Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!news.moat.net!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.germany.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Kevin Wayne Williams Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Odaiba, a ship, and google earth Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:36:10 -0400 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <11n1s1653lke149@news.supernews.com> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1131466837.071680.262310@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1131466837.071680.262310@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 29 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:30380 declan_murphy@hotmail.com wrote: > Was just looking at the google earth images of Odaiba. > > Strangely enough, there appears to be a ship just off one of the > barrier islands due south of the curve at the eastern end of the > Rainbow bridge next to one of the two barrier islands. Someone has > posted "Boat Collision??" next to the image of what appears to me to be > a small tanker. Directly to the stern of the vessel there is a large > object which I assume is a barge. > > I don't remember reading about any any collisions/accidents, and when I > walked out to the fort (Odaiba Park) I don't remember seeing any small > island or other permanent structure in that location. Nor does there > appear to be any from looking at > http://tinyurl.com/b6t4n > > Any ideas? Camera angle? overlapping image files? > Can you give a latitude and longitude of the thing you are questioning? It makes locating things an order of magnitude simpler. I have a huge black hole immediately next to my hotel. So far as I can tell, it is a shadow from a cloud that was there the one and only time they took a picture of the island. The one good thing about the whole Natalee Holloway fiasco is that the Dutch Air Force took really good pictures of Bonaire while they were over here to search Aruba for her body. Hopefully, they'll sell the improved images to Google. KWW