Area 51: The verdict

[PlixTixiplik]

Can we locate it on google earth?

I'd be interested to see the [?] hole, or fake texture photoshop'd over the site.

Just type "Area 51" into the search field. You can see the softball diamond and everything. It's cool to look at, but the collapse craters from the underground nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site to the southwest are cooler, in my opinion. Type in "sedan crater" to the search. There are lots more in that area too.

-MEC

 

[Jadzia]

Can we locate it on google earth?

I'd be interested to see the [?] hole, or fake texture photoshop'd over the site.

Just type "Area 51" into the search field. You can see the softball diamond and everything. It's cool to look at, but the collapse craters from the underground nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site to the southwest are cooler, in my opinion. Type in "sedan crater" to the search. There are lots more in that area too.

-MEC

These things?

I feel quite subdued looking at these craters to be honest, knowing what it represents. It's not so cool.

 

[judge alba]

blimey! wasn't expecting that many. Kinda makes me wonder how we can spend the billions on war but very little (it seems ) on life

 

[PlixTixiplik]

Can we locate it on google earth?

I'd be interested to see the [?] hole, or fake texture photoshop'd over the site.

Just type "Area 51" into the search field. You can see the softball diamond and everything. It's cool to look at, but the collapse craters from the underground nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site to the southwest are cooler, in my opinion. Type in "sedan crater" to the search. There are lots more in that area too.

-MEC

These things?

I feel quite subdued looking at these craters to be honest, knowing what it represents. It's not so cool.

Those are them. Most don't look like your prototypical crater because they were underground tests, so what you see are essentially subsidence or collapse rings. The big one that actually looks like a nice crater at the upper right (northeast) end of the chain is the Sedan test - it was part of a program intended to test the use of nuclear weapons for peaceful purposes, like excavating canals and whatnot (Operation Ploughshare).

-MEC