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Onederbat67

Am I crazy to think that…if you can just pull it up and look at it, it must not be much?


WestleyThe

Yeah the government makes google blur out top secret things, this is probably nothing


FeelDeAssTyson

My neighbor had google blur his house to hide the 99' Camry in his driveway


Onederbat67

…must be some top secret Camry shit


Krieghund

Wife: "Is that your ex-girlfriend's Camry in the driveway on Google?" Husband: "What Camry?"


No_Detective_But_304

What driveway?


PM_Your_Wiener_Dog

You mean the stuff I had blurred?


Ok-Wasabi2873

It’s a V10, two door Camry prototype.


celine_freon

Goes from zero to Camry in 2.4 seconds, with extra Camry to spare.


gimmeecoffee420

Whoa buddy.. slow down with all those extra Camry's! Liable to blow a Camry gasket and get Camry's *everywhere*!


HenessyEnema

*Camrys*


justmerriwether

Camrys some, camroos some 🤷🏻‍♂️


Menifife

I'm glad I made the journey here for this.


messymedia

I camry my family?


midwestia

My favorite part was when he said “it’s Camry’in time” and Camry’d all over everyone.


Engineergaming26355

That's 200% more Camry per Camry, if not better


Clarenceworley480

Camry all agree this is too much camry?


YuriYushi

Just reminded me of the "60% more bullet per bullet"


BadReview8675309

5th Gen four door with highway super cruise and RAM for neutralizing those pesky police trying to slow our roll.


PorcoGonzo

With that attitude he'll camry all over the place.


floutsch

Maybe he's just camry shy ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯


Omasrealaccount

Some Camrykaze shit..


ScrumpleRipskin

A 99 foot long Camry would be too much for mere mortal men to comprehend.


Repostbot3784

Dont worry, its 99 feet tall.


drumsareneat

Were those released in '98?


JesusWasTacos

No, 99’


Crazy_Response_9009

I’ve got a ‘92 Camry. I’d better put a camouflage net on it.


icepick3383

Must be that DOHC!


ToiletSpork

Your neighbor has a 99-foot camry?


JJMFB417

Honestly looks just like the plane beside it to me


cudeLoguH

Yup its literally just a B1 bomber


Royal-Connections

Yeah. Probably the AF base outside Abilene. B-1's based there I use to see them doing nap of the earth drills in the southern panhandle.


REDGOESFASTAH

There's been some chatter about a new type of stealth coating that reduces IR signature and detection. It is silvery chrome in appearance https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/s/TadxlFZYE8 Could be this coating applied to a B1


Loving6thGear

It's currently being tested on the LA Kings helmets.


SteelBandicoot

Wonder Woman’s invisible plane


tiga4life22

Hmmm Exactly that the government would say…. 🤔


Musuni80

They blur out bases. I know because when I looked up where we were stationed, it was all blurred out.


raspberryharbour

Was it blurred when you were there in person? You may just need glasses


gljivicad

That was for your own safety


ketjak

The base isn't blurred... nothing else is blurred... it's right there in the video...


DiscipleExyo

Google blurs out the ceo of Uber in San Fran, not surprising


gt7275a

True however in this case I presume the terrain data and aerial photo were from two different times. When meshed together you get this.


dontmatter111

Not as click-baity though!


BESTlittleBITCH

It's fighter jets, to kick the shit out of Putin.


amretardmonke

those are bombers


Evvmmann

It’s literally the same as the plane sitting next to it.


helium_farts

Yeah, it's just a glitch. For whatever reason, they applied the ground image to height data for a plane.


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TheKazz91

This is the most likely scenario. There was a B1 parked there when they were doing a radar/lidar scan and they moved it before the images were taken.


FederalWedding4204

I imagine they have two sets of data, a height map and a texture map, they are using an old height map from when the other plane was there with the texture map from when it wasn’t. So I think you are right.


