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Google’s Easter Egg

This is (apparently) a fairly old piece of news among the techno-savvy, but I was happy to hear about it over the weekend and perhaps you might be today. According to TechCrunch, the latest version of Google Earth features a “secret” flight simulator that can be summoned up using the key combination Ctrl+Alt+A (for Windows machines–it’s Command+Option+A for Macs). I wonder if Google does this sort of stuff just to impress us with all the excess brainpower they have on tap–as if to say, oh, yeah, we just clean forgot to tell you about that little feature that allows you to try taking off from a runway in Kathmandu in a F16.