Google Earth

[HowardKennitby]

Not a question really.

While playing around with this I have found that in the Ruler function one of the options for path length measurement unit is the Smoot.
Obviously someone has a sense of humour.

[Mamyalynne]

Just looked it up , very good lol

[Mamyalynne]

I am a Smoot minus a smidge.

[jno]

there was a US Senator Smoot. To quote Ogden Nash (or rather, to cut and paste Ogden Nash):

Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.)
Is planning a ban on smut.
Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut.
And his reverend occiput.
Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut.,
Grit your molars and do your dut.,
Gird up your l__ns,
Smite h_p and th_gh,
We'll all be Kansas
By and by...

Senator Smoot is an institute
Not to be bribed with pelf;
He guards our homes from erotic tomes
By reading them all himself.
Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut.,
They're smuggling smut from Balt. to Butte!
Strongest and sternest
Of your s_x
Scatter the scoundrels
From Can. to Mex!

Smite, Smoot, for Smedley Butler,
For any good man by the name of Cutler,
Smite for the W.C.T.U,
For Rockne's team and for Leader's crew,
For Florence Coolidge and Admiral Byrd,
For Billy Sunday and John D., Third,
For Grantland Rice and for Albie Booth,
For the Woman's Auxiliary of Duluth,
Smite, Smoot,
Be rugged and rough,
Smut if smitten
Is front-page stuff.

[The-HouseHusband]

try asking from directions from America to Japan wouldn't want to try jet skiing across the Pacific!!!

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

If you just type definition smoot into Google there is more than one explanation for it. I might just stay away from the urban dictionary version ;)

[jno]

if you just try that on regular Google Maps, it tells you to kayak to Hawaii

[Mamyalynne]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot

[jno]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot

[THEMOTLEY1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot

[jno]

<waves to mamya>

[Mamyalynne]

Coooooooooooeeeeeee, from many Smoots away.

[ChuckFickens]

Google put loads of these sort of things hidden away in various places.

If you open google earth, click in the view menu and select explore > mars, then do a search for the word Meliza, double click on the little robot head and you can have a chat to a Martian.