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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Shrike on August 17, 2002, 02:54:43 pm
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Look! My city!
(http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/Images/STS028/lores/STS028-072-044.JPG)
Or for a better view.....A 9 meg version (http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/Images/STS028/hires/STS028-072-044.JPG)
Can you see your house from here?
http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/categories.html
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Boom
(http://icestar.hypermart.net/lonewolf/STS090-712-043.jpg)
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http://www.globexplorer.com/cfviewer/start.cfm
Zooms in all the way to your houses.
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Originally posted by Mr. Vega
http://www.globexplorer.com/cfviewer/start.cfm
Zooms in all the way to your houses.
I found where my house should be, but theres logos all over the damn image, and they took the photo at the wrong time of day so my side of the street is covered in shadows - can't see a damn thing.
Pretty neat tho.
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You can take a pretty close look at my city here:
http://hotel.infovisaren.nu/projekt/trollhattan/kartval.asp?prodnr=1
I hope the link works. Just zoom in where it says "Trollhättans tätort"
Not exactly Satelite picture, though.
Edit: I can see my house with this map. :ha:
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(http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/Images/STS068/lores/STS068-236-092.JPG)
8 Years out of date.. ehh. what can ya do?
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada October 1994 The effects of the continental ice sheet that covered the northeastern part of North America about 15 000 years ago is evident in the physical landscape surrounding the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The many lakes are the result of glacial scouring as the ice sheets advanced and then retreated, leaving low, water-filled areas. Most of the rural areas of the glaciated landscape are now covered by northern coniferous forests. The city of Halifax is located along the south side of Halifax Harbour. The metropolitan area including Dartmouth (the city along the northern side of Halifax Harbour), with a population of approximately 320 000, is the largest Canadian commercial center with direct access to the Atlantic Ocean. The natural harbor affords ideal drydocks, dockyards, and transshipping facilities for both imports and exports. The numerous thin, white lines radiating from the metropolitan area are highways, railroads, and power line rights-of-way extending across the forested hinterland. The runways of two major airports are visible—the T-shaped runways of Halifax International Airport approximately 15 miles (25 kilometers) north of the urban area and the runways of the Shearwater CFB (military base) east of Dartsmouth. During World War II, many ship convoys were assembled in Halifax Harbour for the transatlantic crossing. St. Margaret Bay is the large bay southwest of the Halifax area.
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Bah - if you have a GPU, check out http://www.earthviewer.com/ - it rulez. :nod:
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Originally posted by Sandwich
Bah - if you have a GPU, check out http://www.earthviewer.com/ - it rulez. :nod:
You mean a good GPU..... lol
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Originally posted by Shrike
You mean a good GPU..... lol
No, I mean a GPU, period. The term was coined for the GeForce 256 graphics chip. TNT2's don't qualify. :D
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My home and work
(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/inferno/darkage/map.jpg)
(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/inferno/darkage/map2.jpg)
(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/inferno/darkage/raadhuis.jpg)
This is our council home.
1 min from my home (http://www.haagsetrams.com/lijn7/dbsgl3.htm)
This tram i always took to school.
Or when i go to the beach.
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Hmm, none of those sites are particularly great... the nearest good image i could get was about 180 miles away.
I have a nice satalite photo of half of scotland on my wall, you can see my village easilly, and even make out my street.... I'll try and take a photo.
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So... that's what CornFlake-tropolis looks like, eh? :wink:
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Originally posted by Sandwich
So... that's what CornFlake-tropolis looks like, eh? :wink:
Erm.....yes:nervous:
I use the Tram to transport my cornflakes:p
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thar we be
my property in the red square
(http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/blackwater/home.jpg)
I don't think it would be a very good idea to post such precise explanations of you're street adress, you never know who will be reading this
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Here's mine:
(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/gtdwolf/pics/gex.jpg)
That's mine at the end of the street.
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Originally posted by Blue Lion
Boom
(http://icestar.hypermart.net/lonewolf/STS090-712-043.jpg)
Hey, we're on the same map, BL... I'm near the head of the Severn River, which is barely poking in the bottom edge of the image. And Locust Point (where I work) is also visible, near the center of the screen.
At this scale, I can't find my house, though :D In fact, the only man-made thing immediately visible is the Key bridge...
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I am on that Maryland map as well. :D I was able to zoom in enough to very vaguely make out my house but the watermarks do not allow you to see much.
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Bah...the only place with my town name I could find is on a completely different continent. :mad: :doubt: :p
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You guys better not make any enemys on these boards because now, THEY KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally posted by RandomTiger
You guys better not make any enemys on these boards because now, THEY KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!
