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GuestBob posted:Anglo Saxon forest porn, also known as Cerne Abbas Man or the Rude Giant. Sorry to say this, but he's probably not a lot older than the 16-1700s, by most experts' reckoning because the earliest record of his existence is in 1694. For an actual bronze-age chalk drawing try the White Horse which has been dated to between 1400 and 600 BC, and appears on iron-age coins, amongst other sources. Also for some reason someone in Mexico decided to replicate it
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Looking around the desert is a pretty interesting thing to do. But I've found this http://goo.gl/maps/ytfa and I'm not sure what it is, there's several roads with either holes of piles, and more to the west are ridges along the ground. Anyone have any ideas? e: wait I see now that they're trenches, but still.. why? edit again: I found something similar to California City http://goo.gl/maps/c6dN Jezrael fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Apr 23, 2011 |
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Apr 23, 2011 12:29
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Jezrael posted:Looking around the desert is a pretty interesting thing to do. The holes are in available data, not in the ground.
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LO Technology posted:The holes are in available data, not in the ground. What holes? All I see is the shadows of steep hills and trees....
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This is a bit rear end-backwards to the thread, as I started off looking for something interesting and ended up with a very dull Google Map. Boring, but it's a 5-minute drive from my house and I never knew of it until quite recently. It seems not many other people here do either. The gray strip of rectangular boringness and the green mound just south of it are nondescript features in a small industrial park on the outskirts of an unremarkable town. They're also the entry point and ventilation system for Northern Ireland's Regional Seat of Government Bunker, a long-term underground survival centre for the lucky 350 people tasked with running the country in the event of an all-out nuclear strike on the UK. I find it remarkable because it really is the most mundane setting; there's a clothing factory and some other local industries and not much else. No high-tech security systems or patrolling guards with guns or anything. I reckon if I push the speed limit I can probably get there before the 4-minute attack warning ends.
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The city of Agdam in Azerbaijan, formerly with a population of more than 150,000, was depopulated in 1993 during the Nagorno-Karabkh war and stands today in ruins: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.993056,46.930556&spn=0.1,0.1&t=h&q=39.993056,46.930556
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Devil Wears Wings posted:See these houses on a remote Antarctic island? That's Villa Las Estrellas, the largest civilian settlement in Antarctica. (Though that's not saying much, since it only supports a little over 100 people.) One of the most remote places on earth, and yet we're still managing to screw it up! http://10000birds.com/oil-spill-threatens-birds-in-tristan-da-cunha.htm
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Devil Wears Wings posted:See these houses on a remote Antarctic island? That's Villa Las Estrellas, the largest civilian settlement in Antarctica. (Though that's not saying much, since it only supports a little over 100 people.) A goon posted about his stays at an outpost on Antarctica... Is this the same place?
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Devil Wears Wings posted:
I'm super curious as to why there's a long-rear end road that goes way down the coast and just ends at what looks like the mouth of a very narrow valley.
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Zombie Samurai posted:I'm super curious as to why there's a long-rear end road that goes way down the coast and just ends at what looks like the mouth of a very narrow valley. I'm guessing that is where they leave the goats and virgins for the island god to eat. or perhaps there used to be something there before the last eruption.
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Since people seem to be interested in little remote towns in fuckoff nowhere (and since they're sort of a fascination of mine), here's some more: Grise Fiord, Ellesmere Island, Canada - About 150 people living on an island that's basically a gigantic Arctic desert. Qaanaaq, Greenland - Zoom out to get an idea of exactly how far north this place is. And it supports a little over 600 people. Hanga Roa, Easter Island - Most people know of Easter Island already because of the famous Moai, but even in terms of Pacific islands, it's really out there. The closest inhabited place is tiny Pitcairn Island, which lies about 1200 miles away. The island supports just under 4,000 people, with most of them living in Hanga Roa. Georgetown, St. Helena - Sort of the "sister island" to Tristan de Cunha. It supports more people - a little over 1000 - but it's almost as hard to get to, being about half-way in between Brazil and Angola. There's really not much out there in the Atlantic, so it's fascinating to think about people living on one of the few islands there. Devil Wears Wings fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Apr 25, 2011 |
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I love hearing about these tiny isolated islands in the middle of nowhere. So here's another: St Kilda. Out in the Atlantic, beyond the Western Isles of Scotland, it's a reasonable size - enough to support almost 200 people, and nothing like as far away as the islands posted above. But it's in very rough seas, and the island is too windy for trees to grow - so the locals couldn't build boats. That meant they've been regularly cut off from the mainland - sometimes for 50-100 years at a time.