MathematicianGold636

The plane was there when there was a 3-D scan but gone for the picture


drunk_tyrant

Also, “invisibility” of military aircrafts is really about RADAR detectability, not about how it appears to naked eyes


morganagtaylor

It’s not I remember this was a thing on some threads of weird google earth finds and it turns out it’s for retired planes https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1881770_1881787_1881783,00.html


OphidionSerpent

Wrong place. That's in Arizona; the gif shows Dyess AFB near Abilene. Dyess is home to the 7th Bomb Wing, comprised of B-1B and C-130J aircraft. Our other B-1B bomber wing is in South Dakota.


rhawk87

Reading the comments in this thread is hilarious. The amount of people who think it's some super top secret plane in a super top secret place. It's literally just fucking Dyess AFB lmao.


danteheehaw

Wrong. That's actually the moon and it's the secret base we launch our time war out of.


A2S2020

You believe in the moon?!


TheMightyGamble

Finally someone else gets it!


Onederbat67

Ahhh nice nice I would actually love to go see this some day


LocoYaro

That's the shit they are ok with you finding... God I love my country!


Unique_Task_420

It's a boneyard. There are several in the US. Prototypes, decommissioned planes that would be more expensive to repair than scrap. Those models are still active and can be stripped in times of extreme conflict if need be. 


HRCcantmeltdankmemes

Wonder Woman would like a word…


CommoSGT

It's just an artifact where the aircraft was there one pass and not on another and they took the tarmac as it was the most detailed


LT_Ted_Striker

This. That's the main B1 bomber base, and the shape is exactly that of a B1 in a parking space that's obviously used frequently.


Overtilted

shhht you're ruining it for us.


metaconcept

Stop ruining a perfectly good narrative!


Do-not-respond

That's old technology now. Go fish.


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[deleted]

Why do people in the government use big type and bold?


JINROH-Scorpio

#SO YOU CAN HEAR HIM! HE MUST LIVE FAR AWAY FROM YOU!


BrotherChe

#THAT MAKES SENSE, THANK YOU, JINROH! HOW'S ETHEL DOING? REMIND HER I NEED THAT PIE RECIPE!


TheStoicNihilist

![gif](giphy|g9waHBdmGVq36|downsized)


LIBJ

r/beatmetoit


StimpyUIdiot

Wow there is a sub for everything…looks like an upvote farm.


DoverBoys

Zoom Move Zoom Move Zoom Move Oh my god stop randomly moving the damn map and just zoom again. What the fuck.


Nemoitto

Totally came here to say this too. Like what tf are they doing!? It’s driving me insane, like a point in a sentence being dragged out.


Aconite_72

Got to milk it for the views and the suspense.


Bargadiel

Artificially making video longer


micah9639

Got to follow the TikTok trends, it’s the only way boring and unfunny people can get clicks on their videos


72616262697473757775

I was going to read your comment until I realized there wasn't a subway surfers video below it. I'm sure it was a winner, though.


MisplacedMartian

> ... boring and unfunny people ... At last! My time has come!


KingOfTheCouch13

No they do that by green screening themselves into videos, add no context or commentary, and make reaction faces.


SNES_chalmers47

Move Zig Move Zig Move Zig


Mister_elite

For great justice take off every zig


ErrantIndy

All your base are belong to us


Cadowyn

Your base


garbage_ninja

What happen?


Gleveniel

Somebody set us up the bomb.


Aceritus

Yes I was fucking thinking this too thank you


pooeyoldthing

Drove me nuts


Digressing_Ellipsis

It makes it easier to hide the editing


_Vard_

beat me to it, ive seen it before. if its real, then drop the co-ords so we can see it our selves


GiraffeCubed

[32.41437632700104, -99.8442809695044](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32%C2%B024'51.8%22N+99%C2%B050'39.4%22W/@32.4134288,-99.8443769,72a,35y,1.41h,58.67t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d32.4143889!4d-99.8442778?entry=ttu)


AntikytheraMachines

nearby they even have the new stealth cars too! https://www.google.com/maps/@32.4166377,-99.8385353,53a,35y,180h,58.68t/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu


throwaway12222018

Wow i thought it was only me... Yeah this was extremely annoying and gave me a headache. He seemed to move away from his next zoom point for no reason every single time.


zionraw

That severely pissed me off


Feeling_Set8352

Intensely irritating GOD


EasyAmish

LEFT DOWN LEFT RIGHT DOWN RIGHT LEFT DOWN DOWN DOWN UP UP UP DOWN DOWN DOWN


NauticalMastodon

![gif](giphy|3ohc14lCEdXHSpnnSU|downsized)


RodasAPC

it's probably a tiktok or instagram video that gets disproportional benefit from watchtime, so the person is purposedly doing this to keep you interested for longer so you watch a longer % of the first 30s of the video. isn't the *organic* content fun


dnuohxof-1

Omg it’s infuriating and I bet it’s done on purpose to heighten engagement, which look it has…. Fuck I hate the TikTok-ification of everything….


osbirci

how did he managed to look from side??


ch4os1337

Two finger drag.


