Comments on: Google-eye view of a nuclear test site http://boingboing.net/2010/10/30/google-eye-view-of-a.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Dean W. Armstrong http://boingboing.net/2010/10/30/google-eye-view-of-a.html#comment-925186 Dean W. Armstrong Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-925186 These sites are easily visible on the Reno-Las Vegas flights. You can go on a tour of the now-renamed Nevada National Security Site and see the Sedan crater and the Frenchman Flat atmospheric testing sites up close and personal! http://www.nv.doe.gov/outreach/tours.aspx These sites are easily visible on the Reno-Las Vegas flights.

You can go on a tour of the now-renamed Nevada National Security Site and see the Sedan crater and the Frenchman Flat atmospheric testing sites up close and personal! http://www.nv.doe.gov/outreach/tours.aspx

]]> By: Michael Metacyclotron http://boingboing.net/2010/10/30/google-eye-view-of-a.html#comment-924931 Michael Metacyclotron Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-924931 Are any nuclear test sites visible from regular flight paths? I've seen similar giant domes when flying, my first thought was that they were test sites. Are any nuclear test sites visible from regular flight paths? I’ve seen similar giant domes when flying, my first thought was that they were test sites.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/30/google-eye-view-of-a.html#comment-925493 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-925493 Flag on the moon... Flag on the moon…

]]> By: benher http://boingboing.net/2010/10/30/google-eye-view-of-a.html#comment-924983 benher Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-924983 Sir, do you mean to suggest that one of our political elite would hi-jack language to serve their own interests? That doesn't sound very Patriotic - don't you know that Freedom is at stake? We can't let the Terrorists will win! Sir, do you mean to suggest that one of our political elite would hi-jack language to serve their own interests?
That doesn’t sound very Patriotic – don’t you know that Freedom is at stake? We can’t let the Terrorists will win!

]]> By: Larry7 http://boingboing.net/2010/10/30/google-eye-view-of-a.html#comment-925240 Larry7 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-925240 Pockmarked? I always thought it was potmarked... ... I'll be over here. :\ Pockmarked?
I always thought it was potmarked…

… I’ll be over here.

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]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/30/google-eye-view-of-a.html#comment-925765 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-925765 Art? Randy? Art? Randy?

]]> By: GavinD http://boingboing.net/2010/10/30/google-eye-view-of-a.html#comment-924998 GavinD Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-924998 Interesting bit of illusion here. The shadow is on the "bottom" of those pits, so when I looked at the picture before reading the article, I thought they were a bunch of little hills. Interesting bit of illusion here. The shadow is on the “bottom” of those pits, so when I looked at the picture before reading the article, I thought they were a bunch of little hills.

]]> By: sindark http://boingboing.net/2010/10/30/google-eye-view-of-a.html#comment-925540 sindark Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-925540 You can get a better sense of the scale of the Nevada Test Site by zooming out more: http://www.sindark.com/2006/02/20/nuclear-test-sites/ You can get a better sense of the scale of the Nevada Test Site by zooming out more:

http://www.sindark.com/2006/02/20/nuclear-test-sites/

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/30/google-eye-view-of-a.html#comment-924790 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-924790 I blogged the exact same story three months ago. http://feldsparia.blogspot.com/2010/07/nuclear-testing-as-artastronomy.html I blogged the exact same story three months ago.

http://feldsparia.blogspot.com/2010/07/nuclear-testing-as-artastronomy.html

]]> By: MarkM http://boingboing.net/2010/10/30/google-eye-view-of-a.html#comment-924798 MarkM Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-924798 That's strange: Google Streetview doesn't work here... That’s strange:
Google Streetview doesn’t work here…

]]> By: Absorbine_Sr http://boingboing.net/2010/10/30/google-eye-view-of-a.html#comment-924802 Absorbine_Sr Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-924802 If I zoom in really close I think I can see Tor Johnson and Coleman Francis. If I zoom in really close I think I can see Tor Johnson and Coleman Francis.

]]> By: Mantissa128 http://boingboing.net/2010/10/30/google-eye-view-of-a.html#comment-924808 Mantissa128 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-924808 Watch these pockmarks appear in a timeline - grab a coffee and sit down to the horror. 2,053 detonations since 1945. Why, why. Incomprehensible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAnqRQg-W0k Watch these pockmarks appear in a timeline – grab a coffee and sit down to the horror. 2,053 detonations since 1945. Why, why.

Incomprehensible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAnqRQg-W0k

]]> By: Drang http://boingboing.net/2010/10/30/google-eye-view-of-a.html#comment-925332 Drang Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-925332 There's an unusual but fun museum in Las Vegas called the <a href="http://www.atomictestingmuseum.org/">Atomic Testing Museum</a>. Much information about the equipment and people who put the pockmarks there. There’s an unusual but fun museum in Las Vegas called the Atomic Testing Museum. Much information about the equipment and people who put the pockmarks there.

