[TteFAboB]

Originally Posted by The Noob

Me!

Did you tried the measuring tools yet?

Originally Posted by TteFAboB

If they accept, like other search engines, to agree with Chinese censorship, I don't see why Google would bother removing Nuclear power plants and what not from the Google Earth per request. Replace the area with a big black box with the saying: "Nothing to see here, move along".

Censorship sucks. I guess i don't have to Explain why. Who want's Censorship? Me don't![/quote]

Yes, the point is: search engines like Google accepted to block any keywords the Chinese government tells them to.

You see, some "Free Tibet!" site is more dangerous than some user catching a forced-mass-abortion taking place or the Death Van on the roll. Apparently letting Google Earth spy the vastness of China is not a problem. Letting all the Google Earth Community funny remarks pop-up all over China also doesn't seem to be a problem. This software is full of "enemies of the people", but I better shup up before I give them any ideas.

Elementary Irony on my part.

Elementary blindness on the Chinese. (Blindness, that's another elementary irony)

Originally Posted by TteFAboB

In fact, I live in one of the high-res areas, I'd ask to have my home removed from Google Earth, but I was lucky enough to have the picture taken at a time of the day where my house is completely overshadowed by taller buildings to the East and West.

Why do you wanted your home removed from Google Earth? Do you frear the russians nuke you? LOL![/quote]

Not really, the thing is nobody asked me permission to take a picture of it.

I'd like to find out how this whole thing works, how much does it cost Google, whose satellite is it anyway?

If I knew my house was going to roughly appear on Google Earth I'd have taken the time to paint "Nuke HERE!" on the roof for some amusement. I wonder if they ever update the pictures, then I'd get a second chance.

But I still can't believe there isn't any gimmick to counter this. How about burning the satellite with some sort of laser beam? Grab that laser used to measure the distance to the Moon, convert it into a Death Ray, figure where the satellite is at the given time and fire. Yes? No?

How about the Giant Mirror again, if you could focus a beam of light back in the direction of the satellite when it's taking the picture, would that ruin the photo or at least put a big specular where the mirror is at?

I understand the military does the camo approach since it's useless to hide tank batallions and etc., so they probably don't bother with it and if necessary would probably attack the enemy satellite itself, so we have no easy solution from them. But what about civilians? It's difficult to sabotage Google's effort because they don't advertise when the next high-resolution picture will be taken, but someone out there must have thought of a defense for this, and probably it's something quite simple, like grape vines.

Google time.