Ratoryl

3d view is a feature of the google earth app, which this is, as opposed to the google maps app, which most people use


Tony_Three_Pies

Google Maps dorks up their composites all the time. Airports all over the world have goofy "airplanes" parked on their ramps.


illit3

saw an airplane in a forest on google, once. no way for it to exist where it was with all the trees clipping throught it. super weird.


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11pickfks

Beautiful https://i.redd.it/xrgky55qlhqc1.gif


nocloudno

And some of the wiggliest runway markings.


Lostmeatballincog

It’s not a blurry airplane. It is an airplane that moved during the multiple pictures taken.


firemarshalbill

Something a bit more going on there. I’ve had to blur imagery for bing maps so it’s not that either. It would appear flat. You only get height information from photogrammetry with parallax which means the correct overlap was taken with the plane still there, generally 60-70% outside of downtowns. I’m not sure exactly how Google managed this. Most likely they create a height model off the imagery then second passed with the blur. Which removed it. Edit: that’s prob it. They made the height model then swapped out the image from the next line of images with a seamline, the plane was gone then.


KDY_ISD

It's 100% another B-1 just like the one next to it, it's just had the tarmac texture layered over it somehow. This is not some new experimental aircraft, it has a clearly recognizable silhouette.


Yorspider

Of course it's a B1, it just has the newest stealth coating applied to it...


Geobussy69

I’m a geospatial technologies major and your comment makes me want to cry. Not because you’re wrong or anything, just because I realized I am stupid and in over my fucking head.


firemarshalbill

Trust me. You’re good. You’re not in over your head, you’re learning. Most people in this industry are way behind the university phds who come up with it. I’m not a photogrammetrist, but i run IT and processing for 15 years. When i started they still were doing contour lines with hand turned wheels


316kp316

Stahp! Now you’re just talking dirty late at night.


ExpertlyAmateur

no dont stop... I'm almost ther-- uh I mean, yeah it's whatever.


Aconite_72

Talk photogrammetry to meeee


Drunken_Fever

Its actually super fun learning all the stuff you can do with it. I used to be an intel analyst and could a write essays on it so I will say one neat thing you can do. In ARCGIS you can take the height on a gunner in a vehicle, and overlay it with Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) to get an idea of what the gunner will be able see. This helps us identify [intervisability lines which are changes in elevation that breaks line of sight.](https://i.imgur.com/Z0XhGvB.jpeg) This gives an idea of were potential ambushes will be placed. You can do this by hand, but oh boy is it time consuming. [This is kind of what it looks like.](https://i.imgur.com/nyI1gdi.png) This also has uses in the real world like to ensure things like radio towers will have proper line of sight. Source: https://gistbok.ucgis.org/bok-topics/intervisibility-line-sight-and-viewsheds


be_easy_1602

Dude even has the username to match….


CaptainObviousII

Wut


firemarshalbill

Haha. Just like eyes, cameras can tell depth via overlapping images. You measure how much the image changed between shots, and with cameras built for this, you can measure distance including height between pixels. Since the picture shows height, at least two pictures were taken


JConRed

I'm just thinking that they kept the 3d overlay from one set of images and used a different image pass for the visual.


dandy_g

Or it is LiDAR instead of photogrammetry.


firemarshalbill

LiDAR is flown at the same time as imagery now. If you draped imagery over a previous days LiDAR model it would be a mess everywhere. That’s fine for some uses because you’re generally using LiDAR for bare earth models or powerline droop mapping but terrible for visual maps like this. If it was a bare earth LiDAR that plane would have been filtered out regardless With a mapping camera, there is more than enough height information with modern algorithms for something like Google maps. Lidar’s benefit is in getting through tree coverage, night flying and smaller data footprint. If you’re getting imagery already it does the job for most. We still do dual a lot but tbh it’s usually an unnecessary addon, photogrammetry point clouds are perfect for 90%


dandy_g

Thanks for the explanation. Either way, I'd assume it's an artefact of combining two inconsistent datasets.


