This is great, thanks Thorin. I have a pretty old computer that renders the old GMaps much faster than the new one.

I did the same thing, haha. There's been continuous construction here in Phoenix for over 20 years and I always see the colored lines. Pretty cool to know what they mean!

I was a high school sophomore in 1984, and my parents were cool enough to buy me a ticket to The Terminator while they and my little brother went and saw something else. Mind = blown. Sat there with lockjaw for the entire thing and then could not stop talking about it for weeks after :D

Back in the days when we had Starlog to keep us excited for upcoming movies. What an amazing time to be a teen-aged sci-fi fanatic that was.

I felt the same way when viewing Halley in 1986 with a 4" scope. Nothing much equipment-wise, but amazing to view a legendary comet nonetheless.

I wondered about that too, haha! Must have really freaked them out.

Awesome, thanks!

Amazing photos. I would love to see the logistical data and planning that goes into building any one of these aircraft, just can't imagine how complex is would seem to be.

Same here, that would be awesome.

Aye, torties rule :D

Awesome, thanks so much! I grew up with TOS in the 70s, and always loved the sound effects.

The sheer amount and variations of sounds in the Trek universe is truly astounding, especially when you consider having to come up with everything for TOS in the 60s. They're all available at this TrekCore audio page and make terrific phone notifications :D

Hahaha same here, there was a double-feature of War of the Worlds and When Worlds Collide at the drive-in in the 70s, both of which traumatized my 8-year-old mind for weeks. Pretty awesome :D

Agreed, what a waste of an opportunity that was.

Not to mention communicators whose reach spans across the solar system. That was sometimes an issue in TOS, not so in JJTrek. Ugh.

Seriously, how cool would it be if we could dispatch hundreds of rovers and space telescopes across the solar system? Imagine if they were all connected as well, sharing and combining data...and THEN, being able to sit at your desk and punch up any one of them for a 4K live image of what they're seeing.

I'd forgotten about the records! My brother and I also had those and listened to them for hours, along with Star Trek, Captain America, and even Space: 1999 45s. Some of them came with storybooks, I think. AND...we also had an 8mm projector :D I seem to remember ads for 8mm clips of Star Wars in Starlog, probably cost…

Same here, I grew up in the 70s & 80s when we all thought we were going to get nuked. WarGames and The Day After fried our teenaged brains, yet there is still something fascinating and beautiful about those mushroom clouds. Still hoping we can harness that technology for space travel in my lifetime :)

The first-season episode of TNG "Conspiracy" was certainly memorable, particularly for this scene which somehow made the air back in 1987. I always wondered what happened afterward, as Data said the aliens were transmitting a beacon to Earth. HEAD ASPLODE!

I'm seeing similar, weird artifacts around the screen as well on Win 7/64, tab titles don't update or dim when you highlight a different one. Does seem faster, though!