Re: Google Earth



Herb Schaltegger wrote:

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



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On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:53:56 -0600, Herb Schaltegger
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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.



If you ever run into a thing that looks like a Star Of David with the points rounded, that's a SA-2 "Guideline" SAM site.
It's very distinctive: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/Sa2site.jpg
These were the "flying telephone poles" from Vietnam, and the missile that downed Francis Gary Powers' U-2.

Pat
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