Google Earth

Ronald Bradford
September 24, 2006

Google Earth and Google Maps can give you some great views of our planet. Here is a full-time blog just for Google Earth.

There’s plenty of amazing things to see, check out Top Ten Coolest Things seen with Google Earth. The list includes:

Capsized Cruise Ship Captured in Google Earth / Maps
KC-135 Caught Refueling C-5 Galaxy in Mid-Air in Google Earth!
Huge Scale Model of Disputed Border Region of China Found in Google Earth
Lancaster Bomber Caught Flying in Google Earth
Flying Car? Not Really
Nude Sunbather caught by google earth.
Firefox Crop Circle in Google Earth
Google Earth Las Vegas
Shipwrecks Around the Google Earth
See African Animals in High Resolution in Google Earth

Not to be outdone, check out the Google 3D Warehouse for images like Golden Gate Bridge.

Here are a few more cool things I’ve seen. Hole, More about the hole

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MySQL offers three different approaches to extending the SQL capabilities with the default product you download and install. These are: User Defined Function (UDF) MySQL Manual MySQL Plugin MySQL Manual MySQL Component MySQL Manual In my prior post I provided a new uuidv function that accepted a numeric argument to return a string of the version of UUID specified.