Some companies have been doing satellite / aerial images for years, and with better quality. Why in the heck does Google get all the attention?

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Because google has a decent interface to access them? Sure, I could use terraserver (and get nagged for money to get anything of decent resolution) or USGS, after I take a course on GIS to understand all of the bloody terminology.

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Interface. Interface. Interface.

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shut up.

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I guess panda_boner has been burning offerings at god.google.com.

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Some companies have been doing mp3 / audio players for years, and with better quality. Why in the heck does Apple get all the attention?

(Answer: user interface.)

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Something's broken: also at google_sights

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When perspectives collide!

That's, like, entering the 8th dimension, man.

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OH JESUS MY BRAIN

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Shadows without a building

And, apparently Capitol Hill has a pixelation shield.

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That's designed to stop the terrorists, I think. To stop them from... I don't really know, actually.

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Neither the White House nor the Pentagon has something similar.

*boggle*

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While the White House itself doesn't on a grand scale the roof, and the buildings (OEOB and Treasury Dept?) on either side, which might have very interesting stuff on their roofs, do appear to have been "enhanced" for your protection.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Capitol+Hill,Washington+DC&ll=38.889842,-77.010019&spn=0.007231,0.010461&t=k&hl=en

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Why would they have a pixelation shield on the capital bldg. but NOT the White House? Very dumb. Dumb indeed!

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They did a decent job of meshing them though. :) I'm currently in St. Louie. I see the arch if I walk down the hall a bit and stare out the window. :P It's no longer impressive.

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That is just incredibly disturbing.

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I've got a similar sightseeing page for my ACME Mapper. http://mapper.acme.com/locations.html

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this means something.

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The page is dead, too much bandwidth. The LJ site also seems overloaded, the page loads, but not the image.

Any mirrors?

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I just clicked my link, and it worked perfectly.

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There sure is a lot of parking at Stargate Command.

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Thor drives a jetta.

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I like the followup post to that link:

Nuclear Testing Craters

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Are you sure those are craters? Maybe it's an optical illusion, but they look more like mounds of dirt to me.

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Fairly certain. Unzoom, scroll around, you'll see a ton of craters to the southeast. This fits in with the info from the DOE page on the test site.

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Those are mostly from underground tests, so they aren't craters so much as giant sinkholes. If you zoom in, the cracks from the collapse are fairly obvious, as are pools of water in the bottom.

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That above URL is in the middle of NTS. If you move down, you see this really light-colored triangle splotch. That's the dry lake that houses the Yucca air strip in Area 6. Area 3 is the piece above it with the brunt of the craters.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/facility/images/nts_fig1.gif will give you a vague idea where the stuff it, but it's a pain in the ass to line up the landmarks to the maps.

Most of those out there are collapsed sinkholes from underground testing. The most famous crater, Sedan, is up in Area 10. It's also interesting to see that what look like entire little cities that were built just for testing are sitting around abandoned. Oh, also a lot of what look like craters in Area 3 are really storage holes for the Radioactive Waste Management Site. They used to fill them with hot dirt and other junk from tests, but now they're filling them with other DoD hazardous waste.

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As have been mentioned before, yes, it's an optical illusion. Compare this (rather famous test) to this.

Also in the same general area: Hawthorne, NV, home of one of the largest munition dumps in the world. Each one of those little bumps is an entrance to enough obsolete ammo to run your own personal war.

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She is watching you.

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Burning Man.

I'm still trying to find Michael Heizer's City.

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City

That seems to be as good as it gets. :(

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