[python] Re: AW: Google Earth (OT)

 Siwmae pawb!
I'm even older, and I second everything that Mark says below. Except that that wonderful 'astral travelling' satellite camera can just as easily be used to check up on everyone and everything, with a thoroughness previously thought to be possible only for God (whatever you take that word to mean). And having seen where we are, and what we're doing, it then becomes possible for 'them' (whoever, other naked apes anyway) to throw exploding things at us, or gasses, or lethal microorganisms; or to send goons to get us. Just a paranoid thought. Still, it is - for our generation - wonderful to the point of laughing out loud with delight.
One other thought for Mark: aren't there First Americans nearer than 1200 miles to you? And don't some of them still preserve their ancient languages? I'm one of the aboriginals of the island of Britain, and we have a language like you wouldn't believe. Not so bafflingly-unique as Euskal ('Basque') perhaps; it +is+ one of the Indo-Europeans. But full - I mean really brimming - with literature and poetry completely unknown to our absent-minded English neighbours. In a recent Papur y Bro, (local community newspaper produced by volunteers) I read a brief obituary by a very unobtrusive, ordinary woman for her lifelong friend, just dead. She finished her piece with the heartfelt remark: "Mawr yw y bwlch yn yr Aber o golli Miriam." Even in translation it still rings in your mind - and wrings your heart: "Great is the gap in Aber from the loss of Miriam." And when you hear it with the actual Cymraeg sound, it's even more heart-stopping. This from an ordinary working woman in the little hill village of Abergynolwyn. Aren't there some Indigens nearby, Mark, whom you can bike over to visit, and get them to show you some of the spell-like power of their language? And yeah: bikers of the world unite for peace and amity!!!
As soon as I can bring myself to tip-toe into the necessary computer-magic, I'll send y'all both my sets of coords., in England and in Cymry, and you can see - I suppose - my boats, and the forest where I keep my cabin. Iesu Mawr! I can hardly believe this....... 

Cofion gorau i bawb (Best remembrances to all),    Rhisiart Gwilym
OK, Call me a total GEEK or something. But I think this is FANTASTIC! OK, look I am not a kid, I am 53. I GREW UP in the 1960s and 70's I thought that a digital WATCH was a pretty cool thing! to me putting in coordinates of someone's home in a country halfway around the world and then having the computer "fly" me to that place and show me their VERY ROOFTOP is ASTOUNDING! I mean REALLY! soemthing else wierd to me is that someone from Brazil told me about the python list. So a "friend" in Brazil, tells ME in IOWA USA about a web site run by a guy in GERMANY who has an interest in bicycles like I do! And members of that group are spread out all over the WORLD! and I can talk with them in REAL TIME I am GEEKING OUT here!
OK, I am over reacting, but I was ALWAYS interested in "pen pals" when I was in school. people would write letters to people around the world. It would take WEEKS to get a response. But today I can be talking to you guys, or to a friend Annie in Australia, or Bruno in Sweden, Juergen in germany or Thorsten (also Germany? I am not sure really!) and others too! Sorry to be so clueless, but I am still AMAZED at how wonderful this really is! I can't BELIEVE that we can do this! MAYBE maybe maybe the nternet can make people closer and can be a power to bring about world peace. GOD would that be great! 

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