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northwind
27-04-06, 11:46 PM
This is probably really old, but I finally looked at Google Earth, and you can see my bike :D Well, you can see my house, and you can see where my bike's parked when it's not in the garage, and there's a vague blur where it goes, but that's good enough for me.

philipMac
28-04-06, 12:08 AM
yup. You can see the back garden of my old mans place in Dublin, with the patio half torn up, big red wheel barrow in the middle of the garden, and a ton of sand in the corner. Which means I know exactly what day the sat came over the house, and roughly what time.

I cant see me there though :roll: Must have been on a tea break or something.


Allegedely they can resolve down to the level of reading a number plate, from space. Which, is pretty reasonable in fairness.

OF.uk
28-04-06, 12:11 AM
Have you noticed though, that wherever you look in the world there aren't any people

northwind
28-04-06, 12:18 AM
Have you noticed though, that wherever you look in the world there aren't any people

People are a bit small for the resolution in the euro maps... Never looked at the US ones though. Try places where people wear large hats?

philipMac
28-04-06, 12:50 AM
People generally move about.
the exposure time might make most moving things vanish into an extremely faint blur...

mysteryjimbo
28-04-06, 07:06 AM
People generally move about.
the exposure time might make most moving things vanish into an extremely faint blur...

Which possibly means you were probably on a tea break for a some time as nothing had moved! :lol:

Then again, the exposure time would probably be seconds rather than minutes.

kciN
28-04-06, 09:09 AM
People generally move about.
the exposure time might make most moving things vanish into an extremely faint blur...

I can zoom in really close to my house, but as you say no people.
There are however some black spaces where cars were and obviously moved..

Tara
28-04-06, 09:15 AM
yeah you can see Falc's place and just make out the fiesta