Google's Van looks like it has a camera on top

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About three weeks ago, I was driving north on 101 to work at PBwiki. There was a van driving by and I saw what looked like a large black cargo container on it. Except it had a large cylinder on top. It looked like a GIANT CAMERA mounted on the roof, aimed at the sky. I thought, "Yeah, Brian, It's a giant camera on top of a van."

Now I just saw William's photos of the Google van. LOL. Turns out the thing on top was a camera after all. Well, a panoramic assembly of normal-sized cameras arranged in a shape that just so happens to look like a giant camera. Is this an engineering joke on behalf of Google? Or maybe it is a disguise: "Nobody will think were hiding cameras in 60x-sized replica of a camera."

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Andieland on

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That's just crazy.

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mamajo on

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Well, they have to get thier photos from somewhere. This is wild but makes sense to me.

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neptune on

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It may be a 'Google Earth' van! The 'fabulous' Google Earth site, flies you to anywhere on the planet! They use 'Satilite' cameras, but they also need 'ground' cameras, to give people an accurate sense of the 'topography!' I just flew over to Venice, Switzerland, and back to Beautiful San Francisco, where I used to live. Smiley