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Blurred Out: 51 Things You Can't See on Google Maps

itsecurity.com — For all of the places that Google Maps allows you to see, there are plenty of places that are off-limits. Whether it's due to government restrictions, personal-privacy lawsuits or mistakes, Google Maps has slapped a "Prohibited" sign on the following 51 places.

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  • byronshell, on 07/15/2008, -14/+22Even Google's all seeing eye has limits. ;-)
    • Paulish, on 07/16/2008, -0/+29Google can see all, but not all is revealed to us mere humans. It might destroy our fragile minds.
      • ryanhayn, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3It will destroy your wallet...for it takes a lot of cash to see the secrets of the world.
      • ICSU, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5Google buys maps from other companies.
    • DefaultGen, on 07/16/2008, -5/+3Limits imposed by Dick Cheney, not the fact that Google isn't powerful enough.
    • liljay2k, on 07/16/2008, -6/+2I bet Chuck Norris sees all.
      • Cloud7654, on 07/18/2008, -0/+2I bet you've never had a girlfriend.
  • shardayyy, on 07/15/2008, -19/+6There are aliens at Area 51 !!!!!!! whooo whoooo
    • bluezinc, on 07/16/2008, -1/+6I thought the whole, "51 blurred things" was a reference to area 51, but alas, they didn't mention it.
  • Drazzim12, on 07/15/2008, -0/+295You know you've made it in life when your house is blurred on Google Maps.
    • warsongs7, on 07/16/2008, -0/+37My house looks blurred in Google Earth but only because I live in low-res Australia, not the US.
      • Tenoq, on 07/16/2008, -0/+28So clearly, as a whole, our entire country has made it. Welcome to Down Under? :p
      • FlagrantDrugUse, on 07/16/2008, -0/+23I heard that Australia is low-res is real life, is that true?
    • skyroket, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Boring couple sues smh.com for posting pictures of what they're suing Google for, further bringing popularity and fame to their house they got blurred out.

      Link from the article: http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/boring-couple-sue-g ...
  • psogle, on 07/15/2008, -5/+88Not Blurred Out: #1 My car and license plate
    • jsreid, on 07/16/2008, -3/+35pics or it didn't happen
    • tobikow, on 07/16/2008, -27/+6Contrary to popular belief, even the most advanced satellites cant read license plates.
      • bluezinc, on 07/16/2008, -1/+55He's talking about streetview, genius.
      • brianbennett, on 07/16/2008, -1/+44Are you kidding? Military grade spy satellites will tell you if your shoes are tied.
      • appleseed1234, on 07/16/2008, -4/+14Unless some idiot decides to put a license plate on top of their car, it wont matter how high tech the satellite is.
      • willdiggforfood, on 07/16/2008, -1/+16You guys are wrong, the fact that satellites can read a license plate has even been declassified.
      • b00le, on 07/16/2008, -12/+2The highest resolution commercial satellites have a Ground Sampling Distance or pixel size of around 48 cm at nadir. They can detect things smaller than that – e.g. road markings – under the right circumstances. Military satellites probably go to around 10 cm (they fly in highly elliptical orbits so the GSD varies a lot) -- pretty much the theoretical maximum, given the 100 km of atmosphere in the way – not nearly enough to read a license plate, even if it is on the roof. Now if just one of you people digging tobikow down can actually produce a satellite image of a license plate, or shoelaces, we can take this one out of the urban legend column...
      • silfiriel, on 07/16/2008, -0/+12streetview, people are you listening at all...
      • Gsicht, on 07/16/2008, -2/+10Seeing how they have satellites that can scratch your ass with a laser beam, I wouldn't be surprised...
      • breadfred, on 07/16/2008, -1/+3Gsicht, How did you find that out? The mind boggles..
      • bluezinc, on 07/17/2008, -0/+4@Breadfred, Gsicht got it from Family Guy.

        UN Audjucator: And, hey, would you also like a special satellite that can scratch your ass with a laser beam from space?

