Re: Google Earth


"Herb Schaltegger" <herb.schaltegger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 00:19:08 -0600, Pat Flannery wrote
> (in article <11rc8mtf1t5gm25@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
>
>>
>> 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.
>
> Speaking of weird, mysterious *** in the middle of the desert, plug
> these lat/long coordinates into your favorite imaging program and tell
> me what you see. Anyone got a clue what the hell this huge, white
> square surrounded by an even bigger ring road in the middle of White
> Sands is? I mean, this thing is HUGE. You make it out from over a
> hundred miles high.
>
> 33 36'14.97"N, 106 35'27.39"W



That image is what I was talking about in my other post. It's South
West of Trinity.





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