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jadedANDcynical
Please tell me that no one here thinks that these flash earth images are recent.
These images are months to years old.
Trubeeleever
What's more, not only the latest Boeing aircraft BUT ALSO the latest F-35 Strike Fighter are "software driven aircraft" which means they can be controlled by a secondary party if the software is hacked.
Rob48
It's commercially available imagery (the checkboxes say Bing and Yahoo - although over much of this area they appear to be the same imagery for both options). Therefore it is EXTREMELY unlikely to date since the disappearance of MH370. Those big companies buy bundles of imagery that has been processed, orthorectified etc etc, all of which takes time, and they don't fork over the cash to buy brand new imagery very often. The pics of my house are several years old, and that's in a built-up part of the UK. I very much doubt they update very often over the Indian Ocean!
There's a reason that crowdsourcing sites like Tomnod exist: they specifically pull in brand new imagery to look at because the existing stuff on the public mapping sites is out of date.
linda1mom
I believe it is the date of the technology...otherwise it would be in military time stamp, wouldn't it? Maybe...
also, though that plane image is likely at least over a week old, the images on FlashEarth are completely matching weather in that region, day by day. I've been at this since Monday and it seems accurate.
linda1mom
reply to post by ChaosComplex
I believe it is the date of the technology...otherwise it would be in military time stamp, wouldn't it? Maybe...
also, though that plane image is likely at least over a week old, the images on FlashEarth are completely matching weather in that region, day by day. I've been at this since Monday and it seems accurate.
Rob48
linda1mom
reply to post by ChaosComplex
I believe it is the date of the technology...otherwise it would be in military time stamp, wouldn't it? Maybe...
also, though that plane image is likely at least over a week old, the images on FlashEarth are completely matching weather in that region, day by day. I've been at this since Monday and it seems accurate.
Not sure what you mean by that? The images aren't changing day to day, are they? Or else that plane wouldn't still be there. You can see exactly the same imagery at Bing Maps here, or at Yahoo Maps here. You can see that same telltale white puffy cloud over the "finger" in the southwest of the island. There is no live weather on FlashEarth unless I'm missing some kind of layer option?
These are just standard commercial imagery.