Virtual earth may refer to:
- Virtual ground - the node of an electrical circuit that is maintained at a steady reference potential, without being connected directly to the reference potential.
- Microsoft Virtual Earth - a technology framework used in interactive online mapping applications such as Live Search Maps.
Famous quotes containing the words virtual and/or earth:
“Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary.... He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)