        Peter: They have those?
    • jthei, on 07/16/2008, -0/+12I can read your license plate without any technology, I don't really think it's a violation of your privacy. It's not like they list your name/address/phone number/blood type/or porn preference on the back of your car.

      "Yellow Gremlin - 735-TGSJ" is not a threat to your livelihood.
      • mt4055, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1A "Yellow Gremlin"!
        Now that we need a picture of!
    • mwalker05, on 07/16/2008, -0/+6you know, just by driving down the street i can get the make, model, and year of your car. also the license plate number, whether you are current on your insurance, and your address. you know why? because you are in public and it is legal. with a little digging i could probably find your name and telephone number - also public information - believe it or not.
  • LoneJeeper, on 07/15/2008, -2/+51the links should go to the blurry google map in every case. i don't care to see these websites, show me the blurry!
    • Protoss, on 07/16/2008, -1/+21It seems they decided to randomly link to different sites...really annoying.
  • savvymom, on 07/15/2008, -2/+21a kml file for google earth would have been cool.
  • DeathWish808, on 07/15/2008, -1/+56"SLA alleged that the satellite images on Google Earth are direct copies of real geographic features in Singapore and infringe upon the organization's copyrights." - That's just retarded. Are they hiding something or just trying to prove a point?! Also, Playland Amusement Park? What the hell? YOU MUST PAY TO SEE THESE RIDES! :-D
    • DarkMirage, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2The article is misleading. Google Map, along with Google Earth, has satellite images for the whole of Singapore. It just does not have the highest magnification.
      • ubrikkean, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4Doesn't change how ridiculous SLA's objection is.
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    • zyklon, on 07/16/2008, -0/+12Every ***** time someone posts Colonel Akbar saying "It's a trap" in ASCII, I come a little closer to breaking Moot's ***** face for making 4Chan.
  • kdfrawg, on 07/15/2008, -9/+3Cool column.
  • wontstoptalking, on 07/16/2008, -3/+55Aaah, the classic nude sunbather. Little did they know that they were being watched....from hundreds of miles up!!!!! Dundundun!
    • bluezombie, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4Reminds me of how there was a spot in one of the early Tom Clancy books where the CIA guys admitted to playing "Guess the cup size" from their aerial photography based on shadows and such.
    • mrgermy, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1What? Where?
  • DeskFlyer, on 07/16/2008, -4/+67Even Bigfoot is blurry.
    • JBrown99, on 07/16/2008, -0/+20"I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry. And that's extra scary to me, because there's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run. He's fuzzy. Get outta here. "
      • jotate, on 07/16/2008, -0/+11Nothing like some Mitch in the morning. RIP.
  • Zyvo, on 07/16/2008, -4/+43"Aaron and Christine Boring of Franklin Park Pa. claimed that Google Maps' Street View feature violated their privacy, devalued their property and caused them mental suffering by posting images of a private road in front of their house" Really? Mental suffering for having your house on Google maps?!?
    • blackanode, on 07/16/2008, -1/+32What is funny is now that they went through a legal process to get the image removed, instead of first going to Google to get their image removed which would have probably taken a day. ***** greed right there, if their real interest was their privacy they would have just gone to Google fast.
    • Viend, on 07/16/2008, -0/+13They're Boring.
    • coyote1284, on 07/16/2008, -0/+10Did anyone bother to tell them that the picture is probably a few years old and not real-time?
    • DreKor, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Their homepage is set to Yahoo!
    • skyroket, on 07/16/2008, -0/+7Not to mention the "private" images of their house are probably getting more viewings from the popularity of their lawsuit. They were not after privacy.
      http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/boring-couple-sue-g ...
    • nomadxx7, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8The best part of the Boring article was the quote from the lawyer...

      "Isn't litigation the only way to change a big business' conduct with the public?" Moskal said. "What happened to their accountability?"

      Um, maybe jump through the hoops first and once the corporation has thoroughly screwed you over, then you sue. Mainly so you have a paper trail to show the corporations arrogance and incompetence.

