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When big MNCs introduce something, it turns into a standard. For example, Google Maps calling its prominent feature as Satellite View, which might have been even crazier if one of the representatives had not secretly coded it this way. Google Maps co-creator Bret Taylor took to his official Twitter handle to expose the ‘silly Google Maps origin story’. The Twitter thread consists of the back story of the mapping service’s famous Satellite View feature. Back in 2005 when the Google Maps squad was deliberating on the name for what we today recognize as the Satellite View, super bosses Sergey Brin and Larry Page planned to hold an executive review when specific decisions were made within the span of a huge countdown clock. Also Read:  29 Breathtaking Satellite Photos Of Earth That Will Give You Goosebumps Under the buzzer’s pressure, everyone was throwing names including ‘satellite’ and  ‘aerial’. Just when Brin proposed ‘Bird Mode’, the buzzer buzzed. The outcome had...

Since 2014, Benjamin Grant searches for striking satellite pictures of our globe and publish them on his website - His purpose is to alter the way people see our globe and to present the effects of a human intervention that can be found in deserts- nature-, mining fields, islands etc. Have a look at the world like an astronaut with the fantastic satellite photos of Earth. These 29 earth satellite photos are our favorites: The Beautiful Tulip Fields In Lisse, Netherlands Kensico Reservoir In The Town Of Valhalla, New York San Francisco, California The Mill Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, Ohio Sound Of Speed Airshow, Missouri The Greater Caucasus Mountains, Situated On The Border Between Russia And Georgia Venice, Italy Also Read:  10 stunning selfies that made your eye open London, Great Britain Loosdrecht, Netherlands Great Exuma Island, Bahamas Akimiski Island, Canada Akimiski Island, Canada Seoul, South Korea Swanson Dock, Austr...