yesterday i started a thread in OOT about a satellite program that is free and can be downloaded. it has weather mapping, 3D terrain images, galleries, road maps, historic sites, and a whole lot more. it even had a map of the stars relevant to your position on earth.

other than the thread i started in this forum about keystrokes that will advance the page i have not started a single thread in about 4 months maybe longer.

why was it zapped?

i belong to a science forum and when a thread is zapped we are given a reason.

do the Mods on this site have any accountability or can they anonymously do these sorts of things?

just want to know what could possibly be wrong with the thread i started, i thought it was interesting -- a heck of a lot more useful than the majority of threads that get started.

did you try pm-ing an oot mod, or did you just rush to atf b/c "zomg how could my thread be locked? all my ideas are great what an injustice"


there is a science forum here too, though not that much science gets discussed there

i actually waited a little over 10 hours to post this. i made my post last night, and checked it this morning.

curious about the accountability thing more than anything else.

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no Kerow it didn't suck. it's pretty cool actually.

as an example, you can zero in on Mt Everest from any angle you like and any distance and the resolution is very good. you can get an almost exact elevation of any point on earth.

in fact the resolution is so good i was able to zero in on a single surfer on his surf board off the hawaiian islands.

also it's fun to fly on over to Monte Carlo in the Mediteranean and get a 45 deg shot of the area as opposed to just an overhead.

cool as all hell.

I posted in that thread. It was about Google Earth. I also predicted that it would be locked (or deleted). I for one felt it was worthy of discussion, except for the fact that it was probably 2-3 years too late. Just about everyone in that forum has already experimented with it and rendered it virtually worthless as far as a reasonable thread topic is concerned.

Other than that I thought it was a good post.

thanks, the thing is that if no one cares then it drifts off the page, no big deal.

not everyone has discovered everything on the web when it 1st comes out. i wouldn't be surprised if more than half the people on this site never used it.

--and the fact that many are familiar with it is even better, people can talk about what they like best about it.

the other day i zeroed in on the Pitcairn Islands somewhere in micronesia and clicked on a few links that talked about the history of those islands.

interesting stuff, so i don't get it. why was it zapped?

like i said, it's very cool imo.

but it's up to the mods (which usually reflects the population) what stays and what goes.

either way no big deal right?

it all comes down to taking away 'front-page-time' from more 'worthy' threads

anyone can reply with a 'wow' or 'neato', but that will only take away from deeper discussion WRT more appreciated threads, again regarding the regulars.

You're seriously asking why a fan-boi thread about GOOGLE EARTH was locked in OOT? For reals?

Read the sticky in the forum and maybe you'll figure it out.

kerowo that was not an lolcat

The man has a point...lolcat or it didn't happen.

Woah...woah...woah...

WTF if "google"?

I dont understand the whole lolcat thing, whats wrong with me?

its like http://37.com/ but more complicated.

so good


edit: lolcats just make me happy

omg...that John Madden explanation is cracking me up.

fwiw - I'm unfamiliar with google-earth and may check it out. I guess I had heard of it before because the name is somewhat familiar but I never really knew what it did or bothered to go to the site.
If everyone else knew about it already then I think Arnold is correct that the tone of the thread can change from making fun of him...and me...for never having used it before...to talking about some of your favorite discoveries or aspects of it.

I remember there was some thread in OOT or maybe sporting-events about running and within that thread there was a link to some google, running map thing where you can draw a line for your path and it tells you the exact distance. I had never heard of it and thought it was amazingly cool and there were a couple other posters that agreed with me. Could even map around my own apartment complex and leave the road to run around the swimming-pool if I wanted. Awesome.

Just because it's a google function doesn't mean that everyone knows about it.
Maybe I should google, "What is everything that google does?" because it seems there are some different things that I just don't know about. And if I don't know about them in the first place it's not like I can google it to look them up. It never would have occured to me to ask, "Do you have a function with all this awesome satellite capability that will tell me everything about a given area?"

I also think that it's not exactly a terrible idea for the mod who DOES the nuking to actually provide an explanation. Particularly if it's a poster with nearly 1k posts as opposed to some 6 post noob who is making an obviously bad and delete-worthy post such as, "lol, Suck it!!"

Thats what happens when someone decided to link Science, Math and Philosophy together like those 3 subjects arent amazingly broad and in many ways unrelated (or at least philosophy has nothing to do with math and science).

I went to that forum once, Sklansky had half a dozen threads where he talked about why God isnt real, and one where he talks about alien life, but in fact it was a metaphor for god.

I never went back.

Nothing. Lolcats have jumped the lolshark.

MicroBob for Mod of the Luddite forum

You aren't right very often are you?

lolsharks are the new lolcats.

bobo - no way. The sharks aren't nearly as funny.
Some of the cats are awesome and hilarious.

thanks for the support microbob.

call me a nerd but i can spend 3 hrs a day on this thing.

the best way to see the power of this thing would be to zero in on the Hawaiian Islands and use the "Tilt" feature at top upper right. then use the compass to rotate yourself around the island. it's almost like taking a helicopter ride around the island. every mountain, valley, and feature of the island pops out in 3D

it's fun if you've ever been to some of these exotic places, you can go back and get a new appreciation.

Dammit, I always get the "Color X is the new Black" ones wrong too.

So is it fair to say that you've had your [Phill] of SMP and lolcats?