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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 12:00 AM

In Google Earth, you'll find the sky

The geographical browser adds images of hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies.
By Farhad Manjoo

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 06:51 PM

Try an "address" on the moon or mars too...

http://moon.google.com

(Just don't zoon in too far. Should be greener imho.)

and

http://www.google.com/mars

—Anonymous

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 06:57 PM

Someday

...they'll likely have Goggle Historical Earth. Zoom back in time and see how roads and cities and countries and even the earth have changed.

A nice touch would be a database of photos located in time and space.

—nerdnam Read nerdnam's other letters

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Thursday, August 23, 2007 01:08 PM

Now children will know what the night sky looks like

Light pollution makes me sad.

—Anonymous

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