I wanted to make a new thread on this topic because I think it's important that people have some links and direction as to where they can go to find
information IF they actually wanted to research it and also to better understand how these things work before jumping to any wild conclusions.
I decided to do a little bit of research for myself to see what I could dig up. As I'm not in the least bit familiar with looking for satellite feeds
of earth or anything like that I had a bit of trouble. But, here's what I was able to dig up. Hopefully it's helpful!
Here are the two latest images from Google Earth of the North & South Pole.
Here is some useful information I came across below in an FAQ regarding the display of the images. Turns out these glitches might not be so amazing
after all.
Can I see the world in real-time?
This just isn't practical and won't be possible anytime soon. To do this requires a network of satellites dedicated to covering the earth. Just to
provide as much detail as the base layers World Wind loads first, the camera resolution on each one has to total about 100 megapixels. Perhaps the
military has such a network, but it is certainly off-limits to anyone else. The images have to be received on the ground and processed. Then they all
have to be combined where they overlap and corrected for the distortion caused by the earth's curvature. Finally after compressing the imagery from
gigabytes down to several hundred megabytes, a server has to send it out to everyone. This requires an enormous amount of bandwidth for the server.
Even if that weren't a problem, the internet connection for the majority of high-speed users is still too slow for more than about one update every
hour.
But you can see near real-time imagery: Global Clouds, NRL Weather, MODIS are all 3 hours to less than a day old.
www.worldwindcentral.com...
I was unable to successfully install the programs listed at the above site though. But
here is a link to one. Let me know if you have any luck.
Also, here is a photo from Nasa of the North Pole, and it says updated daily.
As you can see, I made a fancy arrow pointing to the North Pole for anybody who is having trouble finding it.
I had to sign up for this one, and I could look at some imagery, but unless I'm registered with NASA I have insufficient priviledges to view anything
newer than 14 days. Proof below and a link to their website
here.
I did however get the latest image from the link that ArMap posted earlier of the North Pole.
oiswww.eumetsat.org...
As you can see, no weird pentagons or cloud formations here either.
So, there you have it. Draw your own conclusions.
IF anyone can show me a satellite feed from a source other than Google Earth that has this pentagon in it then please show me and I will reconsider.
A little research can go a long way. And no, research does not mean reading other people's posts on ATS. Not to discredit anyone, but at some point
we've got to take the responsibility upon ourselves to dig if we want to figure out what's up.
Anybody with any other source than Google Earth please post here and we can compare all of the sources. Otherwise the whole process of researching,
comparing and analyzing against a source will be left in the dust leaving us with mere speculation and misinformation.
Over and out.
