“Looking for the Loch Ness Monster? There’s an app for that,” Jill Reilly reports for The Daily Mail.
“Amazing images of a creature swimming below the surface of the world famous loch have been accessed from a satellite high in the atmosphere, using Apple’s satellite map app,” Reilly reports. “The photographs were captured by two different amateur Nessie hunters scanning different satellites transmitting images of the earth from space.”
“The location was just south of Dores, were beamed from Apple’s satellite map app and could only be viewed on some iPads and iPhones,” Reilly reports. “The hunters Peter Thain from Northumberland and Andy Dixon County Durham, were amazed by their find.”
Read more in the full article here.
I guess Apple’s maps are better than we thought. I think I can see the Holy Grail in that image too!
Zoomed in pixelated flying fish?
Zzzzzz!!! Snorrrr! Zzzzzz!! Snorrrrr!!!!
If you look closely enough, you can also see Elvis, and Bigfoot.
Paul is dead
I thought Paul was the walrus.
Looks more like a bouncing flat bottom boat.
Sure, but it’s bouncing off Nessie.
Great story but…….
Looks like displace water from a bow, a wave and the clear sign of a motor trail. It’s a moving object that while piecing several images together the algorithm probably replaced pixels with surrounding pixels. Notice the un-natural rectangle shape in the middle? Nature isn’t very good at making squares.
Sorry to rain on all the conspiracy theorist parade.
I have to agree with you. In one of the pictures a house and small boats are visible along the coast. This wake is 2 times the size of the house and much larger than the boats shown would make. If this is the wake of Nessie. Leave it the F alone.
“Nature isn’t very good at making squares”
You obviously haven’t seen pyrite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrite
Fair enough, but molecular bonding is responsible for those symmetries. Rectangles simply don’t appear in nature at scales of a metre or more because of thermodynamic effects.
Clear symmetry and enough detail to see that it is a ship, not a sea monster.
I can see whitecaps and wakes but where’s the ship JD?
Sea monsters are symmetrical too.
Not always. Some of the ones in my imagination are asymmetrical.
Wow! That’s way more interesting than being able to find where I live.
Apple maps is the only map system — including Google Maps, Garmin, and Magellan — that even has my house on the right block. So I’ve been a fan since day one.
Now if Apple Maps could finally target my mailbox 35′ on the other side of the street where my house is…I’ve given them feedback on it multiple times.
son, you’re in trouble when you require help finding your fucking mailbox.
Yeah, Apple Maps sucks because it puts YOUR mailbox 35′ away from where it actually is.
I think you’ll pull through. You might consider contacting:
imsofuckingstupidicantfindmymailbox.com
lots of help with counseling.
Seeing as the best accuracy I get with a mapping app on my phone or pad is 16′, with 32′ about average, and those are figures consistent with civilian grade GPS, I’m at a loss as to what you think Apple can do to improve the location of your damned mailbox.
It’s probably part of Friars Bridge….
at last! The Grassy Knoll Shooter!
Why would anyone in their right mind want to shoot a grassy knoll? 🙂
It’s just an artifact of Apple incompetence. It was just a massive Scottish middle finger to the English but Apple’s political healing widget didn’t do a good enough job.
Look at Google maps satellite images at the narrow channel north of this location. You can see clearly a boat hugging the western shoreline that has an identical wake pattern. The Apple image just appears to have the boat photoshopped out of the image for some reason, but it is probably even the same boat.
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Exactly. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Loch+Ness/@57.4115207,-4.3262223,118m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x488f16c34da23729:0xd4d749cbf4fe912f
it’s just a missing flip-flop
lol
j-k or edge?
Maybe Maps can find MH370 next….
That image precisely the outline and contour of a Sea Robin. I’ve caught dozens of them fishing. They’re a super-evolved teleosts with 6 walking legs and huge pectoral fins resembling wings, a favorite candidate to replace mankind after we radiate ourselves to oblivion.
Next up: The Crop Circle Detector!
uh, sorry Derek, no more crop circles for earthlings. Since the demotion of Pluto as a planet, embittered Plutonians have desisted creating them.
Don’t you mean embittered Yuggothians? 😉
It’s time for a poetry break.
Fungi from Yuggoth -By H. P. Lovecraft
I. The Book
The place was dark and dusty and half-lost
In tangles of old alleys near the quays,
Reeking of strange things brought in from the seas…
Oops. Ballmer caught skinny dipping again.
Thanks for that, now I have to try to find a bottle of MindBleach to try to eradicate that truly unpleasant image from my mind.
Just feeling a little sick in my mouth…
Look carefully he’s arching his back to start a deep dive. I don’t think that’s his feet exposed above the water when he does that. 😱
I’ve just had a look at that on Maps on my pad, and I think what’s happened is that the system used to blend the photos together renders the resolution down for large areas of open water with no real features, the whole area is quite blocky and pixelated at you zoom in, and it’s blurred out the image. It’s almost certainly a fairly large boat, and it’s possible to see some vague detail of the bow and focsle of the boat.
I can see how some people would misinterpret it, it looks almost like a top view of a Whale shark, except you’d never get a 50′ shark in a fresh-water Loch…
The Daily Mail is as reliable as the Onion.
Yea, like Apple (or even Google for that mater) has their own satellite circling the earth.
“Now, I don’t know anything about zoology, biology, geology, geography, marine-biology, crypto-zoology, evolutionary theory, evolutionary biology, meteorology, limnology, history, herpetology, palaeontology or archaeology, but I think… what if a dinosaur had got in the lake?“
— Stewart Lee on the existence of the Loss Ness Monster.
What could be more reliable than a patchwork of photos, many taken at different times, stitched together automatically by a computer algorithm?
The real Loch Ness Monster is in Williamsburg, Virginia.
For all the jaded, snarky comments on this story, what you tards
have missed– in a undeniably factual Google photo– is that this is a rectangular craft operating just beneath the surface. You can see the wakes that results off the bow of any craft, you can see a second wake emanating off the what looks to be similar to a submarine’s aileron dive planes’ waje outward from the first wake, and then a single propulsion wake emanating from the stern.. But you twats are too dumb to know or comprehend
For all the jaded, snarky comments on this story, what you tards
have missed– in the undeniably genuine Google photo– is that this is appears to be a rectangular craft operating just beneath the surface. You can see the wakes that results off the bow, and, you can see a second wake emanating from what looks to be similar to a submarine’s aileron dive planes’ wake spreading out from the first wake, and then a single propulsion wake emanating from the stern.. But you twats are too dumb to know or comprehend
U am zoo smart yu am mispel word.
Dear Tim “Cock” you might be able to find the Malaysia Aircraft too…