SammyOfKassel
Tourist
Reged: 04/24/06
Posts: 6
Loc: Kassel, Germany
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Image update. Bug squashed. 
The Biggest Insect I Saw the last Years, about 50 meters long.
Edited by Cyclonic (01/06/07 01:49 PM)
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PriceCollins
Inspector Detector
Reged: 08/10/05
Posts: 1629
Loc: Fairfax, VA, USA
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Congratulations ! A wonderful find !
Did that bug take a trip in the satellite camera, and is it laying eggs? 
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adsci
Tourist
Reged: 11/16/05
Posts: 4
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whoa! how can this be?
if its launched with the sattelite it should show up on more images!
and if not? a 50 feet roach isnt reported in germany yet
maybe some guy who got the images from the satellite made a joke before selling the data to google?
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tHeF8bman
Tourist
Reged: 04/25/06
Posts: 2
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Isn't there a possibility that the bug was flying around and got caught in the zoom???
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Braham_S_Aggarwal
Reged: 10/22/05
Posts: 1609
Loc: India
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Wonderful finding for a first post. Congratulations !
This bug is really huge measuring almost 150 feet. This could also be one of the world's first bug which would have gone to space unofficially. 
This is a great finding and must be placed on top of some forum or blog.
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PeteUK
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Reged: 01/21/06
Posts: 1008
Loc: London (East)UK
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Quote:
Wonderful finding for a first post. Congratulations !
This bug is really huge measuring almost 150 feet. This could also be one of the world's first bug which would have gone to space unofficially.
Yes, he states in the first post the measurement of the insect, but on the other point, "Space"?? I would have thought the resolution of the pics would more than likely been taken at a low altitude.
So possibly not a space bug, Eh?
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Edited by PeteUK (04/26/06 05:04 AM)
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Braham_S_Aggarwal
Reged: 10/22/05
Posts: 1609
Loc: India
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If these pictures are taken from a satellite then, you may want to read here and here
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Hill
Master Guide
Reged: 10/31/04
Posts: 9086
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Interesting find - a first. It looks like a thrips, a very small (1mm or so) insect. The size might explain how it got involved in the printing process. The brown glob at the posterior end is bug poop  , forced out of the poor critter as it got squished between a glass plate and the film during the scanning process.
image from http://sacs.cpes.peachnet.edu
EDIT: I added an image of a thrips alongside for comparison - if anybody cares. 
EDIT: Thrips is the singular and plural - like fish, sheep or deer.  (I just found this out from an article in Google Sightseeing which referenced this article) Wikipedia - thrips
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Klootviool
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Reged: 04/03/06
Posts: 17
Loc: Grootebroek (Noord-Holland), N...
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To me it looks like Germany is under attack...
This find is one of the best!!
Keep it up!
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Klootviool is mijn naam, kloten is mijn faam!!
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sayua
Tourist
Reged: 04/03/06
Posts: 8
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is it a real bug ???
da*n big !!!!
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