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How much do you think Satoshi likes: Google Earth?

Let's post poll questions like these and see the results.
This may tell us more about the members of this forum than of Satoshi.
But let's do it, for the sake of it. Maybe Satoshi will laugh at the results and will ultimately help us figure it out better.

To start with let's ask from 1 to 10, how much Satoshi likes and/or would rank Google Earth as a great technology.

Please add your comments and make your own polls with other questions like this.

I have a theory about why Satoshi disappeared.

It coincidentelly ties in with the following list of Things Satoshi Probably Dislikes.

Things Satoshi Probably dislikes:
- being worshipped like a god
- idiotic fanboyism
- stalkers

AWSOME-O kidnapped him..

With all the experts around here at tracking people's real identities down, I find it interesting no one ever found out who he is or what happened to him. 

If someone knew who he was, do you think they would go around telling everybody?

Why not? 

Only a very non-empathic person would do that like say a lawyer or something. The guy stopped appearing under his alias for a reason. I've outlined the very probably reasons above.

No, I'm not an empath.  You're correct about that.  I am quite empathetic however.  My interest is that maybe he didn't voluntarily choose to disappear, as there is (to my knowledge) no indication that he did.  Perhaps he died is basically what I'm getting at.  

I really didn't mean to come across as callous.  If he chose to disappear, then obviously his privacy and wish should be respected. 

The devs have never even hinted that the circumstances of his disappearance or unknown or that he suddenly went MIA with no explanation, so I'm inclined to believe that he made them aware that he was going to drop off the radar.  His second last post made it clear that he wasn't happy about people trying to create a link between Bitcoin and Wikileaks because he thought that it would attract the wrong kind of attention to Bitcoin.

He did choose to disappear.  I believe he worked with theymos on achieving it.  The only one here who I know of who might know his true identity is theymos...  but I wasn't around while he was here either, only a few months after the fact.

Ah, clearly I was ignorant to that fact when I made my original post "Why not?"  In that case, obviously no one should reveal his identity.  Thanks for letting me know. 

I think out of respect for the man and what he accomplished if nothing else.

Or, you could subscribe to the theory that satoshi is actually an organization of some sort.

I do make the guess that he is at least from the US, based on the times of his postings.  He would have had to have been awake at very unreasonable hours of the day if he was based in Japan.