Sunday, March 1, 2009

Replacing the Energy Solutions Arena

My friend forwarded me a music video on Youtube called "The Postal Service - Such Great Heights" because he really liked the song.

Here is the Youtube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMOkfI7wCrI

I was watching, and enjoying the music when all of a sudden, I noticed that they zoomed right into Utah from a satellite image. I picked it up because I briefly recognized the Great Salt Lake at 3 minutes and 20 seconds.

I thought it was clever how they took a city block and turned it into a computer chip. That is when curiosity struck and I wanted to figure out which block they chopped out. Looking at the roads, railroad tracks and other land marks, I was able to pinpoint the exact block that they replaced with a computer chip. It is where the Energy Solutions Arena resides!

Look closely at the video at 3 minutes and 27 seconds, and then compare to Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.768045,-111.900237&spn=0.007752,0.019226&t=h&z=16

Sweet.

1 Comments:

At 1/3/09 23:03 , Blogger Dan said...

Sweet! I hadn't even watched the video. Great catch. Also, very funny that it was the ESA. I wonder if that was intentional.

 

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