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Secret space surveillance base near Afghanistan uncovered watch!

youtube.com — Eleven silver balls not far from Afghanistan's border. They are the key to Russia's space shield, an optical-electronic unit called "The Window". Each one is a powerful telescope. They see every object up to 40,000 kilometres from the surface of Earth.

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  • linkingpro, on 03/06/2008, -9/+2Gadget o world. Tough without it.
  • HauntedTank, on 03/06/2008, -3/+96Every 108 minutes someone has to push the button!
    • breakingviews, on 03/06/2008, -1/+6I thought about the same, dude :))
    • DiggLive, on 03/06/2008, -3/+14Dugg for Lost pwnage. Can't wait for tonight!
    • Absinthminded64, on 03/06/2008, -5/+1It's a game. You don't have to push the button.
    • RealmDown, on 03/06/2008, -1/+6"Shall we play a game?"
      • tyywebb, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2How about....Global Thermonuclear War?
    • smiley2billion, on 03/06/2008, -0/+104 8 15 16 23 42
    • tcpip4lyfe, on 03/06/2008, -0/+4If you don't, the sky turns purple.
    • DarkDx, on 03/06/2008, -0/+4Can't wait for tonight's episode.
    • FredFredrickson, on 03/06/2008, -0/+3Hehe, I thought the same thing when I saw this article - "that sounds like a Lost episode synopsis!"
    • SQLserver, on 03/06/2008, -0/+3Actually, the button is just a physiological test.
    • Elliuotatar, on 03/07/2008, -0/+4Couldn't they just put one of those drinking birds over the button to keep hitting it?
    • pencilneck, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2So TV's Frank has a new button pushing job?
  • squelched, on 03/06/2008, -3/+33I wonder if this thing has ever spotted any ufos..
    • InfamousAtheist, on 03/06/2008, -0/+17Yes
    • norman619, on 03/06/2008, -2/+28Obviously yes. UFO = Unidetified Flying Object. So anything you can't identify flying above is a UFO.
      • MattB123, on 03/06/2008, -0/+8It always amazes me how so many think UFO = extra terrestrial craft.
        I believe in UFOs, but I'm not sold on extra terrestrial crafts.
        • MWeather, on 03/06/2008, -1/+11Me too. I don't think they're aliens. They're time machines piloted by humans from Atlantis.
          • bjornski, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3"You know the way everybody is into weirdness right now? Books in all the supermarkets about the Bermuda Triangle, UFO's, how the Mayans invented television, that kind of thing? Well the way I see it it's exactly the same. There ain't no difference between a flying saucer or a time machine."

            "People get so hung up on specifics, they miss out on seeing the whole thing. Take South America for example. Every year in South America thousands of people turn up missing. Nobody knows where they go. They just disappear. But if you think for a minute, realize something: there had to be a time when there was no people right? Well, where did all these people come from? I'll tell you where: the future. Where did all these people disappear to: the past. How did they get there? Flying saucers, which are really, yeah, you got it: time machines."

            /from one of the best movies of all time.
          • norman619, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2@bjornski:

            Great stuff :-)
          • tyywebb, on 03/07/2008, -1/+1My theory is Jesus was abducted when he was 6, taken to the future, and returned to the past when he was about 30.
        • norman619, on 03/07/2008, -1/+2Yes. It's as if they use UFO because it doesn't sound as crazy as saying Alien Spacecraft. I wish people would say what they mean and stop pretending to be objective.
    • dofkex, on 03/07/2008, -1/+2in soviet russia ufos spot YOU!
  • breakingviews, on 03/06/2008, -7/+32I'd like to have a look at an American one. surely they're 20 years ahead
    • Lane, on 03/06/2008, -6/+68I bet the American one is 2X as powerful and fit's inside a manila envelope
      • jim1977, on 03/07/2008, -10/+3No, it'll cost twice as much, fit into a manilla envelope, and still be behind its competitors. It won't stop people saying it's the best out there, though.

        OK. Bury me away.
    • DeskFlyer, on 03/06/2008, -4/+50They are 20 years ahead..... and stop calling me Shirley.
    • borez, on 03/06/2008, -2/+11Same thing was said about the Bomb
      • MWeather, on 03/06/2008, -2/+1They used spies to speed up the process.
        • mnxxx, on 03/07/2008, -2/+1Which makes them even smarter.
          • MWeather, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1Not really, we'd have done the same if there was anyone to spy on.
    • Tiphys, on 03/06/2008, -0/+4US version.

      http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/track/geod ...
      • krische, on 03/06/2008, -0/+4Updated 1997. Um, yeah. State of the art I guess.
    • unreg, on 03/06/2008, -1/+3Just one portion of the US system. We apparently didn't go for the Jiffy-Pop Popcorn look though.

      http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thum ...

      Wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEODSS#Ground-based_E ...
    • mnxxx, on 03/06/2008, -13/+8I'm glad you're very patriotic towards US but you're an idiot. Put your stupid sign back on and never take it off again. You know that US doesn't lead in either education or science in the world. But its OK... That's why you have the sign.
      • airburst, on 03/07/2008, -3/+4Why does someones patriotism offend you so much? If someone doesn't conform to your worldview they are stupid? Ok.
        • theskyisblue, on 03/07/2008, -4/+5I don't think it's the patriotism that's offensive, which he pointed out is just fine, but rather the ignorance of the world outside their house and what is fed to them on TV by the US government and propaganda.
          • mnxxx, on 03/07/2008, -4/+0Thank you for explaining. ( i think he needs a sign too.)
          • airburst, on 03/07/2008, -2/+2@mnxxx You are incapable of having a discussion without name-calling. Then you use a Jeff Foxworthy bit about the stupid sign. And you still have the stones to call someone stupid? Wow.
      • roflburger, on 03/07/2008, -1/+3lol maybe US doesn't lead in primary education, but that stuff pretty much has not bearing on upper echelon scientific endeavors that require years of professional school. And your an angry little hater now aren't you lol
    • heystoopid, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1Google Pine Gap and there it is !
    • mrASSMAN, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2A system of telescopes.. pretty sure the US uses surveillance that doesn't rely on telescopes and instead on spy satellites and modern radar systems.
      • unreg, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1Actually the United States has quite an extensive network for the purpose of monitoring objects in earth orbit. While tracking the objects is something that can be accomplished with radar, the only way to actually determine what the object is, is to use optical systems.

        Satellites are ineffective since they've got fixed orbital patterns. That leaves ground and airborne based systems.
  • BabyWookie, on 03/06/2008, -4/+24Not so secret any more!
  • cababika799, on 03/06/2008, -3/+9That guy needs to work on which words to accent.
  • CTK14A, on 03/06/2008, -1/+23'Comrade Ivanov, come quick! We are under attack by enormous space bird!'
  • FireAtWill, on 03/06/2008, -4/+5It's a giant ball of garbage!
  • borez, on 03/06/2008, -8/+1http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n89/jackierose_ ...
    • tidu, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2waste of money, don't need a telescope to see these aliens right under our noses. they infiltrated our television cartoons decades ago. it's just that today they're getting the suspicion the deserved from the get-go
  • timothy53, on 03/06/2008, -16/+3Does this guy talk exactly like borat or is it me, I couldnt stop laughing the whole. "Dee Russian, have dee uuuhhh space uhhhh telescope, in the deee uhhh afghanistan"
    • norman619, on 03/06/2008, -1/+6If anything it's the other way around. Your ignorance is blinding.
  • ToMZiLLA, on 03/06/2008, -0/+24doesn't look very secret to me. And it wasn't "uncovered" Inaccurate!
  • ZenFountain, on 03/06/2008, -7/+2I bet those domes are filled with chocolate pudding, yum!
    • jmkiii, on 03/06/2008, -1/+5Go to your room until you have something to contribute.
      • ZenFountain, on 03/07/2008, -1/+1Ok, I bet those domes are filled with tapioca pudding, even better!
  • prabjot, on 03/06/2008, -3/+4anyone with a link on google maps?
  • xjoi, on 03/06/2008, -3/+43What the hell, $420 million for computers and hardware that looks like its circa 1960. Spend the extra couple of grand and at least get some Dell's or something, jesus.
    • MindTrigger, on 03/07/2008, -2/+5Dugg for 420.
    • Sharky35, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2I can see the commercial... "Comrade, You're Getting The Del!l"
    • heystoopid, on 03/07/2008, -1/+1Don't you mean HP the worlds best selling laptop , not like that lame stolen logo unit lamenting in ninth place and at the bottom of the pack being outsold by approximately twenty five to one
    • Dingo212, on 03/07/2008, -1/+1They actually use systems that are test 99% working and bug free, even if its old. New is good but always got bugs. I bet same goes in NASA too.
  • infango, on 03/06/2008, -2/+1hi-tech with birds its a russian version of bug a "bird" :)
  • Po0py, on 03/06/2008, -1/+11Looks a bit ancient for something that costs that much.
  • mark076h, on 03/06/2008, -1/+5pretty cool, reminds me of something out of Tom Clancy's The Cardinal of the Kremlin
    • CookieOfFortune, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1The space weapons research base from that book was stationed in Tajikistan, which is pretty much Afghanistan anyways, I guess this is what it was based off of.
  • Moetownslick, on 03/06/2008, -6/+4jesus...no one ***** up and made an "in soviet russia" joke yet? there is hope yet for Diggers....
    • drastik21, on 03/06/2008, -1/+9the Soviet Russia joke doesn't apply when it's in Russia.
    • webcrumb, on 03/06/2008, -0/+13In Capitalist America, surveillance bases uncover you!

      Hmm...
    • S1ngular1ty1, on 03/07/2008, -0/+7In Soviet Russia, you spy on satellite.
  • Subriot, on 03/06/2008, -4/+4I hate monotone talking.
    • WilliamDavis, on 03/06/2008, -0/+4It's a computer program talking. Txt to speech, but it's built on russian technology, so it has somewhat of a russian accent.
  • R0l0, on 03/06/2008, -1/+810,000 times more powerful than a He-Man eye.
  • bobdobolena, on 03/06/2008, -1/+3Looks kinda like NOD technology from Command and Conquer.
  • ironchief, on 03/06/2008, -4/+10X-band radar would be much faster and efficient than optical sensors. Plus you can use it at any time of the day instead of just at night.

