Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Mountain Venues
The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games start today and Google has treated us to excellent new imagery of many of…
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At first glance this might appear to be a a blurry cloud above the ocean but it is in fact hundreds of seabirds feeding on fish! News of the feast has spread fast, and you can see more birds approaching…
I suppose it had to happen eventually, but a submitter (who actually asked to remain anonymous!), thinks they may have found the first Google Earth image of… someone doing something which we must all do at least once a day.1…
News has spread across the internet over the last day or two of a “hack” that allows you much more zooming on Google Maps. Unfortunately for all the people who’ve wasted hours scanning the earth, this is really nothing new.…
In the desert of Mali, West Africa, we find the skull of an ex-cow, which was captured as part of the National Geographic Africa Megaflyover project. By the look of those horns, I’d say the skull probably once belonged to…
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…
This post was updated 29th July 2007 On the 19th of June 2005, a Mahfooz Aviation Boeing 707-347C crashed while landing at Addis Ababa-Bole Airport in Ethiopia. Luckily all 5 crew survived, but the aircraft was written off. Although I…
The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games start today and Google has treated us to excellent new imagery of many of…
NASA’s first visitor centre, and one of the world’s largest public collections of space bits is the U.S. Space and…
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Here in the United States somewhere (we think, we haven’t checked), we’ve found this random patch of land that we…
The continuing rollout of 45° “birds eye view” images across the globe1 has now revealed a real-life tragedy. On the…
In a country renowned for its natural beauty, one of the most spectacular landscapes is found along the Trollstigen (Troll’s…
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