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Google Ocean Unveiled
dailywireless.org —
We’ve got Google Earth and Google Sky. Now a map of the world below sea level–Google Ocean, says C/Net’s Live Blog. Google Earth 5, with Ocean enhancements, was unveiled today in San Francisco. ...
Last Bytes: Google Earth, Comcast, Vista, IBM
Tech Observer —
Want to explore the darkest depths of our oceans? Google Earth will take you there. [Google]
Comcast subscribers in Tucson got an unexpected interruption during the Super Bowl last night: a half-minute of porn. The cable company has no idea how it happened. [Ars Technica]
Just how big a flop was Microsoft Vista? Only 10 percent of enterprise users reportedly adopted it. [Silicon Alley Insider]
Automated calling systems are annoying. Would they be less so if the voice was able to say "er," "um," and "yes, we're dead serious"? IBM ...
What is Google’s other “Ocean” project?
VentureBeat —
... When you hear that Google has an internal project it’s working on codenamed “Ocean,” you might assume that it’s the new Google Earth element that was ...
Google Earth 5 Plus the Ocean
Google Operating System —
... While all these additions useful, you'll most likely download Google Earth 5 to explore the ocean. "Dive beneath the surface and visit the deepest part of the ocean, the Mariana Trench. Explore the ocean with top marine experts including National Geographic and BBC. Learn about ocean observations, climate change, and endangered species. Discover new places including surf, dive, and travel hot spots and shipwrecks." ...
Google Earth 5.0 takes you underwater
Coolest Gadgets —
... Google Earth is one truly amazing piece of software, and I am glad that I am alive to actually see it work - something our ancestors could not, having to settle for maps instead of turning on a computer to view other parts of the world from the comfort of their air-conditioned room. Well, there is no reason for Google to rest upon their laurels, which leads us to an improvement on their project by offering a new feature to users - allowing us to dive beneath the water surface to explore underwater terrain in 3D while browsing ocean-related content courtesy ...
Free Download: Google Earth 5.0 Ocean Edition
Techlivez.com —
... Google Earth for Oceans and ocean feature is turned on by default, zooming in on Ocean surface will let you dive beneath the surface where you can navigate 3D underwater sea floor terrain. It has 20 layers of content information contributed by ocean explorers, scientists and researchers having photos, videos and information that i am sure will surprise you.
Google Earth Ocean Edition in action:
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Row, row, row your boat, TCP/IP...
Betanews —
... . The laptop's storing its data mainly in the cloud, lest the gear somehow encounter water. He has three 80GB iPods. He also has a GPS on board, allowing even deskbound creatures such as us to track his progress thanks to Google Earth, which has built his trip into a new Google Earth layer looking at ocean expeditions. It adds an interesting degree of understanding to his daily blog report, where this morning he reports frustration with certain aspects of his progress so far and concern about "a biig prooblem with icebergs after NZ.... Would have expected to pass nz in about ...
Google Ocean watchers may have found Atlantis
TG Daily - All News —
Chicago (IL) - A Google Ocean image of an underwater section of the Atlantic ocean at 31 15'15.53N 24 15'30.53W is drawing wide attention as a possible location of the lost city of Atlantis. The location is about 700 miles off the coasts of Morocco and Portugal and fits in very nicely with the whereabouts of Atlantis, as described by Plato. Image Image taken from Google Ocean , a feature of Google Earth -- an interactive 3D view of the globe as seen from space. Google Earth allows viewers to go on virtual aerial tours of many famous places on ...
UPDATED: Google Ocean watchers may have found Atlantis
TG Daily - All News —
Chicago (IL) - A Google Ocean image of an underwater section of the Atlantic ocean at 31 15'15.53N 24 15'30.53W is drawing wide attention as a possible location of the lost city of Atlantis. The location is about 700 miles off the coasts of Morocco and Portugal and fits in very nicely with the whereabouts of Atlantis, as described by Plato. Image Image taken from Google Ocean , a feature of Google Earth -- an interactive 3D view of the globe as seen from space. Google Earth allows viewers to go on virtual aerial tours of many famous places on ...
Atlantis still lost, sea lines explained
ZDNet Government —
... that the Lost City of Atlantis can be seen in Ocean in Google Earth . It’s not Atlantis or seafarming by aliens, NOAA’s Walter Smith and UC San Diego’s David Sandwell, say. In fact the weird criss-crossing marks are “ship tracks,” echosounding measurements made by ships, they say. By measuring the time it takes for sound to travel from a ship to the sea floor and back, you can get an idea of how far away the sea floor is. Since this process — known as echosounding — only maps a strip of the sea floor under the ship, the maps it produces often show the path the ship took, ...
Explore the Moon in Google Earth
Google Operating System —
After adding the ocean, the sky, Mars, Google Earth now has imagery from the moon. Forty years after the moon landing, you can explore the Earth's natural satellite in 3D. "Each of the Apollo landing missions is chronicled in detail through pictures and stories. We've even embedded video footage from Spacecraft Films that covers the most well-known moments on the surface. There are also immersive lunar surface panoramas, composed of photos taken by the astronauts themselves, presented for the first time in a 3D Street View style interface," ...
Robots Boldly Going ...
Inc.com —
... Trench. (You can read about it in Discover Magazine.) You can even view these ocean depths yourself with the latest version of Google Earth. Robots have also been to other planets. In fact, NASA has a Mars Exploration Program that uses robots called 'rovers' to scout out the planet. Two rovers were sent up in 2003 and you can track their location even to this day. Related links:
Google Earth Version 5 goes underwater NASA Mars Exploration Rover Mission ...
