On this page of Ingersoll Lockwood's website there is at the bottom a animation that begins at a building and scrolls out in one continuous stream, basically out to the end of the universe. Most likely this is a cool generated graphic, but at this point, who knows. It was a very well done graphic, with changes in albedo you would expect based on distance and position with respect to the sun etc., so it used a physics engine at the least.
Regardless, I took a few screenshots as it was scrolling out and found it on Google Earth. The building it starts at is Energie-Wende-Garching; what appears to be geothermal energy plant. The building itself can be seen from the front (as opposed to the top on google earth) in the first picture.
It doesn't really look like the image from Ingersoll Lockwood, though it is the same size, and that may have been done at a time prior to the addition of the solar roof (which makes it look pyramidal from the top).
What I found interesting is that right next door is the Max Planck institute of Quantum Optics, as well as other various places of interest like an observatory, Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics, etc.
Just thought I would share something interesting. No connection to anything really, except of course that IF a system that can see possible futures exists it could very well have been developed at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics.
OMG Slyver you've done it again, thanks as always for the thought provoking read.
Im in love with your mind, are you a single male?
Male yes, single no. :)
Thank you for the compliment!
You're most welcome.
It seems all the good ones are taken :|.