Giant Insect Invades Germany 264
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from the our-thrip-overlords dept.
from the our-thrip-overlords dept.
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.
No... (Score:5, Funny)
It seems the alien invasion of the Earth has just started!
No.. it's really Richard Branson's newest Eco-Friendly transportation mode. See, we'll strap seats to the backs of these giant genetically modified insects and they'll run us or fly us anywhere we want to go. What could possibly [imdb.com] go wrong [imdb.com]?
microsoft europe strenuously denied it was a bug from their code, "ours are a few metres smaller."
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To prove the point: try find a car, (non-electric) train, plane or any form of mechanised transport which acheives >70% effiency!
Lastly, something which is 1,000 times more efficient that a 70% efficient motor isn't 70,000% efficient
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God uses correct grammar.
"incremental efficiency" vs "absolute efficiency" (Score:3, Insightful)
Say a human being is only 30% efficient in converting food to energy/"work". Given the human already needs a certain amount of food to stay alive, one should also measure the additional amount of food the human needs to do an additional amount of work.
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They wouldn't last long under a stampede of 50 meter giant insects.
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Re:No... (Score:5, Funny)
(btw, I'm joking, but just to be safe, I for one welcome our new genetically-modified-food-created insectile pooping overlords!)
That's Not a Bug (Score:5, Funny)
Re:That's Not a Bug (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:No... It Came From the German Countryside!!! (Score:2)
Ich fur ein... (Score:5, Funny)
Other OB (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ich fur ein...... Willkommen unsere neuen Insekt overlords
In Soviet Russia Google Maps bug YOU!
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Wir heissen unsere Insektenüberlordschaften willkommen!
As you can surely see (Score:2)
Re:Other OB (Score:5, Funny)
Letztes Jahr gab keine Insektenüberlordschaften.
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Just in case:
Eu, da minha parte, dou boas-vindas aos nosos novos Senhores Insetos!
On my knees!
Re:Other OB (Score:5, Funny)
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Well he did have an error, but in fact present perfect tense would make it even worse, since Germans only use that as an actual past tense. In fact the big error was using 'für' which is a typical error English speakers make in German, as well as the ordering, since the 'time' part of the phrase has to be moved up in the sentence; the rule of thumb in German sentence order is:
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Re:Other OB (Score:5, Funny)
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Gotta match the numerus on that adjective with the subject there... I like the sharp-s though.
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"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
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If I'm curt with you it's 'cause time is a factor (Score:2)
Bugs! (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Bugs! (Score:4, Funny)
It's got more value as a cool link than a fixed bug.... I hope someone's got a sense of humor ^^
Joke contest? (Score:4, Interesting)
Oh, let's not.
Alternatively, everybody can get it out of their systems today if I never have to hear it again.
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"I, for one, welcome our new giant insectoid overlords!"
Alternate joke contest (Score:2)
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Frist!
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Yeah, I'm tired of it too. It used to be funny, but now it's achieved the same worn-out status that "automagically" always had.
Besides, it wasn't even the funniest insect line in the episode. Which was: "Freedom! Horrible, horrible freedom!"
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Forgive me, but... (Score:5, Funny)
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But in Soviet Russia, the overlords joke about YOU!
Works great in Google Earth too (Score:2, Informative)
Jess
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Way to spoil the joke (Score:5, Funny)
The fact it was posted with the Monty Python foot should be enough for anyone to know it shouldn't be taken seriously.
We could have had hundreds, if not thousands, of posts as to exactly what it could all mean, how it got there, why it was taking a large dump at the time of the photo...
But now... now you've ruined it.
I hope you're happy... go and sit in the corner and think about what you've done.
Re:Way to spoil the joke (Score:4, Funny)
Of course it was. It's what they want us to think. If they didn't put that idea in our heads, we'd be free to think about what really happened.
Re:Way to spoil the joke (Score:5, Funny)
"The fact it was posted with the Monty Python foot should be enough for anyone to know it shouldn't be taken seriously."
So if they didn't include the Monty Python foot, people would have seriously thought there was a giant bug in Germany?
Re:Way to spoil the joke (Score:5, Funny)
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Of course he's not alone! (Score:3, Funny)
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A coincidence? I think not.
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Alcohol. Heh.
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(Ok sorry, latenight at work)
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That amused me.
absolutely preposterous (Score:5, Funny)
fun (Score:5, Insightful)
Boston [google.com]
Dallas [google.com]
Sidewalk ends [ministryof...anda.co.uk]
Of course, there are tons of these, including the popular ipod [google.com].
