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GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


Bing Maps has a better aerial view of the antenna site in the OP

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Jan 2, 2005


psyopmonkey posted:

You should be more interested in the circle of trees to the south east of the building.
Do you mean the building is less interesting than a circle of trees, or that there's something interesting (underground building?) about those trees?

Beowulfs_Ghost posted:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=46.007172,-123.261623&spn=0.008331,0.017338&t=h&z=16

Noticed this while looking for areas to go mushroom hunting.

I'm guessing it has to do with the natural gas facility located near the town of Mist.

Looks like it's just an incomplete image. Google Maps gives copyright credit to Digital Globe, GeoEye, State of Oregon, USGS, and USDA Farm Survey. Bing has complete satellite photos of the area and credits AND, NAVTEQ, and USGS.

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


Revol posted:

What the hell? It looks like a blackout covering something, but what would be in the middle of Greenland?
Look to the left side of it, that row is its own satellite pass taken at a different time and is missing some frames.

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


Trubadurix posted:

It looks weird, but the explanation is quite simple and boring. The two guys in the diving suits are friends of the google-car driver, so they knew when the car was going to pass...and staged this.
I'm pretty sure that's the town that organized fun and unusual stuff all over for the Google cars to spot.

Dacke posted:

I found a small graveyard of ships just south of Chernobyl but that's about it. I'm assuming that these were some irradiated ships they used for transport to/from the plant.
Those ships ran at least to Kiev, I can't remember but I think the river is deep and wide enough that most of them could make it all the way out to the Mediterranean Sea. There were problems for years because people would go into the Exclusion Zone illegally and strip parts from decommissioned vehicles, some of which were those ships, then sell the parts cheap to people who had no idea they were contaminated and still radioactive.

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


DocBubonic posted:

I'd like to know what this thing is.



Its a big concrete circle in the middle of a Nature Preserve. Baker's Lake Nature Preserve (42.141817,-88.117471)just south of Barrington Illinois.
I found a Yelp review that mentions a "historic round barn," I would guess that's the foundation. I can't find anything else on it because it's a bird habitat for species including the barn owl, making searches pretty much useless.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/bakers-lake-nature-preserve-barrington

Perestroika posted:

I'm not an aviator or anything, so take this with a brick of salt.

But I'd guess that a hole this size causes a pretty significant downwash when air passes over it.
So a strong wind might cause a pretty big turbulence around the edge which might be strong enough to force a helicopter down.

Alternatively, it might have something to do with the downwash from the helicopter itself, and the hole causes the air-stream to travel back up the sides of the hole when it hits the ground and then somehow it folds back down upon the helicopter.

Just guessing at this point, hopefully there's somebody here with a firmer grip on aerodynamics.
This says air currents but I can't find any primary sources.
http://www.abazias.com/diamondblog/diamond-industry/a-brief-history-of-the-worlds-largest-open-pit-diamond-mine

It's way too big for rotor wash to be the problem, my best educated guess is that it's similar to a lee wave

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


One awesome thing I found that I forgot to mention about that Russian diamond mine is that the Soviet engineers tackled the problem of permafrost by thawing the land with jet engines so they could mine it :black101:

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


Blind Rasputin posted:

I hear there is some bunker complex somewhere where all the world's seeds are kept in case of some catastrophe? :tinfoil: We gotta find it on google maps.
It's not exactly a secret. Here's a list of addresses provided by the National Plant Germplasm System.
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/sites2.pl

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


MiddleNotch posted:

51.444841,29.759295

Zoom in to find a whirlygig anomaly in action. Also follow the roads. They dead end into trees eventually.

creepy.
Congratulations on finding a cloud, I guess?

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


stealie72 posted:

To avoid complete derail, here's an abandoned amusement park outside of Cleveland. Note the GIGANTIC empty parking lot that starts in the NE corner:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...008883&t=k&z=17
This is another good one to look at in Bing Maps Bird's Eye View. If you rotate around the big wave pool, it looks like they either got one angle as it was under construction or it's being demolished now.

I was going to ask about the big funnel, and now that I know it's a waterslide, I need to find one like that somewhere around here.

Limbo posted:

It's not there, it's just a mirage.
:golfclap:

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


That's weird, you have to move around, rotate, and zoom around a bit to get to the shot I was referring to. Now that I look at it again, it's almost definitely under construction, here's a screenshot since it's a pain to bring up and I can't get a direct link to show it.

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


Going by street view and the Bing Bird's Eye View, it has a very slight curve to it and is not movable. The circle around the center looks like a phased array of receivers, and at such a shallow angle to the dish I'm guessing it's weather radar since it looks nothing like any military radar I've seen and Dallas is a pretty illogical place to put an early warning radar system.

