Return of the Alien Civilization
Tuesday, 9th January 2007 by Alex Turnbull
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water... it's the Return of the Alien Civilization!
If you've been a reader for a while you'll remember the original Alien Civilization post, where people were arguing about the reasons for the strange images for months on end. In fact they only stopped when Google updated the images, and a very ordinary lake replaced the crazily-coloured pattern that had been there before.
This new Alien Civilization is actually a lake in the Austrian Alps, and quite probably frozen. In fact you can actually see skiers and snowboarders on top of the nearby Penken mountain - which is the first time I've seen a wintertime ski-resort in high-resolution (and has the added bonus that I was actually there in 2005!).
Thanks to MAX.
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Looks like our Alien Overlords have taken to bar-coding parts of the planet. A prelude to another “census of the entire world,” perhaps?
I can only assume that the water must reflect heavily at this certain angle, and so the computer would compensate for the glare
Schmidtville Lake?
There are three ski resorts at the northern edge of Vancouver, BC; one (Grouse Mountain) does not even require that you own a car as the gondola goes right into North Vancouver and you can take public transit. A check shows that Grouse is in high resolution, and the other two likely are also; but it’s summer in the pictures 🙁
The very fabric of the universe is tearing right in Australia!