Smile to QuickBird

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The production of Google Earth “artefacts” - the bright spots on the dull satellite landscapes seems to be a popular task nowadays in Russia. We’ve had already a story about guys from Moscow who have written a curse word on the roof of one of the buildings which can be nicely see now at Google Earth.

This time a whole crown of people in participated has been aware of the exact timetable of the “QuickBird” satellite passing over the Chelyabinsk city and planned to make a big yellow smiley face of their bodies on one of the city squares in order to commemorate their city in Google Earth.

You can see on these photos some part of this process, if it was successful or not we’ll see after the next Google Earth update.





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And that’s what they planned to achieve:

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    52 Responses to “Smile to QuickBird”

    1. w says:

      Firstly, they failed in obtaining enough people to pull this off…

    2. [...] read more…. Related PostsSMILE! EVERY BIT HELPS!Orange‘Bag / Not a ‘Bag Posted in Funny Pictures | Leave a Comment [...]

    3. Ag says:

      We will need the coordinates to spot the place on google earth

    4. Travis says:

      from the photos, it looks like 100% overcast… why did anyone even show up?

      • hooey says:

        Never mind. It was just a stupid promo action for the local Internet service provider (is74.ru). They also gathered these people to sign the petition “please introduce a $15 unlimited Internet plan”. Although they did not collect enough signatures, they still introduced it.

        Also, they promised to hire a plane to get rid of the clouds (which would not help anyway - google maps will never add just a 500×500 meter shot to their maps if everything else is covered by clouds. They also promised that you’ll be able to see the shots on Google Maps the next day - which is also a blatant lie. This ISP already had a terrible reputation for cutting the optical cables of its competitors, and now this.

    5. sirani18k says:

      THE GALAXY IS IN DANGER!!! YOUR KNEE WILL BE SHOT! WE WONT LET THE PIDORS STEAL LEPROSORIUM CONTENT TO SOME SHITTY SITES!! I AM AN IDIOT! SOMEONE KILL ME PLEASE! KISSES TO EVERYONE IN THIS FANCY CHAT! GOD BLESS BOMBRE!!!

      • hooey says:

        For those of you who do not understand this comment - this is a troll from a Russian elite website leprosorium.ru. Its users believe that they generate all the useful content on the Internets. “Galaxy is in danger”, “I am an idiot, kill me please” and “kisses to everyone in the chat” are Internet memes that originated there. “Pidors” means “fags”.

        • sirani18k says:

          The truth is that 50% of this site content is simply stolen from lepra.ru - closed blog it is!

          And he calls me a troll, how sweet. Hope Vitenka nukes your lepra.ru account soon. And this WILL happen, HAR HAR HAR!

    6. hooey says:

      shut up you stupid 18k-th user. Upyachka pshch pshch pshch!

    7. Yura says:

      How inspiring. Typical of a person with soviet thinking to attempt something Web 2.0. Some people here do get it (whatever “it” is), though.

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    13. Brawnydt says:

      Russia has also banned a popular show on TV, stating that if they did not stop filming it was permissible to kill them. Also TV shows promoting silliness, frivolousness, or rats are banned. They specifically mentioned wanting to kill Mickey Mouse.

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    16. [...] und weitere Fotos: englishrussia  und shortnews Ähnliche Beiträge:Google hat jetzt eigenen Satelliten: Bald aktuelle [...]

    17. [...] ein Lächeln in Form eines Smilie geschenkt. Die ganze Story und besonders die Bilder gibt es hier, die Frage bleibt am Ende eben nur, ob man bei Google dieses Bild benutzen [...]

    18. Blaaaah says:

      GREAT photoshop, you even made it to slashdot.
      Too bad the guys over there didn’t check out google maps before posting this shit.

    19. TB says:

      Eine gute Idee aber es ist zeimlich bewölkt, oder? Mehr Glück nächstes Mal!

    20. [...] "Citizens of the Russian town Chelyabinsk calculated when the satellite, QuickBird, which takes images for Google Earth and Google Maps, would cross above their city and used people to make a giant smiley face. A rock concert on the main square attracted many people and everyone got a yellow cape. It looks like someone at Google was quicker than usual to put up the new data. Maybe Google likes the idea of an entire town working hard to get its 15 minutes of fame. The article has a screenshot of Google Maps and images taken directly at the event." [...]

    21. [...] "Citizens of the Russian town Chelyabinsk calculated when the satellite, QuickBird, which takes images for Google Earth and Google Maps, would cross above their city and used people to make a giant smiley face. A rock concert on the main square attracted many people and everyone got a yellow cape. It looks like someone at Google was quicker than usual to put up the new data. Maybe Google likes the idea of an entire town working hard to get its 15 minutes of fame. The article has a screenshot of Google Maps and images taken directly at the event." [...]

    22. [...] appears to be a very obvious hoax by a blogger dubbed “Heiner Wolf“. According to these photos, people really did turn out to form the smiley face — I would guess as part of a radio [...]

    23. [...] EnglishRussia.com: Photos from the event (at street level) [...]

    24. [...] residents of Chelyabinsk thought it would be a great idea to form a human smiley face just in time for a Google imagery satellite. It’s just too bad the smile has [...]

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    29. spirit says:

      waaa,so interesting.

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    31. [...] “Citizens of the Russian town Chelyabinsk calculated when the satellite, QuickBird, which takes images for Google Earth and Google Maps, would cross above their city and used people to make a giant smiley face. A rock concert on the main square attracted many people and everyone got a yellow cape. It looks like someone at Google was quicker than usual to put up the new data. Maybe Google likes the idea of an entire town working hard to get its 15 minutes of fame. The article has a screenshot of Google Maps and images taken directly at the event.” [...]

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    37. oops says:

      so so cute çok şeker la bunlar :D

    38. [...] Via : englishrussia.com [...]

    39. [...] smiley face. When the satellite pass by, which takes images for Google Earth and Google Maps. [ link [...]

    40. Turkey says:

      Hello, ı am from Turkey

    41. Didn’t catch this back then. Did it show up in Google Earth?

    42. eu sunt handicapat da:=http://englishrussia.com

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