contact - the movie

[Manticore]

has anybody an idea where the location is where the second "teleport-machine" has been in the movie "contact"?
i remember that it said "a japanese island" but i cant find it.
so, if you know where, i would be pleased..

[araT]

Unfortunately it was all fiction / sci-fi, and it was all filmed in-studio & with special effects, so unfortunately there will be nothing special to see on the island once you get there.. but I'll try my luck at finding it for you, anyway :)

T.

[jabb0r]

here it is
greetings

the island of hokkaido near japan

[Manticore]

not ben here for a long time.
i know that it was fiction....... (do i look so stupid?) lol

thanks for finding and replying.

[McMaster_de]

The location for the japanese part of the film is in the Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland.

[lee_rimar]

Is a high-res image of the radio dish at Arecibo, or the VLA in New Mexico. I looked where I thought they were supposed to be bu those are low-res location.

[araT]

Lee; did you try searching our file archive (http://www.googleearthhacks.com/downloads/advancedsearch.php)

If you had, you would have found;

Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico (Overlay) (http://www.googleearthhacks.com/dlfile8961/Arecibo-Observatory,-Puerto-Rico-(Overlay).htm) and VLA - Very Large Array (Overlay) (http://www.googleearthhacks.com/dlfile172/VLA---Very-Large-Array.htm) and lots of other cool things.. :)

T.

[lee_rimar]

...did you try searching our file archive (http://www.googleearthhacks.com/downloads/advancedsearch.php)

Nope, I'm still finding my way around here. Thanks.

I did find Arecibo and the VLA on my own, but without overlays there's not a lot of detail directly available from GE.

[araT]

Good to hear; the two files I linked you to are overlays offering a higher resolution than the standard GE one, so I hope they were helpful :)

T.

[Appletom]

Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico (Overlay) (http://www.googleearthhacks.com/dlfile8961/Arecibo-Observatory,-Puerto-Rico-(Overlay).htm) Take a look at it now - with the new GEarth image update ( http://www.googleearthhacks.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7162 ) the satellite image is as good as the overlay!

[shrinkingman]

Try viewing it with Terrain turned on then tilt it. Looks like they got the height data wrong, looks more like a dome than a concave dish.