Say 'Cheese' to Google Satellite at 10AM 221
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."
Gotta love April 1st (Score:4, Funny)
Only a blurry fleck? Hubble to the rescue! (Score:5, Funny)
Right. (Score:5, Funny)
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And this isn't even the poll.
Hey! (Score:5, Funny)
YES, STAND OUTSIDE AND WAVE UP INTO THE SKY (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:Gotta love April 1st (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Gotta love April 1st (Score:3, Funny)
I better make my big sign for gSat... just in case.
Google Gulp (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Get out the ultra-wide-angle lens (Score:3, Funny)
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Fools! All of you! (Score:2, Funny)
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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.
OMFG!!! - Must Read (Score:1, Funny)
How to search my face? I have trouble describe it! (Score:1, Funny)
Can any body help me finding it with Google? Are there any language I can describe my face in the search box? Any standard? Don't RT?M, because I have just google but found none that satisfy.
Thanks in advance.
Hope you all get a good time. Until next.
I'm the one holding a big... (Score:3, Funny)
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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.
Re:Only a blurry fleck? Hubble to the rescue! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hey! (Score:1, Funny)
Will it make another pass? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:YES, STAND OUTSIDE AND WAVE UP INTO THE SKY (Score:2, Funny)
Uptight nerds hate 4/1 on Slashdot (Score:1, Funny)
They spend all day rolling their eyes and posting complete snark just to show the whole world they weren't fooled. "I WASN'T FOLLED YOU KNOW --- THIS SI APRIL FOOLS DAY AND SLASHDOTT IS TEH SUCK
Idiots.
Re:Only a blurry fleck? Hubble to the rescue! (Score:1, Funny)
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oh man, this is going to be modded troll faster than you can say "frist piss", but in my defence I know all the arguements about java and its speed. It's a joke, laugh.
Space Resume (Score:5, Funny)
Yo momma's so fat... (Score:3, Funny)
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Wheee!