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埃及金字塔
Of the 7 wonders of the ancient world, the Pyramids at Giza are the only ones remaining, they are over 6000 years old and are constructed from over 25 million tonnes of limestone. The pyramids were built as tombs for the pharaohs Khufu, Khafre & Menkaure, who as teenagers formed a popular hip-hop trio (possibly not true).

The largest Pyramid was built for Khufu (aka DJ Cheops), Pharaoh of the Fourth Egyptian Dynasty, and was constructed by nearly 20,000 workers who worked year round for decades. It was originally 481 feet high, but has since lost 30 feet due to erosion.

Following to the southwest is the Pyramid of Khafre (aka MC Chephren). Although it is smaller, a steeper angle results in the illusion that the two structures are the same size. In fact, Khafre’s pyramid appears taller since it is on higher ground.

The final, smallest pyramid is that of Menkaure (aka MC Mycerinus). There are also various other smaller pyramids for the pharaohs’ Queens which can be identified using this map.

To the east of the pyramids is the Great Sphinx, the largest single-stone statue in the world. The Sphinx has the face of a man (possibly the aforementioned Khafre, but sans nose) and the body of a lion.





沙丘里耶稣的脸？
Well it’s
gotta be Jesus
, right? I mean that dude’s forever popping up in toast/paint/fungus etc. so why should sand dunes be any different?





天安门广场
Inside Beijing, lies the
Forbidden City
, the location of the Imperial Palace during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is the world’s largest palace and features a six meter deep moat, a ten meter high wall, five halls, seventeen palaces and 800 buildings with a total 9,999.5 rooms. Quite big then.



Tiananmen Square
is just to the south of the Forbidden City and lies between two gates, the Tian’anmen to the north and the Qianmen to the south. In the centre is the 38 metre high Monument to the People’s Heroes and the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong.
The black splodges all over the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square are the thousands or tourists who visit each day.






罗马竞技场
The Colosseum
(or Coliseum) was built in 72 AD and is 160 ft high with 80 entrances. It held more than 50,000 spectators and was actively used for gladiator fights for 400 years.
The Colosseum obviously featured in Ridley Scott’s
Gladiator
, although was digitally recreated to its former glory.




London Eye

The
London Eye
is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames. You can see for 25 miles in each direction when the capsule is at its highest - an amazing height of 135 meteres. The wheel can carry in excess of 15,000 passengers each day, and is one of London’s biggest attractions.
According to the
official site
it is not a Ferris Wheel, ‘… for three reasons, firstly that its capsules are enclosed, secondly that they are positioned on the outside of the wheel and thirdly that the whole structure is supported by an A-Frame from one side only.’




埃菲尔铁塔

The
Eiffel Tower
needs no introduction as we’ve all seen it a thousand times in pictures, movies and TV. The odd angle of this aerial photo makes the tower seem sideways and upside down but you can’t miss the great shadow.




跑道上的尸体和球员的影子?

Another landing strip in Iraq which, like most of them, has been made unusable by placing sandbags at regular intervals along the runways. But who’s that dead body on the runway?





Here at GgSs we get a lot of submissions of clouds, but they are mostly pretty unexciting. That said, I really like this shadow formed by a cloud over
Munich Airport
. Can you (like me) see the footballer, facing east, about to kick the ball? Or, (like submitter Sebas) do you see a traveller, walking east, carrying a handbag in his right hand?

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外星遗迹?

I believe it’s winter, and we’re seeing snow and ice on the lake surface. But where there’s clear water, something very odd is showing through.




UFO！！！！

I have no idea
what this is
. I can’t find anything similar on any google map referenced sites. It doesn’t show up on terraserver and I live nearby so I know there are no towers in that area. It has the same shadow as ground objects and when you zoom out it appears to be too small to be something really close to the satellite.




飞行中的F14

Someone with sharp eyes spotted
this

F-14 Tomcat
off the coast of North Carolina.





爱的表白
I Love You Susan
We’re pretty sure that this
giant writing in the Utah desert
says “I love you Susan”. Upside down, it also says “Will you?”… apparently he didn’t have room for the rest.
I wonder if she did?

