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US military recreates Earth

By Thomas McGuire

On February 23, 2004, 2:42 PM

The US Army is building a 2nd version of Earth on computer to help it prepare for conflicts around the world. The detailed simulation will be drawn from a real-world terrain database & will be drawn to the same scale as the original.

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  1. February 23, 2004 4:01 PM
    Per Hansson said:
    Now this sounds cool, imagine yourself to be abe to walk up to your own house and blow it to pieces, cool! :D
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  2. February 23, 2004 8:31 PM
    JimL said:
    why is this coming from a british news site???? LOL they find out before us what our own military is doing...
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  3. February 24, 2004 6:15 AM
    TS | Thomas said:
    Didn't bother checking any US tech site ;)
    Reply
  4. February 24, 2004 6:28 AM
    Didou said:
    They're recreating the Earth because this one is bound to get blown up.[img]http://users.skynet.be/fa426454/images/Smilies/nonon
    .gif[/img]
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  5. February 24, 2004 11:29 AM
    Rick said:
    [quote][i]Originally posted by Didou [/i]They're recreating the Earth because this one is bound to get blown up.[img]http://users.skynet.be/fa426454/images/Smilies/nonon
    .gif[/img] [/quote] You beat me to it! But yeah, it's always good to have a spare lying around....
    Reply

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