      So... no you do not litigate as the first step you greedy lawyer.
  • twiztidsinz, on 07/16/2008, -6/+175OMG... It's all on one page!!
    • Acglaphotis, on 07/16/2008, -14/+2Okay that's just starting to annoy me. I've seen that comment in almost every article now.
      • arcticblue, on 07/16/2008, -4/+6Funny, I've seen comments just like yours in almost every article now too.
      • twiztidsinz, on 07/16/2008, -0/+12Really? I've never seen one.. as a matter of fact.. it's just the opposite comment. It's usually people complaining (for good reason) about how some sites use 10 pages/slides for a Top 7 list.
      • tobikow, on 07/16/2008, -3/+8Yeah, and Ive seen comments like yours on every article as well, arcticblue.
      • skyroket, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Yeah, and I've seen comments like yours on every article as well, tobikow.
      • Danby123, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1I haven't seen coments like yours on every article, skyrocket, but I'm just going to lie and say I did to continue the fun.
    • da1e, on 07/16/2008, -7/+1***** meme's...
  • WillBraden, on 07/16/2008, -1/+24it's not often that you read "UMass Lowell Nuclear Research Reactor" and "William Hurt's home" in the same article...
    • mrgermy, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1You aren't reading the right articles then.
  • Wujian01, on 07/16/2008, -17/+1Colud be there's is privacy or prohibited.
    Only google can see it clearly instead of us...
    • notjasonlee, on 07/16/2008, -0/+19your comment is almost readable. congratulations
  • MelvinSchlubman, on 07/16/2008, -1/+7551 things, but not Area 51

    > #11 ... C4ISR (Consultation, Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) capabilities

    Jeez, just list the things it's not - it'd be quicker.
    • praisethelard, on 07/16/2008, -0/+12Google has a pretty clear view of Area 51. You can see their baseball field!
      • soupdawg30, on 07/16/2008, -1/+3Since when is Area 51 in NV and not near Roswell in NM?
      • pe5t1lence, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Huh? Look up Rachel NV, its to the left a bit, over maybe 2 ridges.
      • TVarmy, on 07/16/2008, -1/+4You realize the FAKE area 51 is in Roswell to keep people from finding the real one, right?
      • itsthebrod, on 07/16/2008, -0/+6http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=R ... Sweet Jesus I've always known that KFC was extraterrestrial!
      • Hypnotoad8, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Area 51 has always been in Nevada. The "weather balloon" crashed in Roswell after Area 51 was built.
      • rearlgrant, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Sorry -- can't resist. And so noooooone embarrasses themselves, this is a reference. Name it and complete it.

        "Area 51! Hah! I found Area 51!"
      • TVarmy, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1No ma'am, today it's Area 51-A.
    • frenchi, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3how can you hide something that does not exist?
  • BonsaiKitt3n, on 07/16/2008, -5/+12Bohemian Grove also does not show up.
    • McBrewski, on 07/16/2008, -1/+4yeah it does, there's not much to see from the air though. Search google for Bohemian Ave in Monte Rio, CA. 300ft from the end of the road is the owl.
      • bluezinc, on 07/16/2008, -1/+5Dude, I've been to Bohemian Grove, you wouldn't see anything anyways. All the buildings are either in trees or covered by trees or halfway into a hillside... surrounded by trees.

