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Re: Mars, Moon on Google Maps

#62

Post by Pigo »

My 5 year old son has recently become fascinated with the solar system, and Mars in particular. He's really interested in Olympus Mons too, which is why I was bummed to see it was mostly missing from the map. Why would there not be enough images of the second largest mountain in the solar system? Is it because it's too tall?

Re: Mars, Moon on Google Maps

#65

Post by otempomores »

Bluestrike2 wrote: post #57
igor_filippov wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still cheaper than paying rent in Bay Area I assume?

Sure, but the commute is a bit of a pain.

At least its not as intrusive ass the add infested refeer sleep caskets onboard of the M.S. Generationship.

Re: Mars, Moon on Google Maps

#68

Post by zanny »

Pigo wrote: post #62

My 5 year old son has recently become fascinated with the solar system, and Mars in particular. He's really interested in Olympus Mons too, which is why I was bummed to see it was mostly missing from the map. Why would there not be enough images of the second largest mountain in the solar system? Is it because it's too tall?

Hey, Olympus Mons. The SCP wiki decided to start giving me nightmares about it! http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2886

Re: Mars, Moon on Google Maps

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Post by matthewmacleod »

pen2l wrote: post #46
matthewmacleod wrote: post #45

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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)…

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?

If it says something totally ridiculous, of course! The existence of services that provide information is not an excuse to ignore individual logic and reasoning.

You see now how this could suddenly fuck up your understanding of things and propagate down in your knowledgebase to then start affecting your decision framework?

If I Googled for my symptoms, and came across a page that said I have "Googleitis", and all of the information around that was about "Google's April Fool's Day Googleitis Prank" then I'm not sure it would.

My niece could easily take from this that human beings have the technology to pull off something like this in the way google is showing and make wild and inaccurate extrapolations that will confuse her.

Information is messy, people are fallible, confusion isn't harmful.

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