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Bug in the Matrix (Score:2)
This is obviously a bug in the Matrix.
cool (Score:2)
Note the lake's color range, not just its unnatural appearance. Now zoom out a couple times.
They've obviously retouched the lake in the closer images, because you can see evidence of dodging and burning.
Re:fun (Score:5, Interesting)
One of my favorites is Versailles [google.com]. Yes, that Versailles [wikipedia.org].
Did you realize that the world's most famous palace, it's grounds, and the community in front of it are laid out like an enormous happy-face stick figure [homeip.net]? Take a look at that aerial photo, then go back and look at the Google view [google.com] -- it's obvious once you look for it. And this all goes back to, what, 1500s and earlier [wikipedia.org]?
It almost makes you think that the French first sent people up in hot-air balloons [wikipedia.org] just so that they'd get a chance to see the joke that architects & urban planners had set up centuries earlier...
:-)
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Link [google.com]
The bridge is washed out, yes, but Google didn't integrate satellite imagery for coastal Jackson County, so you have half a bridge. What's also interesting to note is that the Bay St. Louis bridge, west of the one seen in the above link, is also washed out, and Google previously had that imagery integrated as well, but it seems they've removed it, and now the only section of the MS coast seen
From the Googleplex (Score:5, Funny)
http://theblight.net/misc/germany.jpg [theblight.net]
The Maps team is going to be -pissed.- It'll be awesome.
This is News? (Score:4, Funny)
'Bugzilla' users? (Score:3, Funny)
That's nothing. (Score:3, Funny)
Check out this giant fly attacking Mt. St. Helens! [cambria.com]
during "scanning"?? (Score:2, Insightful)
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5. to read (data) for use by a computer or computerized device, esp. using an optical scanner.
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Now the fuzzy, false-color "aww, they don't have good pics of this area" imagery *is* from a satellite (Landsat 7, IIRC).
figures. (Score:2, Funny)
Damn Ph.D's, with their genome maps and fancy internet tubes.
With apologies to Kafka... (Score:5, Funny)
...and invaded Germany.
Nothing to see here, move along (Score:5, Funny)
Upping the ante, eh? (Score:3, Insightful)
It is just Google's new crawler.
Clearly a mere robots.txt is not going to help against this...we're gonna need real robots! Giant ones!!
The Yukon/Alaska Black Box (Score:5, Insightful)
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As far as I can tell, it's hiding nothing [live.com]. Does that mean I have to die now?
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Re:The Yukon/Alaska Black Box (Score:4, Insightful)
Nice try, Google... (Score:3, Funny)
on the map, or they start the Google Maps Treasure Hunt next year.
My wife's pun (Score:5, Funny)
(My wife is an incorrigible punster. I try not to incorrige her.)
Google Earth too (Score:2)
Smoots in a Thrip? (Score:2)
Google Sightseeing (Score:4, Informative)
Including boobies! [googlesightseeing.com]
wrong way (Score:2, Funny)
Satellites have scanners? (Score:3, Interesting)
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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.
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http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/25
Fark had a thread of wierd finds last week (Score:5, Interesting)
There are some really great shots in that thread as well
as some co-ordinates to follow up on. One is a wierd land
area in New Mexico where some scammers had built out all
the roads for an entire city development and then skipped
out with the money and never built a thing.
Very wierd stuff.
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longitude: 121.3369736498427
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The Escher Imaging Satellite (Score:2)
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Re:I checked the photo and (Score:4, Informative)
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Because in Germany, bugs don't leave their excrement in the middle of a nice clean field like that?
Ok, I admit it. You got modded both +1 Funny and +1 Informative, and I'm left very confused. Not by the usual random moderation, mind you, but by what I'm supposed to be thinking right now....
You're right! (Score:5, Funny)
I hear "Kugeltalstraße" is a really popular Chinese street name. Yep, sure looks like China [comcast.net] to me.
Your sig. (Score:2)
This goes both ways, of course. 'War on Terror'?
Here is what they see in China: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14975282/site/newsweek/sit e/newsweek/ [msn.com]
Here is what we see in America: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14964292/site/newsweek
Re:U.S. Action soon to take place (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Germans subpoena Google (Score:5, Funny)
In a further development, Russia has started to mobilise its troops onto it's western border in anticipation of a German attack. President Putin said: "Germany has a history of doing this, they did it in the first world war and they also have a history of ripping off old first world war battle plans for use again."
Asked to step in and resolve the situation by bombing the lot of them back to the stone-age, President George W. Bush said "It is not the policy of the US Government to interfere in the internal issues of sovereign states. We also don't bomb places that don't end in -stan or start with an 'I'" he said, "It's apples and grapefruits really. None of our turtlewax."