Comments on: Alien Civilization

By: Lord_Velos

Lord_Velos — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:41:48 +0000

Sadly it also looks like that in the year 2008 this photo also got updated. The weird alien looking thing is not there anymore

By: some guy

some guy — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:55:59 +0000

i can´t see that alien civilization in google earth!!

By: shane

shane — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 08:55:41 +0000

This is smithville lake the water is fairly shallow and is often frozen over in the winter

By: VV

VV — Sat, 20 May 2006 08:23:51 +0000

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By: TheSaladCaper

TheSaladCaper — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 05:44:35 +0000

With the image database updates, this is now gone in Google Earth. Google Local still displays it, though, so enjoy it while you can.

By: Xcalon

Xcalon — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:07:38 +0000

Obviously you guys are all wrong. I agree with SoObvious. The Matrix was assimilated and the Borgs were victorious at the breakdancing competition. As for Tron… lets just say that he won’t mess with Neo anymore! Neo got blown up and landed in Machine City where he met the Borgs and teamed up with Tron to breakdance all night long! PARTY!!!

By: dat

dat — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:25:24 +0000

I’m guessing its cracks or lines in the ice. Maybe when the light hits these cracks it looks like light thru a prism.

By: Guy from NASA

Guy from NASA — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:57:08 +0000

Either that, or the satellite got a little chunk of carbon stuck in its nebulator valve. Happens all the time. Betterfastercheaper.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 01:59:53 +0000

I bet it is a bug in the image processing software. In order to improve the contrast of the image, a background level is subtracted from all pixels. The background level is probably a cubic spline over some model. In the cases where the foreground is very dark (ie the pixels are close to zero in RGB), the background model might be slightly *larger* than the foreground. The result is a negative number. Unfortunately, there are no negative RGB values, so they overflow and becomes very positive. Since the colors are clearly 100% values of cyan, blue, white or magenta, this seems like the mostly likely answer. For example, if very very dark red is the RGB value (1,0,0) and the background is assumed to be dark grey RGB(1,1,1), the subtracted image looks like (0,-1,-1). However, there are no negative values, so it looks really like (0,255,255), which is 100% green and 100% blue, which looks like cyan.

The software either has a bug in the background spline algorithm (ie it rounds up instead of rounding down) or the subtraction is not using saturating arithmetic (read up on DSP processing).

By: Frood

Frood — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:31:08 +0000

Whoa, man… it’s like the satellite can see right into itself, man! Far out, dude!