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A gas flame is seen through a bus window in the South Pars gas field facilities in the southern Iranian port of Assaluyeh. South Pars is an offshore natural gas field shared between Iran and Qatar, and holds around 14 trillion cubic metres of gas.

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By reszko

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Untitled.

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Fire

azx309

Twosome with white

yearoftheglitch

They arrived! Awesome labcoats by Nukeme and UCNV.

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KARBORN

Google Maps Glitches | Emilio Vavarella | Via

As sophisticated as it is, Google Maps is fundamentally the same type of thing cartographers have been making for centuries. It’s a flat, scaled representation of our planet. That means decisions have been made about what to show and what to leave out. At any given level of zoom, you can see only a certain subset of streets, of cities, of tributaries or topography. Even today, some streets are missing or mislaid. It feels omniscient, but its omniscience is made by humans, for humans.

Google Street View is something entirely different: a photographic document of world. It’s more objective and indelible than even the most accurate satellite-aided map. And that’s a bit unsettling. When every acre on Earth is catalogued for us to see, where will all the mysteries hide?

Thankfully, Google’s nine-eyed robot cameras and their attendant code aren’t quite omniscient either. And as Emilio Vavarella shows us in his screenshots, the places where that system breaks down have a mystery all their own.