"Google Satellite" To Be Launched This Week 280
Lord Satri writes "Well, almost. Google signed an exclusivity deal with GeoEye regarding GeoEye-1, the most advanced high-resolution, civil, remote-sensing satellite to date. This must be annoying for other high-resolution, remote-sensing data users since Google already has an exclusivity deal in place with DigitalGlobe, the other major civil satellite imagery provider. From the CNet article: 'Under the deal, Google is the exclusive online mapping site that may use the imagery... in its Google Maps and Google Earth product. And as a little icing on the cake, Google's logo is on the side of the rocket set to launch the 4,300-pound satellite in six days from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed. GeoEye-1 will orbit 423 miles above Earth, but it will be able to gather imagery with details the size of 41 centimeters... Google, though, is permitted to use data only with a resolution of 50 cm because of the terms of GeoEye's license with the US government.'"
Gee I should have had a.. (Score:2, Funny)
Google Chrome and now GeoEye. Wow, I could have had Google Stock instead of all those V-8's ! I should have..
The jury's still out (Score:3, Funny)
Google Earth (Score:0, Funny)
In Soviet Earth Goog.... nevermind.
Re:Gee I should have had a.. (Score:2, Funny)
Kewl (Score:4, Funny)
Shiny new browser that can do everything and fancy new satellite. The only thing missing is my new RFID implant.
Extra! Extra! (Score:2, Funny)
Google starts plans for Moon base and Mars base, right after the space elevator is completed, and the new high power laser defense system the army is working on gets better than 19% efficiency. (to combat alien intruders) Oh, and they need the flying cars as well to round out the high tech glory.
Plus new Mars and Moon search services will be launched. Find your future lost relatives on Mars or the Moon.
Meanwhile at microsoft HQ (Score:2, Funny)
Monkey boy is yelling and smashing chairs against the wall again:
"I'm gonna f**king KILL google!!!"
Re:why the (Score:5, Funny)
50cm restriction? do they have something to hide??
Everyone knows WMDs are only 49cm across.
Courtesy of Google SatWords (Score:5, Funny)
Guy comes out of bar holding a girl's hand while walking home. Suddenly, a targeted ad for condoms is projected on the ground in front of them.
Re:why the (Score:3, Funny)
50cm restriction? do they have something to hide??
Everyone knows WMDs are only 49cm across.
I know a few gentlemen in my favorite streaming video web sites who should be worried that google can take pictures of 19 inch monster appendages :D
Re:why the (Score:5, Funny)
Hmm, I'd be inclined to bet that it will hide precisely 9cm!
Re:The jury's still out (Score:4, Funny)
Google bought outer space?
Re:The jury's still out (Score:5, Funny)
Re:50cm? How about 10? (Score:5, Funny)
They use aerial photogr.... wait a minute, *FOUR* other people have said this already.
Don't you wish that everyone would read the whole freakin' thread before replying.
Jesus.
Re:Kewl (Score:4, Funny)
I have mine already! It is still beta and therefore limited availability for pre-registered users.
Re:why the (Score:5, Funny)
50cm is like half a meter.
It's precisely half a meter.
Re:New to google labs... (Score:3, Funny)
In that case, does safesearch filter out the fat guys? :P
Unfortunately, the US gov only wants you to see the fatties. Why do you think there is the 50cm limit?
Re:Gee I should have had a.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:why the (Score:3, Funny)
"50cm restriction? do they have something to hide??"
Roseanne Barr's favorite nude beach.
Re:The jury's still out (Score:5, Funny)
Do you mean.... Dr. Evil??
Johnson: [Noticing Dr. Evil's spaceship on radar] Colonel, you better have a look at this radar.
Colonel: What is it, son?
Johnson: I don't know, sir, but it looks like a giant--
Jet Pilot: Dick.
Dick: Yeah?
Jet Pilot: Take a look out of starboard.
Dick: Oh my God, it looks like a huge--
Bird-Watching Woman: Pecker.
Bird-Watching Man: [raising binoculars] Ooh, Where?
Bird-Watching Woman: Wait, that's not a woodpecker, it looks like someone's--
Army Sergeant: Privates! We have reports of an unidentified flying object. It has a long, smooth shaft, complete with--
Baseball Umpire: Two balls.
[looking up from game]
Baseball Umpire: What is that. It looks just like an enormous--
Chinese Teacher: Wang, pay attention!
Wang: I was distracted by that giant flying--
Musician: Willie.
Willie Nelson: Yeah?
Musician: What's that?
Willie Nelson: [squints] Well, that looks like a giant--
Colonel: Johnson?!
Johnson: Yes, sir?
Colonel: Get on the horn to British Intelligence and let them know about this.
Re:Good news (Score:5, Funny)
Who needs skynet? (Score:2, Funny)
when google exist? Hm.... wasn't there an AI learning from search engine data... bzzzt... ^HUP
Re:Kewl (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The jury's still out (Score:4, Funny)
You hack into the satellite and change the coordinates. I'll break into Page's and Brin's houses and set up the giant popcorn tin.
(That's a Real Genius [wikipedia.org] reference for those who were out of geek culture class that day)
Re:Kewl (Score:2, Funny)
The only thing missing is my new RFID implant.
Or so you think.
Re:Gee I should have had a.. (Score:2, Funny)
In other news, Google has dropped its 20th century name for a more futuristic, forward-looking one: Union Aerospace Corporation. A previously unknown employee, Malcom Betruger, single-handedly invented the space warp using current Google technology.
Re:The jury's still out (Score:1, Funny)
Re:The jury's still out (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The jury's still out (Score:3, Funny)
OMG, with a resolution of 41cm, I better keep the curtains closed... :-)
electronics background (Score:3, Funny)
Like doctors.
IAAMD and let me tell you that, indeed most of us doctors could manipulate a soldering iron (except maybe for psychiatrists). You just have to realize that it's mostly like routine work, except that this peculiar patient has less tendency to bleed.