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This reminds me the episode in Futurama where aliens in Omicron Persei 8 (about 1000 light years from Earth) in the 31st century watch TV programs from Earth's 21st century.

Few assumptions to be made - assuming background noise didn't swamp the transmissions and they were sent in all directions from Earth rather than spiralling out with the planet's rotation. Still a cool map!!

Labels: coolstuff, earth

I think this is a really impressive use of Google Earth and the internet (centred around Amazon's "turk" technology); a massive distributed effort using recent satellite images on both Amazon and linked to Google Earth to find the missing explorer, Steve Fossett.

Basically you log into Amazon using your normal book buying username and password and select which Turk you want to do - the Steve Fossett one is free, but many others you can get paid for. Then you are presented with an example image and the image Amazon want you to check. You simply select "yes" (there is something interesting) or "no" (move along, nothing to see here).



Go to Amazon's Mechanical Turk (www.mturk.com)
Original article on BBC News

Labels: amazon, computers, coolstuff, earth, google, internet

I thought this was a really novel use of Google Earth, advertising your flights, destinations and affiliate hotels by use of Google Earth. This encourages something I already do - check out your destinations on Google Earth before you go, whilst being able to see car hire locations, hotel locations and flight prices right there within Google Earth!

Find the Google Earth British Airways layer here

Labels: coolstuff, earth, google, travel