The World’s Largest Plasma TV
Google Earth satellite images have unearthed Samsung’s top secret development of the World’s largest Plasma Television.
After Japanese manufacturer Matsushita topped the South Korean electronics company’s 102″ plasma with a 103″ model Samsung moved developments to the African country of Algeria where Matsushita’s spies wouldn’t know what they were up to.
Rather than risking another embarrassment Samsung have gone all out and developed a 4,975″ Plasma screen. However, this may have been a mistake – the TV is so big that it keeps falling onto its back.
Also see previous oversized electronics on Google Sightseeing.
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Awesome, so what do we reckon this really is?
A giant swimming pool?
I though the Japanese were into making things tiny and microscopic!!
Maybe it is Stu.
Maybe it’s a tiny version of the entire universe.
Think Desert. Think: need for water. Think: Irrigation supply. That’s a pretty huge swimming pool, if it were one.
Maybe a giant swimming pool filled with frightened octopi? That’d explain the color at least. =)
It is a football field, you can see the goals, and even the light poles at the corners.
I think you could be right there.
I definitely see the goals and something in the corners, but it makes me wonder why the ground is so dark and why you can’t see the lines.
Anyone knows what these these weird crater-like things are? There’s a lot of them around, going in lines to the the south.
Here’s another football pitch, a concrete one, but you can see the lines this time.
Looks like they were chalked on on something.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Adrar’s main attraction must be the strange organisation of the town. In the middle there is a meaningless big square,- it cannot be used to anything beyong parades that hardly ever take place anyway. And out here in Sahara, big open squares are the worst thing there is, nowhere to hide from the sun.
On the subject of football pitches, I thought it would be an idea to try and find some people actually playing football, and I came as near as possible right in my very own city, Norwich, England.
This only worked on Live, google maps resolution is rubbish in Norwich.
Well, first of all here is the School I attended 2 years ago (Earlham High)
We were allowed access to the nearby astroturf pitches owned by the UEA (University of East Anglia) so I thought i’d give them a look.
I zoomed in and struck gold. As you can see here, there is a nice line of students, all in their plain white tops, with a single figure in front of them, which I can only assume is the teacher giving instructions.
OK, since the HTML didn’t work, here is the link to the second picture:
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=52.625811~1.241797&style=h&lvl=19&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=7709824
I believe those lines of pits mark the line of buried irrigation ditches.
It looks like everything green is black. The field might be actually green.
Definitely a football pitch.
You can see the shadows of the floodlights, 2 at each end of the pitch.
Also the long white part to the west of it is presumably a set of seats (or bleachers as the Americans would say).
Dan – Re: occupied football pitch
Looks like there’s a match going on outside Seoul, S.Korea right here:
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
yeah.. korean brand getting better now