        Also, it's most definitely not what you probably think it is.
      • bluezinc, on 07/16/2008, -3/+2Sorry, meant to reply to the guy YOU replied to, oops.
      • dlllb, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Link? I can't find it
  • centran, on 07/16/2008, -1/+12Google Maps goes back and forth. Sometimes certain places/buildings are blurry and then they are not but then they are again. This is over several months or years.
    I am not sure if it is directly google's fault or where they get the images from.
    Another weirdness is going back and forth through time. As an example. Soldier Field and Northerly Island in Chicago; every couple of months the satellite image would go back and forth through time. It showed the correct current field once and then switched back to it under construction. Then it showed it under construction for a long time till it switched to the old field. The old field didn't last long as they switched back to under construction. As of typing this it is back to it's current form. It was so bad at one time that the different zoom levels had different phases of construction.
    • colonelxc, on 07/16/2008, -0/+10sounds like an adventure.
    • warsongs7, on 07/16/2008, -1/+5Maybe its all to do with time and space disturbances caused by unknown cosmic forces.
    • origamistars, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4Oh *****, Google broke time.
  • ctrlfreak13, on 07/16/2008, -0/+6Four of these are within 30 minutes of my house in lower NY..... I don't know whether that should make me feel more or less safe.
  • upick, on 07/16/2008, -2/+4Theres been a lot of fuss about google maps its too good for its own good!
  • Borgcube636, on 07/16/2008, -5/+5251 places... yet, Area 51 is not one of them... IT'S A CONSPIRACY!!!
    • hurricanewane, on 07/16/2008, -8/+0It's there it's just not a authentic image. It has obviously been replaced with an altered image to make us think it looks differently. Think people...think...we are not alone. We are constantly being fed misinformation like this.
    • jmm5149, on 07/16/2008, -0/+7The government knows which satellites are passing over and when. And Area 51 on G.Earth has looked the same for at least a year.
    • 69sofine, on 07/16/2008, -0/+10_o
  • MikeyTwit, on 07/16/2008, -6/+10951 things blurred out? Area51? The same #? Coincidence?


    OF COURSE IT IS!!
    • tobikow, on 07/16/2008, -1/+4http://www.jarnot.com/wp/archives/2006/04/they-com ...
    • roket21, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8They all combine to form Area 51!
    • csw1342, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5Google = Voltron?
      • coyote1284, on 07/16/2008, -1/+1Yeah, but it's the crappy vehicle Voltron, not the cool lion one.
    • ChoiceMad, on 07/16/2008, -8/+1Google = Captain Planet?

      "EARTH!"
      "FIRE!"
      "WIND!"
      "WATER!"
      "HEART!"

      "Go Google!"

      "By your powers combined, I am Captain Google!"

      He's our hero
      Gonna take pollution down to zero

      Google's our powers magnified
      And Google's fighting on the planet's side

      Captain Google, he's our hero
      Gonna take pollution down to zero

      Gonna help him put asunder
      Bad guys who like to loot and plunder

      "You'll pay for this Captain Google!"

      We're the Googleers(?)
      You can be one too
      'Cause saving our planet is the thing to do!

      Looting and polluting is not the way
      Hear what Captain Google has to say!

      "The Power is Yours!"
  • a007proxy, on 07/16/2008, -0/+6I'm sure they missed a bunch, but the one that I know for sure is the Penn State nuclear reactor. Actually the entire campus is blurred out for some reason.
    • PolarZoe, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3So is the military base in Amsterdam.

      http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=5 ...
    • Nothlit, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1So is Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=h ...
    • jmm5149, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Penn State is home to one of the U.S. Navy's Top Civillian Research Facilities.

      http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bryan-farrell/penn-s ...
    • likes2comment, on 07/16/2008, -0/+0It's blurred out to get people to come see Penn State......

    • jhourcle, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1That's okay -- they're double-counting on other things:

      Soesterberg Air Base, in the Netherlands: This Dutch air-force base and former F-15 base for the U.S. Air Force during the Cold War can't be seen via Google Maps.

      Kamp van Zeist: Kamp van Zeist is a former U.S. Air Force base that was temporarily declared sovereign territory of the U.K. in 2000 in order to allow the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial to take place.

