On screen, Mr. Spock.

I was just thinking, I might watch too much Star Trek. All the technology is cool and some might actually work in the future, we got cell phones now that will do more than Captain Kirk's communicator would do but I always figured the view screen on the Enterprise was a bunch of crap. How can you see a planet (or some one on a planet) that was lightyears away. The Hubble Telescope is one thing but on the viewscreen, they could see nearly anywhere, I figured it just made the show better plus they never tried to explain the technology. Even the warp drive is based on some "real" theory but no explanation of the viewer, it was just there. I figured, nope, never happen.....

Then the other day I was using Google Maps to find a gas station, I switched to "street view" to see if I could get my truck and camper into the station without too much trouble. The view of the station popped up and it hit me, "Holy S**t".....

Now I just need to develope an app, you say "on screen, mr spock" and it will automatically open up Google Map Street View and show you a couple of miles down the road, but Google may already be working on it.