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51号地区
By far the most submitted link is to the notorious
Area 51
. Props go to
Andy
who was the first of many to point us in the right direction, cheers mate


Travis
added:
Scroll to the south-west and find that pock-marked stretch of desert. That’s where our government tested nuclear weapons.






医护船

This is the
Hospital Ship USNS Mercy
(T-AH-19) docked in San Diego, California. Apparently this was the ship that provided a great deal of medical aid to the recent tsunami victims. There’s lots more information and good photos available at
navsource.org
.
I think this counts as large type, don’t you?




火山

Next up is the
Amboy Crater
, an extinct cinder cone in California’s Mojave Desert. It lies within a 70 square kilometre lava field, and it looks pretty impressive from up here!







人形

Ploughed into the Australian outback in 1998 (by persons still unknown), the
Marree man
is a 4km figure of an aboriginal. It’s faded into the desert quite a bit now but the shape (and size!) is still quite apparent.
Wikipedia says
that it was probably created using GPS and earthmoving equipment. There’s a good page
here
which discusses the possible reasons for creating the art work.



Many thanks to Ken Mortimer, who it seems was the only person to submit this!

雅典奥运会场馆

Here is the
sports complex
used for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Most of the venues were still under construction at the time of the photo, but you can still see the various sections.
Starting from the west is the Olympic Velodrome (with photo-stitching error) which was used for the track cycling. To the east are the open air swimming pools (of which only one is filled). Then we get the Olympic Indoor Hall before the Olympic Stadium, with the two parts of the roof lying to either side. North east are the sixteen tennis courts.
For comparison a more recent satellite photo is available on
Wikipedia
.

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google想隐藏什么？

Finally! We have proof that Google is hiding things from us in Alaska, Mexico and er… New Jersey. Hmmm. Anyway, it’s a conspiracy I tell you!
Firstly stretching over a large part of Alaska, all the way into the Yukon territory, is
this gargantuan hole in the landscape
. Interesting shape too…



Next we leap to the other side of the country for a very
strangely-shaped hole
West of El Paso. See the odd in-road of detail at the bottom-left corner of the rectangle? Weird.



While we’re down in Mexico, look at
this super-cool hole
which appears to be eating the surrounding landscape. Good lord!



Another country-wide leap and we’re somewhere off the coast of New Jersey, where this
unsuspecting little boat
is about to steer itself straight into the next episode of
Lost
!



However, could this incredibly exciting conspiracy theory simply be
something much mre mundane
..?





好大的招牌

Outside of Sun City West, Arizona are the
Caterpillar Proving Grounds
, where there is some extremely large type!
I wonder if the bulldozers prove themselves by digging out these letters over and over again?








核电站

Catawba Nuclear Station
May 29th, 2005
Map This

Another
strangely beautiful shot
of six cooling towers. This one is at Catawaba Nuclear Power Station in South Carolina.




爱

Catawba Nuclear Station
May 29th, 2005
Map This

Another
strangely beautiful shot
of six cooling towers. This one is at Catawaba Nuclear Power Station in South Carolina.




Slightly unfortunate placement of the Google logo here, but you can still just about make out this large type on a building in Brooklyn, which says ‘
BROOKYLN [HEART] U
‘. Awww, isn’t that sweet?
We don’t know what this building is, but
Will Carlough
says he’s going to check it out for us. Thanks Will (Although I’m fairly sure someone in the comments will beat him to it)






可以断开的桥

Here’s an
open drawbridge
in Jacksonville, Florida. Pretty cool, anyone found any more?

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生物圈2号

This is
Biosphere 2
in the Arizona desert. Constructed between 1987 and ‘89, the ill fated ’self-contained environment’ experiment was supposedly intended to explore the possible use of closed biospheres in space colonisation (you know, like in
Total Recall
!). The name comes from the idea that it was modelled on “Biosphere 1″, the Earth. Unfortunately it seems that the first inhabitants argued constantly and nearly starved.
It looks like Biosphere 2 is currently
available for redevelopment
if anyone’s interested… but they also
seem to do tours
if that’s a little out your league…
Finally, Biosphere 2 featured in the 1996 film
Bio-Dome
with Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin, but David Hill asked me not to mention it.







