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The US Army has hired a software gaming company to build a computer simulation of the entire earth. The "second earth" will help it to help plan future conflicts, according to BBC News: "The detailed simulation will be drawn from a real-world terrain database and will be drawn to the same scale as the original. ... There is planning to model the entire planet at the proper scale so it would be possible to walk across the United States if participants wanted to. However, currently the virtual Earth is almost bare as the only thing modelled in any detail is part of Kuwait City." Does this sound like over-ambitious folly to anyone else?