Flying Car Uncovered by Google Earth?

Posted by Alex in Everything Else on January 25, 2006 at 2:37 am


Did Google Earth uncover a secret Australian flying car? You can’t fool The Register:

Which leaves just one possible explantion: the Aussies have developed a gravity-busting hyperdrive, have bolted it into a second-hand Holden, and are seen here in the split second before their X-Motor made the transdimensional leap to hyper light speed.

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6 comments to "Flying Car Uncovered by Google Earth?"

  1. Nicholas Dollak
    January 25th, 2006 at 6:25 am

    Cool photo! Highly improbable, though. Given the number of ground-level collisions that occur, one would still need to earn an aviator's license before flying anything, even if it looks like a car. The photograph could easily have been faked, of course; the first step in confirming this would be to look at an enlarged hi-rez copy and see if the pixel-pattern changes where the flying car is. Another possibility is that the car is actually a display mounted atop a pole, as one might find at a used-car dealership. Given the apparent time-of-day indicated by the shadows, the pole's shadow would be eclipsed by the car's in this photo, and a reflective metal pole of steel would be virtually invisible in a picture of this quality.

    Even still... It would make traffic jams and parallel parking a lot easier to deal with! I like.

  2. Keith
    January 25th, 2006 at 11:29 am

    Could also be a black car parked parallel to the white one.

  3. ::mwah::
    January 26th, 2006 at 2:44 am

    I think that Keith solved the mystery. Wtg, Keith!

  4. Nicholas Dollak
    January 27th, 2006 at 7:31 am

    Hey... Pretty sharp, Keith! I think you nailed it. Kind of reminds me of the "face on Mars" picture...

  5. Erik
    January 30th, 2006 at 7:15 pm

    Maybe it's a sign. If Google Maps published roads in that part of Austrailia, there might be a picture of the place. Oh well, don't mean to destroy all the fun!

  6. Pablo
    March 15th, 2006 at 10:04 pm

    Yet another flying car visible with Google Earth?

    All of us remember this strange story when appeared in The Register showing a flying car in Perth, Western Australia. Well, australian people have done it again and here is a second flying car!, this time in Cockburn, a city located about 22km south of the Perth CBD.

    http://www.flyinglobe.com/2006/03/15/another-flying-car-in-australia/


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