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anyone not seen google earth?
isnt it amazing?

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I did... actually my entire college program did last year. It was pretty big for a while.

BTW, I (for some reason) thought you thread title said "Google Invented Earth." And I have no idea why. ^^;;;

~The MCP

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Originally posted by eamondo
anyone not seen google earth?
isnt it amazing?
Yes, like it.

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It's pretty awesome, I heard there is actually a real place a lot like it. I don't believe it though.

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NZ looks stunning!

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bah

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looking for coordinates of the "great wall of china ". it is supposed to be the only a made structure visible fro space but I still a unable to locate it with google earth alone.

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The great wall of china visible from space is an old myth. The truth is, everything is visible from space if you zoom in far enough, but the great wall is nothing special like being seen by the naked eye from the space station.

http://www.snopes.com/science/greatwal.htm

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Originally posted by moweut
looking for coordinates of the "great wall of china ". it is supposed to be the only a made structure visible fro space but I still a unable to locate it with google earth alone.
You can see the Millennium Dome in London up to 80 miles from earth, the Great Wall of China is in no way visible at this distance. Not surprising really when you consider it's only a matter of a couple of metres in width. In fact you can barely see it just a mile away.

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It's wider than a couple metres. Major cities have better resolutions as it's more productive for the satellite to focus on these areas than some random fields in the countryside that noone really cares about.

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Originally posted by ElleEffSeee
It's wider than a couple metres. Major cities have better resolutions as it's more productive for the satellite to focus on these areas than some random fields in the countryside that noone really cares about.
It's roughly 5 metres in width and even in major cities it's hard to see anything this small from higher than a mile.

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It's an amazing program but I've found that huge areas have really bad picture quality while others are crystal clear. I suspect they'll eventually clean up their database.

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Its also woefully out of date in some parts.

I mean, come on, the house im sat in right now is still a field if u believe it!!!!