
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Only a blurry fleck? Hubble to the rescue! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Only a blurry fleck? Hubble to the rescue! (Score:5, Funny)
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Right. (Score:5, Funny)
Hey! (Score:5, Funny)
YES, STAND OUTSIDE AND WAVE UP INTO THE SKY (Score:2, Funny)
Re:YES, STAND OUTSIDE AND WAVE UP INTO THE SKY (Score:2)
Did you know gullible isn't in the dictionary? It's true. I saw it on
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gSat (Score:5, Insightful)
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Real news (Score:2, Insightful)
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Google Gulp (Score:5, Funny)
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Google in the news - more on google GULP! (Score:3, Funny)
WOAH!!! hello! what a sniping remakr at Microsoft! oooouch!! call in the lawyers!
Full at : GOogle Gulp Faq [google.com]
Maybe we're jaded, but we've seen all these other companies leap headlong into 1.0, thinking their product is exactly what they've been dreaming of all their lives, that everything is perfect and hunky-dory - and the next thing you know some vanilla copycat release from Redmond is kicking their butt, the Board is holding emergency meetings and the CEO is on CNBC blathering sweatily about "a new direction" and "getting back to basics." No thanks, man. We like our freedom.
Re:Google in the news - more on google GULP! (Score:2)
What would be really funny is if some idiot analyst would pick up the story as a fact. Google even likes to unveil legitimate new features on April 1st adding to the humor. Last year it was GMail which fooled many, thi
Oh dear (Score:2)
What? (Score:2)
April Fools Day Sites (Score:4, Informative)
Here is a sample:
kellyosbourne.org [kellyosbourne.org] - Sanctuary records group shut us down
nukefreezone.net [nukefreezone.net] - Making fun of atrios.blogspot.com
weebl.jolt.co.uk [jolt.co.uk] - Replaced with Cats-By-Mail
telecom.co.nz [telecom.co.nz] - Click 2 Brick
ytmnd.com [ytmnd.com] - (NSFW) hacked by teens for christ
wingus.ampedhost.com [ampedhost.com] - Site converted into Mingus' Gently-Used Furniture store. Oh dear. Why won't he be kind?
homestarrunner.com [homestarrunner.com] - Now a pay service.
whirlpool.net.au [whirlpool.net.au] - Australia's biggest Luddite to head Australia's largest telco
thinkgeek.com [thinkgeek.com] - Fake product listings.
theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk] - Bush twins to join Air Force tech unit in Iraq
creativebits.org [creativebits.org] - Site purchased by Microsoft
ocremix.org [ocremix.org] - Now partnered with EA (or something like that). Called EA ReMix.
spacedaily.com [spacedaily.com] - Bush Cancels Space Shuttle Program
planet.gnome.org [gnome.org] - Switched sites with planet.kde.org
planet.kde.org [kde.org] - Switched sites with planet.gnome.org
ietf.org [ietf.org] - RFC: Efficient Transformation Formats of Unicode
beejaysworld.de [beejaysworld.de] - Gentoo dropping livecds for x86
nature.com [nature.com] - Apollo bacteria spur lunar erosion
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov [nasa.gov] - Water On Mars
smh.com.au [smh.com.au] - (Free Reg Req) SMEGmail offers 1 terabyte storage
smh.com.au [smh.com.au] - (Free Reg Req) Linux looks to Hilton for exposure
thetoque.com [thetoque.com] - Canada Builds Own Missile Defense Shield
onion.com [onion.com] - U.S. Dog Owners Fear Arrival of Africanized Fleas
chron.com [chron.com] - Bush Twins in Maxim
ask.com [ask.com] - Jeeves has been replaced by a robot
animenewsnetwork.com [animenewsnetwork.com] - Viz Unlicenses Naruto
uninventthewheel.co.uk [uninventthewheel.co.uk] - New BMW technology to get around the EU ban on right hand drive cars in Europe.
newgrounds.com [newgrounds.com] - changing to numagrounds.com
neopets.com [neopets.com] - neopets adds 50 new pets
www.firstloox.org [firstloox.org] - The Loox is being recalled
packages.gentoo.org [gentoo.org] - Adobe doesn't sell products for Linux
pc.ign.com [ign.com] - Microsoft World of Wordcraft (Extremely Obvious)
spamusement.com [spamusement.com] - Page full of spoof banner ads
gentooexperimental.org [gentooexperimental.org] - Gentoo using the NT kernel
moddb.com [moddb.com]
And since we are talking WW... (Score:2)
2) An update 1.3.1 is in the testing phases but can be downloaded so you can get some big improvements from the 1.3 release.
3) Servers should be able to withstand the
4) High-rez, close up images are of US locations only (we get asked that 30 times a day..)
5) New NLT images of LandSat are color improved and cover the entire globe down to 10,000 meters.
Get out the ultra-wide-angle lens (Score:3, Funny)
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Ask Jeeves (Score:2)
Fools! All of you! (Score:2, Funny)
I'm the one holding a big... (Score:3, Funny)
Will it make another pass? (Score:2, Funny)
Open source? (Score:3, Informative)
Yes, it is true that there is the possibility that non-Windozers could port the source to Mono, and perhaps there exists a DirectX-to-OpenGL converter such that a sufficiently talented and determined band of coders could, in theory, create working versions of this impressive project that would run somewhere other than the indicated system requirements, but it seems like a long shot to me.
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System Requirements
* Windows 2000, XP Home, or XP Professional
* Intel Pentium 3, 1 GHz, or AMD Athlon or higher
* 256 MB of RAM
* 3D Graphics Card
o nVidia GeForce 2 Ultra
o ATI Radeon 7500
o Intel Extreme Graphics 2
* DSL / Cable connection or faster
* 2 GB of disk space
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And yes, I am an envious OS X user -- pretty much a first for me, being envious of a Windows software project.
Yo momma's so fat... (Score:3, Funny)
Lay Down! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:3 Days Notice? (Score:2)
White and pretending to be white? (Score:2)
Depending on where you are in Asia, that is white and pretending to be white. Ever hear of the Caucasian race? The Caucasus region is located at the Euro/Asian border, actually. A huge number of Asians are white: much of the north and west of the continent. Asia is not just China. Check a continent map.