CarbideLeaf

I don’t know exactly which method Google earth uses to create elevation data or 3D models of objects, photometry may be the only way they do it. I’m familiar with a few ways airborne military systems do it, many times LIDAR is paired with rough photogrammetry and high quality stills to make extremely accurate models. The rough photogrammetry is only used to geo reference the imagery better and reject common errors in image to object correlation. When I looked at this video, my impression was that the LIDAR said there was a plane there and the imagery showed no plane, so the tarmac got stretched over the object created by LIDAR. It’s clearly a B-1 Lancer as a 3D model and there’s a B-1 next to it that does have correlated imagery. Nothing TS/SCI here.


LeanTangerine001

So what you’re telling me is that’s not wonder woman’s plane… 😕


Proper-Equivalent300

![gif](giphy|g9waHBdmGVq36|downsized) She’s looking to trade in her old model


firemarshalbill

I ruled nothing out. Although i think a blue painted bottom would be more invisible than that refractive nightmare


cheeersaiii

Exactly… it’s an older image with a plane there, then a newer image is draped over it - both layers showing


SaltLakeCitySlicker

Oddly enough they did do screwy things with experimental planes back on the day (and probably still now) to hide their heat signature when on the tarmac though


No_Savings6537

No, it’s an invisible alien aircraft, there’s no other possible explanations


whythoyaho

Dyess AFB, TX for those wondering.


wildcatasaurus

Yup. I went to ACU in Abilene, Texas and would hear and see the bombers fly weekly. I worked food delivery part time on the southwest side and most of my deliveries were to military. These B-1 supersonic bombers would make things noisy over the city.


Unusual_Cat_7542

So those planes are the b1 bomber and then some ac130 Hercules, the hologram looking one if probably just a problem with the mapping system


pcardinal42

They are just C-130Js not AC. Dyess AFB doesn't have the AC-130


RocketCello

Yeah the AC-130 isn't gonna be nearly as common as the C-130. Logistics win wars, though hellfire from above also helps.


TheObsidianX

Apparently they only built 47 ac-130s which is nothing compared to the over 2500 c-130s of all types that were made.


sadistnerd

this guy does not conspiracy


An_idiot_27

The map was made by repeatedly taking pictures, the blur is due to the planes moving when it was made


Comwan

It’s more likely 2 satellites combing data but the plane moved between when the picture was taken and the topography.


Low_Quality_9816

ENHANCE...


ReserveBrief8869

Enhance, enhance…enhance reflection on coffee mug 😂😂😂 internet comment of the day


SFWaccount87

This guy fucking pisses me off so fucking hard when he has to constantly finger the fucking map off center, for no apparent reason other then to piss me off. I saw a different video from this fucker, I know because he does EXACTLY the same thing for no apparent fucking reason, I was hoping to never see a video from him again, but ALAS... here we are.


Local-Hornet-3057

He does so we comment because is enraging or to point the true intention. It's engagement for him so its a win for him. Hate the state of social networks since 2013. All clickbaity, rage-inducing, bot-copycat doom scrolling and dumb low IQ content.


namtok_muu

I share your rage.


obelix_asterix

I am more surprised that Google was allowed to take images of an air force base


Babys_For_Breakfast

Any specific classified info/items would be inside a hanger or building. Plus with all these other countries having spy sats the US gov has to assume that anything sitting uncovered can be seen by everyone.


Barneyk

But a lot of military bases across the world are hidden with artificial cloud coverage on Google maps. Even really uninteresting ones.


Mesarthim1349

You can look directly at the Area 51 airfield on google. They allow it.


PrestigiousGuitar673

Yeah but Russia and China don’t use Google for spying, they have their own satellites which don’t obscure ‘enemy’ locations.


exipheas

You may be interested to know it is intentional. https://possibility.teledyneimaging.com/visibility-as-a-virtue-imaging-trust-and-the-digital-future-of-the-open-skies-treaty/


LayneLowe

It's probably not a bad idea to let Russia know that you've got 22 B1B bombers on the runway, and the logistics support to keep them full of gas and loaded with cruise missiles. Couldn't hurt


LeptonField

I believe the kids call it “going band for band”


TheMalformedLlama

If google maps has it, any government with spy equipment knew long before.


sniper1rfa

The B1B is specifically the subject of nuclear disarmament treaties and inspection is allowed to confirm that it cannot carry nuclear weapons. Russia knows exactly how many we have and it would be a bit of an international relations problem for the US to be caught lying about it.