    Silly Russians
    • heystoopid, on 03/07/2008, -1/+1Failed basic physics 101 , I see !
  • wastedfish, on 03/06/2008, -6/+4In Soviet Russia space watch you!
  • SuckMyDigg, on 03/06/2008, -3/+2Col. Mishka sent this intelligence to Jack Ryan.
    Borat reported it.
  • alenox, on 03/06/2008, -1/+2has anyone gooogle-earthed this yet? i don't usually spend a lot of time looking at Tajikstan
  • eth3l, on 03/06/2008, -6/+2Another video from a german television program:
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
    • rdoger6424, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2Rick roll-based surveillance technology? I smell a conspiracy theory!
      • electrolinks, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2You funny b*stard. I saw your post on the Digg Reel.
  • MrEdwardo, on 03/06/2008, -1/+6That guy sounds like one of the artificial voices in Mac OSX.
  • pauldy, on 03/06/2008, -2/+1Uhm, wth is up with the original poster inaccurate as heck this is a guided tour on the freaking Russian news.
  • Razster, on 03/06/2008, -3/+2Looks like a Bunch of OLD IBM machines running their systems.
    Old Russian tech ftw
  • clarionhaze, on 03/06/2008, -4/+3Seriously, whats with the Russian propaganda on Digg during the past month.
  • OffPiste, on 03/06/2008, -8/+3Bush needs to be stopped, it's time for impeachment. Just another example of more NSA spying on Americans. When will it stop?
    • fogster, on 03/07/2008, -0/+4Another example of NSA spying on Americans? I'm hardly a Bush sympathizer, but did you read the article? Or even the summary? This has nothing to do with the US.
      • WileyK, on 03/07/2008, -1/+1You missed the fact that it was a joke. Don't feel bad, I thought he was serious too for a second.
      • ChayD, on 03/07/2008, -1/+1I think OffPiste is a propagandabot which recognises words like 'surveillance' and 'satellite' and puts in an auto-comment.
  • sputza, on 03/07/2008, -1/+1Anyone else find that the host of the show sounded like that text to speech thing on the Mac? (I don't know the name of the app)
  • Datasinc, on 03/07/2008, -1/+7I wonder if it can see Xenu.
  • WileyK, on 03/07/2008, -1/+2My god, it's full of stars!
  • footfwd, on 03/07/2008, -1/+3DOS based defense ooooh scary.
    • mmmmmbiscuits, on 03/07/2008, -0/+5"Komrades, we will never need to track more than 640 near-earth objects."
  • INDOAZZ, on 03/07/2008, -2/+1I guess it is kind of like Russias own Area 51, except no runway from what I saw. You never know?
    • digger99999999, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1Flying saucers dont need a runway.
  • Gimpi, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2Who else thought the journalist was a Russian Dana Carvey doing his best Tom Brokaw impression?
  • severelyltd, on 03/07/2008, -1/+1Status Quo. WTF!!!! No David Bowie, this must be the sony bmg artists only list.
  • chillfaktor, on 03/07/2008, -2/+2Thanks to borat I can't listen to this guy for longer than 5 sec. without laughing
  • ObeseSnake, on 03/07/2008, -1/+5So all some county has to do is attack Russia during the daylight when they are not monitoring the skies? Umm, OK then....thanks for that info.
  • optoomistic, on 03/07/2008, -3/+1BOOORING
  • vladimirp00pen, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1Why would they say they can only look into space at night? Hey.... Let's pass a spacecraft over Russia during daylight.

    Boris, can you see delta quadrant? Please download quadrant chart from digg so we can make comparison! Star Trek has nothing on Mother Russia
    • MWeather, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1We can't steer them in orbit, they go around the world every 45 minutes or so. They don't slow down and they don't speed up.
  • ConMiMente, on 03/07/2008, -1/+0Everyone needs to try to say that 10x fast lol, Secret space surveillance base near Afghanistan uncovered, best tongue twister ever
  • pdarg, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1the US version is called NORAD and is located in Colorado. its not so secret though since they are providing my research team with data about the location of our satellite as it travels around the earth. we use this data to determine when we will be able to communicate with it and calculate the thrust required to orient the radio towards earth.
  • simusid, on 03/07/2008, -0/+0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAVE_PAWS
  • megapofig, on 03/07/2008, -0/+0 Eleven gold! :-)))
  • bigp3rm, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1How is it a secret if there is a video and report on it. Dumb ass..
  • ndnspongebob, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1this is old news, i saw this in golden eye
    way to keep a secret, russia
  • JRW5061, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1Is that the dudes real voice, or is he lip syncing the voice from the textedit app from apple? I'm a little confused. lol
  • MajorOutage, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1Looks like a cold war relic...
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