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   I'm cool with it for now....

   

   Whatever he said, Aug 1st, 2006 @ 4:54pm

   
   

   For the moment you can't see my backyard very well on Google Earth, but I expect someday you will, for nothing. As much as I appreciate technology, this one illustrates potential issues.
   
   As cool and usefull as it is, I dread the day my mother calls and says, "what are you growing in your backyard." Legal or not, its gonna suck.

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   I'm cool with it

   

   Whatever I said, Aug 1st, 2006 @ 5:12pm

   
   

   You can see my back yard very well on Google Earth. It's really cool and is from a few years ago.

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   Odd that this should come up just now...

   

   Anonymous Coward, Aug 1st, 2006 @ 5:27pm

   
   

   I spent the afternoon at work (don't tell my boss) using Google Map to peruse my home town in New York.
   
   Checked out the house I grew up in, my elementary and high schools, the ball field and playgrounds that we played on as kids, the diner that was my first job, and on and on. Memories from 40 and more years ago came to the forefront as I viewed the high-res satellite images.
   
   Way cool!

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   Re: I'm cool with it for now....

   

   Adam, Aug 1st, 2006 @ 5:28pm

   
   

   ...dude...
   
   if you can see it from the air, you're an idiot for growing it that way anyway.
   
   
   
   thecopshavehellicopters,buddy.
   
   
   oi, kids these days.

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   Where does it end?

   

   Whatever he said, Aug 1st, 2006 @ 5:35pm

   
   

   I use it -- my nav system and mapquest have let me down more than once.
   
   So a future G-earth would be at least a nearly real-time, continuous streaming image, with enough resolution for a botonous to give me advice remotely, and scientists could track their walruses and dolphins, and maybe I could tie in my daughter's cell phone, and my wife's, and ... hmm

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   Re: Re: I'm cool with it for now....

   

   Whatever he said, Aug 1st, 2006 @ 5:41pm

   
   

   It's legal in Cali, with a doctor's recommendation, and within limits. Believe me, the man isn't looking for me (he's looking for the guy I lived next door to five years ago).
   
   Neighbors are worse, far too many believe everything they see on TV.

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   Re: Re: I'm cool with it for now....

   

   Anonymous Coward, Aug 1st, 2006 @ 5:47pm

   
   

   Consider that if he can't see his backyard on Google Earth, he probably lives in an area where the cops don't have helicopters.

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   Google Earth

   

   rbhrulez, Aug 1st, 2006 @ 6:39pm

   
   

   Google Earth helped me figure out why my basement kept flooding. My yard is shaped like a bowl and was causing water to pool against the foundation.

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   Re: Re: Re: I'm cool with it for now....

   

   Anonymous Coward, Aug 1st, 2006 @ 6:44pm

   
   

   No, we can't see our yard (much less our road, even), and we definitely have the choppers overhead.

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    Ringold, Aug 2nd, 2006 @ 1:13am

    
    

    Heh, neighbors where I used to live had a pool that wasn't screened in. Invariably every day this older woman would go get some sun in one of just a few bathing suites.
    
    Upon checking, just as I suspected, sure enough, you can JUST BARELY make her out. At another site, I think MSNs, can't see her too well, but thanks to the angle view thing and a decent rez, can tell she left the back sliding door open.
    
    I know somewhere, somehow, one of these services has caught some folks in public sex and nobodies just noticed it yet. For now, they're probably protected by being just about 10 pixels long.. but.. in the future..

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    yakov

    

    Rajio, Aug 2nd, 2006 @ 6:51am

    
    

    In Soviet Russia earth googles YOU!

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    Anonymous Coward, Aug 2nd, 2006 @ 8:15am

    
    

    What if you Google Earth someone that is already "Google Earthing"....now thats deep

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