Yanc
Full Pole
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Post by Yanc on Nov 24, 2005 3:41:36 GMT -7
Hi Have you used it? I had, and found it very time consuming. I visited places, which I know I will never visit personally. Below is view of my neigborhood Yanc
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Post by jimpres on Nov 24, 2005 10:34:02 GMT -7
Here is a view of San Diego from a satellite. If you look to the right you will see a begining of a mountain range. There are two lakes (dark spots) near it. I live across from the lake on the left in the picture. www.gesource.ac.uk/satellite/2119.jpg
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Post by sciwriter on Nov 24, 2005 22:53:46 GMT -7
Guys, I find using it to view the tops of historical landmarks, such as the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, is interesting. I learned that the Duma doesn't have sex on the roof (LOL). Carl
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Post by kaima on Nov 24, 2005 23:38:29 GMT -7
Hi Have you used it? I had, and found it very time consuming. I visited places, which I know I will never visit personally. Yanc I have Google Earth on my computer and have used it to fly around to places I have visited in Slovakia and see where I have hiked and what else is interesting for future trips. Now if I could figure out how to record a movie of the 'flight' I could burn it to CD and share it with other people. I don't have the image of my town on a web site, so I will say do a search on Google Earth for "eagle river, Alaskaā€¯, and after it zooms in, back off to a greater altitude and make sure you have 'terrain' on. I found adjusting it to 1.4 gives me about real perspective. The 1.0 set there is too flat. After that tilt the view and fly due east tot he white you see in the mountains. This will take you over the glaciers in the Chugach Mountains. If I left my home and hiked due east, I would enter the wilderness after 1 km and would exit onto the next road about 200km later. After that the second road would be 1000+km? Kai Does anyone know how to record the screen presentation on Google Earth in motion? Of course simple screen captures are a snap. PS This was done late and obviously without a spell checker!
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Post by sciwriter on Nov 25, 2005 1:00:29 GMT -7
Kai, interesting.!The areas in Alaska & Slovakia which you specified must be quite beautiful. I found that the communIty where I grew up in Bronx, NYC changed considerably. One benefit of Google Earth is visualizing the changes that occurred in various communities we previously lived in or visited by comparing the present with our memories of the past. Carl
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nancy
European
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Post by nancy on Nov 25, 2005 13:56:44 GMT -7
Kai, In order to record a movie from Google Earth, you need the Pro module - a mere $400 - plus the movie module - another $200. Maybe you can convince your employer to purchase this setup? earth.google.com/earth_pro.htmlI enjoyed my virtual trip to Alaska (one of my nieces lives in Palmer) - having terrain on makes a big difference! Nancy
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Post by kaima on Nov 25, 2005 17:43:50 GMT -7
Nancy, I am looking at Palmer right now and then I'll see if I can head (more or less) due north and locate Hatcher Pass / Independence Gold mine. If I were running Google, this would be one of the detailed areas to show! It is beautiful and only 20 miles north of Palmer. You will know it by the Fishhook-Willow raod and when you get to see Summit lake. The valley to the right has Independence mine and Gold Cord mine.
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Post by sciwriter on Nov 26, 2005 21:14:57 GMT -7
Kai, if you produce a movie, consider showing evidence of global warming in Alaska.Carl
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Post by kaima on Nov 27, 2005 15:11:45 GMT -7
Kai, if you produce a movie, consider showing evidence of global warming in Alaska.Carl Carl, The evidence of Alaska warming up is in the last three decades of journals of science and engineering up here. That is hard to present graphically or in a movie. Certainly there are spectacular things to show with the retreating glaciers and melting permafrost and shore erosion, but any of those individually can be taken as a seasonal or local phenomenon. It is the study of the sub-surface temperatures and the weather records that form a solid record of the permafrost warming. Much of the permafrost is slightly below freezing, so a slight warming makes a great difference. Overall Alaska has warmed 3F over the last 30 years in the winter, while the summers have stayed much the same as always. It is the gasses trapped in ancient ice in Greenland and Antarctica that have pushed back the climate records first to 400,000 years and now 650,000 years. Those show our current global warming is beyond all precedent. That would be tough to make a movie, and it would be quite easy to bring a movie into question, and the public would not care to delve into the science it is based upon. Kai Kai
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Post by Global warming on Nov 27, 2005 17:37:51 GMT -7
Kai, I suggest you write & publish an online article on this subject. Thanks. Carl
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