好长的火车。。

Looks like
these trains
are stopped at a level crossing on the Burlington Northern railroad track in Wyoming. The Northern one is chopped off by some low-res imagery, but scroll south to see just how incredibly long they are! Amazing.




好多UFO -_-

Thanks to everyone who commented on the original
UFO find
, although we’re still not sure what they are, there’s been some interesting developments.
Ian Pottinger and jher were the first to find that there are in fact eight of these UFOs over Florida, at the following points
One
-
Two
-
Three
-
Four
-
Five
-
Six
-
Seven
-
Eight
and Tensus used keyhole to
map the points
showing that they make a very neat grid.
Yoshino and jher later noticed that the UFOs are not limited to Florida but can also be found over L.A.
One
-
Two
-
Three
-
Four
-
Five
-
Six
-
Seven
-
Eight
-
Nine
-
Ten
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Eleven
-
Twelve
-
Thirteen
and Tensus again
mapped the points
, which appear in an almost straight line.
Things the UFOs are definitely not…
Space debris or another satellite?
Derek & Tensus discovered that the close-up images of Florida are taken by AerialsExpress.com at an altitude of 17,500 feet so are aerial photos and not satellite images.
Marks added to obscure famous peoples homes?
While there’s no doubt the whitehouse photos were processed for security it is very unlikely these UFOs are intentional ‘cover-ups’ due to the neat grid layout.
Water towers?
The UFOs are just too big to be water towers (and there’s no shadow).
Anomaly produced by the stitching software?
Shi Ju says
Definitely they’re NOT marks for picture stitching. In most stitching software (like for making panoramas) the algorithm comes down to finding sharp and contrasting details and aligning those spots with each other.
Things the UFOs still could be…
An alien spacecraft?
It’s still possible!
A weather balloon?
Tm says
The “Grid” is centered around an airfield, common launch points for weather balloons.
Although Klem says
All currently used radiosonde devices (weather balloons) are latex, yellowish beige to transluscent
and Jello adds
The object in question here does not cast a ground effect, therefore does not exist in the air.
A ‘lenticular’ cloud?
Patrick was the first to float this idea and the
images he posted
do look similar to the UFOs, although it is unlikely clouds would form in neat grids.
Condensation on the lens?
Possibly the current forerunner for most likely explanation, Stuart said…
Condensation inside some sort of housing would be my guess. If the drop were directly on the lens it would be effectively invisible. Put it a few inches/feet away and have the camera shooting with a very deep depth of field (as you would with a small aperture) and it would look just like that anomaly.
Something else?
Possibly one of: Peppermint, baseball, Vogon ship, crop circle, planet, thumbtack, ballbearings, smoke, pond, swamp gas, golf ball, satellite, flying ninja, space junk or contact lens as others have suggested!








Indianapolis赛车跑道

The
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
is home to the
Indianapolis 500
,
Brickyard 400
, and
U.S. Grand Prix
. To the east of the course are fourteen holes of Brickyard Crossing golf course, while the other four are found inside the race track. Apparently it used to be nine holes inside the track, but several of them were removed when a road course was built inside the oval in preparation for the U.S. Grand Prix, which has been run at IMS since 2000.




B2和F117

Here
is a $2.1 billion
B-2 stealth bomber
at Edward’s Air Force Base, and
here
is its sister the $122 million
F-117 stealth fighter
.








好大的海豚？？
To the West of Hawaii there’s the French Frigate Shoals, which look a lot like a
Giant Pacific Alien Dolphin Thing
. The dolphin shape is actually a
number of small islands
, one of which has been enlarged to
create an airstrip
.




航天飞机

More spaceships!
We’ve
already posted
Cape Canaveral, but it’s worth noting that you can also see
a space shuttle with its boosters lying nearby
, as well as the
vehicle assembly building
where they put all this stuff together. Jim Thompson has
an excellent annotated flickr image
of the whole area, thanks Jim






I love simi

I Love Simi
April 14th, 2005
Map This

Greg Duncan sent us this large scale geekery - the
Simi Valley Smiley and I Love Simi Heart
. Greg says:
The smiley is very visible from the freeway and one of the first things you see as you drive into Simi. You can’t help but smile when you see it (and after driving SoCal freeways you NEED to smile)