Google Maps Finds Heaven in Brooklyn?

Some have long argued that Google is in the midst of taking over the world, but has the giant media company actually tapped into the otherworld?

An image from Google Maps' Street View has people wondering just what is going on on 9th Street in Carroll Gardens.

Buzzfeed first reported the heavenly sight in Brooklyn, saying that "this isn't the first strange thing ever captured by Google Maps' Street View, but it might be the most other-worldly."

Meanwhile the New York Times dug a little deeper into the story and received a follow-up e-mail from Google spokeswoman Elaine Filadelfo that said, "If you spin around in the panorama, you can see the shadow of the car which indicates that the sun was pretty direct on that front lens... These are not uncommon in Street View imagery, but they're usually much less dramatic!"

Even if the company's explanation is not to be believed, the truth of the matter is that it seems highly unlikely that Heaven on Earth would happen anywhere near the Gowanus Canal.

Photographic proof(?) below:

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Comments

[WilliamProc]

Heaven is a little coffeehouse in Holland, great SA coffee and 'dro at reasonable prices.

I personally plan to die and go there.

[ywcachieve]

I have seen that on google maps in different cities, and thought the same thing. Oh this is celestial.­...hahahah­aha

[Symphysodon]

It's called the Sun. It's the big fiery sphere in the center of our Solar System. For those Creationists out there, it's the place where Jesus and the Angels live and it's only 6,000 years old.

[ipv4]

lollololol

[Dark-Passenger]

Come on people. Is a glare on a camera lense really news worthy

[RevSpaminator]

Heaven, in Brooklyn, yeah...

[kwinter]

-- "Even if the company's explanation is not to be believed, the truth of the matter is that it seems highly unlikely that Heaven on Earth would happen anywhere near the Gowanus Canal."

The perfectly reasonable explanation is "not to be believed" ... but the ridiculous explanation, is only "highly unlikely" (but not unbelievable)?

[susanava]

Wow. The real question is why they used the picture where the sun blots out the street. What, no stories of Jesus in the pancakes?

[Tulka2]

Our year-old grandson lives there. Portents and omens. lol It would not surprise his grandparents.

[DavePotts]

People aren't really that stupid.

Are they?

[TazoWolf]

Did you watch the crazy Santa Cruz woman? Sarah Palin? Orly Taitz? Yeah. People can be that stupid.

[gevan]

But the Dodgers found heaven in Los Angeles.

[gevan]

If lens flare is proof of an afterlife, then we may all be dead already and just don't realize it.

[714Day]

Heaven isn't in Greenpoint or Williamsburg? That's a hell of a situation.

[Mikeo340]

God in Brooklyn? I thought we were all hedonistic, gay-loving, little anti-christs corrupting this Christian nation from the inside out, or maybe it was socialist communist fascists (if that even means anything to anyone outside of those who like to go to Town Hall meetings these days)??

Maybe He is just doing some advanced scouting for the eventual fire and brimstone. :-)

Thankfully, despite the heavenly appearance I don't think we have to worry about an influx of the 700 Club. A majority of my neighbors are people who are comfortable with thought so I doubt they'd ever be able to fit in.

[dswansoniceman]

Well DUH

[Lochmon]

Didn't we see that identical scene near the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey?