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- glock22ownr, on 10/12/2007, -6/+167 US Government Rental Property For Sale ! Don't Miss This Glowing Opportunity !
- sugarbearcsa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+58If you open google maps to this location. Turn on google Earth Community layer. People have list every crater that is a know bomb or nuke bomb and some information on it... Here a screen shot with the information from the big one at the top
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/151/342291517_99c92c734d_o.jpg - MacSawD, on 10/12/2007, -9/+57Most of the nuclear testing that I believe was done there was underground, the explosions were very large but mostly contained by the ground. They could be conventional weapons, but, conventional weapons don't usually leave craters that survive years or weather and water erosion. They also don't create much glass, and from the pictures, the black material inside the craters reminds me of lightning glass, the kind of glass you find on the beach after a lightning storm or whatnot.
To be honest, I just thought they were cool, and at the time, thought Nukes could only be responsible for such dirt displacement :D - mikesbaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32"how can you be sure that these are not simply really big conventional bombs?"
This is how.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site - threepio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31MY EYES!!!! These GOGGLES do NOTHING!!
- gagravaar, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26Poor Earth...
- t00lman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23Department of Energy's Nevada Test Site
http://www.nv.doe.gov
Pictures and films can be ordered from them too. - chrono13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20My friend 'Reality' says your friend sucks:
"The Yucca Flat area of the Nevada Test Site is scarred with subsidence craters from underground nuclear testing."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nevada_Test_Site_craters.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidence_craters - skydivingdutch, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23The land where the giant mushrooms grow.
- jhshukla, on 10/12/2007, -15/+32how can you be sure that these are not simply really big conventional bombs. the biggest crater (north center) is about 400m wide i.e. diameter. MOAB (search youtube) produces (i believe) a blast radius of ~1500 yards. or it could be half of that. still that is almost 2x bigger than 400m wide crater.
- tulsakev, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15What I find most amazing is the number of people who have left comments doubting that these features are actually the result of underground nuclear testing. That’s almost as out of touch with reality as to deny the holocaust or that we actually put people on the moon. I can only figure that these commentors are either too young to remember the nuclear testing that went on in the Nevada desert or else they slept through history class. No. These craters are not the result of conventional bombs or irrigation
- drbroccoli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Holes in the ground.
- waveman216, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Read comments above, then decide if your comment is even relevant.
- david76, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Crops. They have a sprinkler which rotates around a central axis which creates a circle of irrigated land.
- david76, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I suspect the blast radius is reduced because it's detonated underground. What you see is the radius of ground which was upheaved due to the detonation. Since ground is more dense than air, the blast radius is smaller.
- subtle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10In Soviet Russia ... oh, never mind
- MacSawD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Oh, that site is awesome. I think http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/photos/photodetails.aspx?ID=799 might be the northmost crater that I saw via Google Earth.
- Kbennett, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Based on the lack of the typical bomb blast characteristics (e.g. evidence of debris from outward explosions and raised rims) these craters appear to share the outward appearance of a sinkhole; which would suggest underground explosions. I have no idea what size crater a nuclear device would create when detonated underground, but testing ordinance underground is usually reserved for non conventional weapons. An interesting find to be sure.
- Nothlit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Just so you know, the people who were discussing irrigation were in fact talking about some green patches of crops found to the north of the craters.
- SkippyDoorknob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Those are not new craters.
- mutatron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9All the historical comments such as yours are being dugg down. I think this means the average age of people reading this page is probably 12.4. Maybe they haven't had any US history classes yet?
- ij00mini, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Nuh-uh. God is playing Go.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&z=11&ll=39.742042,-115.903015&spn=0.407073,0.522537&t=k - mikesbaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I'll get you something to clean that up with.
- pixelguru, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8When you're done visiting the scars of the US nuclear program, have a look at the ghostly hulk of what is left of the Chernobyl reactor:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=chernobyl,+russia&sll=39.718325,-75.703445&sspn=0.024692,0.02974&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=51.389405,30.099438&spn=0.005008,0.010954&t=k&om=1 - Diggs, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12I prefer goggle
- skydivingdutch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Actually I am pretty sure that is underground nuke testing. I once saw a discovery channel episode on it, and that is pretty much what the aftermath looked like.
