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Blog EntryI love the future!Mar 9, '08 10:24 PM
for everyone


I was roaming the world via Google Maps just the other day.
I zoomed in to Japan, zoomed in to Tokyo, zoomed in to some street, and found what appears to be a family.

Two parents and two children, out for the day - holding hands and enjoying the sunlight on their backs and their shadows on the ground.
At this moment they may well have been talking about what to have for dinner, maybe what their day has/will involve, and in that one instance - without them ever knowing, a photograph of the occasion was taken.
From space*.
It's almost certain that they will never know this picture exists, but someone on the other side of the world saw their outing, and thought it would be worth making a note of it.

Just thinking about this picture raises more questions than I could ever hope to answer in a lifetime...so I'm just going to leave it here and let you take from it what you will.

*(sort of)

phoenixlives wrote on Mar 9
Nice.

Someone could put a sign up right there next to the crosswalk. Maybe the family (or someone who knows them) frequents the area. I mean, you'd never know for sure, but you might put smiles on a few faces. I bet a lot of people would immediately look up, too.
halfsure wrote on Mar 10
Even with current geolocation and internet access, putting this photo on a nearby TV screen should be a snap. Geocorder --- from HB 2K.
drcurry wrote on Mar 10, edited on Mar 10
Excellent find - one has to believe that Google Maps has pictures, somewhere, of nudist beaches and couples making out.

[Later] One also has to believe that someone has catalogued such pictures:

http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/11/28/top-10-naked-people-on-google-earth/

P.S. Funny how the shadows look like the poses of those plastic people you can buy to populate model railway layouts and architectural models.
halfsure wrote on Mar 10
All right!
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