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<blockquote data-quote="Tarrasque Wrangler" data-source="post: 1966586" data-attributes="member: 7473"><p>My friends came over tonight and showed me <a href="http://terraserver.microsoft.com" target="_blank">Terraserver</a>, Microsoft's clickable satellite maps. We had fun for hours looking for our houses and workplaces. After awhile, we started looking for famous places, and after looking at stuff like the Hoover Dam and Alcatraz we (being big Area 51 buffs) decided to look up Rachel, NV, right over the ridge from Nellis AFB. And we found us some strangeness.</p><p> </p><p> <a href="http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=14&Z=11&X=190&Y=1301&W=1&qs=%7cRachel%7c" target="_blank">Click here</a> to see the map.</p><p> </p><p> The diagonal line running northwest-southeast is Hwy. 375, the "ET Highway". The nice little grid in the center, right off 375 is the town of Rachel (I think). But what, pray tell, are those 1/2 mile wide circles all over the place? Bunches of them all over the place, and I don't remember seeing those from the road - they'd be hard to miss, even a mile off the highway. They don't look like image placeholders; keep clicking west towards the base and you just get an empty image where the satellites didn't shoot (or were edited out). </p><p> </p><p> Is the Air Force constructing the world's largest records or what? Any ex-Air Forcers or Dreamland buffs care to enlighten me?</p><p> <a href="http://terraserver.microsoft.com" target="_blank">http://terraserver.microsoft.com</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tarrasque Wrangler, post: 1966586, member: 7473"] My friends came over tonight and showed me [url="http://terraserver.microsoft.com"]Terraserver[/url], Microsoft's clickable satellite maps. We had fun for hours looking for our houses and workplaces. After awhile, we started looking for famous places, and after looking at stuff like the Hoover Dam and Alcatraz we (being big Area 51 buffs) decided to look up Rachel, NV, right over the ridge from Nellis AFB. And we found us some strangeness. [url="http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=14&Z=11&X=190&Y=1301&W=1&qs=%7cRachel%7c"]Click here[/url] to see the map. The diagonal line running northwest-southeast is Hwy. 375, the "ET Highway". The nice little grid in the center, right off 375 is the town of Rachel (I think). But what, pray tell, are those 1/2 mile wide circles all over the place? Bunches of them all over the place, and I don't remember seeing those from the road - they'd be hard to miss, even a mile off the highway. They don't look like image placeholders; keep clicking west towards the base and you just get an empty image where the satellites didn't shoot (or were edited out). Is the Air Force constructing the world's largest records or what? Any ex-Air Forcers or Dreamland buffs care to enlighten me? [url="http://terraserver.microsoft.com"][/url] [/QUOTE]
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