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PostFri Apr 08, 2005 7:27 pm    

borgslayer wrote:
Lord Borg wrote:
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I was right I did get Area 51 just now.



Satelite View of Area 51 courtesy of google.com

I soo rule!

So my testing proves I can get just about any map of places on Earth.


And what are we looking at?


A top secret U.S. Airforce Military Base miles from Rachel Nevada.




If it's "Top Secret'' than how did google get their hands on it??


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PostFri Apr 08, 2005 9:29 pm    

I searched for rachel nevada and typed groom lake and found that. Google didnt find it I did.

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PostSat Apr 09, 2005 3:34 am    

Yeah, but what I mean is that google would have had to find it first so then they could put it on the serch engin

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PostSat Apr 09, 2005 3:42 am    

It's pretty well know where it is, but it would be difficult to get to because of the security measures so the map wouldn't really cause harm. Also most of the base is probably underground so can't be seen.

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PostSat Apr 09, 2005 3:45 am    

But it has still given away the bases position of where they are!

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PostSat Apr 09, 2005 3:59 am    

Anyone wanting to cause damage would know about Area 51. It's known well from films and so on. Terrorists would find it impossible to attack, and other countries with the capability to attack it with missiles would have their own spy satalittes to find it, at far better resolution. Most of the research would be carried out at other places that aren't know.

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PostSat Apr 09, 2005 4:01 am    

Well it's their own fault if they get blown up!

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PostSat Apr 09, 2005 5:35 am    

I found that image too, but how do you know that's Area 51.

Probably it's just some factory in Nevada.


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PostSat Apr 09, 2005 11:04 am    

nadia wrote:
Yeah, but what I mean is that google would have had to find it first so then they could put it on the serch engin

Actually, Google doesn't have to do anything.

Someone else took the picture and put it on the Internet. Then when borgslayer typed in the search terms, Google crawled the Web and found that picture (with the help of its gargantuan indexing database). Google is just displaying the picture, its Images search is essentially like a window (hence a number of copyright quagmires).


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PostSat Apr 09, 2005 11:14 am    

Heres how it works

The satelite in space takes the picture of Earth then the pictures are automatically transmitted back to a computer. Then a person on that computer sends the data to google.com. So now a person can get any pictures of the Earth.

People here are waay too confuse about satelite technology.


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PostSat Apr 09, 2005 11:29 am    

Hitchhiker wrote:
nadia wrote:
Yeah, but what I mean is that google would have had to find it first so then they could put it on the serch engin

Actually, Google doesn't have to do anything.

Someone else took the picture and put it on the Internet. Then when borgslayer typed in the search terms, Google crawled the Web and found that picture (with the help of its gargantuan indexing database). Google is just displaying the picture, its Images search is essentially like a window (hence a number of copyright quagmires).
I thought he pulled that image from the satellite search though. It's two different things.

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