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Inspector_71 posted:I love this. I am totally fascinated by these ridiculously remote outposts of civilization, even though much like you I know I'll never get to (or honestly really want to given my predilection for modern technology) visit them. But they have such a hopping nightlife!
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Schnozzberry posted:Any info on these? I searched for the nearest "large" cities of each on google maps and couldn't find out why there are so many unused roads. Re: http://goo.gl/maps/E3U1 I'm not too familiar with the first linked "ghost" city in New Mexico, the one slightly east of Belen. The other is the plans for the undeveloped part of Rio Rancho. It's a little weird, but the city of Rio Rancho is planned to take up all the space listed on that map, and then some. The zip codes of the city go all the way north to Rt 550, and probably beyond until it hits the border for tribal lands. They are very slowly developing it all, and the actual city center just got some new construction in it with a Hewlett Packard office. This is interesting because almost all the construction to date has been in the South East part of the city, so while these builds are purported to be in the city center they are in fact in the middle of the drat desert. There are a few other notable cool things in the area. Neglecting Kirkland AFB and all the fun that comes with a combined AFB and national lab (Sandia), you can get the Valley of Fires which is apparently a huge lava flow, despite looking like water when zoomed out. At the south end of it is white sands missile range, Holloman AFB, and the white sands national monument. If we head just a touch west of the national monument we get to what is either a super isolated landing strip, or another of the previously mentioned radar profiling centers if I had to take a guess. I honestly have no idea what it is. It lacks the tapered shape of the other centers, but I can't imagine what else you'd build out there.
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The Valley of Fires looks the the Zerg Creep when you zoom all the way in, yeech.
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52°20'10.76" N 0°11'43.20" W (you may have to go into Historical View to see it) An old favorite: a Lancaster bomber found by a guy looking at his neighborhood 
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PainterofCrap posted:52°20'10.76" N 0°11'43.20" W (you may have to go into Historical View to see it)  If this is real, it must have been staged. Right?
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Slanderer posted:
It's quite possible a bomber was flying over a town in 2003 and was snapped by the satellites.
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Slanderer posted:
From the direction, looks like it took off from Luton airport http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA474
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Well it looks like there are only 2 airworthy Lancasters still in existence, and one's in Canada, so that pretty much narrows it down. We can even pretty much figure out exactly which Lancaster it is. That is amazingly badass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancaster_bomber#Surviving_aircraft wikipedia:Battle of Britain Memorial Flight posted:....part of No. 1 Group RAF, flying out of RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire.... I don't know that much about the geography of England; is Lincolnshire anywhere near where that was taken? ... So cool. edit: Beaten, I guess. V  V
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I found this field art near the airport the Canadian Lancaster flies out of. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...006936&t=h&z=18 At the museum their Dakota is parked outside. Those interested in classic jetliners should look around the airfield, it's full of 727s. This airport has a lot of cargo jet traffic. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...003468&t=h&z=19
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Devil Wears Wings posted:See these houses on a remote Antarctic island? That's Villa Las Estrellas, the largest civilian settlement in Antarctica. (Though that's not saying much, since it only supports a little over 100 people.) Just to add to add some history to Saint Helena. Napolean was exiled on this very island.
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I found an angel in Zittau, Germany. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...001993&t=h&z=20 It's just a reflection off a plane or something, obviously, but I really like the shape of the light.
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Strange alien heiroglyphs on a hillside in Salisbury http://goo.gl/maps/JgiA Actually, regimental symbols, which apparently have to still be maintained by some poor sod from the local area. They did make me almost swerve off the road when I first drove past them
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HauntedRobot posted:Strange alien heiroglyphs on a hillside in Salisbury http://goo.gl/maps/JgiA Why doesn't he like that YMCA one?
