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A rich guy in Abu Dhabi has been dabbling in geoglyphs.
Billionaire oil sheikh Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan employed A LOT of people to dig the shape of his first name out of the sand on Al Futaisi Island, which he owns. There are two long miles between ‘H’ and ‘D,’ and the letters are a half a mile from bottom to top.
You’ll also notice that the Caps Lock was on.
Scientists “Discover” 657 New Islands
by Amanda Arnold | April 26, 2011
Well, well, well. Look who used Google Earth to discover new lands.
According to a recent study by scientists Matthew Stutz and Orrin Pilkey of Meredith College and Duke University, 657 new barrier islands have been “discovered” around the world. In a 2001 study, the island count was 1,492 (which, incidentally, also was the year “Columbus sailed the ocean blue.”) The new 2011 count is 2,149.
Satellites Being Helpful All Over the Place in Academia
by Josh Clark | February 15, 2011
Without satellites we wouldn’t have a lot of things. We wouldn’t have cable television, GPS (and by extension geocaching), and weather would take us generally by surprise. We wouldn’t have intelligence on other countries, other countries wouldn’t have intelligence on us. We wouldn’t have Google Earth. Google Earth already proved a valuable tool for espionage when Tom Clancy types went up in arms after an image of a classified nuclear sub in dry dock at a Naval shipyard was picked up on the service.
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