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Google Earth Melt Down Glitch …. or the holodeck matrix image glitch … EYE report

Thursday, March 24, 2011 13:31
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While looking at the amazing images below of the Google Earth …. I immediately considered what a Holodeck imaging breakdown would look like from above of our matrix reality …  

Never without thinking outside the box …
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Meltdown at Google Earth: New 3D function goes awry as bridges flop like a Salvador Dali painting

By Daniel Bates
Last updated at 8:54 AM on 24th March 2011

Article found HERE

Warped and mangled beyond recognition, they look like a computerised version of a Salvador Dali painting.

But these pictures are not the work of a Surrealist – they are what happened when Google tried to tinker with its images of Earth.

Technicians have added elevation to the Google Earth tool but due to glitches the change had a bizarre effect on some of the world’s most famous roads and bridges.

 
Big dipper: This stretch of California's coast road at Big Sur appears to have lost all its strength in the Google Earth image

Big dipper: This stretch of California's coast road at Big Sur appears to have lost all its strength in the Google Earth image

The 746ft tall Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco has been made as thin as paper and stuck to the surface of the water beneath it.

In other cases, bridges no longer go over ravines – instead they roll down the sides and go along the bottom before coming back up the other cliff face.

The images were created when Google tried to extrapolate 2D images on to a 3D landscape but did not get it quite right.

 
Not so great: San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge has been completely flattened

Not so great: San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge has been completely flattened

 

 
Floppy: The Los Angeles highway system

Floppy: The Los Angeles highway system

 

 
Dam buster: The roadway circling the Hoover Dam has wilted to water level

Dam buster: The roadway circling the Hoover Dam has wilted to water level

Surreal landscape: Salvador Dali's painting The Persistence Of Memory

Surreal landscape: Salvador Dali's painting The Persistence Of Memory

They were spotted by artist and programmer Clement Valla who has trawled Earth to collect a string of weird sights.

The ‘Postcards From Google Earth, Bridges’ are 60 images from the virtual globe which show what happens when 2D and 3D don’t get along.

The most striking is the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco which has been flattened out – including the cars driving over it – and apparently nailed to the water’s surface.

The George Washington Bridge in New York appears to twisted as it goes up a hill and its enormous support structures seem bent over.

One picture of the Los Angeles Highway System makes the roads look like tin foil.

 
Big dipper: The Fred G. Redmon Bridge in Selah, Washington State could do with some strengthening

Big dipper: The Fred G. Redmon Bridge in Selah, Washington State could do with some strengthening

 

 

Equally bizarre is the Glen Canyon Dam Bridge over the Colorado River which looks like it is dropping down to the water on both sides and going across the water’s surface.

Other images show that Google’s technology has had even more surreal effects.

Bixby Creek Bridge in Big Sur, California for example sags in mid-air as if it has had the pressure let out of it.

The Fred G. Redmon Bridge in Selah, Washington, has developed an inexplicable kink which creates a striking shadow underneath.

 
No backbone: The Deception Pass Bridge in Washington could prove difficult to cross

No backbone: The Deception Pass Bridge in Washington could prove difficult to cross

 
Bend in the road: The Peter Guice Memorial Bridge on Interstate 26

Bend in the road: The Peter Guice Memorial Bridge on Interstate 26

And the Wilson Creek Bridge in Virginia has been completely flattened and moved 20ft in the air so it looks like it is levitating.

Google Earth is a free downloadable virtual globe tool that allows users to zoom in as close as street level to observe images that have been created by overlaying satelliate photos and aerial photography.

Google was unavailable for comment.

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