Street View is a great idea, the pentagon are quite right though, military bases and such should be excluded for blatently obvious security reasons, however Street View will prove to be advantagious to popular holiday locations, giving holiday hunters a great insight to where they might want to go, lets face it, most of the pictures in the brochure are inaccurate. Google stated that they are working on face blurring technology which is good news for those perverse rats of husbands emerging from strip clubs etc, in my view they deserve to be shamed....

What's happening to streetview now happened to Canada in 2000. Canada developed a radar satellite (RadarSat 2) capable of 2 meters resolution that enabled imagery through clouds, darkness etc. The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) contracted NASA to send in the mid-90s RadarSat 1 which NASA did successfully. However with the greater resolution of RadarSat 2 NASA was pressured under the US military to backtrack it's agreement with the CSA and not launch RadarSat 2 despite CSA's committment not to release pictures of US military base viewed from space. Furthermore the US then after declared the outter space above the US mainland and territories to be US space and therefore would fall under it's jurisdiction. I am not surprised seeing this level of paranoia to anything concerning photos of US installations. After a 2 year delay Canada did finally launched RadarSat 2 by hiring a russian launch outfit.

-No Surprise

Check out this bloggers list of banned Google Street Views:

http://streetviewgallery.corank.com

Someone was stripped of rank...

I like google street view, great thing! Though yes some people have been "exposed" and if I remember correctly there was a law suit not too long ago about someone's parents going after google because there under age daughter (16 or 17) was sun bathing and you could see it all...

All they need to do is just make sure no one is in any of the pics, unless they get consent to have them in.

I guess terrorist wouldn't bother to look up Google. They would just ask the security post if they are allowed to drive into the base and plant a bomb somewhere. I guess they would be sent to the ammo storage area straight away, "where dem bombs belong, duh".

The 9/11 government conspiracy is a government conspiracy.

It was on South Park;

QED

All this fuss over Google's Street View!

Perhaps the Pentagon officials should have examined the perfect Bird's Eye imagery of the whole base on Microsoft's Virtual Earth!

Alan Turnbull
www.secret-bases.co.uk

9/11 happened BECAUSE of GW Bush.

*That Terminator from G00gle claimed to be on Her Majesty's Secret Service! Whoever heard of a crooked Englishman? We promise to double-naught do it again!"


People have been caught doing things that they aren't supposed to do! On Google Streetview! Yeegads, the frikkin world's ENDING.

Mayhaps those folks shouldn't have been doing those things in the first place? Oh wait! I wouldn't want to be caught shopping at Fry's Electronics! Blasphemy! Get rid of Streeview NOW!

It shows how barriers go up and down? Oh my goodness! Next thing you know, terrorists will be developing sharp sticks!

WHAT'S PRIVATE IN PUBLIC PLACES

AT adds: Stop shouting, you buffoon.

If the government consented then reneged, that's a government problem. Google isn't responsible for national security. If this base can't train its people well enough to recognize potential threats, then God help us all. Let's hope Al-Queda isn't courteous enough to ask permission before they strike next. Somebody should be held accountable for this sh*t. Let's start with GW Bush and his idiotic defense policy. 9/11 happened on his watch! Are we any safer now?

Correction - Fort Sam Houston is in San Antonio, TX. Not Houston, TX.

AT adds: The black helicopters will be arriving outside any moment now.