Oh God, Google, Stop it already!

[Anticrombie0909]

Google plans to use trucks equipped with lasers and digital photographic equipment to create a realistic 3D online version of San Francisco, and eventually other major US cities...

The trucks would drive along every San Francisco street using the lasers to measure the dimensions of buildings, to create a 3D framework onto which digital photos can be mapped. This would complement the mostly top-down view of San Francisco available through Google's Keyhole satellite photo application.

The goal is to create similar 3D online versions of other cities in the US and overseas.

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[User6773]

RE: Oh God, Google, Stop it already!

Google:
"We Want To Know Everything"

[evilbutterfly]

RE: Oh God, Google, Stop it already!

Everyone at Google has way too much time and money on their hands.

[FishFishRevolution]

RE: Oh God, Google, Stop it already!

I used KeyHole for DeathBall once. Kind of creepy, just a little bit.

I think Google will be the first to build a working 3D holoroom, capable of going anywhere in the world with the press of a button.

[Freak83]

RE: Oh God, Google, Stop it already!

Google already owns the internet. Soon the world.

How many times do I have to say it?

[Starshot]

First the internet, then stocks, now cities, soon, the world.
What year will they have the entire universe?

PLACE BETS NOW

[GuidoHunter]

Y'know, this would ordinarily be quite hard to believe, but with Google backing it, anything's possible.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[Tasuke]

Actually that's pretty cool. I wanna work for Google, think about all the cool stuff
I'll get to do.

[evilbutterfly]

Really Andy, it's not hard to believe. What would be almost unbelievable is if they somehow used advanced sonar-like things to map out the insides of the buildings, too, so that you could take a virtually tour of the city with FPS-style controls. Actually, seeing as how I just came up with that, it's pretty believable, too.

I think it's funny. Back when Pong was invented and the smallest computers could barely fit in a warehouse, people always thought "Oh, that's impossible!" as far as technology went. Now, it's not a matter of being possible or not, it's a matter of how long until Google starts a project on it.

[MalReynolds]

Man, what if terrorists got a hold of this google map? They could vitrually bomb anything they want, and make plans accordingly.

Heart is in the right place, though.

The ribcage.

Mal

[purplepopcorn]

my prediction:
in the future, the entire world will be run by Google, Comcast, Microsoft, Starbucks, Subway, MTV, and most importantly, FFR.

[jewpinthethird]

Man, what if terrorists got a hold of this google map? They could vitrually bomb anything they want, and make plans accordingly.

This is true...we know they have access to the internet since they are always posting those videos of their beheadings and jazz.

"No no no, Mohamed, according to Google you should have taken Exit Number 18. Great, now we are going to be on the freeway for another 10 minutes. Oh, dont give me that we got all the time in the world crap these buildings won't bomb themselves."

[Tasuke]

Maybe all the funding fo google's ideas and jazz is from the terrorists?
Yes, that's righ Google is run by terrorists, you heard it here first.

[evilbutterfly]

Google could be used to catch them! Make it so to use these advanced sources you have to agree to a simple EULA that says they can track what you look at. So if, after an attack, they notice that somebody went through the exact path the attackers took, they could track them down and turn them in to the CIA.

=O

[Verruckter]

Google = God.