Here on a rooftop in Des Moines, Iowa we find the messaage “Becky will U marry me? Chris“. Now we don’t mean to be cruel, but we’re hoping that Becky went with “No”.

You see, as we’ve previously defined, here at Google Sightseeing we have a set of strict rules about when someone should accept a marriage proposal from Google Earth¹.

Of our rules, the single most important question is this: did your prospective partner bother to spell the out the word “you” in full? If they couldn’t even be bothered putting in the effort to do just two more letters, then… well, you know what to do

Thanks: Mental Floss via Google Earth Blog.

Boing boing have recently featured stories about people who refuse to sell their homes to developers, no matter what the price.

This first house in Bismark was once part of a residential area, but as the nearby St. Alexius Medical Centre expanded they needed more and more parking space and bought up the land of all the adjacent houses. With the exception of one.

The house and its garden space are now directly opposite the emergency room so the owner must be either deaf or he really likes the sound of ambulance sirens.

Our second homeowner in San Jose refused to sell up to the developers of the nearby HP Pavilion indoor arena so is now completely surrounded by parking. I wonder if he gets free tickets on gamedays?

Previously on Google Sightseeing: The Man Who Lives in the Middle of the M62.

Thanks Boing boing and its readers.

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.

The urban equivalent of Cow Tipping, the inner-city phenomenon of Car Tipping has begun to spread like wildfire across Germany now that its been spotted on Google Earth…

Also see our post on Extreme Parking for more.

Via Gearth Blog.