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Someone on earth is looking at YOU !
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Hi !
The new Megaflyover pictures in Africa are amazing ! Have you ever seen somebody in GE who is really looking at the camera like this ?
Edited to add some more...
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Re: Someone on earth is looking at YOU !
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There are lots of little villages where there are a lot of people looking up at you. Many of them are waving as well. You can tell by their arm position on their shadows. I think it is so cool that it seems that the highest resolution that we now have is all these little spots in Africa. I am finding them so much more interesting to look at than the endless block after endless block of essentially the same thing in our high-res western cities.
Jake
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Lrae
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(Master Wizard)
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09/18/05 08:32 AM
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Re: Someone on earth is looking at YOU !
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Bib,
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Have you ever seen somebody in GE who is really looking at the camera like this ?
Nope, and that might be due to the fact that before these images were taken, the camera was in a satellite hundreds of miles up or an aircraft about 18,000 ft above the crowds, and no one knew they were being photographed. Or, if by some freak of coincidence, someone was actually looking up, the resolution was not high enough to even distinguish human beings from rose bushes. The Megaflyover photos were taken within a couple thousand feet of the ground (some much lower), from a noisy airplane, far away from the urban areas where aircraft are a daily sight.
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The new Megaflyover pictures in Africa are amazing!
Amazing Photos indeed, and expect to see more.
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Re: Someone else on earth is looking at YOU !
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Original post
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lulu836
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(Tourist)
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09/19/05 09:41 AM
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Re: Someone on earth is looking at YOU !
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My elevation readout says 3785 ft yet I can clearly see two people's faces who are looking at the camera. One is an adult male with a white shirt and one looks like a teenager.
So how is the elevation actually calculated 'cause a 3000 plus feet, peoples features are not normally visible. 
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Bib
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(Tourist)
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09/19/05 11:29 AM
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Re: Someone on earth is looking at YOU !
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The elevation may be based on sea level. Try to disable the terrain layer to see ?
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Re: Someone on earth is looking at YOU !
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Maybe the megaflyover images are sized incorrectly.
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Lrae
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(Master Wizard)
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09/19/05 07:41 PM
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Re: Someone on earth is looking at YOU !
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If you look at the two elevations, (Left "Elev" = 3757 or there about, that is the Ground Elevation and the Right "Eye Alt = 3793 or there about, is where you have placed the virtual camera.) they differ by about 36 feet... I am pretty sure you can see faces and shirts from 40 feet... But neither of thoses is the altitude of the camera. Did anyone ever explain Zoom or Telephoto lenses? You know some of the images in Google Earth were taken from satellites hundreds of miles above the earth... and you can see cars and swimming pools and everything except the Great wall of China.  
I believe this picture was actually taken from less than 500 feet above the ground.
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Re: Someone on earth is looking at YOU !
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Yep. Go to the sea and you can zoom to about 30 ft which appears approximately what the apparent eye level is over the ppl.
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Re: Someone on earth is looking at YOU !
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Try this one.
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Re: Someone on earth is looking at YOU !
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"So how is the elevation actually calculated 'cause a 3000 plus feet, peoples features are not normally visible"
Yes, true, they are not visible to the human eye, but the nowdays cameras can capture pictures from a furter distance than the human eye can see. The altitude may be correct from this point of view.
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Re: Someone on earth is looking at YOU !
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Here are some people in a village waving and some guys at a well looking up.
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