Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!news.moat.net!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 04:11:19 -0500 From: Michael Cash Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Google Earth Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:11:13 +0900 Message-ID: References: <1120644408.343734.91720@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <3j3222Fnto5eU1@individual.net> <5j3qc1pcf05nt2i3ha1orp9j0r0ad0vni6@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 80 X-Trace: sv3-hI93WVVkKulLV9ZEPcdjzYZ/hkTj8J+L91Ko2nbcbO9wNjQM/XP4js6CjZTnNHu+z0x4sJp1iboAnrV!zzYQBpVASkW6vWr/2AOaUmNq0RurjYrE+BG2CBt3lrz+0/FuMuTd0HmCT0zXbBjY1WoyZn4= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:28338 On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 10:26:54 +0900, B Robson brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed: > > >Michael Cash wrote: >> On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:46:37 +0900, B Robson >> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed: >> >> >>> >>>Curt Fischer wrote: >>> >>>>Michael Cash wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 06:26:25 +0900, Michael Cash >>>>> brought down from the Mount tablets >>>>>inscribed: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>On 6 Jul 2005 03:06:48 -0700, declan_murphy@hotmail.com brought down >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>from the Mount tablets inscribed: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>>Bloody amazing stuff. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>http://earth.google.com >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Was just looking at my house in Sydney, right down to the last tree I >>>>>>>planted. Wish the resolution was as good for the areas of Japan I >>>>>>>"visited". >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>I see very clearly a park in Aomi Futo that was turned into a parking >>>>>>lot two or three years ago. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>In fact, I see things around the container yard areas that were not >>>>>there the first time I went down there, around 6 years ago. And the >>>>>current features looked somewhat weatherworn even then. >>>>> >>>>>Just how old is this data anyway? >>>> >>>> >>>>The data for the US is newer. A building at my college campus that was >>>>completed just about 18 months ago was either complete or very nearly so >>>>in the photo. Japan, I don't know. >>>> >>> >>>It's a patchwork. If you look at South Australia it's obvious that some >>>shots were done during a wet winter and others during summer. There is >>>even water in some of the salt lakes. In Tokyo some shots are at oblique >>>angles and others more acute, some buildings seem to be falling over. >> >> >> The weirdest thing was that the entire state of Massachusetts was a >> different color. >> >> >Blue? Withered dead weed brown. -- Michael Cash "Clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right, Mr. Cash. Clowns and jokers." Prof. Ernest T. Bass Mount Pilot College