Nevada

Area 5

“Area 5″ is part of the Nevada Test Site where, along with other more famous areas, America has for decades tested various underground nukes, bombs and maybe even alien spacecraft. A large part of Area 5 is used as storage…

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Friday, 27th April 2007

Stardust

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,…

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Tuesday, 13th March 2007

Top 10 Sports on Google Earth

With high-resolution images all over the globe, Google Earth has captured many sporting events actually in-progress, so today we proudly present – The Top 10 different sports you can actually see people playing on Google Earth! As a bonus, we’ve…

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Tuesday, 13th February 2007

The Real First & Largest Logo Visible From Space

First it got Dugg, and then it got Slashdotted – but the fact remains that the enormous KFC logo recently constructed in Nevada is not the first logo (or brand) visible from space. In fact, it’s debatable whether or not…

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Wednesday, 15th November 2006

Dolphin Pool

Take your pick from either a pool of dolphins or a dolphin-shaped pool. The image of dolphins in a pool was captured from Google Earth, where you can also clearly make out a crowd gathered round a dolphin at the…

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Thursday, 9th November 2006

9 (Possible) Traffic Accidents

This feels a little like ambulance chasing, so in no particular order, here are 9 (possible) traffic accidents. 1. Highway A13 just north of Rotterdam (there’s a couple of vehicles on the hard shoulder, and traffic is backed up for…

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Tuesday, 25th July 2006
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The Futuro House

The Futuro House is a round, prefabricated house that was designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in 1968. About 100…

Brasília: a Modernist Masterpiece

The largest city on the planet that wasn’t in existence at the beginning of the 20th century, the city of…

Crazy SCUBA Guys Chase Street View

Google has today launched brand new Street View imagery for Norway, Finland and large parts of Canada. But it’s in…

Definitely a duck (maybe)

Here in the United States somewhere (we think, we haven’t checked), we’ve found this random patch of land that we…

Google Maps publishes aerial images of murder scene

The continuing rollout of 45° “birds eye view” images across the globe1 has now revealed a real-life tragedy. On the…

Trollstigen (Troll’s path)

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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