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Weather radar at Google Earth

The popular Dutch weather radar site Buienradar has launched some innovations, among which showing clouds and storms six times as detailed, for mobile phones, on Google Maps , and even in Google Earth(mf, Dutch).

We imitate the physical world completely 3D and realtime in the virtual world. Service brands, like buienradar, also contribute to that. Out of 'practicality' we eliminate any insecurity out of our lives. So that we know exactly what time the rain starts, when the sun breaks through, or if it will be freezing. Future generations won't even leave the house without this information, afraid of insecure situations. Just like we as westerners are very scared to walk through the jungle by ourselves. Let alone having to navigate by the sun and the moon. We keep moving further away from nature (although we do move closer in a different way, which is not in this scope however). This practical development adds to that trend.

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