One should hate another pretty much before he is going to travel a long distance (in most cases) to go and do something bad... and that's pretty hard to understand from those where someone actually lives. :)
And no-one knows where I live, except that I live in Finland... happy searching. :D
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*Bad-um, psshh!*
Here I am:
(http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/Images/STS054/lores/STS054-074-049.JPG)
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[color=sky blue]
I live very near the southern end of that bridge that divides Lake Ponchartrain. On the image, the New Orleans French Quarter (you know where they make all those stupid 'Girls Gone Wild' videos?) is about two inches down and to the right (of that end of the bridge)on the bank of the Mississippi River.[/color]
(http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/Images/STS034/lores/STS034-074-001.JPG)
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where i live:
(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/stealth/hostedpictures/shaolinnl0183.jpg)
:D
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Satellite maps of Ireland seem to be a rarity so here's a drawn map instead, forgive the image size it's the only good one I could find. :o
(http://www.nidex.com/images/MAP1.jpg)
If you look right below the lake in the middle of my humble island you'll notice a town called Lurgan. If you were to drop a nuke there you would be 99.999% sure of getting me. (Along with most of the rest of Ireland and the UK) :D
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Originally posted by penguin
Hey, we're on the same map, BL... I'm near the head of the Severn River, which is barely poking in the bottom edge of the image. And Locust Point (where I work) is also visible, near the center of the screen.
At this scale, I can't find my house, though :D In fact, the only man-made thing immediately visible is the Key bridge...
its a reunion for all of us Marylanders :)
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WHERE do you live?
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Originally posted by Blue Lion
WHERE do you live?
Columbia, I got BWi right behind my back :wink:
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The people that do this don't seem to like Oregon, I can't find my area ;)
But anyway, I live in Oregon where the air is clean! w00t!
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Here's a photo of a satalite image on my wall... the red crosshair being me.
http://uk.msnusers.com/PetesStorageBin/Documents/whereilive.jpg
..hope that works.
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Originally posted by Kamikaze
The people that do this don't seem to like Oregon, I can't find my area ;)
But anyway, I live in Oregon where the air is clean! w00t!
and in a new world far south is LA, were the air is grey
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Originally posted by beatspete
Here's a photo of a satalite image on my wall... the red crosshair being me.
http://uk.msnusers.com/PetesStorageBin/Documents/whereilive.jpg
..hope that works.
:eek2: Needs a passport.
*gasp* :shaking:
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Originally posted by Dr.Zer0
Columbia, I got BWi right behind my back :wink:
Well I'll be goddamned, I work in Columbia :p
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Originally posted by Blue Lion
Well I'll be goddamned, I work in Columbia :p
Drug lord? ;)
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:thepimp:
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Originally posted by Blue Lion
:the pimp: :thepimp:
lol :0
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Originally posted by Redfang
:eek2: Needs a passport.
*gasp* :shaking:
in that case i give up.
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I don't have a home.... :( I live in a shack...
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But we knew that :p
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Originally posted by Vortex
Drug lord? ;)
You must be confusing it with Colombia or something. :D
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C'mon, please tell me I'm not the ONLY one living on an island? (Australia doesn't count! :D)
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Originally posted by Unkown Target
C'mon, please tell me I'm not the ONLY one living on an island? (Australia doesn't count! :D)
"...this Island Earth..." :D
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Originally posted by Unkown Target
C'mon, please tell me I'm not the ONLY one living on an island? (Australia doesn't count! :D)
:rolleyes:
Points to the Islands known as the British Isles and points to the fact quite a lot of members on this board live there, including the poster of this post.
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I live on the American continents, that's an island
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I get the feeling UT was talking about people who live on an island that is not also a seperate country.
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Well maybe he needs to be more specific :p
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I lived on Vancouver Island for a short period in my life....
And Nova Scotia is almost an island...
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Originally posted by Sandwich
I get the feeling UT was talking about people who live on an island that is not also a seperate country.
UK is one country really...
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I'll get that one go.
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Originally posted by RandomTiger
I'll get that one go.
:wtf:
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Is it possible to not live on an island? Would there be no islands only if there is no water? :D
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Easiest way to think of an island is that it is surrounded by water, and relativley minor to another larger land mass. For example, britain is and island compared to the European continent... but not compaired to say, the isle of Mann (island in the irish sea).
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The Ilse of Man is really more of a colony, surely. As in 'leper'.
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Originally posted by CP5670
Is it possible to not live on an island? Would there be no islands only if there is no water? :D
No - there could be a world covereed in land, with "islands" of water (aka lakes) alll over the place. As long as those lakes didn't connect in such a way as to cut off any part of land from any other part of land, you could have plenty of water with no islands. :D
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Originally posted by Vortex
Drug lord? ;)
you must be thinking of the country columbia :p
columbua southamerica, home of %75 of all the crack :nervous: :shaking:
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I'm moving to British Columbia :nervous:
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I thought you were already a drug lord, Thorn :p
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Originally posted by Dr.Zer0
you must be thinking of the country columbia :p
columbua southamerica, home of %75 of all the crack :nervous: :shaking:
As I already posted, it's ColOmbia, not Columbia. :p
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No - there could be a world covereed in land, with "islands" of water (aka lakes) alll over the place. As long as those lakes didn't connect in such a way as to cut off any part of land from any other part of land, you could have plenty of water with no islands. :D
I suppose you are right there, but then suppose that there is a planet with a thin (2mm wide) strip of land running around the circumference of the planet at the equator, and the rest is all water, the water bodies would be lakes, right? :D (not sure of the exact definition of "island," so correct me if I am wrong)
In other words, if an island both encloses water and is enclosed by water in some way, it is no longer an island. :D
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Originally posted by CP5670
(not sure of the exact definition of "island," so correct me if I am wrong)
An island is defined as a (small) piece of land surrounded by water in all directions. So that thing probably wouldn't count as an island (there are directions which it is surrounded by nothing, or by itself).
