BBC News today has a spectacular video clip of Las Vegas’ Stardust casino imploding as the final part of a controlled demolition. Of course, being Las Vegas, the demolition is done in an over-the-top style with a giant countdown clock, lasers and fireworks.

Google Earth’s image updates aren’t exactly daily, so we can still see the whole casino as it once stood and, judging by the aerial photo, it was a very large building. Of course, somehow the replacement casino Echelon Place is going to be even larger, taking up a massive 83 acres of land.

World’s-largest fact of the day: the Stardust’s electric sign was at one time the largest in the world so has been saved from the destruction and is now preserved in the Las Vegas Neon museum.

Wikipedia: Stardust Resort & Casino.

Thanks: Trina.

Initially we thought this was possibly the coolest find ever, but sadly this is not 9 small planes flying in formation over Denmark. No, even better than that, when you look closer it becomes obvious that someone has taken a single plane, and has been cloning it in Photoshop!

This is of course a complete scandal… I mean, it’s all very well blurring out Government buildings, which is just hiding the truth… but this? This is out and out fantasy! Where will it all end? (Probably Alien Civilizations and UFOs no doubt…)

The company that provides this particular aerial image is called Scankort, but as yet we’ve been unable to prove whether the image was manipulated by them, or by Google themselves. However, there is one other possibility… No, I’m not talking about aliens, I’m talking about BBC 2!

They get everywhere those little 2s…

Via gearthhacks and virtualglobetrotting.