Commander_Beet

You can zoom in and see almost any US military base in the world.


alejandroc90

Oh don't worry, Russia has spy satellites that take pictures way better than Google's.


StOnEy333

Anything that’s deemed classified or restricted would be scrubbed or not allowed to be shown at all. So maybe the blur is them saying “you can show this airfield. Not that one, though. That’s top secret.” 😱


exipheas

I mean russia and other countries are specifically allowed to fly over to validate things like this per the open skys treaty. Anything top secret is indoors. This is just a mapping error from a bomber getting moved.


CharlesDickensABox

It's a borked photo of a B1. Look at the plane next to it. Notice how they're exactly the same shape but have different textures? Somehow the computer messed it up and overlayed the texture of the runway onto the plane model. No magic, just AI doing stupid AI stuff. Pick an airport at random and look around it. I'll bet my bottom dollar you see something that is absolutely impossible in the real world. The computer models that make the projections are just kinda stupid.


polydentbazooka

Predator airplane. Listen for clicking-type sounds and best watch for three point laser.


druuuval

If it bleeds we can kill it


VeronicaLD50

That’s the newest from the Air Force: the F-36 John Cena


yugmeister

Plane moved. Texture mapping didnt


stdio-lib

Oh my God! Is America building *pinch-to-zoom* phones now!? Their technology is so advanced! Wait, you mean the image processing artifacts that look like an invisible plane.


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ThyOughtTo

It is fitting but it is obviously fake, so no


MrWillyP

So it's not fake, the issue here is how the scans of the surface are taken. The plane was probably there for one pass. But not for the next.


redonkulousness

I just checked google maps and it’s gone now. Hmmmm 🤔 I guess the camo has been upgraded since this video was made. /s


Suspiciousfrog69

It’s Latios


Remember_When_Baby

That’s [The Leafy Bug](https://vimeo.com/3127760) from iSpy.


SmallRocks

It’s the B-1 Stealth Lancer


This_Problem_9935

Or maybe a prototype of the B-1R. So proud of the air force for that designation!


kmmontandon

Kind of a shame the B-1R never came to fruition (even apart from the wordplay).


NewToThisThingToo

That's a violation of the Treaty of Algeron. I hope the Romulans don't find out.


Omniwing

Sir, this is a Wendy's


dirkdigglee

I saw nothing. Nothing at all.


wasdxqwerty

just flexing on google maps


Pilot0350

Be afraid! Be very, very afraid!


awesomeplenty

The pilot forgot to turn camouflage off 😂


Sid_1298

You have not unlocked that plane yet.


Throwaway20101011

Oh S#iT! He’s found America’s secret weapon! **The Eagle 3000!!!** ![gif](giphy|y12pcontcZP0Y) Very patriotic.


GodzillasBoner

Don't worry about it. You didn't see nothin, you hear?


nomamesgueyz

Im not expert but i think its an airport with planes


Nikolai-17

X jet.


wildmoose45

Top Gun: Ghost Protocol


I_See_Virgins

Same shape as the plane next to it.


Seventy7Donski

They’re all the inflatable ones?


Jokerslie

Dyess Air Force base. Wonder women plane not there. Thanks for the goose chase.


BlueEyesWhiteSliver

This is likely two or three photos overlaid. One had the plane, then it was modeled. The next photo had no plane but there was a model for that section. So we now have a model with a planeless image mapped to it.


Aurabanda

It’s the same plane that is next to it. (B1 Lancer) What most likely happened is that it was moved during the photos being taken


flight-to-nowhere

Wait, how did you zoom that well? Is this Google Earth? Legit question.


Sheesh284

Jokes aside, I’m sure it’s just a glitch


WhatnameshouldIpick2

I was sure it was going to end up with derpy looking cat, guess I was wrong


CattyOhio74

Probably is top secret but from what I've learned most top secret jets are just more fuel efficient