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http://goo.gl/maps/bgUn This is a town that my brother and I stumbled upon during a road trip from PA to CA. We were venturing off the highway to check out something farther north. We came up to the train tracks on the south side of town and waited for the train to pass, went over the tracks (raised up) and then came upon this town - Bushnell, NE. If you look closely at the satelite view, you can see that the town's roads are brown. Yup, they're dirt and gravel. Once you go over the train tracks and start into the town, the pavement ends and the gravel begins. It's not a bad sized city, there' just nothing around (including businesses), and we could not figure out how ANYONE of them really supported themselves except the postmaster. We got a video of us driving through the town, I'll try to find it. e: The giant structure we were going to check out. We spotted it about 5 miles away: http://goo.gl/maps/ZrxV jvick fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Apr 28, 2011 |
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SyHopeful posted:I've always wondered why Lake Baikal has a superhighway disappearing into its depths... This got me interested, and disappointingly all sources have indicated this: quote:It appears to be an imaging error. The data for that part of the image was corrupted. Ah well, I suppose we'll have to settle for the Gravina Island Bridge if we want a bridge going nowhere but a dead end in the middle of a lake. 
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jvick posted:http://goo.gl/maps/bgUn Well, what was it? You drove way out of your way to get there, why not bother telling the internet what it was. Hope it's something awesome.
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This: http://goo.gl/maps/bQHF is the final resting place of the reactor compartments of the U.S. Navy's nuclear powered vessels. All the other parts are chopped off and the compartments are sealed and transported here. I always thought it was kinda cool.
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BuddyChrist posted:This: That is a really cool image. It looks kind of like a giant computer keyboard.
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http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...5,0.016512&z=17 Some city planners really love Christmas songs
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Urkey posted:http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...5,0.016512&z=17 I have to admit, living at the corner of Dasher and Dancer would be pretty cool.
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Limbo posted:I have to admit, living at the corner of Dasher and Dancer would be pretty cool. I used to live at the corner of Hunter and Thompson, I always thought that was kind of neat.
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BuddyChrist posted:This: Hey that's right by where I grew up  There's all sorts of WWII- and Cold War-era stuff around the Hanford Site. The Plutonium for Fat Man was made there.Nearby, in Rattlesnake Mountain there used to be a missile base. As I recall, the underground portions of the base were then converted to bunkers for important Hanford Site people in case of Soviet attack, and then were used for some vibration-sensitive gravity studies. Above-ground portions of the site were converted into an observatory (the silver dome on Maps is the telescope), but basically everything has been destroyed or relocated now as of 2010 to let it go back to nature. Rattlesnake is also the tallest treeless mountain in the US 
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Wow looking at Rattlesnake Mountain, I went towards Canada and thought it was odd that this little spot of land was not Canadian Territory, which prompted me to look into what the deal is with Point Roberts. Weird.
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Urkey posted:http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...5,0.016512&z=17 Stuff like that happens all over the place. Off hand here in Albuquerque and the surrounding neighborhoods I can think of streets named for: States, Generals, Sailing terminology, Wines, Metals, and probably a bunch of other groups of roads with themed names. And then there's the NE part of town where they just gave naming rights to streets to people with a ton of money, so you get tons of "Jessie St" and the like as people name side streets after their children. Edit: Remembered some more stuff, neighborhoods with streets named for: Astronomy terms, Birds, Horses and other wild west type things, Clouds, Trees, a separate -wood neighborhood with names like Redwood, Sandalwood, and Sherwood... Basically it's all over the place. I don't know if this is unique to this city, but drat is it everywhere here. Olothreutes fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Apr 29, 2011 |
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The Scientist posted:Well, what was it? You drove way out of your way to get there, why not bother telling the internet what it was. Hope it's something awesome. Yeah, I thought the point of the thread was to guess what it is? ;-) But really it was an absolute let down. It was just a stupid cell antenna. The town was a way more cool find than the antenna. It was just kinda cool being way out in the middle of nowhere rural NE.
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Beowulfs_Ghost posted:I stumbled across this thing a couple years ago when looking into taking a trip to eastern Oregon. Some coworkers had mentioned the sand dunes outside of the small town of Christmas Valley, and the near by "Lost Forest" sounded pretty interesting. This is really really really cool, and it led me to find some other neat things. The global security link mentions the receiver being somewhere near Tule Lake, California, so I went searching. No luck on the receiver yet but: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...013733&t=h&z=17 Some letters http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...027466&t=h&z=16 Some planes
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jvick posted:That bottom plane looks fake - no windows... Very interesting. It's flying over water so maybe that's a reflection?
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