A 30-year-old man used Google Earth to literally move mountains
and find his long-lost family after nearly three decades
of separation.  Saroo Brierley, 5-years-old, boarded the wrong
train in 1986 and accidentally arrived in Calcutta, India. The
boy found himself adopted one month later and then grew up in
Australia. Roughly 25 years flew by without any way of knowing
where he came from or how he could find his family.  With time,
came technology. Using Google Earth, coupled with basic math to
find the radius of Calcutta and the length of that fateful train
ride, Brierley pinpointed his birth city.  “It was just like
being Superman. You are able to go over and take a photo
mentally and ask, ‘Does this match?’ And when you say, ‘No’, you
keep on going and going and going,” he told BBC News.
Amazingly, Brierley finally visited his native town of Khandwa
about two months ago and found his mother alive. Go to BBC
iPlayer to hear the full story, which publishers and film
producers are allegedly pining after.