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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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http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0507619 

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Astrophysics, abstract
astro-ph/0507619

From: Fred Cooperstock I [view email]  Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:39:16 GMT   (29kb)  

General Relativity Resolves Galactic Rotation Without Exotic Dark Matter

Authors: F. I. Cooperstock, S. Tieu
Comments: Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal, 23 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables

A galaxy is modeled as a stationary axially symmetric pressure-free fluid in general relativity. For the weak gravitational fields under consideration, the field equations and the equations of motion ultimately lead to one linear and one nonlinear equation relating the angular velocity to the fluid density. It is shown that the rotation curves for the Milky Way, NGC 3031, NGC 3198 and NGC 7331 are consistent with the mass density distributions of the visible matter concentrated in flattened disks. Thus the need for a massive halo of exotic dark matter is removed. For these galaxies we determine the mass density for the luminous threshold as 10^{-21.75} kg.m$^{-3}.

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