Google Earth virtualises Melbourne
Google have just added pretty 3D buildings into their Earth app for my home town, Melbourne. Here’s a side by side comparison of some real footage I took from my old office vs a similar view from Google Earth. I didn’t have a lot of video to chose from to do this comparison so there are some zooms in the original footage that I couldn’t replicate in Earth because their zoom tool actually changes the viewer’s location in space and zooming out is unwieldy thanks to the frustrating interface. But I think the video demonstrates how well Melbourne is modelled in the app.
“You put in other details”
A beautiful entry at the Letters Of Note website detailing a card sent to the Woomera Rocket Range in Australia, 1957, by a little boy named Denis Cox. Denis provided the rocket scientists a helping hand with future space craft design offering his concept of a Rolls Royce Jet Engined-powered two man vehicle- but beyond that, the scientists would have to “put in other details”. Turns out 52 years later he’s been tracked down (see article comments) and he’s still waiting for a reply.
