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[GuestJim]

The label "Caught on Satellite" is incorrect as the high resolution imagery is taken by planes flying over, not satellites. That is evident by the fact that the coloring doesn't line up outside of the town (goes from green to brown) and the blocks it is in being so small. The imagery of that truck having crashed in fact was taken during April 2005 and is in the public domain through the United States Geological Survey, and is part of the EROS Ortho Imagery add-on for NASA World Wind. Though it appears to have been reprocessed, producing slightly different colors and the mosquito interference common in lower quality JPEG's. Five meter resolution is high resolution for satellite imagery, if I remember correctly, and that imagery was taken at .15 meter resolution.

[hotwill31]

Its a big lie!These pics were taken from helicopter...analyse the grass around the elephants...:evil::evil:

[v1per]

Those things you called crop circles are about as far from that as possible. This is a mock SAM site in the US Air Force's Tonopah Test Range. It is used by aircraft stationed at Nellis AFB outside of Las Vegas. Go into Google Earth, enter the coordinates and then look in the surrounding area. You will find a mock airfield to the NNE, another mock airfield SSE, a third mock airfield approx. 10 mi E, and another mock installation approx. 10 mi to the north, all complete with multiple mock SAM sites. All of these locations are covered with thousands of bomb craters (look for the white spots all over the initial SAM location I talked about and then move about 1000 ft E to find 6 massive bomb craters (approx. 30 ft in diameter).

[Sleepdaddy]

Maybe others have asked before, but in Google Earth, those familiar with Las Vegas, where the crap is the Stratosphere Tower? If you go to where it is supposed to be at the north end of the strip, the shadow of the tower is there, but it looks like the tower has been digitially removed or sumthin,,,,weird

[WirelessPhil]

Downloaded it twice, fwith IE and Firefox. Opened Google Earth and nothing!

[gonhop]

found a crop circle formation in Nevada, if you look at the buildings next to it, there is one stealth fighter jet looking thing halfway in one building and something else(not sure what) in another. coordinates-
36 46' 20.10"N, 115 27' 13.05"W

[jmluce]

the fighter jet (Mirage III ?) belongs to the 'IUT of Ville d'Avray', a branch of the university of Paris, France.

zoom out a bit, Eiffel Tower is 5 miles North-East.

they offer teaching in energetics engineering, energy saving, electronics engineering, industrial computers and, guess what, robotics and avionics.

could be a cool place to learn xD: !!

their site (in french) : www.cva.u-paris10.fr/formations/sciences_ingenieur/main.html

[Starling]

The Chinese raised relief scale model...

Using Google Earth's ruler tool, I compared the model to the real border dispute area of N India / SW China. The model is at a scale of about 1:500, which means that if you made a scale model of an 8 foot by 4 foot sheet of plywood for it, it would be about 1/5 of an inch by 1/10 of an inch.

Somewhere near Annapolis, MD there was, in the eighties, a scale model of the entire Chesapeake Bay drainage basin. I don't know what scale it was, but as I recall, the Pentagon was about the size of a silver dollar. The model was in a hangar with a roof over it, so, sadly, it is probably not visible from Google Earth.

[mjd420nova]

I've spent considerable time investigating both the home I live in now and the homes I've lived in in the past. Many shots were taken over a spread of many years, back as far as 2003. I find many changes and can identify the points in time that they changed. Street view also is much more recent and I have even found shots of old neighbors sitting on their porches.

[AmutVek]

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[AmutVek]

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[RubenvanHouten]

On 'Fighter jet parked'. The fighter is parked inside the terrains of the Technical University of SITEC, dpt. IUT in the village of Ville d'Avray - St. Cloud not far from Paris.
Nothing special; it's just an interesting museum piece.

[waffle]

#4 isn't really a crop circle. it is an SA-2 SAM site with 6 twin rail launchers around the outside and the guidance radar in the middle.

[SammyGriffiths]

why when I click on the Mt. Everest link on Victoria Falls does it take me to Sth. America? Pretty sure last time i checked Everest was in the Himalayas not the Andes

[CrouchingBruin]

The Mattel logo can also be seen at their headquarters in El Segundo, CA: 33.92132778,-118.3915417

[KevinSellesNerva]

Here's a pic of the fighter jet.

http://lh6.googleuse...lyd620X8uH0R1yA

[ytobi12]

fail! it's not even in nigeria

[BrittanyJonesqmb4]

Thats actually an ad on the side of the building!

[RahimPourrahimivqh6]

I download good pictuers than google earth.