Tag: Earth

Wanderlust

/ Derek Mueller
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I’ve downloaded Google Earth.  It’s loaded with visual-planetary wonder:  fly-overs, angular adjustments, and surprisingly clear shots of the terrain.  The upgrade, which allows annotations (something I might use) and .csv or GPS imports, tech support and crisper printing (stuff I might not use), is tempting for just twenty bucks. But for now I’m content to mess around with the free version. (via)

Here’s a look at the main interface (simple, easy to use) and, in it, a from-above view of SU’s main campus.

North by Southeast

/ Derek Mueller / 2 Comments

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Great news for land surveyors in the NY Times today.  Seriously,
though, I have no idea what it all means or whether there are merits to the
science (which is clearly speculative, inconclusive, foretelling of widespread
catastrophes, etc.).  Because I’ve often thought of things like the Earth’s
gravitational polarity as stable, it’s wild to consider re-polarization, the
shift of magnetic North over time (see the multimedia link), and, in a
crazy-shaken world, the effect of knuckle-ball Earth spin in the millennia
ahead. So much for East meets West; East is West (granted…always has
been).