wtf is this (from google maps)

[The Straight Story]

(2 pics)
East of Hearst, Ontario:





And this is just north of Hearst, looks like a hawk :)

[NJmaverick]

1. A runway for the alien mother ship?

:shrug:

[The Straight Story]

2. Why can't there ever be a father ship? Maybe they all ran off with the GF ship

:)

[NJmaverick]

3. hmmm.... good question

[The Straight Story]

4. Here is a pic just for you:

[QueenOfCalifornia]

5. I think it is

the worlds biggest staple.

Holding Canada together.

[Chan790]

6. no...silly.

It's clearly the trans-Ontario seatbelt. :P

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Canada's being painted

That's a test strip.

[MilesColtrane]

8. World's Biggest Hockey Stick

Now under construction, ey?

[kentauros]

9. Something's been fudged out of the image.

Likely the contrail of a military craft no one wants anyone to see just yet. Perhaps an aircraft using the pulse detonation wave engines? ;)

The only other possibility is that there was a major "underlap" gap between stitched satellite images and they put that in there. I highly doubt that, but you never know...

[leeroysphitz]

16. Chemtrails! n/t

[Orrex]

10. maps.live.com doesn't show anything unusual

Just normal terrain. So...

Either GoogleMaps has discovered the worlds largest Curling track, or there's a glitch in their photo.

[Orrex]

11. But now that I look at it more closely...

There is some kind of, I don't know, debris at a bend in that river, right where the big gray line covers.

Is this where Canadians have been dumping their beer cans?

[kentauros]

12. Or, Google is using a different set of images.

In the course of my mapping work, I have found that the different mapping sites sometimes have different images available. Almost all have images that are at least 3-5 years old and as old as 8-10. The only benchmark I have for figuring those ages is looking at my parents' property and how their home isn't completely finished in Google's satellite images when it has been completed for almost ten years! ;)

I'll have to look on NASA's World Wind and see if it's there, too...

[Orrex]

13. You fool! You'll get us all killed!

I don't know kentauros! I never clicked on this thread!

Roswell! Roswell!


Incidentally, I can pinpoint the date that the maps.live.com "Birds' Eye View" of my home was taken to within three days. I know because we had a sheet of shingles blow off the roof at the end of November 2006, and the black patch of tar paper is clearly visible. Neat!

A friend can likewise pinpoint the date that a Google Streetview shot was taken of her home, because there's a hubcap on her lawn that was only there for two days last year.

[kentauros]

17. Don't you mean

the Libruls, uh, I mean, the non-Christian religions, uh, I mean the Russians will get us all killed? :P

Cosmos 954

I wasn't able to open up World Wind as some other program was likely interfering with it. Google Earth was having the same problem. I've used Windows Live (or whatever they call it; I never can remember it's real name, tending to swap the words around always) for things like road names during pipeline mapping and I know they use similar sets of aerial images. The best images, of course, are the kind you can get flown for your company, with resolutions like 6" per pixel

Sometimes government sites, such as counties, burroughs and parishes (and I would assume territories as well) have excellent resources of imagery available for free downloads. You'll just have to find a graphics program that can read MrSID image files ;)

[petronius]

14. The top one is a stitch - the world is held together like a baseball,

and sometimes the threads show.

The bottom one is too small for my eyes/dirty monitor, but the lake looks like a foetus...

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. I thought that of the lake too.

:rofl:

[Dangerously Amused]

15. Shhhh. That's the beginning of the secret Great Wall of Canada.

They're building it to keep out the tsunami of Americans if McCain wins in November.

[CreekDog]

19. i built that road in Sim City but then i got tired and went to sleep

and never did anything else with my fake city.

sorry! :hide:

[WannaBeGrumpy]

24. LOL

:rofl: :spray:

[havocmom]

20. Don't know, but there is one sorta like it just outside Silver City, NM when I look at google earth

Can't figure it out. There is an airport on other side of valley. No roads going up to it. Can't figure it out.

[Liberal Veteran]

21. Usually invisible, under the right conditions one can catch a glimpse of the series of tubes that...

....that make the internet.

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. Best answer on this thread.

:rofl:

[lildreamer316]

23. You'll love this:

(mind you, I'm not actually making fun. You never know. I don't necessarily believe this, but I don't not believe it either. More in heaven and earth and all that, Horatio.)
Check out the pics. Very similar to yours, and the location too, if I am correct.

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_extraterrestrialtech12.htm

[pokerfan]

25. Just looked it up on Google Earth

Coordinates:
50°10'11.70"N
82°59'50.24"W

It appears to be some kind of artifact. Note how it just kind of dissolves on the western end.

[pokerfan]

26. Google Earth forums talk about it

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/35810

[pokerfan]

27. And the official answer

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/423062/page/0/vc/1

That was bugging the shit out of me.