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


theangryamoeba posted:

Drugs are bad...
It's interesting to see the IR layer in addition to the colors in these, I didn't know there was an IR component to satellite imaging.

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


Mo Schmuck posted:

For content:

http://tinyurl.com/chiplake

Another old amusement park in Northeast Ohio - Chippewa Lake Park. You can see the old parking lot, the entrance sign, an old roller coaster, and a variety of old shells of buildings. It closed in the 1970s, but there has been a lot of UrbEx documented on a lot of different sites.
You can see a fair amount more in the aerial photos Bing has. looks like a cool place and I can see why there's so much UrbEx there.
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=qv9ncm8579ww&lvl=19.765017132492694&dir=266.32554649811266&sty=b&form=LMLTCC

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


Not Nipsy Russell posted:

So here's my question. What the gently caress is this thing on the southern edge of the big field?

The future site of a kickin rad paintball field, I hope.

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


Wagonburner posted:

I'm supposed to be going to a thing at a park later and I looked up where its at on google maps.

What's up with the weird little angled grass island things in this parking lot?
They're losing like 15 or more spaces to those and the other side of the lot (click the link) and all other lots have "normal" grass islands. There's got to be some reason.

http://maps.google.com/?ll=36.08502,-95.773289&spn=0.002363,0.004629&t=h&vpsrc=0&z=18


Whatever it is, you can see signs of it being at least 15 miles long. Use the Google Maps distance measurement tool to draw a straight line, this should give you an idea of where to start.

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

So, any thoughts on these pools down at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama? Almost like they're a memorial or something.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=34.664691,-86.652523&spn=0.004302,0.006539&oe=UTF-8&t=h&z=18&vpsrc=6
The aerial view shows more detail, but I'm still not sure what either one is.
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=ps...523&form=LMLTCC

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


http://g.co/maps/vyjad

http://i.imgur.com/yUNaV.jpg

That circle is a fence enclosing an area over a mile wide.

From 1958 to 1971, the area inside that fence was a test site known as the Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory. On the original plans, it's identified as a "Lethal Fence," meaning deadly force was authorized if anyone crossed it. In the middle of that fenced off area was a 10 megawatt nuclear reactor with no shielding that was used to irradiate military equipment to test the feasibility of building nuclear-powered aircraft, and later to irradiate building materials and surrounding wildlife to determine what to expect and how to rebuild after a nuclear war.

The reactor was held in a pit where you now see a big patch of green grass. It was surrounded by a railroad loop, and rail cars of material were parked at various distances from the pit. Warning sirens would alert personnel to retreat to the large underground complex and the reactor would be hoisted out of the pit and run suspended in the air, usually for minutes or hours, but on several occasions extended runs lasting days were carried out.

Other remaining parts of the site are hot cell building where research on irradiated materials was done, and cooling-off area where rail cars of irradiated material were left to sit for a few days after being irradiated to reduce exposure of personnel to radiation. Both are fenced in and off-limits because radiation levels are elevated, although they're currently only slightly above background level.. The hot cell isn't going anywhere because its walls are 4 feet thick steel-reinforced concrete and it's a lot safer to leave it in one piece .

The underground complex is flooded and entrances are buried under huge piles of dirt, but people have dug them out and explored on many occasions.

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


Liku posted:

How radiated is the place, and I assume exploring it is still trespassing?
Outside is just above background levels, inside the hot cell is "only spend a few minutes inside" radioactive, and there are rumors of highly radioactive stuff buried at the cool-down site.

Aside from the hot cell and cool down area, it's all public space. It's used year-round for horse trails, off-road bikers, and hiking. Wear a blaze orange vest if you go during hunting season. All entrances to anything underground are buried, but the slabs you see are a mix of foundations, loading docks, and roofs of underground buildings.. There was someone on an urban exploration forum who dug out the tunnel that led to the reactor site over the course of a week and took pictures, but that was years ago and it's widely reported that authorities actively look for people discussing exploring the off-limit areas online. Most people who cory to explore and are caught are just thrown out, but there are older reports of being arrested or told to leave.

If you're considering going there, know that the remains of the underground complex are flooded and there is no public report of radiation levels inside. I think the pump house on the pond east of the hot cell is still standing and is part of the publicly accessible area. The hot cell is fenced off and the windows and doors are heavily reinforced.

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


Lord Solitare posted:

Maybe even deeper than that. Don't structures need to have about 1/3 of their height underground for support?
You need to remove at least the building's weight in dirt so it "floats" in the ground instead of sinking.

rcman50166 posted:

What about the road to the right of the test facility? It seems to zig zag for no apparent reason. There is a faded line where the road just simply used to go straight.

