iPod homage seen from space
Sometimes even his Steveness is guilty of having too
much time on his hands. Apparently, Mr. Jobs won an abandoned mineral mine in Australia in a game of poker (or so the digg post says). So what does Steve do with the land?
Why, construct the world's largest homage to the iPod, of course! The site can be seen from space (Google Maps link) and still looks to be a work in progress - but wow. I wonder if this is Apple's attempt at putting little white music players in the hands of little green men.
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Seriously folks, as this is a mineral mine we're talking about, it seems to be two evaporation basins side by side. Presumably, the minerals (think salt or simlar) are underground, dissolved in water to be pumped up, after which the water is evaporated or drained off in these structures. This accounts for the click wheel shape: around the edges the water already has evaporated, in the middle there's still some present.
But kudos to whoever first spotted this!
Steve plays poker? OMG! OMG!!!
March 27 2006 at 6:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe digg post was better worded
"The ad, which depicts Apples flagship iPod product has been constructed on the site of an abandoned mineral mine in remote western Australia. It has been in development for almost two years since Apples founder Steve Jobs aquired the location during a game of poker with (the late) Australian publishing and gaming tycoon Kerry Packer.""
Um....I'm pretty sure that this was meant as a joke. I think some of you are taking it a little too seriously.
March 26 2006 at 10:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYeah, I call bull***t too.
March 26 2006 at 10:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIn case someone believes the obvious joke here, here are a couple of nearby locations to look at:
http://maps.google.com/?t=k&ll=-30.394792,121.078262&spn=0.047234,0.070896
http://maps.google.com/?t=k&ll=-30.799728,121.56518&spn=0.047037,0.070896
http://maps.google.com/?t=k&ll=-30.593519,121.572561&spn=0.047137,0.070896
Either Apple's planning more advertisements than you thought, or it's just a style of farming (?) that produces shapes like that.
Isn't this post about 5 days too early?
March 26 2006 at 8:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMan some people don't look around. Right next to that "ipod" are buildings that look similar to it. Its not anyone making an ipop its just coincidence. Look around the spot on google maps. Geeezzzzzz
March 26 2006 at 8:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWow, Steve's really put iPod on the map!
March 26 2006 at 5:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyShouldn't this have been posted on April 1? Or even better, "I'm REALLY gullible day"
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