Educational Opportunity

There is an article today on Rueters news service talking about the search for missing pilot Steve Fosset. A good friend of his - Richard Branson (Of Virgin Records) says the following

"I'm talking with friends at Google about seeing whether we can look at satellite images over the last four days to see whether they can see which direction he might have been flying and whether they can see any disturbances anywhere that they can pin from space," he said from Barcelona, Spain.

now this is the Google Earth website which discusses the data contained within Google Earth:

http://earth.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=21414&topic=1129

What is so disturbing about this is Mr. Branson thinks that Google is the supplier of satellite imagery - even better he thinks they have up to date satellite imagery. My only hope is that Google has set him in the direction of finding the information from the sources who actually provide it.

sigh