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UFO Satellite

 Spot UFOs with Sattelite
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Google maps and google earth uses a satellite to get images of anything all over the world,

i was using google maps the other day, and i found that there was an airplane flying and google maps took a pic of it. If UFOs(as aliens and flying discs) really exits, there might be a way to use satellites to track around a UFO and take pics of it(maybe while its "Crop Circling"?)

when someone reports the UFO or alien around the world, we can just swing this satellite around and get this discovered and out there(if government allows :-P)

—Pipucho, Jul 01 2005

UFOs on Google Sightseeing http://www.googlesi...com/2005/05/12/ufo/
[waugsqueke, Jul 01 2005]

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       There are already UFOs* on Google Maps. See link.   

       *Insofar as they remain unidentified, and are presumably flying.
—waugsqueke, Jul 01 2005
   

       /track around a UFO and take pics of it(maybe while its "Crop Circling"?)/   

       I think you’ll find that alien looks exactly like Farmer Giles and his 90 illegitimate offspring. “Get off my bast’rd land”.
—benindubai, Jul 02 2005
   

       Catch aliens in the act...that is unpredictable, and would require many, many sattelittes, and they would have to constantly monitor Earth, waiting for the unexpected.
—Quadrax, Jul 02 2005
   

       Satellite.   

       Pa've has the origins of crop circles right, probably. There is a natural phenomenon that certainly could inspire artists and jokers. I thought a film team did get invited out with a couple of circle-makers.   

       Those Google photos could be showing a pin used to hold the paper or film in place for reproduction or enlargement.   

       The dots could also be copyright protection marks of some sort, made with a pin or bead or something. Any image showing those dots has to have been copied from Google. The dots seem to be located next to the name Google pretty often. (Perhaps the dots are the pins used to hold the word Google on the film for copying.)
—baconbrain, Jul 02 2005
   

       Damn you,[waugs], for pointing out those things. 2 hours shot, reading those postings. And its not the first time a link you provided has drained hours from my life.
—bungston, Jul 02 2005
   

       [admin: renmaed from 'UFO Sattelitte' to 'UFO Satellite']
—st3f, Jul 02 2005
   

       Pip: it's not generally de rigeur or comme il faut to delete annos unless they are offensive or spectacularly off topic (and even then.....)
—Basepair, Jul 02 2005
   

       Little green men from Mars don't make crop circles - it's usually large, ruddy ones from the Dog and Duck.
—DenholmRicshaw, Jul 02 2005
   

       talking about the tooth fairy in this topic about UFOs are not off-topic base?
—Pipucho, Jul 03 2005
   

       never mind base, feel free to post anything you would like about the tooth fairy, i will not impose on your freedom of speech
—Pipucho, Jul 03 2005
   

       //Talking about the tooth fairy in this topic about UFOs are not off-topic base?//
No matter. I was simply making the skeptical point that I consider it just as fruitful to use satellite images to look for the tooth- fairy as for UFOs. The same technology could, perhaps, spot Father Christmas making his deliveries.
Incidentally, we are perhaps assuming here that UFOs will be quite large (larger than, say, the tooth-fairy), but there is no evidence to substantiate this. Given the much- heralded advances in nanotechnology and the supposed superiority of alien intelligences, perhaps it would make more sense to look for teeny weeny UFOs (a-la-Douglas Adams) ?
—Basepair, Jul 04 2005
   

       So maybe that's what we are seeing in the Google images--nano-UFOs hovering over the air-photo prints as they are being digitally imaged. They just look like the heads of straight pins--they are little UFOs copying our air photos! Frickin' aliens.   

       Douglas Adams. Genius.
—baconbrain, Jul 04 2005
   

       this is not about google maps, i was just using them as my base of idea, im talking about using a sattelite to find ufos, when people report them, we can just move the sattelite to see it and take pictures of it, i was talking about making our own thing, because there are probably some things that google does to the images...
—Pipucho, Jul 04 2005
   

       Hmmm. Pipucho, I am going to bun this idea, not because it will find any UFOs (except insofar as they are flying objects that somebody has problems identifying), but because it could potentially be used to debunk them. "Yeah, we got your UFO right here. For a 250-metre disc-shaped silver craft with unheard of acceleration, it looks a lot like KLM1011." [+]
—Basepair, Jul 04 2005
   
      
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