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Anyone seen the new version of Google Earth, fabulous - if your in to the Universe etc.
Has some superb images of the universe and detailed descriptions
I love looking at Google Earth! I like finding tiny islands - I saw a coral reef (ring type) island once, and in the middle of the lagoon was another tiny island with a house on it. I was trying to imagine who might want to live there. I think I'd be a bit lonely.
I found my house and I was amazed and it was also a little scary. I could even see my backyard shed and the big old mulberry tree and even the speed hump in the street outside my front gate. Not nice to see such detail about a quiet street in such an out of the way place but marvellous though.
It must depend on where the pics were taken from. I've zoomed in to a couple of my friends' houses in other states and my sons' who live in the capital and the shots are not too bad. I can see my town reasonably well and can zoom in to a certain degree but when I try to get closer, it becomes a mass of blurry pixels.
I looked up the Pyramids - very clear.
Hubby was having a look at ours on it the other day. The house was blurry, but our garden looked like a jungle compared to all the other neat ones around.
This year it's gone over the top, mainly because of the heavy rain, then the warmth etc. Just as there was time to deal with the excess it rained again. So we made inroads into the worst bits over the August Bank Holiday.
So now it is still wild, but we can get around better, and reach the fruit.
The new Google space is ok if you know what your're looking at otherwise it just a load of shiney dots. Hey! we could all provide our locations and see each others homes or at least where we live. For me type in Lamphey, Pembrokeshire. You should come across a circle of detached properties and I'm one of them.
When I say my location is blurry, I don't mean my house. I mean I can't even see 10 blocks out from it. I can see the bulk of the town but as soon as I start to narrow it down, it pixelates to blazes.
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Anyone seen the new version of Google Earth, fabulous - if your in to the Universe etc.
Has some superb images of the universe and detailed descriptions
http://earth.google.com
Whats more it's free to download
What do you think of the 'Sky' section
zipping through space :-)))))
I looked up the Pyramids - very clear.
It also has wildlife, toads, frogs, dragonflies, crickets etc. Nice to sit out on a warm evening and just listen to nature.
So now it is still wild, but we can get around better, and reach the fruit.
Looks like a good place to visit - and easier to get to than Peru!