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Old 04-09-2005, 06:09 PM #1
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Has anyone else used this??
Its amazing!
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Its a programme that you can download and it shows you a satellite images of the earth. You can zoom in to most places... for example I've found the Hollywood Sign and Area 51!!
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Heh heh, when I first saw the thread title, I was like 'Earth? Why would I google that? How would that be fun?'

What you've described does seem pretty cool, though!
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It is really good. Mac users can't use it though, apparently.
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I cant stop searching for things...... it's so detailed in some places you can see the cars on the road
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Aww, wish I could get it. I don't have Mac, but my computer doesn't like downloading things.
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You have to have a pretty fast PC to be able to cope with vast amount of data!
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Ah, that explains it. My PC finds it hard to cope with a lot of things.
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It's brilliant!
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Just go to Google and type in Google Earth and download it
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I might DL it later on
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It's great fun..... but not all places are high resolution
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Can you get google earth if u have dial up internet and dont have broadband?
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I'm not quite sure that it will work on dial up?!?!
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o well were getting broadband soon anyway so ill just wait till then
I suppose its a good thing cause it gives it time to sort out its "teething problems"
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It's fab... I can zoom in and see my house. You can also see people on the street in some parts of the world where the res is highest!
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omg!
and this is live?
thats amazing
someone could go outside and wave while u zoom in on them on ur pc
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some places are realy good others are all blurry
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It's not live.... different parts of the globe do get updated but not all at the same time!
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no its not live, there are only a few places that you can zoom in on and get a good quality picture and they seem to be mostly in America! i woudnt recomend trying to download if your on dialup as it is a 300mb file lol
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Geeeze that would take forever!! zzzzzzzzzzz
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