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Check out the Apollo 11 landing site: https://www.google.com/maps/space/moon/@0.6813909,23.4602739...
Your link dropped me off in a rainforest in the Kongo.. Are you sure that's where Apollo landed? I was kinda hoping for some crater on the moon....
Information wants to be free.
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Google does this with several of their sites, intentionally making them worse on Firefox (Desktop or Mobile). Firefox Mobile actually already fakes a Chrome Mobile UA in some situations to get around that. Examples include the Google Search, Google Maps, or YouTube. I simply configured via about:config the above mentioned UA faker for Google’s sites to fake Chrome’s UA.
We're in for a sequel of "Only works in MSIE." Brace yourselves.
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And the world you paint, where excessive care must be taken to avoid even the slightest possibility of confusion, is deeply dull and boring. It's the same attitude that's led to such widespread bland corporatism. You should be skeptical of everything Google tells you, like every other organisation. If anything, this should be a pointed reminder of that fact.
> You should be skeptical of everything Google tells you, like every other organisation. If anything, this should be a pointed reminder of that fact. Okay so you're driving to your parent's house and open up Google Maps for directions, are you going to start doubting its directions? There is a difference between a joke being made by a person or a small company vs. implanting fake information in a source (Google Maps)…
To use your medicine example, it'd be more like looking up a webMD article for the common cold and seeing one about the common cold in martians. Don't we as readers and observers to think critically about what's presented to us? This reminds me of people who take outlandish and impossible Onion article headlines, don't bother reading the story, and then share it with shock and indignation on social media.
Also, in the example of your niece, this would serve as a good learning point for her then. If someone is confused by this, I'd say it's harmless confusion and it's something that's safe to be confused about.
These have been around since 2009. Still neat though! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Mars
Yep, I remember them being part of Google Earth. IIRC they had one of the night sky as well.
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I don't really see how this is funny or nice. There is no office on mars. And this is what brings fake information into the world. Just show Mars as it is.
You bring up a good point, this is actually really bad. It's bad because the kind of position Google is in, because of its brand power, because of its authority in the modern world. They cannot joke around like this at this point. They need to take this down. > And this is what brings fake information into the world. Others are saying "you don't have a sense of humor" -- wrong response. I remember when I was younger…
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And the world you paint, where excessive care must be taken to avoid even the slightest possibility of confusion, is deeply dull and boring. It's the same attitude that's led to such widespread bland corporatism. You should be skeptical of everything Google tells you, like every other organisation. If anything, this should be a pointed reminder of that fact.
> You should be skeptical of everything Google tells you, like every other organisation. If anything, this should be a pointed reminder of that fact. Okay so you're driving to your parent's house and open up Google Maps for directions, are you going to start doubting its directions? There is a difference between a joke being made by a person or a small company vs. implanting fake information in a source (Google Maps)…
If it tells you to drive into a lake, yes, you should doubt it.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/woman-follo...
Nice landslide on Mars https://www.google.com/maps/space/mars/@3.8915157,-44.053898...
That landslide looks like it's about 10km across. That's absolutely incredible! On that note, the scale bar in the bottom is almost impossible to use - it's not in a place where I can easily compare what I'm looking at to what the bar represents - mainly due to the placement of the controls. Having it on the left of that grouping would be much more useful