Airstrip One lives: The World According to Google

[muriel_volestrangler]

As reader Mike Clark explains:

If you visit http://maps.google.co.uk you'll start off with a map showing the southern part of the UK. Zoom out to maximum distance using the slider on the left, and then pan around to see a unique world view that would warm Dubya's cockles...

That's right. In Google's Brave New World, potential threats to US national security have been neutralised by airbrushing them from the surface of the globe. Naturally, the UK survives the apocalypse by virtue of its "special relationship" with the US:



http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/29/google_bush_map/

[fedsron2us]

1. Read this LBN thread on the first use of nuclear weapons

and you may wonder whether the US intends to do more than 'air brush' out the rest of the world

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1437616&mesg_id=1437616

[ben_packard]

2. Maybe we've just been west towed out a bit

well we could move much further right ;)

[Taxloss]

3. We're so small. Always good to have a reminder.

Nice to see the national parks are still highlighted.