Lieutenant
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Reged: 07/29/05
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I seem to have a knack for finding weird stuff. Heres something I found whilst looking for the Alaska pipeline.
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horizon
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Reged: 07/11/05
Posts: 10
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Looks to me like a helicopter platform of a oil rig.
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mudfinger
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Reged: 07/30/05
Posts: 2
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I believe it's just a registration tab on the film (note the crosshair below the number)
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HairyAl
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Reged: 07/22/05
Posts: 3
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Looks to me like a helicopter platform of a oil rig.
No shadow from it...
How about a tag on the image used? Someone must have forgotten to remove it before use.
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Patiperro
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Reged: 07/30/05
Posts: 2
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I also believe it's a registration tab on the film, nice observation dude!
Nevertheless... it's the scariest thing I've ever seen... LOL
Greetings,
F_
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STiMULi
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Reged: 07/30/05
Posts: 6
Loc: Tucson, Arizona
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UFO...  Unidentified Floating Object
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Calico_Jack
Cartographer
Reged: 07/12/05
Posts: 353
Loc: Missouri Etats-Unis d'Amerique
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How about a tag on the image used? Someone must have forgotten to remove it before use.
I think it's illegal for anyone but the owner (of the Earth in this case) to remove tags.
Or was that from mattresses?
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Avast ye, matey and shiver me timbers! Scurvy dogs, the lot of ye!
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Lieutenant
Tourist
Reged: 07/29/05
Posts: 9
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rofl, that actually made me chuckle a bit.
Since Im new, could someone explain image tags for me? Im guessing that theyre like ways to tell where the picture are, is coords, etc.
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Reecey
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Reged: 07/24/05
Posts: 11
Loc: I.O.W, UK
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Well that's odd but i rekon it's something 2 tell u north (see the commpas in the corner
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Locations are my thing
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Calico_Jack
Cartographer
Reged: 07/12/05
Posts: 353
Loc: Missouri Etats-Unis d'Amerique
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I can't speak authoritatively, but it might help to understand image tags as one of the many artifacts you get when you stitch together an array of visual products. First mistake I see new Google Earthers making (and I'm an old hand - been around a month or so!) is assuming there is a single,live, photographic view of the earth. NEITHER of those is true.
So what you see with GE is a Frankenstein world of lots of different satellite pictures from different sattelites and different times stitched together. In that stitching you can see bad seams, holes, different materials (different colors and resolutions), missing and duplicate items, and in this case, likely something that was on one of the satellite photographs that wasn't cropped out. The tag is probably just some identifying information for a part of a larger grid of photographs.
Copy and past these coordinates in the "fly to" search box:
32.368137 -64.665064
and you can see an artifact on the edge of the Bermuda Triangle . . . or IS it an artifact?
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Avast ye, matey and shiver me timbers! Scurvy dogs, the lot of ye!
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