[X] My Assistant

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Pretty ashtoning FREE application which shows all places on Earth ( for some countries, type the capital first and then scroll to the town of Your choice )
( e.g. I tried Pearl Harbor but the search didn't return the harbor so I tried Honolulu and found it ;-) ... -
http://earth.google.com/
It's a 10 MegaBytes executable ...
Fun to play with, especially as some US towns have a 3D feature
The London Eye is also visible so it are recent Satellite photos ... Enjoy !

[djellison]

I know that they're slowly increasing all the storage for Gmail - it used to be a gig, then 2 gig, and now it just grows with time. Perhaps the same is true of attachments?


I dont use Google Earth - I just use Google Maps -

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=32%C2%B0+9&#...19406&t=k&hl=en
I think is where you mean -it's an amazing place. I saw a documentary by Jeremy Clarkson about it once - trashing B52's with concrete blocks. Hundreds of Harriers, F15's, 16's - just about anything you'd want - enough to arm an entire nation... - go down and right a little from that link - and you can see B52's - Unbroken and Broken in rows.

This place amazes me as well

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.042637,-...64334&t=k&hl=en


Doug

[Pando]

This place amazes me as well

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.042637,-...64334&t=k&hl=en
Doug

Oh man, you're missing out without Google Earth. A little bit north from your link and with terrain maps turned on, in 3d it would give you a view like this:

(that's Sedan Crater, the biggest above-ground nuke test crater)

Attached thumbnail(s)

 

[chris]

I'm waiting for the OS X version...

Chris

[ElkGroveDan]

Unfortunately the maps are different resolutions in different places. Urban/suburban locations in the US seem to be covered at really high res. In my own backyard, I can identify the objects on my patio, as well as the make and model of cars on the streets.

Barringer Crater in Arizona is a real disappointment though, as that area is imaged at low res. But Mt. St. Helens and the Grand Canyon are a real treat. The perspective control tool that allows you to tilt the view and see the landscape beyond is just fantastic.

[blobrana]

Hum,
Here is a strewnfield of craters around Lake Chiemsee, in south-east Bavaria, that may have been caused by fragments of a huge comet that broke up in the Earth’s atmosphere.

Evidence from ancient tree rings and Roman reports of “stones falling from the sky”, has led researchers to conclude that the impact happened in about 200BC.

IMAGE (117kb, 798 x 572)
47.8° to 48.4° N and 12.3° to 13.0° E

The crater field was uncovered after amateur archaeologists working in the area found pieces of metal containing unusual minerals.
More than 80 craters were found in an elliptical area 36 miles long and 17 wide, ranging in size from 10 to 1,215 feet across. The largest, filled with water, now formed Lake Tuttensee.

Around the site the team found clues that suggested an impact from space, including rock heated into glass and minerals associated with meteorites.
The most likely cause was a low-density comet, 1.1 kilometres wide, that broke up at an altitude of 43 miles and fell in pieces to Earth.

"[i]The main mass of the projectile struck the ground at 2,200 miles per hour, releasing an amount of energy equivalent to 106 million tons of TNT/i]"

Er, or not.


Hum,
i cant seem to attach my Lake_Chiemsee_strewnfield.kmz file...