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Google Earth just keeps getting better and better

Now with amazing lighting effects (including day/night, sunshine coming through the clouds, etc) – but more importantly, now with StreetView. Watch the video below – what an incredible tool. Think back to human endeavour and exploration over human history; Humanity can be really, really proud of having got to this – a free, publically available, interactive tool with a lot of user-generated content, available to anyone with a PC and an internet connection.

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