Google Earth

[Dry then Catch]

have you guys seen Google Earth?  Perhaps i've been under a rock but Im shitting my pants over how cool it is.

i would gladly give up my privacy for a llive update sattelite of any overland place in the world.

but thsi wil have to do for now.

sadly Iceland is not a high resolution area or else i would show you the hot chick parts

[Gamplayerx]

No, I haven't.  Is this different than the satellite images available from the Google Maps interface?

[Dry then Catch]

yes supposedly some overlaps, but as google earth is constantly updating some is newer and higher res depending on where you are. 

its the interface that is amazing.

its basically a 3-d globe in which you have a "flying effect" of zooming in and zooming out. 

[Gamplayerx]

OMG!  I downloaded it.  That is TOO cool!!!!

[ignom]

I tried to download it before.

Apple Macintosh computers are not supported at this time (but we are working on it).

Asses.

[Dry then Catch]

supposedly Microsoft is coming out with a newer version that allows angles and even more updated and higher res photos. 

[Dry then Catch]

come to my house guys

32.132666, 110.520175

[Dry then Catch]

ok thats not where i live

[kelbel]

I downloaded and had fun for a while with it. Those thing just loose my interest after a bit. I think I may have Adult ADD.     

[Dry then Catch]

im not sure how to enter the lat and long, but check me out

5839 east burns

tucson az

[Gamplayerx]

Catchr!  Put some damn pants on!  Googly moogly!

[Gamplayerx]

Did you check out Cambridge, MA?

[Dry then Catch]

where are you staying there

[Gamplayerx]

I'm not staying anywhere in Cambridge, MA - but it has photos to 6" resolution.  Amazing!

[eo000]

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

kinda the same thing, but instead of earth, it's the universe.

[Jessie]

This may be the coolest thing I've ever seen.

[Bishamonten]

Nesh and I played with Google Earth when it was released.  We had a ton of fun book marking all the places we had stayed in Japan and the sites we'd seen.  See if you can track down Meji Shrine and Shinjuku Tower.  They look awesome.

[Beefy]

Link?

[Jessie]

earth.google.com

I was amazed by all the things it could do.

[Beefy]

So.  Freakin'.  Cool.

[ignom]

You can all go to hell. I'm making my own earth. Here's where I live.

[Gamplayerx]

ignom, cool - now zoom fly over to my house.

[Dry then Catch]

oh man playboy mansion doesn't seem to be on there

[ursus]

Just like the CIC application "earth" used by the good guy in Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash".

Cool stuff...

[Gamplayerx]

Grumpus came in third by just one vote on a Fark PS contest using a google earth idea. 

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1580328