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#1 2005-07-20 10:35:27
- clark
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Re: Google Moon!
In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, we’ve added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial neighbor. Happy lunar surfing.
Now this is neat!
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#2 2005-07-20 10:39:27
- Cobra Commander
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Re: Google Moon!
That is pretty cool.
And it really is made of cheese! :shock:
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
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#3 2005-07-20 19:39:56
- John Creighton
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Re: Google Moon!
That is pretty cool.
And it really is made of cheese! :shock:
I had to look really close to see what you ment :shock: 
Dig into the [url=http://child-civilization.blogspot.com/2006/12/political-grab-bag.html]political grab bag[/url] at [url=http://child-civilization.blogspot.com/]Child Civilization[/url]
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#4 2005-07-20 19:40:04
- Josh Cryer
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Re: Google Moon!
Hey, I made some software that could do this. 
Have had aspirations to land something like a robot on the moon. Might be a realizable dream in a few decades.
Some useful links while MER are active. [url=http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html]Offical site[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html]NASA TV[/url] [url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/]JPL MER2004[/url] [url=http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html]Text feed[/url]
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The amount of solar radiation reaching the surface of the earth totals some 3.9 million exajoules a year.
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#5 2005-07-20 19:43:56
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Re: Google Moon!
That might be a nice google hack in your spare time Josh (assuming you ever have any, of course). A google map hack that allows for board members to input their location.
Put little pins all over the earth showing the city locations of users.
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#6 2005-07-20 20:00:08
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That is definitely a good idea. And I will look in to it.
Once I understand how phpBB functions it will not be a problem to do this sort of thing. 
Some useful links while MER are active. [url=http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html]Offical site[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html]NASA TV[/url] [url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/]JPL MER2004[/url] [url=http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html]Text feed[/url]
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The amount of solar radiation reaching the surface of the earth totals some 3.9 million exajoules a year.
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#7 2005-07-20 20:08:32
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Well, I've done some scrounging on the google map hack stuff and google released their API scripts to allow for the end user hack. It seems if you can bork a spot in the profile location area to refrence areas, it could be linked through the API scripts to generate the neccessary images onto a google map page.
I'll do some research if you would like, but the programing is your baby.
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#8 2005-07-20 21:52:49
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Seems http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:1P … en]someone has already done this (link to cache, because the site isn't loading for me right now).
I'll look at integrating it. Still lots of things going on over here (hope I'm not taking too long to respond to PM's, etc, I'm still grocking things, and, heh, "the game starts here" was asking me something a minute ago).
Some useful links while MER are active. [url=http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html]Offical site[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html]NASA TV[/url] [url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/]JPL MER2004[/url] [url=http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html]Text feed[/url]
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The amount of solar radiation reaching the surface of the earth totals some 3.9 million exajoules a year.
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#9 2005-07-20 22:02:05
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Priorities man. priorities.
Hairball would slap you right about now.
edit: http://www.pentapenguin.com/forum/googl … erator.php
This looks like some code that should work. How it integrates is another question. By the sound of things though, it shouldn't be too difficult to implement.
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#10 2005-07-21 13:15:27
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Re: Google Moon!
How bout we send an unmanned dozer to the moon. have it push a deep trench and shove all the nasa debris into it, then fill it over with lunar dirt...All the rubbish hidden away in a nice landfill.
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#11 2005-07-22 13:20:54
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Has anyone messed around with Google Earth yet?
Requires an install, but quite cool.
Excellent view of the White House, but my place is cloaked from satellite imaging. :twisted:
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#12 2005-07-22 18:33:22
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I've been playing with it. It is just way cool to use the "angle" function. I espically enjoy the 3-D rendering of major cities.
Unfortunetly, I think my PC is in need of an upgrade (that's what you get from an american built PC... by me). Google Earth crashes my system if I jump from one area of the world to another.
Of course having a warm blanket of lint on the processor heat sink probably doesn't help much.
What will be really cool is to put together the Mars verison of google.earth.
Then allow end users to hack the API (the file system that tells the program how to render different images) to create Martian bases, historical sites, places of interest, etc.
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