google earth censor in siberia

maybe this has been posted before, dont know.

go here:
66 16 30.01 N
179 12 33.60 E

a place in siberia not too terribly far from the region close to alaska, its not a blackout, this is straight up blurred out, like its a base being censored, maybe someones got some info?

IMHO , most likley a technicians thumb print or glitch - it is translucent , not blurred

What about Antartica? Why can't I get a decent close up view of that continent? Everytime I try to zoom in I get the following message:

"Unable to view at that level" or some similar message which I don't exactly remember now!

check out green land( i dont know if this has been posted) its weird but i dont think to much of it go here -------> 60 44'27.76"n 46 15'25.46"w

[edit on 4-3-2007 by miguelbmx]

Originally posted by SocialistAgenda
What about Antartica? Why can't I get a decent close up view of that continent?

Why should you be able to get a close up of antarctica? Google Maps/Earth is collected statellite data, there isn't going to be much public interest in mapping antarctica, people tend not to travel there much.

Originally posted by Nygdan

Originally posted by SocialistAgenda
What about Antartica? Why can't I get a decent close up view of that continent?

Why should you be able to get a close up of antarctica? Google Maps/Earth is collected statellite data, there isn't going to be much public interest in mapping antarctica, people tend not to travel there much.

Does that mean that only "popular" areas get coverage? What about the north and south poles? There are many reasons I am interested in getting relatively close ups...but mainly too see the ice shelfs and second I would like to see the alleged research facilities there operated by several countries! Is this prohibited?

i have been to CFS ALERT up on ellsmere island and when i tried to find it on google earth and it was just a dot with a name, same with THULE Airforce Base in Greenland (everything else is sharp and clear )

i even checked out my own area and the base is sharp and clear(CFB Gagetown just outside Fredricton New Brunswick) the image was about 3-4 yrs. old lol.

So the Russians got them to censor a military base on national security grounds...so what?

I just want to point out that the data on Google Earth is not current. It is at least a year old. What you find there may not be there now. I know this by googling my own address where I get a picture showing a mesquite tree in my front yard that I had to cut down over a year ago.

I really miss that tree.

[edit on 8-8-2007 by groingrinder]

It would be great for Google Earth to map Antartica just to see if there is a big hole there and maybe green forests

Flash Earth shows it. It's nothing at first glance, but looking closer it almost looks airbrushed in. Check out the river to the right, all those tributaries just appearing out of nowhere.

Originally posted by howie0
i have been to CFS ALERT up on ellsmere island and when i tried to find it on google earth and it was just a dot with a name, same with THULE Airforce Base in Greenland (everything else is sharp and clear )

Nothing much to say about Thule. My uncle used to work there for a couple of years, and he took tons of pictures while there. Showed them gladly when he got home. So they can't have too many secrets up there

Originally posted by Quasar
Flash Earth shows it. It's nothing at first glance, but looking closer it almost looks airbrushed in. Check out the river to the right, all those tributaries just appearing out of nowhere.

If the map looks airbrushed, that's because it is. Or, more accurately .. it's clone stampped.

It's evident in the places I've highlighted here:



For an example of clone stampping, I've demonstrated below. Notice I've cloned a section of the car onto the door. And to mimic the shotty work done on the map, I've placed a small clone stamp just a little off center to start the cloning. This is was has been done in the photos where I've highlighted. Can you find them?

Yup, definately cloned. I play with photoshop too, and know how valuable of a tool that is. I didn't see that, why would they clone something that close? I would have brought something in from miles away.

Looks like they built most of it from other maps, like you said and brought pieces in from miles away, but then got lazy, assuming the lazy public was ignorant and didn't know any better.

lol.

Luckily, guys like you and I are here.