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Google dogfight over DC

vansmack
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Re: Google dogfight over DC August 11, 2006 at 06:47 PM UTC #
That is incredible!
sweetcell
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Re: Google dogfight over DC August 11, 2006 at 06:48 PM UTC #
THIS IS AWESOME!

i chose washington DC (of course) and just crashed my plane into the white house - hillarious!

wait, i probably shouldn't be writing such things on a public forum. the NSA tends to lack a sense of humor :)

be right back, there's a knock at my door…
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Re: Google dogfight over DC August 11, 2006 at 06:49 PM UTC #
Press the space bar, fly low and strafe
ggw
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Re: Google dogfight over DC August 11, 2006 at 06:49 PM UTC #
I got the high score.
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Re: Google dogfight over DC August 11, 2006 at 06:52 PM UTC #
If I fly NE will I get to the club?
vansmack
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Re: Google dogfight over DC August 11, 2006 at 06:57 PM UTC #
US Disneyland??!!!?

It's Anaheim bitches. Respect.
jaguar
Joined: October 28, 2001 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: Google dogfight over DC August 11, 2006 at 07:00 PM UTC #
Okay, what's up with this place? All I get is "preloading maps 0%"

Christ, this is like trying to get JT tickets!
Venerable Bede
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Re: Google dogfight over DC August 11, 2006 at 07:02 PM UTC #
looks like the d.c. map is about 5 years old, at least.
kosmo
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Re: Google dogfight over DC August 11, 2006 at 07:16 PM UTC #
Really because it's got the new convention center on it…

I was hoping to land my plane in the clubs parking lot, but it would appear I just expanded it a bit…
Venerable Bede
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Re: Google dogfight over DC August 11, 2006 at 07:19 PM UTC #
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Really because it's got the new convention center on it…

I was hoping to land my plane in the clubs parking lot, but it would appear I just expanded it a bit…
well, check out u street. . it still has the parking lot where the flea market was held (where the ellington apt. complex is), and. . .the row houses next door to where i used to live are under construction- i moved into that building in 2003, so. . .it's from at least 2002.
kosmo
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Re: Google dogfight over DC August 11, 2006 at 07:23 PM UTC #
you could be right… but aren't those also stitched together from images taken at different times?
godsshoeshine
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Re: Google dogfight over DC August 11, 2006 at 07:25 PM UTC #
i was disappointed that 'moon' was the ball of cheez and not my hometown of moon township, pa
jaguar
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Re: Google dogfight over DC August 11, 2006 at 07:42 PM UTC #
I finally got it working. Now I'm lost. Think I might be up in Ohio somewhere. Would be nice if they included some sort of coordinates.


Ah, shit! I went through some sort of a wormhole and am now lost in outer space somewhere. Back to DCA….
thatguy
Joined: October 20, 1999 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: Google dogfight over DC August 11, 2006 at 08:17 PM UTC #
i'm pretty sure i just crashed into my own truck.
jaguar
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Re: Google dogfight over DC August 11, 2006 at 08:25 PM UTC #
Originally posted by thatguy:
i'm pretty sure i just crashed into my own truck.
Shhh… Don't tell your insurance company.
kosmo
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Re: Google dogfight over DC August 11, 2006 at 09:22 PM UTC #
Bummer DC ends about where 495 and New Hampshire cross… I was so close to crashing into my house :p
jaguar
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Re: Google dogfight over DC August 11, 2006 at 09:43 PM UTC #
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Bummer DC ends about where 495 and New Hampshire cross… I was so close to crashing into my house :p
That must be along the northern border. Maybe they don't want Goddard Space Flight Center and the NSA up on the web. Try flying northwest and you'll cross a lot of upper middle class homes and either a country club or maybe a small college until you finally end up in rich people territory. You can tell by all of the extra wings on the homes; or rather, estates; and lots of surrounding land and swimming pools. Then again, money goes a lot further out there so maybe they are still harboring on the 'rich' status. Like I said, I really don't know where it ends but I'm thinking that it might have been somewhere in Ohio.
jaguar
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Re: Google dogfight over DC August 11, 2006 at 09:54 PM UTC #
Wait a minute. I can't get anything anymore except the plane. No maps. Anywhere! Rebooting, cleaning temp files and disabling my privacy service did not help. What gives?
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