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Great Walls of China!
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Quezon and I are having a little argument.
He says "space" is anywhere from where you can see the entire earth. To him this proves you can't see the Great Wall of China From Space. I note that, if one orbits at around 100-200 miles up, you are in space (not his definition of it) and CAN see the wall. He says you can't. I pointed out that if the sun is positioned correctly, it's shadow will help you spot it, and showed him radar photos of it. He pointed out that the Great Wall of China is... Clear? Yes. Clear.
Clear. No shadow. Can't be one, it's clear. Hence, the photos MUST be fake. Unlike the pencil and paper drawings he now shows me, claiming them as "real photos" of the great wall. Nothing there but oddly floating people.
Ok, so it's stupid. THAT'S NOT THE POINT!
The point is, I'm right and he's well...
...wrong...
...a moron...
...wrong & and moron...
...something like that...
Anyway, on a much more... relevant note, here is my latest and greatest find on the web:
Google Earth - earth.google.com Now it's not too often I find a download so great I need to download it. It's even less often I find one worth talking about. Yet here is an amazing program. You can scour the entire planet in stunning 3D satillite imagery. I've found you can even zoon in extremly close in many places, and do everything from find reletaves houses, to zip through the grand canyon, to do a little sightseeing (I highly reccomend taking the tour). Now to show you how neat this all is, I've taken a screenshot of an area where the maps come out very nice, Chicago, IL. I have the "buildings" layer on so buildings have 3D models on them to show their shape and size.
As a final interesting note of the day, I found
this article on the National Geographic website. It's about ligers, a creature I had only heard about in the WORST movie EVER made, Napoleon Dynamite. I thought they were fake, just another dumb joke in the movies collection of dumb jokes, but apparently, they are real.
Interesting.
All for now, may all your Thursdays be perpetual...
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