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I have been playing around with google earth and I have a quick question does it take refraction into account when making pictures or does it use what would be predict through geometry only?

"Foreign Man would announce, "And now I would like to imitate the Elvis Presley", turn around, take off his jacket, slick his hair back, and launch into an unexpectedly credible Elvis Presley impersonation, one that Presley himself described as his favorite." I would love proof of the bolded...