A few weeks ago, Vanessa submitted to the list of stories for consideration and general show awareness this Atlantic item about a series of six ground-to-air missile positions set up on residential buildings to protect the airspace over the Olympics.
The Atlantic's map, below, plots the location of the missile sites and shows the ranges covered by those missiles.
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Does that look at all familiar to you? It took a while stewing in the back of my brain but it finally dawned on me...
Shortly before the British Ministry of Defense made public their consideration of the idea of the missile stations, a guy named Duncan Barclay took advantage of the Google Maps API and turned it into a relatively simple Tower Defense game called MapsTD. Not only that, but just the other day he added the London Olympic Stadium as one of the playing fields.
Here's me defending the Tower of London earlier today:
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Not sure why this would look "familiar to" ME. :)
Look deeply into...
Whew, now that my eyes are focusing again let me just say how marvelous of the brits to toss fear factor into the other Olympic Games. I feel sure the FOXians would have been disappointed had this not taken place.
So...any word on where Mitt the Twit had missiles positioned around Salt Lake City for the 2002 Games?
Oh, right - that's in the middle of nowhere.
Will, you've got just way too much time on your hands...... :>)
What? No barrage balloons?