Giant Insect Invades Germany 264
Noryungi writes, "It seems the alien invasion of the Earth has just started! A 50-meter insect has been spotted roaming the German countryside! Let the 'I, for one, welcome our new giant insectoid overlords' joke contest begin!" A moderator at a Keyhole forum IDs the bug as a thrip, about 1mm long, squished under a glass plate during scanning.
I checked the photo and (Score:1, Informative)
Works great in Google Earth too (Score:2, Informative)
Jess
Re:Other OB (Score:2, Informative)
Wir heissen unsere Insektenüberlordschaften willkommen!
Man, your German is bad (Score:1, Informative)
Das korrekte Wort ist Überlords !!
Re:No... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:I checked the photo and (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Other OB (Score:2, Informative)
"Ich zumindest heisse unsere neuen Insektenoberherrscher willkommen!"
I = Ich
for one = zumindest (in this context)
welcome = heisse
our = unsere
new = neuen
insect over-lords = Insekten-ober-herrscher
Re:The Yukon/Alaska Black Box (Score:2, Informative)
As far as I can tell, it's hiding nothing [live.com]. Does that mean I have to die now?
Re:during "scanning"?? (Score:3, Informative)
Now the fuzzy, false-color "aww, they don't have good pics of this area" imagery *is* from a satellite (Landsat 7, IIRC).
Re:Other OB (Score:2, Informative)
Gotta match the numerus on that adjective with the subject there... I like the sharp-s though.
Google Sightseeing (Score:4, Informative)
Including boobies! [googlesightseeing.com]
Re:Satellites have scanners? (Score:3, Informative)
You are correct - Google has misled you by implying that all the photographs came from satellite imagery, when in fact much of it came from aerial photography.
Google buys its input from a wide variety of companies - most of whom do the digitization themselves and then sell the digital files to Google. I suspect the companies do the digitizing themselves for their own purposes and later resell the data to Google. So, yes - there are a bunch of people taking a stack of paper and scanning it, but it's a distributed project across a bunch of companies across a bunch of years. (Google recently added 'new' [to Google] high res imagery of my area - imagery that's actually nearly five years old.)
Because not everything is done direct to digital. High resolution large format negative are (for this purpose) still better than their digital equivalents.