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Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/14/google_earth_competition_results/

Google Earth: the black helicopters have landed

The Register armó un concurso para encontrar las mejores fotos que se pudieran encontrar en Google earth. En especial de los militares y a verdad las que publican ( me imagino de las miles que han de haber recibido) son impresionantes: 

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No need for Michael Plunkett to get in touch, though. He gets the t-shirt for a visit to Norfolk, Virginia, complete with captions:

Stephane Willaert, too, is honoured for this fine image of USS Kitty Hawk at home in Yokosuka, Japan:

And big up nautical repect also goes to Gareth for this marvellous recommendation of a RN vessel steaming out of Plymouth:

I thought you might be interested in this location: 50d 18′ 09" N 4d 25′ 30" W. This photo has only recently been added to Earth IIRC, so with my 5 Minutes Research I reckon it may just be HMS Gloucester. The measuring tools think it’s 140 meters long, but the odds are I’m wrong…

And big up nautical repect also goes to Gareth for this marvellous recommendation of a RN vessel steaming out of Plymouth:

I thought you might be interested in this location: 50d 18′ 09" N 4d 25′ 30" W. This photo has only recently been added to Earth IIRC, so with my 5 Minutes Research I reckon it may just be HMS Gloucester. The measuring tools think it’s 140 meters long, but the odds are I’m wrong…

Well, we’re sure the readers will set us straight. No mistaking this vessel, though: the USS Cole being repaired in Pascagoula, Mississippi. You can thank David Branch for this one. He does get around that boy:

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