Google Earth asked to back off:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...NGD8GALOR1.DTL

Google Earth maps annoy some countries:
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story....29Vz2XLzwfYDgG

Google Earth: A Path to Peace?
http://www.blueoregon.com/2005/12/google_earth_a_.html

Insurgents 'using Google Earth':
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...18/ixhome.html


Interesting subject. Um, now the resource-low insurgents will know where we as well as our high-payoff and high-value targets are (they didn't already?) Um, I don't think this is the first time our tax dollars put the tools of warfare in our enemy's hands, is it?

 

In other news:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/...s-just-in.html

Newsflash - December 24, 2005 - Santa Claus is being tracked in Google Earth. NOTE --this link will open up Google Earth. I don't know what will happen if you haven't downloaded the software.

 

umm, How useful are the google earth images? As in how up to date are they?

<snip>"Google Earth is not acquiring new imagery," said John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, which has an online repository of satellite imagery. "They are simply repurposing imagery that somebody else had already acquired. So if there was any harm that was going to be done by the imagery, it would already be done."</snip>

--from one of your links.

This program just makes it easier (and cheaper?) to get what is already out there.

 

counterpoint:

It's also kind of exciting to think that the Internet, a system designed by the military, might ultimately serve to render miltaries unnecessary.

<snip>The images on the website are not live and are, on average, about 18 months old, but Prof Collins said this would not make them obsolete as an aide for terrorists. "If you were interested in vehicles, then that would be a problem but if you are looking at a fixed installation like a military base then it won't have changed that much."</snip>

 

If you look at Washington DC... the White House is in clear, high-res imagery, while the Capitol Building is blurred out.

If you look at Edwards AFB, CA you can clearly see 2 SR-71 blackbirds.

 

i don't know how up-to-date Google Earth is but I know that other programs like it ,like Keyhole, use pics from like 5 years ago...

 

I hope that helped.

 

I cannot wait for this change in the very fabric of human nature going to take place?

I'm afraid it's not going to be in my children's children's lifetime.
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Don't they have one on display in their outdoors aircraft museum? I wonder how old that is? SR71's in the air isn't exactly a common occurence.

 

I'm not sure, but I know there is one in Atwater, CA at Kings AFB that is on display and can be ready for flight in 1 hour. I think it's close to last on the list of being called up.

 

The SR71s were retired in 1990:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-71

 

close, but you're wrong

but this does theorticaly say that there is something better now, that is out there, flying over Asia. Watching everyone. I can't wait to find out about it 15 years

 

Holy crap.....

 

i always wondered about maps.google or google earth.... can you see area 51? and inside north korea? etc?

 

Oh yeah, you can see lots of Area 51, and lots of other places too, but not everything is in this high a resolution...