Somehow this simple comparison makes the moon landing seem so much more REAL on a human, experiential level. Brilliant move, NASA.
The map's gigantic - click here to view.
Kottke also has links to the moonwalks supered over a soccer pitch, and a movie backlot (for conspiracy-theorist types).
Now here's a maps mashup. Christian Nold paired GPS devices with gizmos that measure galvanic skin response -- a known indicator of arousal and/or stress -- and gave them to people walking around certain cities. The result? A map that not only tells you how to get to that hip new neighborhood, but also how it's likely to make you feel. (User-specific annotations add to the intrigue.)
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If you're a West Coast white-crowned sparrow flapping around New Jersey, you're probably lost. But a group of the tiny songbirds shipped to the East Coast found their way back from Newark to their winter home in Mexico.
Scientists caught songbirds in the midst of their migration and rerouted them a mere 2,200 miles to New Jersey onboard commercial jets in windowless pet compartments. Once they were released, adult birds found their way through parts of the country they'd never navigated before and arrived safely at their winter nesting grounds.
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