maybe it looks like that - a giant sheet obscuring the new drilling operations?

Don't you mean Minnie Street?

Also, it's only that one block, no bag at the intersections in either direction. Oddly no bag visible flying towards the camera at either either.

People live in Alaska?!

@Elliuotatar: Thanks, I've corrected it.

No, no: see, the Google camera zoomed in a little too far: that's a glimpse of the quantum foam.

@Elliuotatar: That's not quite true. The bag ends at the intersection to the west, but it goes on for quite a while to the east.

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@frndlybnny: Spend a lot of time at the Planck scale, do we?*

*this joke courtesy a really small wormhole

We call those "urban tumbleweeds".

Ironically, the bag used to contain ice from a supermarket.

Alternatively, this is the site of Eric Schmidt's pied-a-terre.

"It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes"

This is just great. But it begs the question, is Google even bothering to check their work? We've had the cockroaches, the accidental driving up someones driveway, etc.

BTW, Addy, "spread-eagled"... I think you mean "spread-eagle".

I still think it's neat that my car made it in those images. Don't know what's up with the bag. I don't recognize the colors for any we have. I just wish they picked a day when it wasn't raining. Like sometime in the summer. Looks like these were taken sometime in late August, early September.

That's the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. On google street view.

Heh, funny thing is my I used to live five blocks from where that was taken. Sad that they didn't exactly pick the best conditions to take pictures once they took the bag off, either.

@Gann: Beat me to it. Damn.

I live on 23rd & Cowelles. Not far from there.

I wonder if this guy got his pay docked for this.

Comment on Google Street View Becomes Google Bag View in Alaska Actually, this is not the only error. I live in Fairbanks and was surprised to find 1st Avenue is also under a bag. near Cushman Street. I think the kids were tired of putting soap in the fountain downtown.

I lived in Fairbanks for 25 years and @farcedude is right... having the bag over the camera was the right thing at the right time.

OMG teh ultimate urban car in fron of google campus [tinyurl.com]

@MaiaMemnon:
Why did you announce which article you were commenting on?

Perhaps it's a secret military base?

And by the way, that's a Holaday gas station bag, for the person who was wondering what kind...

thats in several random places.. but believe me just the fact of having gg street view here in the banks was already a reason for celebration..