Comments on: Planes in Formation?

By: Keith T.

Keith T. — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:19:00 +0000

Hey, they’re not there anymore. Looks like GSS’s expose on Danish aerial coverups worked!

By: pieter

pieter — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:05:34 +0000

Well who does that and how do they get away with it? I thought Google would provide all info “as-is” without any doctoring whatsoever. That makes me mad.

What about Greenland? From the whole earth view, it looks like the whole middle part has been photoshopped. Can someone explain that?

By: Lom

Lom — Sat, 19 May 2007 16:57:10 +0000

Hmm… they seem to have fixed it now, supposedly.

Now, instead of 7 planes, there is just one, and an odd, off-colour rectangle around it, which is clearly copied from around 900m south and 45m east of it (except for the plane peculiarly). A texture seems to have been overlayed on the lower one, and it is of worse quality, but when you look at the individual glimmers of the sun’s reflection in the water you can see that they match up perfectly.

Clicky

Although, actually, when you zoom out, it becomes clear that pretty much all of that sea water fake anyway.

By: ajho

ajho — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:48:57 +0000

And there they were gone!

By: dave

dave — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:41:23 +0000

i agree with phillip, a bloody beginners work but a nice sight.

By: Phillip

Phillip — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:36:34 +0000

I hope that’s why, because that’s a bloody horrible photshop job.

By: Sean Puckett

Sean Puckett — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:01:17 +0000

I expect this is a actually a form of copy protection. Some maps have fake streets, some encyclopedias have fake biographies, etc. Satellite imagery needs to be similarly watermarked, and this is a dead simple way of doing it.

By: cookie monster

cookie monster — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:26:38 +0000

It makes you wonder how much more cloning goes on doesnt it?
I wonder if the good people at Google have a filing cabinet with drawers marked “Generic Village”, “Suburban Sprawl” , “Featureless Desert”, “Sea” etc etc and if they want to save a bit of money they just pull something from file and drop it in hoping no one will notice.
I like to think they also have a locked drawer marked “GSS” which is full of interesting stuff that they just clone in for our benefit!

By: Beb

Beb — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:20:25 +0000

Thanks, Alex, I had noticed my mistake but only after I had posted my response. The pb was that I navigated from within the original GSS view to where I remembered seeing those 4 planes and then pasted the link (which hadn’t changed) from the address bar. I’ll be more careful next time.
I thought I would be given a chance to preview the post like on the GE Community. Is it something that can be done?

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:59:37 +0000

Beb meant here I think, and the giant 2 is most likely a leftover remnant of the film used to take these photos, as also seen in our Giant Alien Writing post.