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Bing Maps has a better aerial view of the antenna site in the OP
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# ¿ Dec 1, 2010 21:15 |
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# ¿ Mar 19, 2024 03:15 |
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psyopmonkey posted:You should be more interested in the circle of trees to the south east of the building. Beowulfs_Ghost posted:http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=46.007172,-123.261623&spn=0.008331,0.017338&t=h&z=16 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.
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# ¿ Dec 2, 2010 00:04 |
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Revol posted:What the hell? It looks like a blackout covering something, but what would be in the middle of Greenland?
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# ¿ Dec 2, 2010 21:07 |
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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. 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.
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# ¿ Dec 3, 2010 06:15 |
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DocBubonic posted:I'd like to know what this thing is. 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. 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
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# ¿ Dec 3, 2010 16:26 |
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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
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# ¿ Dec 3, 2010 18:10 |
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Blind Rasputin posted:I hear there is some bunker complex somewhere where all the world's seeds are kept in case of some catastrophe? We gotta find it on google maps. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/sites2.pl
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# ¿ Dec 4, 2010 19:23 |
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MiddleNotch posted:51.444841,29.759295
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# ¿ Dec 15, 2010 17:27 |
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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: 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.
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# ¿ Dec 22, 2010 20:30 |
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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.
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# ¿ Dec 22, 2010 23:20 |
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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.
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# ¿ Apr 22, 2011 03:21 |
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theangryamoeba posted:Drugs are bad...
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# ¿ May 13, 2011 14:28 |
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Mo Schmuck posted:For content: http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=qv9ncm8579ww&lvl=19.765017132492694&dir=266.32554649811266&sty=b&form=LMLTCC
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# ¿ Aug 13, 2011 01:00 |
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Not Nipsy Russell posted:So here's my question. What the gently caress is this thing on the southern edge of the big field?
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# ¿ Aug 16, 2011 14:30 |
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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.
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# ¿ Aug 30, 2011 01:00 |
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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://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=ps...523&form=LMLTCC
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# ¿ Oct 6, 2011 01:16 |
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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.
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# ¿ Dec 21, 2011 01:05 |
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Liku posted:How radiated is the place, and I assume exploring it is still trespassing? 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.
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# ¿ Dec 23, 2011 04:11 |
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Lord Solitare posted:Maybe even deeper than that. Don't structures need to have about 1/3 of their height underground for support? 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.
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# ¿ Feb 8, 2012 18:45 |
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giznot posted:My hometown of San Diego has a crapload of cool military stuff to view from above.
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# ¿ Jun 6, 2012 02:25 |
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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.
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# ¿ Dec 1, 2012 00:44 |
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Filthy Luker posted:What is this, does anyone know? There doesn't seem to be any meaningful explanation to be found anywhere.
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# ¿ Dec 26, 2012 22:58 |
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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?
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# ¿ Mar 2, 2013 17:57 |
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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.
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2013 19:52 |
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Prettz posted:Another thing I'm not sure has been posted already, but it's perfect for this thread:
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# ¿ Apr 19, 2013 03:07 |
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WaryWarren posted:Here is the "street view" of an Emirates A380. http://goo.gl/maps/SaUZu
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# ¿ Aug 4, 2013 17:38 |
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Earwicker posted:Has this been posted here yet? If not I'm very curious http://englishrussia.com/2009/11/05/way-out-places/
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# ¿ Aug 6, 2013 05:27 |
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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.
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# ¿ Sep 2, 2013 06:24 |
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If I learned anything from the X Files, those structures on top are full of bees.
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# ¿ Sep 4, 2013 14:27 |
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Hipster_Doofus posted:Whoaaa... that is amazingly seamless. How do they do that?
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# ¿ Sep 5, 2013 02:20 |
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MisterOblivious posted:While we're on the subject of Cold War era military installations this place now officially exists. 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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkYlIA7mgw
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# ¿ Oct 8, 2013 22:43 |
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SyHopeful posted:This local papermill has a similar setup.
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# ¿ Oct 30, 2013 22:05 |
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# ¿ Mar 19, 2024 03:15 |
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copy of a posted:
http://goo.gl/maps/u3nbt
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