Iran Plans To Launch an 'Islamic Google Earth' 181
Shipwack sends this quote from the Guardian:
"The Iranian authorities have long accused Google Earth of being a tool for western spy agencies, but now they have taken their attacks on the 3D mapping service one step further — by planning the launch of an 'Islamic' competitor. ... The minister, however, gave little information on what he meant by an Islamic 3D map. 'We are developing this service with the Islamic views we have in Iran and we will put a kind of information on our website that would take people of the world towards reality Our values in Iran are the values of God and this would be the difference between Basir and the Google Earth, which belongs to the ominous triangle of the U.S., England and the Zionists [a reference to Israel].' Experts, however, have serious doubts about the project. An IT consultant who has worked on Iran's national internet project in the past said the announcement was merely an excuse to obtain funds and secure working contracts for the future. 'They have claimed to run their service in four months and said their data centre capacity will reach Google's size in three years,' he said. 'Three-year project, no business model and only relying on government funding, a piece of cake indeed. To have a data centre with such capacity and security level they need power stations, cooler systems, bandwidth, etc, which will require billions of dollars of investment that doesn't fit with Iran's sanctions-hit economy.'"
That's how they will do it (Score:5, Funny)
They have long wanted to wipe Israel off the face of the map and this is how they will do it. Just make their own maps and pretend they don't exist. Now if only they would do support virtual terrorism instead of real terrorism.
So it will have burkas instead of smudges? (Score:5, Funny)
Someone up for a corn field portrait of a certain prophet?
Islamic 3D Earth (Score:3, Funny)
Quickly! (Score:4, Funny)
Time to draw some giant Mohammed cartoons in the desert, Nazca-style!
America (Score:5, Funny)
This Just In! (Score:1, Funny)
We have breaking news Mike! It appears that the country and religious view that you currently ascribe too are infact the right and correct view. All other countries, religions and fashions are in fact ridiculous. It is totally laughable that another nation could ever accomplish all the glorious things that yours has. They can not do anything right. As a matter of fact Mike, it is soo laughable that it is in fact ridiculous.
There is in fact no need to travel to the strange lands and foreign peoples to see them first hand. Here at the 'On Point News Network' we will give you a more comprehensive analysis of the situation then you could ever possibly develope by going there or talking to people from that strange backward place. We have done this analysis, and are happy to report that you are in fact better then them. You truly live in a blessed time. If you had been born just 20 years ago, your world point of view would be completely different, and in fact wrong. Yes you would be beating up black people just for the hell of it. How ignorant would that be.
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ALL RIGHT we'll create our own Google Earth! (Score:5, Funny)
Or HOOKERS!
or Israel.
or gays.
Terrorist view (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, I know not all people from that part of the world are terrorists. But that is a lot less funny.
Re:That's how they will do it (Score:5, Funny)
The Moors were stopped...
Oh no, I'm so sorry it's the Moops. The correct answer is the Moops.
Re:Islamic 3D Earth (Score:5, Funny)
the fact that in the Qur'an, the earth is said to be flat. ... therefore, once it states something, nothing - not even scientific proofs - can negate it.
OK: what impact (pun intended) does that have when an islamic rocket scientist tries to calculate an ballistic missile trajectory?
Re:Islamic 3D Earth (Score:4, Funny)
I think an Islamic 3D Earth is a great idea! The big difficulty in the plan will be convincing the Islamic folks to go live there . . .
Re:Islamic 3D Earth (Score:5, Funny)
1. Create 3D map image.
2.
3. Prophet!