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i know this is a bit stupid, but my brother told me that this, and that he had been told so by a friend, which obviously made it true....whaddya reckon?

its nr rachel, nevada.

those mountains around it look awesome, at any rate

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

That is clever.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

spooky!

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

is this the ILX equivalent of the line going dead?

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

OMG Area 51 ate his message!!!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

wtf

link is here

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure what I'm looking at there - can you explain? Is the white bit a lake, or is it blanked out?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

Brrr...looks chilly there.

― andy --, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

aliens reflect all light from their mirrored heads

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

hmmm well my bro reckons its a salt bed thing

he offered no explanation as to how he "knew" that this was area 51, just that a friend had told him that it was at tikaboo peak nr rachel, NV

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

There are several similar looking white patches in that area if you zoom out.

Funnier is the fact that CIA HQ, NSA HQ, FBI HQ, and all military bases are clear as day, but the Capitol and the accompanying House and Senate office buildings have obviously been taken down several notches in resolution, to what end I'll never be able to figure out. Who gives a shit?

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

http://www.livejournal.com/community/the_unexplained/37956.html?thread=124484

― not me (JasonD), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

Wow, Nevada is some beautiful country.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

It's THE STUFF!

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004Y6A6.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

What's the REAL mystery is why the LJ dude is naked with a rubber ducky in his mouth upside down.

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

that looks like a bukkake nightmare

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

WTF

http://home.comcast.net/~daniels_pengies/a516.JPG

― latebloomer: But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. (latebloomer), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

it's some kind of flying saucer aerodrome

― damaged doods, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

Connect Four!

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

YOU SUNK MY BATTLESHIP

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

Tom, I know some buildings actually just have the roofws scrabbled. I think it would be for AA and sniper positions?

― Open your eyes; you can fly! (ex machina), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

This is hardly anything new, or amazing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

right, the view from the ground

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 21 April 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

also, isn't the white part just the dry lake bed?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 21 April 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

interesting

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 21 April 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

ok ok so its old news

but its a pretty cool picture though

i love the way the hills are all crazy colours

can anyone give the name of somewhere insanely green and foresty in the US to have a look at?

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

We're sorry, but we don't have imagery at this zoom level for this region.

BLAST I WAS HOPING TO SEE THE CAPTIVE ALIEN LADY IN THE SHOWER

― $V£N! (blueski), Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

ambrose, send me an email and tell me about your exciting lifestyle.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

ambrose, try cloudcroft, new mexico. it's situated at 9000ft in a forested area, and if you zoom out you'll be able to see the Chihuahua Desert (including White Sands to the SW) from which the Sacramento Mountains rise.

― ()ops (()()ps), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

can anyone give the name of somewhere insanely green and foresty in the US to have a look at?

we have no more forests in the US!

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

I just typed in

― ()ops (()()ps), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Here's some forest, but don't pull back the viewer or you'll ruin it.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Here's Alcatraz! Look for me waving!

― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Concrete (haha), Washington

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

haha I was gonna do Concrete too!

― ()ops (()()ps), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

I almost feel guilty for looking at this.

Then again, they do hold a public air show every year.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Golden Gate Fields race track, "where the Bay comes to play".

― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Berkeley Marina!

This is fun

― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

So what gangster lives in this neighborhood of Las Vegas?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

holy christ these sattelite images are amazing

my first observation: los angeles is fucking HUGE

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

I love the way that google maps distorts perspective by marrying photos taken from different vantage points into a single image. For a particularly good example, check out Lake Point Apartment Tower, 505 N Lake Shore Dr Chicago.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:43 (nineteen years ago)

The link with the image I like

Like, Escher, dude!

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:59 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

lol, Homey Airport

http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/01/airforce_area51_newname_080122w/

― StanM, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 08:24 (eighteen years ago)

That page has gone AWOL!

404 Error: File not found

― one time, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 08:36 (eighteen years ago)

add in the '\' manually.

― S-, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 08:37 (eighteen years ago)

er, going the other way, natch.

― S-, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 08:38 (eighteen years ago)

click here (test with the / )

― StanM, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 08:39 (eighteen years ago)

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/01/area-51-customs.html

The newsletter of the Aircraft Owners and Pilot Association has noted that the mysterious Area 51 "has been appearing in flight-planning software and on handheld GPS receivers for most of the past year as KXTA (standing for what, extraterrestrial?)."

ahem? - http://stevefossett.blogspot.com/2007/09/steve-fossett-gone-missing-near-area-51.html

it moved/got quiet for a while
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1281151.html
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595102911,00.html

oh no maybe it dint
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/1997/May-24-Sat-1997/news/5427116.html
http://www.geocities.com/area51/atlantis/1545/movinghtml.html
http://www.dreamlandresort.com/

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

I liked that google map image of chicago, it made my eyes go all weird.

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

Now the funny thing is, who would be up so high to see this?

In other words, SEEK YOURSELF.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 31 January 2008 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

oh yeah btw from the original link
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=tikaboo&sll=37.326393,-115.454979&sspn=0.247879,0.334396&t=k&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=37.213267,-115.810753&spn=0.003149,0.005343&z=18&om=0

I'm pretty sure the five mounds are fallout shelters! I learned to drive out on back roads like these on Redstone Arsenal

also re: jw's comment about rooftop scrubbing - that's for satellite dishes, where they haven't been golfballed

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 31 January 2008 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

KXTA (standing for what, extraterrestrial?)
Best fucking acronym ever!

― Abbott, Thursday, 31 January 2008 23:25 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=100525912373773450724.000488df669787f20600d&ll=35.007009,-81.019181&spn=0.001619,0.003484&t=h&z=19

― Cunga, Sunday, 13 June 2010 05:44 (fifteen years ago)

http://i46.tinypic.com/sc5kjc.jpg

― Cunga, Sunday, 13 June 2010 05:45 (fifteen years ago)

Oh that's awesome.

― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Sunday, 13 June 2010 09:01 (fifteen years ago)

What's up with these rainbows everywhere, in our water and garden hoses and air!?

― StanM, Sunday, 13 June 2010 10:08 (fifteen years ago)

When planes fly over Enola Drive it makes then radioactive for a split second. And possibly gay.

― 8 (88), Sunday, 13 June 2010 10:56 (fifteen years ago)

three months pass...

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&q=3800+W.+Wright+street,+milwaukee,+WI&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=3800+W+Wright+St,+Milwaukee,+Wisconsin+53210&gl=us&ei=fhUVTLu-GcP38AbwkdWiCg&ved=0CBgQ8gEwAA&ll=43.065596,-87.961071&spn=0.006913,0.01929&z=16&layer=c&cbll=43.064275,-87.961061&panoid=j7cyvcI4dPiTnbo6VkigRA&cbp=12,86.61,,0,5.67

Nice and beautiful, right? Now move in any direction.

― Cunga, Sunday, 19 September 2010 21:23 (fifteen years ago)

The answer is that the newer photos are more recent, but let's just pretend there's something funny (supernatural?) going on.

― Cunga, Sunday, 19 September 2010 21:28 (fifteen years ago)

Nice find.

― not_goodwin, Sunday, 19 September 2010 21:38 (fifteen years ago)

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another google maps Q - Area 51