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A Google Earth engineer has launched an extraordinary ‘map of the fallen’ in honor of thousands of brave servicemen and women who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. A feature developed that allows you to see the each of the 5,700 coalition troops represented by a yellow pin connecting their home town to the spot where they died.
Visitors can view photos of the soldiers, find out how they died and pay their respects in a guest book using Google Earth 5, which is a free software to download. The map, which includes details of American service personnel, contains links to obituaries and memorial sites for the war heroes, with messages from families and friends. The Google Engineer, Sean Askay, began sourcing data from the first death on October, 10 2001 up until March of this year. San Francisco based Google and Mr Askay spent four years creating Map The Fallen. He wrote on his blog: “It’s important to remember that each of these servicemen and women has a rich story.”
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Talk about a long commute. Anyone who works in space or on a space station has arguably the record for the longest commute to a job. If you are lucky enough to make it into NASA’s space program, Google Earth and Beyond, you will need to be in tip top condition for orbit.
Well a supplement I have found and have been using during golf rounds I realized fits the NASA astronuats perfectly. Here’s the lowdown: enlyten strips are like a combination of those dissolvable breath mint strips you’ve seen, chewing gum, and Gatorade. Drop a few strips in your mouth or in between your gum and lip, get a flavor like chewing gum; and within 2-3 minutes get the energy and electrolytes of drinking a whole bottle of Gatorade. With Gatorade you would have to wait 30 minutes for the fluids to digest and then need to hit the restroom shortly thereafter.
Next time you get to speak to an astronaut or NASA official for that matter, tell him about enlyten. I mean they just signed SHAQ to a contract, so why wouldn’t astronauts like this. It’s easy to carry, won’t float away, has all the nutrients they need to stay hydrated, awake, alert, and healthy. No joke, the stuff just works – they have enlyten strips for Melatonin, Energy, Antioxidents, and Electrolytes. Go to Allstrips for a FREE sample, not any free software, but some handy informative presentations about this wonderful product.
Read all about enlyten and their product line here: www.allstrips.com
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Google has developed a new tool that lets people see how much electricity they’re consuming. This of course will detail much more than your monthly electricity bill. It’s knowledge that they hope will incite many people to cut back on their power use, according to Forbes. A team of about 30 people from Google and Google Earth hoping to expand to more than 200 very shortly; is currently developing the software product. The Silicon Valley, California Web giant is partnering with a host of electric utilities, device makers, regulators and other tech companies to deliver the data to consumers.
“If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.” — Lord Kelvin
Forbes says utilities can’t currently get information about outages and power spikes, and most consumers have no idea how much it costs to use power at certain times of the day. Google’s new PowerMeter tool aims to fix all that. PowerMeter is a piece of software that allows people to view online how much electricity they’re using every time they plug in a device and leave it running for a certain period of time. As ever, Google doesn’t have any concrete plans on how to make money from PowerMeter, but Kristen Olsen Cahill, Google’s product manager with Google.org, suggests this is yet another product that will drive traffic to the company’s Web site. She added that if 5.3 million people used the new tool and cut back their electricity consumption by 10%, they would save enough to power a large city.
Google PowerMeter and Forbes Magazine
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The recent Mumbai terrorists attacks show web maps such as Google Earth can be a tool for terrorists.
The information super highway appears to be letting some get away with highway robbery. With free software available to any person’s disposal online, tools such as Google Earth merge information from a variety of sources with private-sector satellite photos to provide a detailed, integrated snapshot of a location or region.
Even before the web, aggressors used public information to hone attacks. A German officer who planned the Nazi invasion of Norway and Denmark in 1940 admitted the popular Baedeker travel guide was a key intelligence source.
But the Internet has made it much easier.
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Google Earth dug up some sweet historical imagery, dating back to 1945 in some areas! Web surfers can see how their watering holes and stomping grounds have changed over time. Not only that, young an old alike will take a new appreciation for things like seeing industrial revolution, birth of ballparks, stadiums and other now famous venues.
As authored by the *trustworthy* Wikipedia, Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographic information program that was originally called Earth Viewer. Created by Keyhole, Inc, a company acquired by Google in 2004, now has really changed the way we get directions, but houses, and go deep sea diving. It maps the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS 3D globe. This is something that will come in handy in any war, talk about knowing your opponents location or lay of the land!
To access historical imagery, do one of the following within the Google Earth application. 1) Click View > Historical Imagery or 2) Click the Clock icon in the toolbar above the 3D viewer. The small vertical lines on the timeline indicate the dates of different imagery available for your location. Now all you need to do is find that special place where you grew up, went to college, or had that great summer.
Looking at my neighborhood in Central California, I realized the seriously massive amount of development that occurred in the early 1990s, as agricultural fields of family friends suddenly became covered with houses, schools, and strip malls. In fact one neighborhood, now stands with names like Danny Drive and Dawn Drive off of Famasi Avenue. These are real people I grew up with and attended 4-H meetings with so a little strange to say the least.
Check it out: http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/ug_gps.html#historicalimagery
