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See Eva Longoria's Maxim cover from space Entertainment
Fri, Apr 7th, 2006 | 11:02am | Entertainment
dave submitted a story about how you can now see Eva Longoria on the cover of Maxim from space.
To celebrate its 100th issue, Maxim magazine has slapped a 75 foot by 110 foot magazine cover of Desperate Housewives' Eva Longoria on mesh, and spread it out in the Las Vegas desert. The two dimensional sanctuary is so big it can be seen from the very black of space. It took nine workers 15 hours to build, and can actually be seen on Google Earth.


There's a USA Today article with another aerial view of the giant image.

Update: This is real, but the image in Google Earth was actually an overlay, because Google Earth wouldn't have gotten a new satellite image that quickly.


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  • [Untitled]
    Posted by: dave on Apr 7th, 2006 | 11:21am

    It's funny when the story "icon" is as big as the picture in the story.

  • [Untitled]
    Posted by: niraj on Apr 7th, 2006 | 12:12pm

    Yeah, the USA Today article had a larger image, but it was from a strange side-angle.

  • Bogus
    Posted by: Anonymous on Apr 19th, 2006 | 2:20pm

    It can't be "seen from Google Earth". There's a KML file available that puts the image as an overlay on top of Google Earth's image. If they leave it there dusted off and visible for a year or two, maybe they'll be lucky enough to have it there when the image provider for Google takes a new picture.

  • Not bogus, just unclear
    Posted by: niraj on Apr 19th, 2006 | 11:53pm

    Anonymous, the original article said the picture could be seen on Google Earth, but didn't clarify the overlay detail. However, the image was actually created and is in the desert. It'll be interesting to see if it stays long enough to actually get captured in newer satellite photos.



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