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September 13, 2005
Guy Jumping from Roof?
Recently someone posted this placemark 
showing what looks like a guy standing near the edge of a roof on a building near Tokyo, Japan. I say "looks like" because this obviously can't be a man as he would be 50 or 60 feet tall according to my measurement estimate. It really is a weird shot though, and quite amusing when you realize its not real.
This is some kind of suggested visual anomaly and a by-product of a photo resoution problem. You may not see a man in the picture if it wasn't suggested to you first. I remember when NASA scientists thought they had found a "face" on the surface of mars in the 1980s. A later mission took a higher resoultion picture and you could tell it was just a product of rocks and shadows. But, the original picture certainly seemed very much like a human face. Here's a link to a face on Mars story.
Posted by FrankTaylor at September 13, 2005 08:34 AM
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Posted by: Frank Taylor at September 13, 2005 11:16 AM
Yeah... I don't really see it either... :-S
Posted by: Christian Maire at January 23, 2006 11:55 AM
Ahh, another person easily fooled by those NSA controlled news feeds from NASA...
Posted by: James at May 16, 2006 11:45 PM
i see a fat guy in a red shirt and blue denim shorts. but that's just me.
Posted by: mike at September 23, 2006 03:30 PM
It looks like some big advertising, seems a soccer player on the run.
Posted by: Norberto at March 7, 2007 12:40 PM
run! its ultraman!
Posted by: gojira at July 15, 2007 03:47 PM
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By the way, I showed this to my wife a few minutes ago and she couldn't see it as a guy at all. She just sees a smokestack. I was laughing as I tried to show her how it looks like a guy, but she couldn't see it.
I know a bunch of people saw this as a guy as well at the Google Earth Forums. So, it's not just me and the original poster.