Giant Alien Bug
Monday, 18th September 2006 by Alex Turnbull
Holy Cardigans, Batman! There's an absolutely enormous bug in Germany, which is clearly hell-bent on destruction! Run for the hills!
At over 50 metres, this bug would be far bigger than the previously posted World's Largest Bug (and a whole heap more terrfying to boot) - fortunately, a moderator at the Keyhole forums informs us that this bug has gone to meet his maker, and anyway, is only actually 1mm long! He reckons it's a Thrips which was probably squished between a glass plate and the film during the scanning process.
However the circle of brown at the insect's posterior is probably the only example we'll ever see of insect excrement captured in a satellite photo! Nice.
Thanks to SammyOfKassel, koichiwb, Hill and superlocal.
Edit: Added an 's' to 'Thrips'. Thanks Parabellum.
Holy Thrip Batman!
So is it on the lens or what?
Whewww… Rhode Island’s claim to fame is still intact! 🙂
bugger.
i known that someone was planning a new radioactivity experiment.. but i cannot imagine THIS!! XD Oh My God!!
Are you sure its not a novelty, bug-shaped Zeppelin airship?
That’s Thrips, with an “S” on the end. Always. It’s not a plural “S”. Even if there’s only one, it’s still a thrips.
Thank you for reffereing my photo in Flickr.
I found this funny object in the map by a night TV show, Tamori Club. Someone posted it at YouTube
By accident I clicked the submit button in the middle of spell checking. Please forgive me for typo in my previous comment. I also failed to add the YouTube Video url of that night TV show. You can see it by http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqeFZsE5Tw8&NR , though in Japanese.
Come on, people! Do you really think that the picture of the Giant Alien Bug appearing immediately after the Interdimensional Portals post is a coincidence? Petition your Senator, Representative, MP, or ruthless dictator to start building giant magnifying glasses NOW!
…DUN
LOL @ all the Google Adsense ads on this page that are for solutions to bed bug problems
useless reporting. why is it there?
WK, as I stated in the post, over at the Keyhole forum Hill said:
And perhaps more intriguingly, Wikipedia says:
It seriously says that! Does no-one else think that’s funny?
very cool. i love that one. maybe we also find some hair and left overs from lunch 😉
These images are really scanned? I’m curious why that is? Aren’t they digitally recorded and transmitted?
The main question is: Is this bunny larger?
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Oh my God!!! They killed Kenny!!! Its not a bug, it`s a feature.
hey, i’m a glider pilot, and i’m flying like once a month over that area, i can ensure you guys, there is nothing xD
I think it came from that giant scale-model landscape smack in the middle of the Chinese desert: https://www.googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/06/1019/ . BTW, did anyone ever figure out what it’s for? Or do the Chinese still say it’s just a miniature golf course?
As far as I know nobody has got a definitive answer on that landscape replica in Huangyangtan. There have been a few reports on it:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/19/huangyangtan_mystery/ http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/the-riddle-of-chinas-area-51/2006/08/14/1155407679963.html http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2266192&page=1
But, no, not solved yet.
there was a bug on the screen it doesn’t look real
It’s not a bug, it’s a creature!
“scanning the film”? And if this imagery is digital?
A bug in the google LOL
This is normal in south germany….
Another reason to hate earwigs!
These images have been provided by German enterprise GeoContent GmbH. They simply are scanned aerial photos. The bug, albeit at 8 m/px, can be also found via their imagery browser, http://gct-webserver.de/geoApps/dlkviewer/index.php . So far I didn’t find a way to specify coordinates in the URL, therefore I’m hosting the screenshot (163 KB): http://saimhe.avita.lt/ivairus/giantbug.png .
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
48°51’28.38″N 10°12’19.80″E just put that in the search bar!!
is it not abit boring say it got trapped in a scanner? what about:
“it was neil form art-attack, doing his ‘big art-attack'” or “its a stupid joke that some sad ******* thinks is funney” or “the bug simply when to McDonalds, (we all know what that dose to you)”
Check out the airfield Frankfurt am Main to see 4 shadows and only 3 airplanes
Lol Stephan Segraves… That is not a bug on lence because these pics are tookin from space.
haha good search work people! just a little tiny bug 🙂
Sadly the thrips has been edited out of Google Maps, but will likely remain living on Google Earth until the next overall imagery update in that area.
AHAH MY BUG MINIONS ARE RUELING THE WORLD!!! MUAHAAHHAHAHAH!!!
The giant bug is gone! They wiped it out with an image update or somehting! See for yourself!
Either that or they found out how Japan always took care of giant monsters :P.
Well, it’s updated and gone 🙁