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- contemplative, on 02/11/2008, -13/+138I'm afraid our government has permanently destroyed any credibility it ever had with regard to "satellite photos" of "weapon systems."
- inactive, on 02/11/2008, -2/+86The US was wrong. That was a Soviet LAN party. All game consoles were connected to the master server.
- glaurung, on 02/11/2008, -2/+64Come on, that looks more like a Disney cartoon! There's no explanation, no description, the image quality is dubious.
- neocognitism, on 02/11/2008, -10/+59Is it just me, or does that look much more like an illustration?
I really can't believe that's a picture of any kind. Is it a picture of russian *plans* for such a weapon? - Jarulf, on 02/11/2008, -1/+27In soviet russia, particles beam you!
- blacklabelrum, on 02/11/2008, -0/+26that looks like the intel 4004!
- Hypnos, on 02/11/2008, -0/+21What you have here is a real satellite photo with an illustration written in top of it to illustrate what they think it is. Typical Team B crap. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_b
- knowmonger, on 02/11/2008, -3/+21Its Nicola Tesla's brain child. Nicola Tesla - The Forgotten Wizard - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt8Y93k0pB0
- rpi22, on 02/11/2008, -7/+24The Strategic Defense Initiative
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Ini ...
Military embrace of 'non-lethal' energy weapons sparks debate - USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/ ...
The Active Denial System
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System
Federation of American Scientists
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/dew.htm - rpi22, on 02/11/2008, -3/+20lol, that is sooo true. But in this case there is actually a decent amount of corroborating evidence to support the photos. And if you look into the political climate at the time, the government actually tried to convince the public that this was NOT a particle beam weapon because it would suggest there was a 'death-ray gap' with the soviets.
- LeRenard, on 02/11/2008, -0/+17It looks like an illustration because it's been retouched a bit and labeled so bureaucrats would have the slightest idea what they were being shown. If you look, lots of cold war sat images look this way. I've also read that the sats use lenses that correct for parallax somewhat, which give the images an "unnatural" look to them.
- inactive, on 02/11/2008, -1/+17I don't like your definition of cool :(
- Ganja420, on 02/11/2008, -0/+16he made the tesla coil... u know the turret that shoots lightning at people in Red Alert
- rpi22, on 02/11/2008, -7/+21damn diggs crappy comment system!! I hate it when it ***** up my links! And what's the deal with editing?! grrrrr
- meez, on 02/11/2008, -2/+16The plans you refer to will soon be back in our hands.
- Jenadae, on 02/11/2008, -3/+15I hate that i always talk about this guy and no one has a clue who he is! It really is a shame.
- GiJoeBob, on 02/11/2008, -0/+12That's why I built my particle beam weapon underground.
- djsputnik, on 02/11/2008, -1/+12illustration: there is even a signature in the lower left, parallel to the road way.
- Brainmodder, on 02/11/2008, -1/+11Not particle beam weapon, just a misinterpretation of satellite photos and guesswork. See more here
http://www.fas.org/spp/eprint/keegan.htm
In fact, the Soviets were really just working on nuclear powered rockets. - inactive, on 02/11/2008, -1/+10It does look like an illustration but could be what a 1980-era sat photo with airbrushing to remove classified details looks like. That barrel bothers me though. What I wonder about is: if this is a very high energy particle accelerator, when the 'barrel' coming out of dome F were not exactly co-linear with the beam path (for 'aiming'), then the beam should seriously erode the inside of the barrel attempting to divert it. Unless the barrel is lined with some kind of electrostatic grid to repel the beam and keep it centered. But any deflection of a high energy beam from a linear path causes a lot of energy to be lost, emitted as radiation along the original axis. So the dome would become highly radioactive on each shot and more so each time. So I have to wonder about the viability of this concept as a weapon. Unless it's meant as a one-event missile defense for doomsday.
- graemee, on 02/11/2008, -4/+12LOL, all the "Star wars" project was an attempt to backrupt the USSR. It worked.
- lukak, on 02/11/2008, -0/+8so wait, you'd prefer the world to be plunged into the chaos of a horrific world war 3 played out with weapons of unimaginable destruction, rather than the current situation?
