Best Pictures from Google Street View
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Introduction
These are a collection of pictures from Google's new Street View feature on their map pages. Smile, you may be on camera....
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Thong Girl
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Diggin' for Gold?
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Reckless Driving
The "Google Van" that takes the Streetview pictures obviously ran over the barricades.
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Breaking and Entering
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The Junk King
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Hot Babes
7
Pervert Dude
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Speeding
Here we see how fast the Google Van is going... oops...
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The Dark Side of the Force
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The Internet Really Does Suck
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Sweet Buds
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Sky Writting
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Bikini Hula Hoop Girl
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Cameltoe Girl
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Binoculars That Are Freakin' Huge
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Creepy Doll in the Window
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Hot Sunbathers
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Porn Rules
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Woof
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Pay Those parking Tickets People!
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Nice Truck
google scares me. they know TOO MUCH! and how in the world do they do this, by the way???
This is in response to Kelly. I registered on this website just to answer your question, so I do hope you pop back on here and read this.
"How do they do this, by the way???"
From the three question marks, it seems you're quite confused about how Google could have produced images of such striking resolution- and with side-on views as well!
There are two possible explanations for this startling enhancement of the googlemaps technology.
THEORY ONE. On November 18 2006, using the funds from its subliminal advertising campaigns, Google secretly launches a privately constructed spy satellite. Upon achieving geostationary orbit, the GoogleSat begins scanning for built-up urban areas.
When it finds a zone with sufficient numbers of skyscrapers clad in an all-glass curtain wall, it employs CIA-developed laser range-finding equipment to lock on to the target and maintain focus.
It then opens a large mirror/lens apperatus similar to that used on the Hubble Space telescope and begins exposing a digital image.
To the naked eye, such an image would be nothing more than a jumble of blurred lines and lens flares, but that's where Google's secret network of distributed computing comes in.
The data is piped down from the satellite, directly to Google's main headquarters in Mountain View, California- at which point two BlueGene/L supercomputers perform the first stages of the ehancement operations.
Data is then sent along to all computers with Google Toolbar installed. Each is sent a parcel of binary information from the sattelite images.
Because the area of the long-exposure photograph contained large numbers of glass windows, it is possible (only through the use of highly sophisticated software and secret use of some 84 percent of the personal computers in North America) to reconstruct all these reflections into a coherent picture of a given city street.
This is the reason that "StreetView" is called streetview and cannot be employed to gather images of rural or most suburban areas: there aren't any reflective window surfaces from which to gather the necessary data, although it is possible that some limited locations in Greenland and the Alps may be imaged using the surfaces of glaciers.
While this technology is extremely impressive, it is equally disturbing- both in its ability to use satellite photographs to spy on unsuspecting citizens at any moment and its brazen usage of those same citizens' CPU cycles to develop the images.
THEORY TWO. Google hired some people to go to major cities and take photographs at street level.
"How do they do this, by the way???"
From the three question marks, it seems you're quite confused about how Google could have produced images of such striking resolution- and with side-on views as well!
There are two possible explanations for this startling enhancement of the googlemaps technology.
THEORY ONE. On November 18 2006, using the funds from its subliminal advertising campaigns, Google secretly launches a privately constructed spy satellite. Upon achieving geostationary orbit, the GoogleSat begins scanning for built-up urban areas.
When it finds a zone with sufficient numbers of skyscrapers clad in an all-glass curtain wall, it employs CIA-developed laser range-finding equipment to lock on to the target and maintain focus.
It then opens a large mirror/lens apperatus similar to that used on the Hubble Space telescope and begins exposing a digital image.
To the naked eye, such an image would be nothing more than a jumble of blurred lines and lens flares, but that's where Google's secret network of distributed computing comes in.
The data is piped down from the satellite, directly to Google's main headquarters in Mountain View, California- at which point two BlueGene/L supercomputers perform the first stages of the ehancement operations.
Data is then sent along to all computers with Google Toolbar installed. Each is sent a parcel of binary information from the sattelite images.
Because the area of the long-exposure photograph contained large numbers of glass windows, it is possible (only through the use of highly sophisticated software and secret use of some 84 percent of the personal computers in North America) to reconstruct all these reflections into a coherent picture of a given city street.
This is the reason that "StreetView" is called streetview and cannot be employed to gather images of rural or most suburban areas: there aren't any reflective window surfaces from which to gather the necessary data, although it is possible that some limited locations in Greenland and the Alps may be imaged using the surfaces of glaciers.
While this technology is extremely impressive, it is equally disturbing- both in its ability to use satellite photographs to spy on unsuspecting citizens at any moment and its brazen usage of those same citizens' CPU cycles to develop the images.
THEORY TWO. Google hired some people to go to major cities and take photographs at street level.
Theory 3: The Truth: http://gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/05/technology_behind_go.html
Well, this should scare the shit out of everyone. Zoom in on any city with Google Earth, and count the "live feed" cameras. There are currently 4.2 million surveilence cameras in Great Britain alone. Factor in face recognition technology, and throw in a couple of super computers, and think about it for a while. Now, understand that the real state of the art technology is way better than what they let you see. And you'll see how close we are to Bentham's panopticon. The theory is that once everyone knows they are being watched 24/7, unacceptable behavior will end. The problem is deciding who gets to determine what is unacceptable.
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