From the Moon to the Earth
A freshly restored image of the first photo ever taken of the Earth from the Moon. The photo was taken by NASA’s Lunar Orbiter 1 in 1966.
Visit Virtual Rome
Oliver Reed recalls the glory days in Ridley Scott’s film Gladiator.
The Google Earth 3D map software just got even better, thanks to the addition of a virtual Ancient Rome. By the way, if you’ve managed to miss the Internet boat for the last three years, you owe it to yourself to try the free Google Earth application. As you spin a virtual globe of the Earth, zooming in and out of any location in the planet in whiz-bang 3D glory, you will believe you are the mighty Thunder God himself.
One caveat: if you can walk faster than your Internet connection and your PC is as old the Coliseum itself, Google Earth won’t be your friend.
From BBC news:
Google has added a new twist to its popular 3D map
tool, Google Earth, offering millions of users the chance to visit a
virtual ancient Rome.
Google has reconstructed the sprawling city - inhabited by more than one million people as long ago as AD320.
Users can zoom around the map to visit the Forum of Julius
Caesar, stand in the centre of the Colosseum or swoop over the
Basilica.
Researchers behind the project say it adds to five centuries of knowledge.
“This is another step in creating a virtual time
machine,” said Bernard Frischer of the University of Virginia, which
worked with Google on the Roman reconstruction.
“The project is a continuation of five centuries of research by
scholars, architects and artists since the Renaissance, who have
attempted to restore the ruins of the ancient city with words, maps and
images,” he said.
High State of Repairs
There are certainly worse jobs out there than doing maintenance work on this high tech beast.
Feeling Quite Small
Photo: nasa.gov
This is one hell of a view (click photo to enlarge).
