Censorship

[captpackrat]

The US government is censoring Google Maps/Google Earth.

Try looking up Washington DC. The Capitol building is nothing but a blur, and the White House has a plain, flat brown roof. Several other buildings are blurred out or have solid color roofs. There are other "omissions" that I've found, like the artificial oil pump islands in Long Beach Harbor. The labels are there (in Google Earth), but the islands are missing.

Oddly enough, the Pentagon is there in all its glory, without censorship. As is Cheyenne Mountain. I guess oil is more important than the military. But then again, we've known this for several years now....

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[captpackrat.livejournal.com]

The Long Beach oil field is pretty big. Those four islands alone pump about 32,000 barrels of oil a day, and 9 million cubic feet of natural gas. At the current $61 a barrel, that's nearly $2 million A DAY from just the oil!

The man-made oil islands were done right. They look beautiful in the daytime, and are absolutely spectacular at night. There are waterfalls, sculptures, palm trees, and what look like high-rise hotels. If you didn't know they were pumping oil, you'd swear it was some kind of exclusive resort.