earth

Interesting summer laboratory experiment to see how Google Earth could become a platform for real-time mobile gaming, with details on how it is being used to play that old favorite tabletop game, Battleship. CODE http://research.techkwondo.com/blog/julian/240

We live on a sphere of extremes and oddities. In fact it's not really a sphere, but it is a wild planet, mottled with deadly volcanoes, rattled by killer earthquakes, drenched in disastrous deluges. But do you know which were the worst? Some of Earth's valleys dip below sea level. Mountains...