Archive for the ‘Google Earth’ Category

Wander Aimlessly in the Desert via Google Camel

Thursday, October 9th, 2014

As Google continues to document every crevice of our world with a camera so armchair world travelers can sit at home in their underwear and globe-trot, they’re realizing that a car with a first-gen Imperial Probe Droid mounted on its roof can’t go quite anywhere.

Google decided to ‘street view’ the Arabian desert of Liwa.

Since cars can’t tread sand, they strapped their all-seeing-eye to the back of a camel and let some poor schmuck wander the desert so we could all virtually enjoy the experience of being stranded in a desert without all those little inconveniences like thirst, dehydration, delirium and…you know dying alone in the desert.

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Behold! New Jersey’s Rainbow Plane

Monday, October 25th, 2010

Cathy Terrace, Englewood Cliffs, NJ - Google Maps.jpg

Find it on Google Earth.

Thanks to Weird Things reader Darcy!