Destination Unknown Vox 2008-02-22T21:55:34Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00cd97050ce24cd5/tags/google+earth/ When the destination is a mystery, the journey is everything. Google Earth: a Circle of People tag:vox.com,2008-02-10:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500e398db51000004 2008-02-10T21:57:29Z 2008-02-22T21:55:34Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Circle of People

This is a group of people who decided to form some sort of power circle in the middle of a street in the middle of Las Vegas, just as the satellite was going overhead. There is no church or school nearby. Okay, people, I need a story. What were...

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]]> Save Our Roof? tag:vox.com,2008-01-10:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500e398d0b95e0002 2008-01-10T04:03:37Z 2008-01-11T19:21:45Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

SOS House

This house in Austin, Texas, has "SOS" painted on the roof, as can be seen in satellite imagery from Google Earth. As the house doesn't appear to be sinking into the ocean, I can't imagine what the emergency is. Calling 9-1-1 would seem faste...

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]]> Sailing Through the Googleverse tag:vox.com,2008-01-06:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500e398cfa1ce0004 2008-01-06T23:34:50Z 2008-01-07T15:40:45Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Young Star Eye-Shaped Nebula Cat's Eye Nebula Globular Cluster M15 Cigar Galaxy Egg Nebula

I finally got around to downloading the latest version of Google Earth today, and I was amazed to find that it now has an astronomy feature. With the click of a button, you switch from viewing the surface of Earth from space to viewing space fro...

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]]> Our Censored Earth tag:vox.com,2007-02-06:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500cd97110d7a4cd5 2007-02-06T02:54:37Z 2007-02-06T23:56:13Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Bear Mountain Bridge

The Keyhole BBS has posted a file of censored locations on Google Earth. These are locations that the GIS sources for Google Earth pixelated the images for security reasons. This is dumb on a number of levels. First of all, by censoring specifi...

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]]> A Confluence of Creativity tag:vox.com,2007-02-04:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500cd971093504cd5 2007-02-04T06:51:22Z 2007-02-04T16:58:51Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Check out The Degree Confluence Project. I was telling Ladeewolf about this today and kind of got the details wrong, but the basic idea is correct. A degree confluence is wherever latitude and longitude intersect with no spare minutes or second...

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]]> Google Earth tag:vox.com,2007-02-03:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500cd97104b524cd5 2007-02-03T02:48:09Z 2007-02-03T23:41:59Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

NAPI Fajada Butte Overhead Pueblo Bonito Missouri State Shiprock Pentagon

If you have a broadband connection and haven't checked out Google Earth, yet, do so! I could literally spend hours playing with this program. It is so cool! It allows you to look at satellite photos of every place on Earth. Here are a few of t...

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