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How Google Earth and Cell Phones Save Elephants

Thursday, October 30, 2008

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How Google Earth and Cell Phones Save Elephants

In the last two years alone, the Kenyan Wildlife Service has killed five African elephants from the Ol Pejeta Conservancy because they were trampling through human settlements and cropland. It’s a problem that will only get worse as humans encroach on elephant’s territory. To avoid the same fate happening to other elephants Save the Elephants has created an alternative solution.

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30 Giant Figures Seen from Google Earth

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

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30 Giant Figures Seen from Google Earth

Once upon a time, in the far, far away land of Techgeeks lived two university chums named Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They spent long hours dreaming of a company that one day would be the biggest search engine in the world, offering mere mortals the opportunity to traverse the great plains of the planet without moving their lazy asses. Information would be available at the touch of a square key and people could search for the most bizarre, beautiful, weird and wonderful images relayed by satellites dotted around the globe.

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