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Percy
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Message 7 of 19 (893990)
04-27-2022 5:32 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by dwise1
04-27-2022 1:46 PM


I don't know what happened to Google Earth on your Windows 10 box, but using my own Windows 10 box I just went to their website ( Earth Versions – Google Earth ) and started downloading Google Earth Pro. Oh, it's done already, started it up, seems fine.
--Percy

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Percy
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Message 8 of 19 (893991)
04-27-2022 5:54 PM


Google Earth Timelapse
Google Earth is available on the web, too (Google Earth), and they also have a time lapse feature at Google Earth. Tried it out on our neighborhood but there's not enough resolution. But could tell when roads were put in. Only since 1985.
--Percy

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Percy
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Message 11 of 19 (893995)
04-28-2022 7:09 AM
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04-27-2022 7:11 PM


Re: Google Earth Timelapse
dwise1 writes:
I was able to download it again and it's working for now. A Google search had uncovered many complaints of Google Earth either no longer working or disappearing altogether (as in my case; it wasn't even in the apps settings list of installed applications), so it is definitely a thing and not just me.
Back in the day the computers of science fiction were frequently non-deterministic, unlike real-world computers of the time that given the same inputs always delivered the same outputs. Even programs with random number generators would provide the same outputs if initialized with the same seed. I saw this determinism as at the core of why computers could never truly be intelligent.
But maybe twenty years ago I began detecting what I saw as examples of non-determinism in some computer programs. I reasoned that these programs being multi-process beasts where the behavior of each run of the program with identical data could result in different answers depending upon how these processes interacted, which was in turn a function of their relative rate of progress which was in turn a function of many factors, most importantly their interactions with the outside world, which caused them to fetch data in different orders and thereby make decisions using different input values.
How close this casual spare-moment analysis was to the truth isn't important. What is important is that computer programs had crossed a line of demarcation from deterministic to non-deterministic. Where I usually experience non-determinism today is at websites like Travelocity and AirB&B where sometimes you do the same search you just did and get different results. Probably this is often the result of changing underlying data, but other times it definitely feels like the program has been routed down a meaningfully different decision path.
Today I not infrequently encounter computers doing inexplicable things, whether they're phones or laptops or desktops or tablets. They're the kind of things that I think your average non-computer person chalks up to their own mistakes or lack of knowledge or doesn't even notice because having to ask your phone to do the same thing several times before it actually does it is something they're so accustomed to they don't even notice.
In other words, I never thought it was just you.
--Percy

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Message 18 of 19 (894083)
04-30-2022 10:30 AM
Reply to: Message 17 by dwise1
04-29-2022 1:29 PM


Re: Google Earth Timelapse
dwise1 writes:
I could be wrong in my calculations, but stopping the earth's rotation in one second's time would have exerted g-forces on everything on the earth's surface of 39 g's. If it happened in 10 seconds, then it would still be 4 g's. Then of course you'd have the same g-forces when the earth's rotation started up again.
That would have had to have left a mark!
Another piece of evidence is that the degree of devastation would have decreased with increasing latitude, until at the poles there would be no damage at all.
I got 47 g's at the equator.
--Percy

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