If you cared to, knowing the height of the monument, the length of the shadow, and the direction of the shadow (all known values or easy to extract from the image) one could approximate the time of day and maybe the date from the exact height and angle of the sun.
The prime meridian used to pass through here (or it competed with the one that passed through the Observatory at Greenwich anyway.) A long line of brass plates in the ground marks the meridian and marches off through the city.
Actually I try to keep it to things that look interesting but occasionally I find things that are really cool or unusual but boring to look at and I post them anyway. The non-perspective views of the donuts fall on the boring to look at side of not uniquely cool so I chose not to do them. I'd not reject them if I saw them go by though.
It also depends on my mood. Good question though. I'm sure Texasandroid and nic have their opinions.
I didn't. Not sure why I said Brazillian back then. I may have posted it incorrectly as in Brazil and later fixed the location but not the title. I actually don't have any idea as to which nationality the ships are. Given the way the ships are in the vicinity are docked though I'd guess they are local, not visiting.
That would be fun. I found other giant donuts but didn't post them because they were all from directly overhead and had no shadow. They looked more like giant hot dogs (which I also found but which didn't look like anything actually).
I actually live less than a mile from there and drive that street down the center street a dozen times a week. One of the best neighborhoods in Alameda.
It is a big art / happening / gathering. In earlier years everyone was a participant so everything and everyone was part of some art or performance. Lately its been more commercialized and attracts more sightseers and single day people. The art installations are becoming more mainsteam and require much more planning and financing. Bigger crowds mean more rules and less freedom / more abuse of the system, etc.
I've seen these in other ranges. I think they are the the remains of controled explosives. This may be an area that they use to train people on explosives. Think of it as an explosive scratch pad. I think I saw an area like this on the northern edge of Sandia too.
Because it is back in the trees like it is I was thinking that it wasn't so much used for aerial training as perhaps ground assault training, maybe by special forces. The SEAL teams do a lot of training in these woods.
I doubt those are missiles but I don't have any idea what they are. They look like they have tails like a helicopter. They are the size of other helicopters. But they have those white halves.
After hunting around for pictures I agree that this ship isn't the Garibaldi. The Garibaldi has a square bow where the deck overhangs the bow. I don't know about the others. globalsecurity.org has a page of carrier deck layouts and this one doesn't match any of them so that may lend creedence to it being an amphib.
Correct. I thumbnailed that because it is just about the only thing in the whole range worth looking at (other than the NSA site.) But I updated the titl to be more accurate.
I'm thinking that the northern bridge may be a Roman aqueduct. If you follow the 'road' to the east it doesn't look like a road. At times other roads parallel it or cross it but it never looks like other roads merge onto it. Then it crosses another river and that too has those signature roman arches.
The base map images for the Philly area were taken in May 2002. Some of the pictures in the surounding areas were taken as early as 2000. So this was taken between 200 and 2002.
This is a Nike Missile SITE. Note the catagories? "abandoned"
Missiles were deployed here in the 60s. These sites are scattered all over the country. Nike missiles don't exist anymore and haven't been deployed in the US since the 70s.
Of course those are school busses. Type "nike" in the search box. Some sites still look operational, some are gone completely, and some have been converted to other uses.
I think those are target tanks. They aren't flying/ nThe shadow they cast are the same dimension and sirection as the objects to to the SE of the fake runways.
There are target airplanes on the runways just to the NE too.
It can just be made out but there is a copy of the Statue of Liberty on the southern tip of the island just to the SE of the radio station. Look at it's shadow and you can make out the raised arm.
They do that to gain altitude over a short distance. There's a neat pair of tunnels near the Canadian Glacir National Park that does two separate 360 degree loops entirely within the mountains on either side of a steep valley.
These 14" disappearing guns could fire a 1560 pound projectile 14 miles out into the Catalina Channel. However, full caliber firing practice was rare because of the damage caused by the firing concussions to near-by residences. Battery Osgood's gun was fired only 116 times and Battery Farley's fired 121 times.
I haven't been able to find the one in Hanza/Okinawa and the one in Keflavik. The last two are in Diego Garcia and Guam and Google Maps don't have any resolution for these islands.
Some speculate that this is evidence that some of these pictures wee taken via aerial photography rather than satellite photography. That would explain this and other shots that seem to be taken from quite close to the flying airplanes.
Ok, I just printed this out and measured them as close as I can. The top two are the same length. The ratio of lengths of the top two subs to the bottom sub as I measured them is 0.65.
SSN = 360 feet long.
SSBN = 560 feet long
Ratio is 0.64.
That's an error of about 3.6 feet which is within the margin of error considering the resolution of these photos.
Hmmm, I'm not convinced. The both ends of the bottom one allign in a straight line. The bow shadow is the same size or a bit bigger than the other two. And the length of the bottom one is definitely not twice plus some margin longer than the top two.
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Actually I try to keep it to things that look interesting but occasionally I find things that are really cool or unusual but boring to look at and I post them anyway. The non-perspective views of the donuts fall on the boring to look at side of not uniquely cool so I chose not to do them. I'd not reject them if I saw them go by though.
It also depends on my mood. Good question though. I'm sure Texasandroid and nic have their opinions.
Anyway, I submitted yours in your name.
OK, thanks. I fixed the title and description.
Of course the conspiracy kooks will say "white out" hiding the entry to a secret UFO bunker.
A -12 Blackbird (Air Force)
Aero L-39C (Basic & Advanced Trainer
Cessna 310A
CH-54B Skycrane Helicopter (Army National Guard)
F-4N Phantom II (Navy)
F - 84F Thunderstreak
F-100C Super Sabre (Air Force)
F -105F Thunderchief (Air Force)
F-111A Aardvark
Grumman S-2 Tracker
MIG-21 Fishbed (Air Force)
R4D-6Q Gooney Bird / DC-3/C-47J
T-2C Buckeye (Navy)
T-37B Tweety Bird (Air...
"Oh, I see. Cute. Hmmm, interesting too."
Thanks for all the great maps!
This is a Nike Missile SITE. Note the catagories? "abandoned"
Missiles were deployed here in the 60s. These sites are scattered all over the country. Nike missiles don't exist anymore and haven't been deployed in the US since the 70s.
Of course those are school busses. Type "nike" in the search box. Some sites still look operational, some are gone completely, and some have been converted to other uses.
DieHard II
Dragnet II
Executive Decision
Hot Shots
MacArthur
The Rookie
Spartan
Speed
S*W*A*T
The Stand
Thirteen Days
Tuskegee Airmen
Waterworld
There are target airplanes on the runways just to the NE too.
You must have missed the THREE billion spent on the west coast shuttle launch complex that they closed the day after they finished!
http://googleglobetrotting.com/info.php/mid/5784
C-130A Hercules
F-100D Super Sabre
F-4C Phantom II
F-16A Falcon
A-7D Corsair
RF-101C Voodoo
U-3A Blue Canoe
O-2A Skymaster
RF-84F Thunderflash
F-100F Super Sabre
RB-57A Canberra
F-84F Thunderstreak
T-33A Shooting Star
C-131D Samaritan
TF-102A Delta Dagger
F-106A Delta Dart
F-86A Sabre
B-26C Invader
HH-52A Seaguard...
SSN = 360 feet long.
SSBN = 560 feet long
Ratio is 0.64.
That's an error of about 3.6 feet which is within the margin of error considering the resolution of these photos.
I still think this is 2 SSNs and an SSBN.