- laserman92027, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I worked at the test site in the 70's. Trust me those are weapon craters. HUGE tractor mounted drilling rigs (think shuttle crawler) moved giant drilling rigs around that area. Monstrous drill rigs dug GIANT holes in the ground. A device was more than 100 feet tall with the instrument package and very large in diameter. While the weapons were not anywhere that big the test gear was (at least that is what I surmised. They kept them in building next to the drill site hidden from view. Once the hole was ready a huge crane was brought in. It had a 2 million lb lifting capacity if I remember right. The devise was then moved into the hole while the site was cleared of unnecessary people. The next day we came back and hooked the instrumentation cables to the device package. It was then lowered down hole. The cables (mostly coax) were supported by wire cable so it wouldn't break under its own weight. I never saw the back fill as that was also secret and need to know. Another crew did it. Then all the telemetry gear was moved in (semi mounted), the site was cleared and it was fired. The test data was recorded and store on high speed data loggers in the trailer and also flashed back by microwave to a safe place. There as one test that leaked but that was a rumor.
- drbroccoli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Those would be meteorites, not asteroids. And that's a hell of a lot of 'asteroids' in one place.
- vertinox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Yeah. When when the bomb goes off, I'd prefer a nice set of goggles too.
Of course 3 inches of lead and/or 2 meters of concrete would be better. - mutatron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7If you look at Nevada in Google Earth and turn on the "Google Earth Community" checkbox, you can see a bunch of information markers which some enthusiastic GE users have kindly contributed. If you mouse over the "i" to get the name, you'll see that many of them are nuclear tests. If you click on the "i", it tells you the date of the test. A cursory examination shows the latest one to have been in 1991.
- bbnkstr, on 10/12/2007, -7/+14Google*
- tulsakev, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8These aren't impact craters, like what you get from a meteor impact. They are subsidence craters. when the bomb is detonated underground, it vaporizes many thousands of tons of rock and soil. Vaporized rock takes up way less space than the solid kind. This causes a very large and essentially empty void in the earth. The overlying soil then collapses and sinks in to fill the void. Instant crater.
- DrDoak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@mikesbaker
Thank you for the above link.
That wiki article, if everyone still hasn't NOTICED... links to almost _exactly_ the same area: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.051606,-116.030388&spn=0.11,0.18 - mikesbaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5you are wrong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site
put the coordinates in google maps 37°07′N 116°03′W and boom. nuclear test site. Not an impact range.
And I was the second gun man :p - Misogyny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5These are probably decades old.
- Absinthminded64, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Thanks for pointing this out! The casual google earth explorer could have easily mistaken this for Nevada's bad acne or the faked moon landing site!
Does anyone know if those sites are safe to be around? - _Ty_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4 tulsakev -" Vaporized rock takes up way less space than the solid kind."
Ha ha, best quote of the day! Science rules!! - sparkyarch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3DIGG for the link to http://www.nv.doe.gov Underground Testing photo section...
- nate5182, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4What are those green circles just to the north?
- thorndike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4nate5182, those are irrigation circles. These are formed by large sprinkler 'boom' (don't know the real term) that is anchored at one end. When the sprinkler is activated, it pivots around the anchored end and forms a perfect circle.
Thorndike - nyccharlie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3D'oh!
- UltraNurd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You have to get the accent right.
"Ze goggles, zey do nosink!" - blackrock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Check out this map. Really close by. Look how uniformly the craters are laid out. There are even roads going to the blast sites. There would have to be in order to drill down for an underground blast.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=&ie=UTF8&z=15&ll=37.043771,-116.024508&spn=0.021649,0.047035&t=h&om=1 - Trixrox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Are these big plants?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Chernobyl2006.jpg - whicker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3damn look at this http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=area+51&ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=37.241386,-115.822721&spn=0.002673,0.007639&t=k&om=1&iwloc=addr
- CoreBurn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Try reading the rest of the comments.
- Trogdor420, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"dudes. these are circular dry farms. they harvest wheat in circles in the desert. they plant, then water once, and then come back to harvest."
Dude, you have GOT to be kidding me. This is not any form of agriculture, it is a well known former nuclear test site. - rootryan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was wondering the same thing:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&z=12&ll=37.644685,-115.779419&spn=0.182409,0.299034&t=k - Bamborzled, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.240203,-115.818558&spn=0.1,0.1&t=k&q=37.240203,-115.818558
This is what Wikipedia says where Area 51 is.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Area+51&ie=UTF8&z=12&ll=37.249461,-115.811348&spn=0.124346,0.43396&t=k&om=1&iwloc=addr
And this is where Google Maps brings you to when you type "Area 51". - lacronicus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2well, its a simple conclusion based upon the fact that we know both have and do happen. I personally have seen videos of underground nuclear explosions, and i have no doubt that this could be one of them. its not even all that unrealistic, let alone a conspiracy theory.
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