Given such a crappy range of options, I'll take the latter thank you. - the6thReplicant, on 02/11/2008, -3/+10No that's what the neocons say after the fact. They actually all believed USSR was developing new and amazing super-weapons (see Rumsfeld's Project/Plan B). None of them believed the CIA reports that the USSR was collapsing (since the mid-70s).
Sounds familiar?? - treelovinhippie, on 02/11/2008, -1/+8Looks like a intricate dog kennels.
- nojgiz, on 02/11/2008, -2/+9You mean they are spies like us?
- gummih, on 02/11/2008, -0/+7To the same extent as the wind moves mountains
- JoeB4ever, on 02/11/2008, -0/+6good o' pbs
- Spaggie, on 02/11/2008, -0/+6Google Maps shows some wierd looking stuff in that area:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=S ... - kurtwinter, on 02/11/2008, -0/+5Yeah, that would be great. Large swaths of land incinerated, millions dead, no warning. Really ***** cool.
- rpi22, on 02/11/2008, -0/+4your stupid. First, this is on pbs's website. Second, the US used special lens filters that made MOST of their pictures look like this at the time. Third, they printed out the picture and labeled significant landmarks, is that really so hard of a concept to conceive? Try doing some ***** research before opening your mouth next time.
- Terr01, on 02/11/2008, -0/+4Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerous ways, Lord Cheney. Your sad devotion to that unitary executive religion has not helped you conjure up the location of Bin Laden, or given you clairvoyance enough to find Saddam's hidden WMDs... urhg.... grrrrk!
- Dgen_X, on 02/11/2008, -3/+7They're attempting to build defenses...GET THEM!
- hitokiri808, on 02/11/2008, -1/+5I know! He was a genius / cliché mad scientist.
- Mike89, on 02/11/2008, -0/+4Dugg for Arrested Development reference.
- webcrumb, on 02/11/2008, -0/+4Cars with turrets and guns? And a testing range? Next to a military airbase? In the only patch of high-resolution photography in the area?
Some car factory... I'd hate to see the tank factories... - 4DFX, on 02/11/2008, -0/+3Sorry, nevermind. I found it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semey
- chopenik, on 02/11/2008, -0/+3Definitely military installation. I see a whole bunch of tanks.
- thcobbs, on 02/11/2008, -0/+3maybe its just a tangential exit on a vertical sub-earth particle accelerator and the wires going are the field generation lines of which you spoke.
- Zer0kill, on 02/11/2008, -3/+6You are all wrong this can be only one thing, it's a Popsicle stick factory.
- sdellboy, on 02/11/2008, -8/+11I, for one, welcome our Soviet overlords....
(phew, haven't done one of those for ages...) - inactive, on 02/11/2008, -2/+5***** guys, fire ze missiles!
- IphtashuFitz, on 02/11/2008, -1/+4Agreed. This thing looks to me like a collection of clotheslines strung out from a mobile home.
- bbardlbradd, on 02/11/2008, -2/+5Ion Cannon Ready...
- inobla, on 02/11/2008, -0/+3That's Borat's old house!!
- Asrrin29, on 02/11/2008, -4/+7gravity bends light...
- rahulkolasseri, on 02/11/2008, -4/+7well....at least the earth is is round and light goes straight
- fridgetarian, on 02/11/2008, -0/+3Yup, PBS has really let me down here. I can't believe this wasn't noticed...although it is probably an artists depiction (cleaned up view) of a really hazy satellite photo. (Let's hope this is the case for PBS's sake) Does the PBS website have any copy editors?
- inactive, on 02/11/2008, -0/+2The things that look like kennels are high-voltage sources, insulated from each other by concrete walls and distance. They still need maintenance access so one side is open. I think the design puts a flat roof over each HV 'tower' to shield the insulators maybe from snowfall. You can see the shadows of the roofs.
The particle accelerator needs a bunch of them because the design uses staged acceleration along its length. An ion source in the structure to the right creates floods of ions which the linear accelerator attracts to the left electrostatically. So there's a cable from each voltage source to the switching and timing station in the center, and from there out to the accelerator tube by individual cables too. - iticu, on 02/11/2008, -0/+2Satelites with mirrors on them, man.
Haven't you ever seen Stargate?! - danio, on 02/11/2008, -3/+5in soviet russia, russian interweb meme makes you
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