Posted on 1/19/2006, 10:57:01 PM by grjr21
Thanks to all those readers who took the time to write in about our mystery Google Earth location (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/17/google-earth-investigation/) and, specifically, the five selected features which we asked you to identify:
Well, it proved a little too easy for our US cousins, many of whom had first-hand knowledge of the place in question. Not everyone, though, found it quite so unchallenging.
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...
click on the link to the rest of the articule to get the answers
The Bill Gates estate?
Area 51? ;^)
Isn't that "ground zero" for the Ted Kennedy flatuence site?
LOL. That's to funny
"A" looks like a drag strip...going to read the answers now
I spent a three year period of my youth playing in and around that place. My brothers and I occasionaly had the run of the hanger, it was a blast. My father was a Department Head, for the Airframes Intermediate Maintenance Dept. (if I recall correctly).
almost, i think its a dry-land mockup of aircraft carrier deck.
That's one blast zone you want to stay clear of!
Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, New Jersey?
The softball field is still where it was 37 years ago.
The clues are all there for the military officers among us.
It's a Naval base somewhere, right? There's a carrier deck painted on the runway. I assume picture B is a catapult simulator?
VERY cool!! Bet you all have some stories to tell!! ;o)
That makes sense -- you'd want to learn somewhere other than on a moving ship!!
I knew it wouldn't take long
My brothers and I watched an Army Airborne type burn in at that jump site. His main malfed and he rode it in. There are some images that stay with one forever.
This looks familiar. About a month ago I was doing some research on the Hindenburg and where it crashed. Wanted to pinpoint the exact spot via Google satellite. This looks like the place, give or take a few square miles.
My son bought me a new laptop computer for this Christmas just past...this was to replace my older computer, which he originally bought me in Christmas of 1998..(by his standards I was surfing on an old relic)...
With this new laptop, everything is better and faster than with my old relic...and so, this past Christmas Day, after receiving my new laptop, and after receiving some pointers on what I needed to know about my new laptop(I am really a computer dummy), my son introduced me to GoogleEarth...
I was amazed at what GoogleEarth provides...so now, every day, I end my day on the computer, with at least an hour spent enjoying GoogleEarth, and the places it can take me...
No doubt, I will not be able to figure out these pics...but I will have a go at it, and see what I can come up with, and will enjoy seeing how right, but most probably wrong I am...
I think you nailed it.
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