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Technically it is surrounded by water, though. Suppose this thin circular strip of land is moved up so that the center of the circle is no longer at the planet's core but instead close to one of the poles and thus also has a much smaller circumference. (imagine having a large pool of water in the middle of Antarctica that leaves a thin ring of land remaining at the edges) It is now much more apparent that the landmass is indeed surrounded by water, but none of the island's properties have been fundamentally changed except of size. ;) :D
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It depends on how you view it. If you see the planet as a flat surface as opposed to a globe (as in a map), it won't be surrounded by water. It will divide two portions of water.
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Sure, but the real world is a sphere rather than a 2D polygon, so it would make more sense to view it as a riemannian space. ;)
I guess there is no really precise definition of "island" then; interesting...
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But there is. It's just that it considers mapping conventions as ruling factors to determine wheter something is an island or not, I guess. You'll rather be looking at a map to say "that's an island", not flying over them.
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Shutup CP, go back to your math:p
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Originally posted by Unkown Target
I thought you were already a drug lord, Thorn :p
I am not...
pssst... Styxx.... I got some stuff here that makes your SpaceCrack look like candy....
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*reads about geographical disputes, wonders about Halo*
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Originally posted by Styxx
As I already posted, it's ColOmbia, not Columbia. :p
Stop trying.
And what's that dancing umbrella woman thing with the hockey-stick legs under your name now? The first time I saw it I thought I was hallucinating, because I'd been drinking too much.
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It's probably the Multi Man!
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Originally posted by Levyathan
It's probably the Multi Man!
It sucks.
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Originally posted by CP5670
I suppose you are right there, but then suppose that there is a planet with a thin (2mm wide) strip of land running around the circumference of the planet at the equator, and the rest is all water, the water bodies would be lakes, right? :D (not sure of the exact definition of "island," so correct me if I am wrong)
In other words, if an island both encloses water and is enclosed by water in some way, it is no longer an island. :D
Well, I had thought of that scenario while typing up my previous argument, and I disregarded it as, um.. somewhere I didn't want to go. :p
The definition of an island definetly has something to do with it's size relative to it's planet (?). And because of that relativity, there is no absolute definition of "This is an island, that isn't."
So to summarize this discussion, screw islands. Who cares. I live here, you live there, and that's that. Now pass the flamethrower; mine seems to be broken. :doubt:
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Originally posted by Kellan
It sucks.
If you never watched The Impossibles™, you didn't have a childhood. :p
and it's not a wise thing to say that an admin's avatar sucks...
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Originally posted by Styxx
If you never watched The Impossibles™, you didn't have a childhood. :p
and it's not a wise thing to say that an admin's avatar sucks...
beware of topic derailment
I watched it againsed my will, but I still think Space Ghost was the best :p
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Originally posted by Dr.Zer0
beware of topic derailment
I watched it againsed my will, but I still think Space Ghost was the best :p
Bah, The Impossibles was the best. :D
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Originally posted by Styxx
If you never watched The Impossibles™, you didn't have a childhood. :p
and it's not a wise thing to say that an admin's avatar sucks...
We never had it in the Third World country that I inhabit.
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Eh, I live on an island. Only 390km (243 mi) at longest ends and 140km (87.5 mi) at the widest east-west point.
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Mine home is here :)
(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/swarm/infested_larva/home.jpg)
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Cool, Ljubljana. The place with the weirdest name in Europe. :D
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Originally posted by Kellan
Cool, Ljubljana. The place with the weirdest name in Europe. :D
It's not a "place" - you can plainly see that it's a "Karta"! :p
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Hey... don't make fun of our language... Karta means map ok... and Ljubljana is a place with wierdest name :) :) :) I agree with everyone... But it reads difrant than u all think...
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www.mapquest.com
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Originally posted by Infested_Larva
Hey... don't make fun of our language... Karta means map ok... and Ljubljana is a place with wierdest name :) :) :) I agree with everyone... But it reads difrant than u all think...
Hehe, in finnish it's kartta, almost like karta. Do you live in Estonia, as that language is quite a bit like finnish? :)
Hmm, weird name, I don't even know where that place is. :)
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It's capital city of Slovenia... and it's in slovenian language...
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In Italian and Spanish it's carta; Russian and most slavic languages (like Slovenian) use karta as well. The French use plan just to be different ;) The Latin (or probably Greek) root word gives us "cartography," etc. in English.
I suppose it must be a loan-word in Finnish, since Finnish is not Indo-European, and the similarity is too close to be coincidental...
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my in a nice little suburban area called Connecticut (URL goes here but it doesn't work...:mad: )
I live in a gingerbread house! ;)