A giant sperm coming up the river Lagan in Belfast?
Nah, just some oxygenation going on methinks
Thunderbird 2! 
USS Texas (BB-35): http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=la+porte,+tx&ll=29.756279,-95.089695&spn=0.003907,0.00787&t=h
All these links to battleships. Here’s one a little bit older: HMS Victory, the oldest commissioned ship in the world. If you pan a bit to the south, you can also see HMS Warrior, and there are a whole host of modern Royal Navy ships in the vicinity as well.
Dead center of this is the Qwest building in downtown denver. Note how all of the buildings and shadows are going in one orthogonal direction…except Qwest and another building to the north east. (which was built up surrounding a church, incidentally)
What’s really freaky is: the way they rotated the Qwest Building, it completely blots out a big black all glass hotel. I go there frequently for Starbucks coffee. It’s really there. Honest.
If you don’t see me post again, the black helicopters got me.
Looks like they tore down the walls…if you zoom in, you can see where the SCCA seems to be holding a raceing event.
(I’m assuming this because they used to do that at Stapleton International after they decommissioned it.)
You can also see the USS Hornet to the lower right.
And another SCCA-style racetrack in the middle of an empty parking lot.
USS John F Kennedy at Mayport.
Turns out that the USS Des Moines has a sister. The USS Salem is a museum ship in Quincy, MA.
Ma, between Wikipedia, Google and Google Maps, you can find anything
I was in Colorado just now. Just above Boulder, to the southeast near Route 36, someone has sunk a big triangular pit with terraced sides. It looks like a quarry, but the triangular shape really stands out from above as a giant geoglyph. I love that word GEOGLYPH! Everybody please post any geoglyphs you might find as you scan the world. Then shall I know that scanners have not lived in vain.
I zoomed in to the Red Rocks Amphitheater west of Denver, just north of Morrison, for a closeup. In the weird red rocks just above the stage to the southeast, I saw an alien face. :eek:
This is in Mauritania in the middle of the Sahara. I have no idea what it is.
There are a number of planes in Lake Washington, a train engine too. My husband is a fire fighter for Boeing.
He had to help rescue the Navy diver that stayed down too long when they were trying to bring an old WWII plane off the bottom. They ended up breaking it in half because they didn’t take into account all the silt that had collected inside. [/end hijack]
It’s called the Richat Structure.
So how do you prepare and link to these images? As soon as I got Google Earth, I didn’t take time to figure out how all the functionality worked. I just leapt immediately into playing with it.
I’m lazy, I just use ultrasnap to do a screen capture of the image I want in Google Earth 
With Google Maps, just click the link button displayed in the maps, and copy the resulting link from your browser’s address bar.
Look in the top right corner: “Link to this page”.
It is not Google Earth but Google Maps, which is essentially an online version of Google Earth.
Use the navigation controls to zoom and pan to whatever part of the world you’d like to look at. Click on the “Map”, “Satalite”, and “Hybrid” buttons to change the type of image displayed. Click on “link to this page” to have a url for current view displayed in the browser address bar.
My home town, in low res unfortunately. (Zoom out for an appreciation of how remote we are from civilisation.)
Well, the people in this thread are not linking to Google Earth (the program that you download on your computer). They’re linking to Google Maps, which doesn’t require you to have Google Earth installed.
All you do to link is go to Google Maps, find the place you want, zoom in to an appropriate level, then click on the place at the top-right of the map/image where it says “Link to this page.”
A new, specific URL will appear in the address bar of your browser. Copy that and paste it in this thread. Or, in Firefox (and probably other browsers too) you can simply right-click “Link to this page” and then click “Copy link location” in the context menu.
Sharing locations using Google Earth with other users of the program is a slightly different process, and involves sharing an actual file with them. You find your place on Google Earth, and add it as a placemark (Add > Placemark). Once you’ve named it and added it, go to the Places menu on the left of the window, right-click on the placemark you just added, and click “Save as” in the context menu.
This allows you to save a .kmz file to your computer’s hard drive. You can then share this file with others (via email, the web, etc.), and when they click on it they will be taken to your placemark’s location.
For example, here is a placemark i’ve created for UncleRojelio’s Richate formation in Mauritania. If you open Google Earth and click on the link, it will take you directly to that place.