      Of course, Kamp Zeist is part of Soesterberg Air Base. (they've linked to them at two different resolutions, so they look different, but if you zoom in or zoom out, you'll see they're both the same place) If they wanted to double count better, they should've listed it as 'Kamp Zeist' and 'Camp New Amsterdam', as CNA was the American side of the base, and Kamp Zeist was the Dutch side.
  • healthnharmony, on 07/16/2008, -1/+5Very interesting.
  • redhitman, on 07/16/2008, -5/+6This comes to mind...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPgV6-gnQaE
  • mlvassallo, on 07/16/2008, -3/+34Spoiler Alert: It's mostly government buildings and Military Bases.
  • mal1964, on 07/16/2008, -2/+12North Oaks, Minn.
    I use to cut grass in that neighborhood, And I'm sure even though i was just a kid they probably ran a background check on me
    • silfiriel, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3you are joking or what? because if it's true some serious snobs must live there...
      • mal1964, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Yeah I'm kidding, I don't think they ran a background check, Actually all the people i dealt with were very nice. I even got to play horse with, Kevin Mchale(His house) , Bill Walton and Larry Bird once. Kevin has a full court in his basement.
        Kevin had one of best up moves in basketball, This video is a bit long, but it has a great song on it.
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlSZC4TAYVc
  • GennyLuv, on 07/16/2008, -5/+0yea half the time thebloc the place ur looking 4
  • EpicSelekta, on 07/16/2008, -1/+18Cover story of Ironic Coincidence Magazine:

    Aaron and Christine Boring of Pennsylvania must have been really BORED to have actually bothered to have themselves removed from street view.
  • RudolphtheRed, on 07/16/2008, -0/+52Everything is blurry if you zoom in far enough.
    • Schmich, on 07/16/2008, -1/+1"zoom in far enough" I guess it's correct but sounds weird at least ^^
  • MScrip, on 07/16/2008, -4/+4I don't understand this article... I'm looking at McGuire Nuclear Station on Google Maps just fine. I'm zoomed in so far I can see streetlights and their shadows. Blurred? No.
  • ABadPerson, on 07/16/2008, -1/+30"They" will just bomb where ever that is blurry on Google Maps. This just made those otherwise nondescript places stand out.
    • Slovenian6474, on 07/16/2008, -0/+12Bad news for Playland Amusement Park in Rye, N.Y.
  • brad3378, on 07/16/2008, -15/+7bury me
  • TheAmazingBob, on 07/16/2008, -0/+10If you look up Area 51 in Google Earth, there are some spots in the surrounding miles that are blacked out, mainly clusters of black circles in the North.
    • praisethelard, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8I believe that's some sort of farm land. You can see a watering device radiating from the center that I presume goes around in a circle, hence the circle of vegetation.

      That, or aliens.
  • quail20, on 07/16/2008, -0/+6There's more than 51 places being obscured. My old alma mater has a nuclear reactor with a small cooling tower a few miles away from the campus -- the school's big into science and engineering. Google maps shows no signs of the area. I once looked up a government campus where a friend works and noticed that the guard posts and radar towers were missing from the photo. It's my understanding that Google's images are edited by the governments that supply them. Great for finding shopping malls. Not so good for black ops.
  • thewayigetby, on 07/16/2008, -1/+20Weird! I totally work in #17, the gated community of North Oaks! Crazy, you'd think for petitioning to google to not be on googlemaps, they could also beef up security. Anyone can get in there.
  • iamdan1, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4Seabrook Station is blurred out in Google maps, but not on Live Maps.
    • mordea, on 07/16/2008, -1/+8Terrorist.
    • Multipurpose, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3I just drove by Seabrook station today. It's weird standing on Hampton Beach and seeing this massive, ominous sphere and wondering how far out in the ocean you would have to swim if it suddenly detonated.
      • LeRenard, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2You'd have to swim, because they sure as hell wouldn't be able to evacuate down 101.. They used to test the sirens at Hampton every so often which was freaky. As far as I know though its impossible for it to "detonate", the big fear would be a rupture in the pressure vessel from run away steam generation. On a school tour I took as a kid they told us that the building is designed to withstand that, and in the event of a nuclear attack on Pease not only would Seabrook be one of the safest places to be, it may be one of the few things which survived. (Went do grade school while we still had a cold war going on)
      • Multipurpose, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Thanks for the info, that is very interesting. It sounds like I would be better off hiding inside the building if something actually happened! You're right about 101, they can barely handle evacuating people from the Fourth of July fireworks, let alone a nuclear disaster.
  • RPliberty, on 07/16/2008, -2/+5# 47 - HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) Antenna Array on the Alaska/Yukon Border: This is part of the site for HAARP, which studies ionospheric-radio science. Miscellaneous stratosphere extensions etc.
    • crapmatic, on 07/16/2008, -3/+2what?
      • homer420032003, on 07/16/2008, -0/+6He said

