Along the same line as other incredible projects and technologies being developed by microsoft lies the most recent tool called "WorldWide Telescope" which will be released in March this year. I just watched the brief introduction in TED. It was not further than only couple of days ago when I was, out of curosity, browsing into GOOGLE EARTH to verify if they have called Persian Gulf as Arabic and then I learned about the cool lately-added feather of "exploring into the sky" and the constellations beside the free-to-download Google Earth!
BTW, How did Galileo prove the earth was not flat?!
Coooooooooo0000000000oooool; This was the best news I had heard today; I was planning on buying a telescope & trying hard (!) to save up for a good one; meanwhile this is an awesome substitute;;; & hey March is just around the corner, so it'll be out very sooooooon :D
ReplyDeleteHere is a story I found on the flat earth experiment: [Read this for now, once I found better sources I let u know :)]
"Galileo, challenged the flat-earth believers to scientific experiments. One of theirs was to shoot a cannonball vertically into the air. When it fell to earth near the cannon they claimed to have proved that the earth was not moving. Galileo explained that the reason why the ball was not left behind by the spinning earth was that it partook of the same motion."
http://members.cox.net/deleyd/religion/galileo/flatearth.html
if you are into pics of the sky, etc., should check out
ReplyDeletehttp://spaceweather.com/
got some neat pics and *i think* tips on how to take some pics (i only looked at pics, didn't read some of them - but note that some of the pics are photoshopped)
you need to read my other blogs, to know who is he!!
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