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Re: Google Mars (2005)

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Post by dredmorbius » Sun, Apr 23, 2023, 1:26 AM UTC

Avicebron wrote: post #25

belter wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The comments from 15 years ago are even more interesting.

What's that quote about dying a hero vs living long enough to see yourself become the villain?

Only the young die good.

Re: Google Mars (2005)

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Post by dredmorbius » Sun, Apr 23, 2023, 2:38 AM UTC

tempodox wrote: post #39

butz wrote: post #14

They should partner up with NASA and add "Street view".

My summer house on Mars is private, I don't want a Street View image of it.

And to this comment future generations will trace the origin of the Tempodox Effect, as the Martian analog of Barbra's.

Re: Google Mars (2005)

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Post by Rebelgecko » Sun, Apr 23, 2023, 5:09 AM UTC

godber wrote: post #80

rixrax wrote: post #43

Search located Pathfinder without problems[0]. But not the Ares III landing site[1]... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Pathfinder [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(film)

The site was launched about 5 years before the book was written.

It's been kept fairly up to date

Re: Google Mars (2005)

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Post by somat » Sun, Apr 23, 2023, 10:57 AM UTC

foobarbecue wrote: post #46

I've always been really disapointed that google let their planetary maps stagnate. I work (~5% of my work week) on https://trek.nasa.gov/ . Our front page sucks, but the individual map browsers are quite rich in terms of available layers and tools. Our UI is... not optimized for discoverability, but there's a lot there. Mars is at https://trek.nasa.gov/mars/

Was about to post a link to the same, can confirm, perhaps not as slick as googles offering but a much better map, it actually has a scale bar and tools to help you measure things.

Re: Google Mars (2005)

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Apr 23, 2023, 10:57 AM UTC

dredmorbius wrote: post #82

tempodox wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My summer house on Mars is private, I don't want a Street View image of it.

And to this comment future generations will trace the origin of the Tempodox Effect, as the Martian analog of Barbra's.

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Re: Google Mars (2005)

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Post by antonvs » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 4:40 PM UTC

pfannkuchen wrote: post #76

If Google still had a sense of humor they would do Google Flat Earth for April Fool’s Day one of these years. Complete with perimeter ice wall and an announcement that scientists have made an amazing discovery about the true shape of the Earth. Easter egg of infinite turtle stack supporting the Earth Plane if you do 3D view and flip it over. Alas…

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Re: Google Mars (2005)

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Post by antonvs » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 4:42 PM UTC

marricks wrote: post #53

It's been out for over 15 years now, you'd hope they'd add some street view...

The problem is the only car that could drive around Mars to take street pictures is in a heliocentric orbit instead. There was some sort of requirements mixup.