]]> By: bzishi http://boingboing.net/2010/10/30/google-eye-view-of-a.html#comment-924592 bzishi Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-924592 Yucca Mountain is next door. It was deemed an unacceptable place to store radioactive materials because of the potential for radioactive material getting into the water supply in a rare seismic event. Yucca Mountain is next door. It was deemed an unacceptable place to store radioactive materials because of the potential for radioactive material getting into the water supply in a rare seismic event.

]]> By: Kosmoid http://boingboing.net/2010/10/30/google-eye-view-of-a.html#comment-924595 Kosmoid Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-924595 Besides the "plowshare" stuff, it provided a good premise for different movies including "The Beast from Yucca Flats," with Tor "Super Swedish Angel" Johnson. Besides the “plowshare” stuff, it provided a good premise for different movies including “The Beast from Yucca Flats,” with Tor “Super Swedish Angel” Johnson.

]]> By: mdl4 http://boingboing.net/2010/10/30/google-eye-view-of-a.html#comment-924603 mdl4 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-924603 heh. I blogged this exact same story and map four days ago. http://www.mdl4.com/2010/10/the-nevada-test-site/ heh. I blogged this exact same story and map four days ago.
http://www.mdl4.com/2010/10/the-nevada-test-site/

]]> By: dbarak http://boingboing.net/2010/10/30/google-eye-view-of-a.html#comment-924621 dbarak Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-924621 They say the strawberries that grow there get to be as big as a man's head. They say the strawberries that grow there get to be as big as a man’s head.

]]> By: VagabondAstronomer http://boingboing.net/2010/10/30/google-eye-view-of-a.html#comment-924890 VagabondAstronomer Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-924890 There is a similar site, though done with more conventional means, somewhere in Arizona that was used to train the Apollo astronauts. It was literally modeled after a portion of the lunar surface, with the goal being for the astronauts to approach it in a helicopter much as they would in the LM. It was also used for additional training... <url>http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2259</url> There is a similar site, though done with more conventional means, somewhere in Arizona that was used to train the Apollo astronauts. It was literally modeled after a portion of the lunar surface, with the goal being for the astronauts to approach it in a helicopter much as they would in the LM. It was also used for additional training…
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2259

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/30/google-eye-view-of-a.html#comment-924637 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-924637 I pasted the location to Google Earth and tilted the view, looks a lot better! I pasted the location to Google Earth and tilted the view, looks a lot better!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/30/google-eye-view-of-a.html#comment-924638 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-924638 wow, with way crazier colors and videos wow, with way crazier colors and videos

]]> By: Dv Revolutionary http://boingboing.net/2010/10/30/google-eye-view-of-a.html#comment-924644 Dv Revolutionary Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-924644 This is an enlightening bit of devastated wasteland to check out on google earth. This is photo Area 2,4,7,8,9 & 10. Area 51 is an airport and buildings to the north-east of this, just follow the road. Older above ground tests are sprinkled north-west but the craters are not as dramatic. This area is the underground tests, they didn't all stay underground and like the sedan crater some were colossal fnuck-ups. Your link doesn't mention that but Sedan was a much bigger release than anticipated. It went atmospheric and irradiated 7% of the american population and caused thousands of cases of Leukemia back when that was not curable. Let me put it in real terms: thousands of children died just because of that one. The Plowshare and the Atoms for Peace movements were not peace movements they were hawks like Eisenhower and Edward Teller co-opting the language of peace to clam the public and co-opt/discredit actual peace talk by the likes of Einstein and Oppenheimer. This is an enlightening bit of devastated wasteland to check out on google earth.

This is photo Area 2,4,7,8,9 & 10. Area 51 is an airport and buildings to the north-east of this, just follow the road. Older above ground tests are sprinkled north-west but the craters are not as dramatic. This area is the underground tests, they didn’t all stay underground and like the sedan crater some were colossal fnuck-ups.

Your link doesn’t mention that but Sedan was a much bigger release than anticipated. It went atmospheric and irradiated 7% of the american population and caused thousands of cases of Leukemia back when that was not curable. Let me put it in real terms: thousands of children died just because of that one.

The Plowshare and the Atoms for Peace movements were not peace movements they were hawks like Eisenhower and Edward Teller co-opting the language of peace to clam the public and co-opt/discredit actual peace talk by the likes of Einstein and Oppenheimer.

]]> By: VagabondAstronomer http://boingboing.net/2010/10/30/google-eye-view-of-a.html#comment-924900 VagabondAstronomer Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-924900 Ah, here it is... <url>http://tinyurl.com/26okcod</url> Ah, here it is…
http://tinyurl.com/26okcod

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