Google Earth locals and Street View locals Thread

[DVINNY]

Go to these coordinates, and tell me, WTF is that?

31°17'13.61"N 24°26'7.73"W

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=31.287114,-24.43548&z=7&t=h&hl=en

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

It looks like the Atlantic Ocean...

 

[blybrook PE]

It's the Canary Basin (or near it) with some sort of underwater maze (need to zoom out to 20 miles resolution)...

With it's size, I bet it's for the subs

 

[DVINNY]

36 46' 20.10"N, 115 27' 13.05"W

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.772622,-115.45394&z=14&t=h&hl=en

 

[DVINNY]

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=50.010083,-110.11301&z=15&t=h&hl=en

50.010083,-110.113006

This one is pretty wicked

 

[DVINNY]

OOPS

46.765669,-100.79274

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=46.765585,-100.79268&z=17&t=h&hl=en

 

[blybrook PE]

^^Somethin went BOOM at that second one; or it was a launch of some sort that radiated out...

Edit - reminds me of the book & subsequent movie Andromeda Strain...

The 4th looks like a standard corn field during harvest time; nothing out of the ordinary there to me...

 

[DVINNY]

A BUNNY RABBIT

44.244273,7.769737

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.24424,7.7697387&z=15&t=h&hl=en

 

[DVINNY]

^^Somethin went BOOM at that second one; or it was a launch of some sort that radiated out...

Edit - reminds me of the book & subsequent movie Andromeda Strain...

The 4th looks like a standard corn field during harvest time; nothing out of the ordinary there to me...

What about this one? 37.401437,-116.86773

And zoom into the 4th one then...

 

[wilheldp_PE]

The 4th looks like a standard corn field during harvest time; nothing out of the ordinary there to me...

You have to zoom way in on the street between the fields.

 

[blybrook PE]

NICE alter on 37.401437,-116.86773!

I zoomed in on the 4th; will have to retry on google earth instead of the link

 

[envirotex]

Go to these coordinates, and tell me, WTF is that?

31°17'13.61"N 24°26'7.73"W

http://maps.google.c...8&z=7&t=h&hl=en

Part of the Canary Ridge, volcanic in origin (kind of like Hawaii, but a bit more complex and uncertain)...just east of the Mid-Atlantic Rift

 

[wilheldp_PE]

I remember when Google Maps/Earth first came out, there were no images around Area 51. Now you can just search for "Area 51" and zoom right in on the facility. I'm surprised they don't have a street view of it yet.

 

[blybrook PE]

AFTER going to google earth instead of the link for the 4th; there's a semi on its side with the tow truck on the wrong side trying to pick it up...

 

[envirotex]

36 46' 20.10"N, 115 27' 13.05"W

http://maps.google.c...&z=14&t=h&hl=en

I know this one, too. It's just south of Area 51 in NV. Draw your own conclusions about what has gone on there...

 

[envirotex]

^^Somethin went BOOM at that second one; or it was a launch of some sort that radiated out...

Edit - reminds me of the book & subsequent movie Andromeda Strain...

The 4th looks like a standard corn field during harvest time; nothing out of the ordinary there to me...

What about this one? 37.401437,-116.86773

And zoom into the 4th one then...

Also at the NTS...

 

[Capt Worley PE]

36 46' 20.10"N, 115 27' 13.05"W

http://maps.google.c...&z=14&t=h&hl=en

I know this one, too. It's just south of Area 51 in NV. Draw your own conclusions about what has gone on there...

It looks like marks left by those wheeled irrigation booms that go in circles.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

^^Somethin went BOOM at that second one; or it was a launch of some sort that radiated out...

Edit - reminds me of the book & subsequent movie Andromeda Strain...

The 4th looks like a standard corn field during harvest time; nothing out of the ordinary there to me...

What about this one? 37.401437,-116.86773

Soviets used to set up mobile anti-aircraft missile batteries like this. Center is a control trck that is in charge of the individual launchers.

 

[mudpuppy]

36 46' 20.10"N, 115 27' 13.05"W

http://maps.google.c...&z=14&t=h&hl=en

I know this one, too. It's just south of Area 51 in NV. Draw your own conclusions about what has gone on there...

It looks like marks left by those wheeled irrigation booms that go in circles.

Agreed. Looks like there is/was a dirt airstrip on top of it as well.

The first one was creeping me out, so I had to look it up. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/4735057/Google-Ocean-Atlantis-found-off-Africa-turns-out-to-be-boat-mapping-lines.html Seemed odd that the grid was exactly 100 miles across.

 

[envirotex]

36 46' 20.10"N, 115 27' 13.05"W

http://maps.google.c...&z=14&t=h&hl=en

I know this one, too. It's just south of Area 51 in NV. Draw your own conclusions about what has gone on there...

It looks like marks left by those wheeled irrigation booms that go in circles.

It is almost certainly not that...My thought is that they are survey lines from the blast area around a crater...