Re: Google Earth

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 20:55:51 -0600, Von Fourche wrote
(in article <Xqmtf.4484$R84.3383@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

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> "OM" <om@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:llpbr1trc14r8tg8c5cbs809susntefpov@xxxxxxxxxx
>> On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:53:56 -0600, Herb Schaltegger
>> <herb.schaltegger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:48:41 -0600, Von Fourche wrote
>>> (in article <dPitf.1602$Hl6.1542@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks. I'm trying to find where the U.S. did that Trinity Test at
>>>> the
>>>> White Sands Proving Ground but cant' find it on google earth.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Try punching in these lat/long coordinates directly:
>>>
>>> 33.676786 N, 106.475286 W
>>
>> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=33.676786+N,+106.475286+W&spn=0.025852,0.08153
>> 9&t=k&iwloc=A&hl=en
>>
>> ,,,However, the image isn't that great, and doesn't go down to a
>> resolution where you can see the outlines of the blast site and the
>> surrounding roads.
>
> Thanks for the map. Found it on Google Earth! But, what is that thing
> 8.8 miles south west of Trinity? Is that another test site? It's another
> circle but it's bigger.
>

Without looking at the moment I can't say what any particular feature
is. However, if you look through that whole area (especially the
areas in the Nevada Test Range in the vicinity of Nellis AFB and the
infamous "Area 51") there are all sorts of fun things: bomb ranges with
dummy airfields and SAM sites, thousands of craters, roads running for
miles and leading to bunkers and radar ranges, and odd, bright green
circular patches of irrigated land in the middle of vast wastelands of
desert. Fodder for thousands of conspiracy nuts worldwide, in all
their tinfoil hat-making paranoia. Oh, and Google for the "Sedan"
nuclear test crater - it's pretty impressive.

--
Herb

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
~ RAH

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