        "# 47 - HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) Antenna Array on the Alaska/Yukon Border: This is part of the site for HAARP, which studies ionospheric-radio science. Miscellaneous stratosphere extensions etc."
    • bxxb, on 07/16/2008, -1/+1pretty large area, don't all think?

      http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Alaska,+Un ...

      in case you all wander where they heat up the ionosphere lately
  • Goldbricker, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4#27 # Areas of Southeast Asia: Areas blurred by Google Earth include sensitive political areas like Tibet/Xinjiang Province, northern areas of Pakistan and royal palaces.


    You know, where OBL is.
  • Skab, on 07/16/2008, -1/+4look at the capitol building, looks like an owl doesn't it.
  • cdtoad, on 07/16/2008, -0/+16What the hell are the Dutch up to that they've got so many things blurred out...
    • OneStepAhead, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3pot growing!
    • Sonof8Bits, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1Google did screw one up!
      Instead of blocking a Royal Marshals building, the blocked a graveyard next to it.

      The dutch government has been on the "fear bandwagon" ever since they went along to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Talking about terrorist attacks this and that. Our prime-minister would lick-out Bush's ***** given half a chance.
  • mayra1201, on 07/16/2008, -1/+6dugg for the Boring home
  • bpmarkham, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2@ the Amazing bob and All... if you look at 37°38'46.09"N 115°45'2.83"W on google earth (close to Area 51) you see a picture of the KFC Colonel. Oh and the picture that's posted right there is actually supposed to go with the group of pics to the right...
    • DamageInc, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1There is a reply button for a reason...
  • double051, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5University of Illinois
    • fuzzybeard, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1The whole campus?

      EDIT: Confirmed. Weird...I can think of several reasons why it might be, though.
    • itsthebrod, on 07/16/2008, -1/+1It's not just the University, it's all of the surrounding area as well. Apparently the entire town is not interesting enough to justify satellite imaging.
  • andreo, on 07/16/2008, -0/+16I didn't care about seeing any of these things until I read that I couldn't see them. Isn't that the strangest thing?
  • Halsfield, on 07/16/2008, -4/+3if someone really wanted intel on a lot of these places, they could simply do some on-site surveillance. Blocking the view on google-maps isnt going to stop a real terrorist or government group from getting pics of the defenses at the white house,etc. All it does is stop common citizens from seeing them. Little unnecessary imo.

    Now the private homes, etc, i can understand, but the white house is seen by plenty of people, its really not a private residence.
  • leladax, on 07/16/2008, -1/+4What is it talking about, the first 2 aren't blury.
    • lexbaby, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1I believe the White House was blurred out years ago. Both the White House and the US Capitol look quite high resolution to me now.

      It *IS* more important to the US Government to obscure Dick Chaney's "compound" than George W. Bush's? Yeah. Thought so.
  • bigskank, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4They forgot probably the most famous college of all that's blurred: Westpoint

    http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=off&q=unite ...
    • Ubermann, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1That must have been done in the last year then.
  • Lawrencesss, on 07/16/2008, -3/+9You can't see child porn on google maps either, I don't see this on the list.
    • harlowsmonkeys, on 07/16/2008, -2/+3It's a lit of things that you would be able to see if Google had not specifically removed or obscured them. Do you know of any child pornography big enough for that? Is there something we haven't heard about at Nazca or something?
    • kyle212, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1Or Mianus, oh wait I found it
  • Gazzali, on 07/16/2008, -6/+0Maybe they use Carl Zeiss lens.. :)
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