Re: Google Earth

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:18:11 -0600, Pat Flannery wrote
(in article <11rdir4i0ddsu51@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

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> Von Fourche wrote:
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>> "Herb Schaltegger" <herb.schaltegger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>> message news:0001HW.BFDC049C02FC8587F0284550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>>> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 00:19:08 -0600, Pat Flannery wrote
>>> (in article <11rc8mtf1t5gm25@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
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>>>> 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.
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>>> 33 36'14.97"N, 106 35'27.39"W
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>> That image is what I was talking about in my other post. It's South
>> West of Trinity.
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> THANKS! That's just the clue I needed!
> It's the base camp for the Trinity test as shown on this map:
> http://www.mbe.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/images/TrinitySiteMapLarge.jpg
> That's about 10 miles SW from ground zero; and that's just where it's
> located.
> The image also lines up nicely with the lava beds to the WSW.
>
> Pat

I don't think so. It's too big, the scale is wrong, it's too close to
Ground Zero (per the map you link to) and there's no plausible reason
why it should remain so well-delineated after so long. I suspect that
perhaps the base camp was somewhere near the southwest edge of the Big
Square there 60 years ago, but that the area was used for something
else more recently.

--
Herb

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

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