Google Earth Maps the Fallen

The project uses Google Earth to honor the more than 5,700 American and Coalition servicemen and women that have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. A map created for Google Earth that connects with each of their stories—you can see photos, learn about how they died, visit memorial websites with comments from friends and families, and explore the places they called home and where they died.
more HERE

THE PUNCHLINE

"There's a new iPhone app called MyNetDiary. It helps you lose weight. Here's how it works: You press Google Earth, and if you can spot yourself, you've eaten too much."
-- Jimmy Fallon

Google Earth & Animal Magnetism

Researcher Sabine Begall and her colleagues at Germany’s University of Duisburg-Essen examined Google Earth images of 8,510 cattle in 308 pastures around the world, and made direct observations of 2,974 wild deer at 225 locations.
They found that whether grazing or resting, the animals tended to face magnetic north or south.
This phenomenon or animal magnetic orientation has apparently gone unnoticed by herdsmen and hunters for the thousands of years before Google Earth allowed such a global survey.
Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Begall notes that because the direction of wind and sunlight varied widely at the observed pastures, the only common factor that could have influenced the animals’ positioning was the magnetic field.
Reuters report HERE

Too Close for Comfort