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I can estimate roughly where my building is on the picture, but there's too many trees to actually see it. Hooray trees!
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If you check out the upper-right corner of the map, you'll see "Link to this page". Click that, then copy the stuff in the first text box. That's a link to exactly what you're seeing.
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OK, there is a tree in the front of my Building . But, if you move out, you will see that it is about 70 miles to the next one!
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quote:Originally posted by fugu13: If you check out the upper-right corner of the map, you'll see "Link to this page". Click that, then copy the stuff in the first text box. That's a link to exactly what you're seeing.
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Yes, yes I know. Not many can be as lucky as me.
(Funny thing is, it could be construed to make sense if I was a die-hard FSU football fan. But alas, I'm not. I just work in the same building.)
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Now, the really interesting thing is to move away from the United States, and start looking at the way the world is.
For example. Compare Japan to Iraq.
For Japan, look at how massive the Tokyo area is, for example. Looking across the entire country, you get a feeling for it you can never get any other way.
Japan has hugely concentrated areas, I mean, stupidly massive concentrations of people. And then, in between those huge blotches of gray are huge swaths of green! Tons of it!
I've heard Japan has a huge amount of it's land forested and so forth, but I didn't really grok it until I saw it for myself here.
As for Iraq, you see just how... deserty the place is. And how different the situation is. That is, a vastly different environment, and even the cities are different.
You can see these differences, and zoom in and see individual buildings, even!
It also gives you a feeling of size. The size of countries, and the size of the planet. But also, just how much is here. How many people, how many cities. This place is massive beyond almost all imagination.
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BTW, if you just zoom and move the map and don't start fresh, it retains the page title from the saved URL that you started out with. So Pegasus's link currently is titled "Florida State University".
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quote:Originally posted by scifibum: Right abouuut...there
BTW, if you just zoom and move the map and don't start fresh, it retains the page title from the saved URL that you started out with. So Pegasus's link currently is titled "Florida State University".
Yeah, I always figured Florida State was a bigger school.
quote:Originally posted by scifibum: Right abouuut...there
BTW, if you just zoom and move the map and don't start fresh, it retains the page title from the saved URL that you started out with. So Pegasus's link currently is titled "Florida State University".
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Tante, I guess they are, in a literal sense. My understanding is that the irrigation is performed automatically by a large pipe held up off the ground on wheels, and it moves around in a circle (not sure whether it's an internal combustion engine driving the wheels or if the water flow moves the machinery). It's anchored at the center point, so the irrigated green portion of the field ends up circular.
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