This is a static copy of In the Rose Garden, which existed as the center of the western Utena fandom for years. Enjoy. :)
#1 | Back to Top02-04-2007 07:58:04 AM
- Trench Kamen
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Google Earth -- Serious Stalker Potential
If you haven't played around with Google Earth yet, you simply must, as it's addictive as hell. I've found all of the old houses I've lived in, my car in front of my current house, the 7-11 by my old high school, the exact location of my dorm room, etc etc.
Does anybody have any Google Earth files of their favorite locations? I can upload mine if anybody is interested in exchanging.
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#2 | Back to Top02-04-2007 11:01:24 AM
- allegoriest
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Re: Google Earth -- Serious Stalker Potential
One day i sat down and found crop circles and jsut plain weird things... But shortly thereafter my computer decided it didn't want to live anymore 
It could never find my roommate's family's house though... O_o
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#3 | Back to Top02-04-2007 12:48:34 PM
- Lightice
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Re: Google Earth -- Serious Stalker Potential
You can find things like apparently floating cars and giant beetles from Google Earth. Fun stuff, all around. But it's not much of a stalker's tool, considering that most of the pictures are months or even years old.
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#4 | Back to Top02-04-2007 03:06:57 PM
- Razara
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Re: Google Earth -- Serious Stalker Potential
My town isn't on GoogleEarth. It's just trees.
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#5 | Back to Top02-04-2007 03:18:04 PM
- Dematrah
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Re: Google Earth -- Serious Stalker Potential
When I searched my house on GoogleEarth, the positioning is off. It showed my address as farther down and on the other side of the road than where it is. 
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#6 | Back to Top02-04-2007 05:23:01 PM
- Imaginary Bad Bug
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Re: Google Earth -- Serious Stalker Potential
I found Area 51 on it. 
Google Earth is almost as addicting as The Sims 2.
Almost!
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#7 | Back to Top02-04-2007 11:42:22 PM
- UtenaFanGirl
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Re: Google Earth -- Serious Stalker Potential
o.O wow looks like fun *downloading it*....though is this a good thing or bad thing that google made some expansive map of the world to the fine detail of locations? (just think about it for a sec)
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#8 | Back to Top02-05-2007 08:03:19 AM
- hyacinth_black
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Re: Google Earth -- Serious Stalker Potential
I am getting this NOW...
This is EXACTLY my kind of thing...
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#9 | Back to Top02-05-2007 11:10:06 AM
- Emiemipoemi
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Re: Google Earth -- Serious Stalker Potential
Omg how do you find floating cars and giant bugs and crop circles?? 
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#10 | Back to Top02-05-2007 02:44:16 PM
- Lightice
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Re: Google Earth -- Serious Stalker Potential
Emiemipoemi wrote:
Omg how do you find floating cars and giant bugs and crop circles??
By either painstackingly going through close pan shots with extreme amounts of patience, or by being told the coordinates by others. In my case it was the latter - unfortunately I don't have them, any more. I suspect that there is a website or several that list odd things from Google Earth, though.
The floating car is unfortunately just two cars, one colourful and one so black that it looks like the other's shadow on the ground. I'm not sure what caused the beetle, though - since that picture was from an airplane-shot, like all the really close to ground shots, I suspect that it was a beetle crawling on the camera's lense...
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#11 | Back to Top02-16-2007 07:55:50 AM
Re: Google Earth -- Serious Stalker Potential
Sorry, I have to run and pick up my "doctor's excuse" so here's the promised link for the article which claims there is a bit of evidence of water on Mars...and some cool "Mars face" pictures...
http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a … 0000000001
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#12 | Back to Top02-23-2007 01:48:14 PM
Re: Google Earth -- Serious Stalker Potential
I remember going through YouTube this one time, and there's a video clip of GoogleEarth Zooming in, and at the end, you can actually find someone sunbathing in his/her backyard.
I wonder if that person has GoogleEarth...
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#13 | Back to Top02-23-2007 02:16:09 PM
- Lightice
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Re: Google Earth -- Serious Stalker Potential
Hiraku wrote:
I remember going through YouTube this one time, and there's a video clip of GoogleEarth Zooming in, and at the end, you can actually find someone sunbathing in his/her backyard.
That shouldn't be possible - Google Earth doesn't have so high resolution that you could see individual humans - at least not in any area I've looked - in close pictures you can see individual cars, but not people-
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#14 | Back to Top02-23-2007 03:12:44 PM
- Personal_IceQueen
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Re: Google Earth -- Serious Stalker Potential
Yeah, Google Earth is an addiction. I just spent thirty minutes faux-stalking my friends, exes and just about everyone. Including the guy I have a crush on currently. YAY! 
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#15 | Back to Top02-25-2007 01:25:47 AM
Re: Google Earth -- Serious Stalker Potential
Personal_IceQueen wrote:
Yeah, Google Earth is an addiction. I just spent thirty minutes faux-stalking my friends, exes and just about everyone. Including the guy I have a crush on currently. YAY!
I see, it's hard for me to do that since I don't know where most of the people I know actually live. 
Ah well, I still have their cell numbers and emails
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