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Old July 19th, 2005, 02:37 PM
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Sweet! You can zoom in on the Grand Canyon with the Colorado river view and zoom through the canyon like you are flying. It's a little akward with the controls, but I can imaging somone writing a flight simulator program to interface with this thing.
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actually most of the pictures were taken by a plane flying at 40000 feet. Wanna see something cool check out bermuda. So many pools...

Also there is a pool downtown manhatten that can be seen from like 11 miles out
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How big is the download for the Google Earth thingy? I'm on dialup, so if it's large...
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I believe you can use http://maps.google.com to see the same things.
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