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"Trans Rights Matter!" spotted on Google Earth.

Also painted on there:
Eat the fuckin' rich!!
No human being is illegal
Nothing short of revolution will save us

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Damn, those letters are like, 50cm? Impressive Google Earth can resolve that

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

To be fair most of the map imagery we use from google/apple/etc is from planes and not satellites

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Ahhh ok yeah I was wondering the same thing. Still impressive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I'm pretty sure spy satellites do have even greater resolution, only thing is that you're not gonna use something like that for a map view and it would be very inefficient, since those satellites certainly don't have the same field of view and would take a lot longer to scan the appropriate area, and are limited in number.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Google earth is scary high detail in some places. Near my hometown there are fully rendered cranes where you can see the individual metal beams that make them up in 3D.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Hey man, I can see your house from rule

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The chance of getting ruled from space is small but never zero.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Somewhere in the northwest US. I don't want to be more specific, lest I give away my location too easily.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Time to use my geoguesser skill