Edit: It's labelled Hell's Bay
Normally I would guess it's to deal with elevation changes, but I don't think they have those in Florida. There's a fence along the side of the road opposite the radar range, so probably a property line.

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


giznot posted:

My hometown of San Diego has a crapload of cool military stuff to view from above.

Here's a submarine station, you can see a few nuclear subs just hanging out having a good time. One is in drydock. Note: those barriers surrounding the sub base went up after 9/11. If your pleasure boat meanders too close, you'll be blown out of the water.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=san+d...California&z=18
Are you sure about that? Those look a lot like booms to contain oil spills.

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


I'll bet that patch of ocean is going to be photographed at the highest detail level available by every commercial satellite up there the next time it's in range.

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


Filthy Luker posted:

What is this, does anyone know? There doesn't seem to be any meaningful explanation to be found anywhere.
http://goo.gl/maps/iGVlX
http://binged.it/YJbXvk
Looks extremely secure, backing off a Coast Guard installation but not part of it.

Also this is neat:
http://goo.gl/maps/tTxwM
Didn't this building come up earlier in the thread? I'll look through and try to find it, but I think the consensus was that it was some sort of temporary holding facility.

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


LordSeXXXenb3rg posted:

At this zoom the bay near Palo Alto seems normal, but one click in, it's got a bunch of purple and bright green. More desalination?


Satellite images are false color, the original image includes near infrared and is recolored the match the visible spectrum. It looks like there was a problem processing that picture and the spectrum is misaligned. NIR is used because it brings out a huge amount of contrast between things like water and vegetation and other similarly colored surroundings.

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


Prettz posted:

Notice how a vertical strip of imagery has been deliberately blurred out. The northern island with the hole in it was the site of an unusual weapons effects test Redwing Seminole. I have no idea why someone decided it was important enough to censor. :tinfoil:
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Redwing.html#Seminole
That looks more like missing images than deliberate censorship. Either that or they didn't bother censoring it on Bing Maps because nobody uses Bing http://binged.it/115L02m

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


Prettz posted:

Another thing I'm not sure has been posted already, but it's perfect for this thread:
Top 10 Places That Aren't On Google Maps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHI-L_TZT68
The last one (Wrangel St Elias Nature Preserve) has some of the black area filled in but not all of it. There's clearly nothing being hidden there, but it gets me thinking that it would be interesting to see an interactive map with the times pictures are taken along with weather conditions and solar activity so we could see exactly what caused that kind of imaging blackout.

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


WaryWarren posted:

Here is the "street view" of an Emirates A380.

Move around the bar to see the rest of the first class cabin, which includes a shower! The lower level's coverage extends into the cockpit. Sweet bird.
Seems they used a Canon SLR instead of a normal street view camera for this one. You can also see the photographer's reflection in the shower door.
http://goo.gl/maps/SaUZu

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


Earwicker posted:

Has this been posted here yet? If not I'm very curious

http://goo.gl/maps/LTKbB



if you switch to Map view there is some text there in Russian or Kazakh maybe but I can't read it
It's an abandoned park.
http://englishrussia.com/2009/11/05/way-out-places/

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


Treasure Island is an abandoned Naval base. Those are Sage Hall and Cosson Hall, Bachelor Enlisted Quarters and Bachelor Officer Quarters (barracks for unmarried personnel) for the base.

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


If I learned anything from the X Files, those structures on top are full of bees.

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


Hipster_Doofus posted:

Whoaaa... that is amazingly seamless. How do they do that?
The companies that do aerial photos like that do everything possible to make sure the photos are taken from the same position each time, they have huge investments in software to automate the process, and they pay people really well (I think the openings are something like ~75k starting salary) to touch it up when things go wrong.

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


MisterOblivious posted:

While we're on the subject of Cold War era military installations this place now officially exists.
It certainly didn't exist in 1955 when they sent out a press release announcing its construction.

big business sloth posted:

The neat thing here is you can see a granite stone marker that was probably set up by some border-defining expedition a long time ago.
Yup, here's an interesting video on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkYlIA7mgw

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


So they're poop fountains?

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Jan 2, 2005


copy of a posted:


These giant circles are at a long-closed airport called Renyolds Air Force Base to the southwest of me. Someone once suggested they might be for blimps but these circles are HUGE (these are some of the largest runways out of all the airports in town), and there is no blimp activity ever at this airport.
Mooring circles are huge. You can see the old ones at what used to be Glynco Naval Air Station that have since had the insides paved for use as skidpads, they used to be just rings around grass fields.

http://goo.gl/maps/u3nbt

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