I found the Camel Track on Google Earth
Sonoran Dude
Google Earth to see if I could find the Camel Track. I think I found it
22 miles southwest of the Kuwait Towers but didn't keep the show on Tivo
to verify the distance. If you swoop in with the Google Earth you can
see large Electronic type pylons along the race track that I think I
remember seeing in the video.
I think I even see some camels on the track training. On the same road
from town there is an industrial area that looks hauntingly familiar to
the bagging task area. Is it possible that these two tasks could have
been on the same road and only a couple miles apart? There are not that
many roads out of Kuwait City so I just don't see how you could get that
lost.
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q48/smogdog/TAR_Kuwait.jpg
I have uploaded a very small zip file with the 3 Google coordinates to
alt.satellite.gps.binaries listed TAR10
You can download Google Earth at http://earth.google.com
Matt B.
"Sonoran Dude" <b45...@comcast.remove.net> wrote in message
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> With all the talk about the teams getting lost I swooped in with my Google
> Earth to see if I could find the Camel Track.
Cool finds. That certainly looks like the camel race track. I did a quick
measure of the track in Google Earth and the length of the largest oval is
more than 6 miles! That is a lot bigger than a horse race track in the US,
but maybe that is normal for camel races.
I'll have to remember to keep track of The Amazing Race in Google Earth.
Too bad TAR doesn't give us latitude and longitude coordinates for the race
sites...
Sonoran Dude
I think it is the camel track... if you look at the building it looks as
if it is a stable of some kind but I don't see any type of spectator
stands. I read in the Wall Street Journal that the robotic jockey was
invented to slow the use of child labor in Camel Races. The UN, US and
other countries had put pressure on Arab states to change the practice
of child labor.
Evidently Camel Racing is very lucrative but was also supporting child
slavery to train boy jockeys as young as 4 years of age. These camel
races are supposedly what inspired the land speeder race in Star Wars.
Loren Pechtel
Yeah--I'd love to see lat/long/time on the screen all the time.
