Re: Google Earth

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:33:44 -0600, James Nowotarski wrote
(in article
<IrFtf.389013$zb5.53016@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

> Don't forget there was a lot of ground level work done at Trinity after the
> big boom, just to find out what exactly happens. Isn't all of the Trinitite
> gone, for that reason?
> -
> Jim

The imagery Pat linked to in the other sub-thread show the area in much
higher resolution and are probably of more recent vintage. As Pat
suggests, those images seem to show that the entire inner area appears
to have been cleaned or turned in a circular fashion - there appears to
be grooves or runnels throughout the whole area, perhaps in preparation
for some future use that might require relatively clean terrain. A
new, calibrated test range of some sort? There are a variety of new
deep-earth penetrator weapons under design currently - perhaps this
large circular area is being prepped and instrumented for tests of
those? Or perhaps it's a bounded-off disposal area for
lightly-contaminated surface materials from other locations? Who
knows. I did find a reference to it being called the "Stallion
W.I.T." but nothing much more.

Either way, Terraserver's images are higher res and more recent, but
damn, I love being able to scroll and move around so fluidly in Google
Maps on broadband and let me tell you, flying around the world in
Google Earth is damn near hypnotic! If you haven't tried that app, you
really should.

--
Herb

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

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