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Azndude51

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Originally posted by: hevnsnt
Originally posted by: Martin
Originally posted by: TreyRandom
Originally posted by: Rallispec
Originally posted by: TreyRandom

Another one:
Some guy named Dave wrote his name in a field in Bunker Hill, IL. :D
HAHAHA

that is awesome -- how did you find that?!

Someone posted it on another techie forum. I stole it, since no one had posted it here yet. ;)

There was a slashdot posting about where and when a particular sattelite was going to be taking pictures. I guess some one took advantage of that.


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Dave got owned.

That's crazy, it must've taken so long to do that since it's done with all trees.
 

Jzero

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Originally posted by: Malladine
Originally posted by: TreyRandom
Originally posted by: hevnsnt
Thank that is cool? Check out Luecke

Ha! Sweet! There are little roads going through the tree-letters!
i was going to say photochop but if it is it's a damn fine job...

Do you *honestly* think that someone photochopped the satellite image and then managed to get it put up in DigitalGlobe's database??

Here is another independent pic Luecke
 

hevnsnt

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Originally posted by: Jzero
Originally posted by: Malladine
Originally posted by: TreyRandom
Originally posted by: hevnsnt
Thank that is cool? Check out Luecke

Ha! Sweet! There are little roads going through the tree-letters!
i was going to say photochop but if it is it's a damn fine job...

Do you *honestly* think that someone photochopped the satellite image and then managed to get it put up in DigitalGlobe's database??

Here is another independent pic Luecke


From http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/newsletter/SpatialRes/default5.htm:

We also made an empirical estimate of spatial resolution for lower contrast vegetation boundaries. By clearing forest so that a pattern would be visible to landing aircraft, a landowner outside Austin, Texas (see also aerial photo in Lisheron 2000), created a target that is also useful for evaluating spatial resolution of astronaut photographs. The forest was selectively cleared in order to spell the landowner?s name ?LUECKE? with the remaining trees (figure 10). According to local surveyors who planned the clearing, the plan was to create letters that were 3100 ´ 1700 ft (944.9 ´ 518.2 m). Photographed at a high altitude relative to most Shuttle missions (543 km) with a 250-mm lens, Formula 3 predicts that each pixel would represent an area 28.6 ´ 36.0 m on the ground (table 5). When original film was digitised at 2400 ppi (10.6 mm/pixel), letters correspond to 29.4 ´ 18.8 pixels for a comparable pixel size of 27 ? 32 m.
 

Piobaireachd

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Originally posted by: Promethply
Originally posted by: Piobaireachd
Originally posted by: Promethply
My old alma mater

udub

downtown Seattle


I'm not sure when the photo was taken, but it looks like they're getting ready for commencement at the Husky Stadium.

It does, doesn't it -- you went to udub as well?


Yup, no degree from there, but I've take some classes. I live on the other side of the Sound. I've been taking classes in the evenings from the Tacoma campus.
 

Promethply

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Originally posted by: Piobaireachd
Originally posted by: Promethply
Originally posted by: Piobaireachd
Originally posted by: Promethply
My old alma mater

udub

downtown Seattle


I'm not sure when the photo was taken, but it looks like they're getting ready for commencement at the Husky Stadium.

It does, doesn't it -- you went to udub as well?


Yup, no degree from there, but I've take some classes. I live on the other side of the Sound. I've been taking classes in the evenings from the Tacoma campus.

Oh, cool...

Yeah, it's a great institution, and the whole Pacific Northwest area was just so unbelievable :thumbsup:
 

Ramma2

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Originally posted by: RayH
Trident Structure

Have fun figuring out what this is (and maybe get yourself on a government watchlist)...

Looks like either some type of ship loading dock, or more likely, it looks like they're building a bridge across the bay. the middle road being the main highway, and the two outter prongs being temporary structures to hold construction equipment.