Aluminum foil is indeed made out of aluminum and tin foil is made out of tin.
We used tin often in art class in my youth and it was referred to as “tin foil” It had similar properties to the stuff you wrap your leftover pizza in but was thicker and stronger.
Also, the aluminum foil hat is not nearly as effective as tin foil hats against death rays, thought probes and cerebral jamming signals. Duh.
The National Test Site is part of the Nellis AFB complex as well, and is where we did most of our underground nuclear tests.
The “Crater Cluster” pictures are NTS pictures- here’s a DOE site with a picture of Yucca Flat taken from one of the nearby mountains.
http://www.nv.doe.gov/news&pubs/photos&films/crater.htm
Note… the “circle around bomb craters” is front and center, and the alluvial flow at the bottom of the satellite pictures is at the far end of the picture.
Also, the “Biggest Crater I could find” is more than likely the “Sedan” test from the Plowshares program, as illustrated on the DOE page.
I see the black circles and it looks to me like they’ve been intentionally blacked out. Maybe the government is growing some experimental cannibis crop there or something and they don’t want people seeing it in the imagery and flocking to the area to do some harvesting. (there was a movie about that several years back…can’t remember the name.
I’m curious about this http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.923287,-116.777802&spn=0.499878,0.523911&t=k&hl=en
It looks like somebody did a mosaic over it.
Oops…that link just did the big overhead view…now I can’t find it…
If you just scroll around the map and try to post the link, the link doesn’t change. How do you get the coordinates of what you’re looking at?
I found the black circles (they’re in the link I posted) and I found a bunch of crosshairs. Still looking for the Jewish Temple though.
The triangle from the OP and the Google triangle are two different photos.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.923287,-116.777802&spn=0.499878,0.523911&t=k&hl=en
Ok, this is the image I was seeing. Not sure what the big round area is.
Also, if you scroll north, the ground turns white and it almost looks like a negative. What is that?
Dry lake bed?
For example, here is Groom Lake of Area 51 fame.
I have been checking the google site images and I have a conjecture for the blacked out circles.
There you find an image of what appears to be a much older version of the circles. I conject that the blacked out circles are very recent bomb/missile target circles, blacked out to prevent the courious to be able to assess the accuracy of our newest munitions.
Judging from some of the older targets and the craters surrounding them, earlier bombs/missiles miss a lot.
Also, I think I might have found more Plowshares work. Here are two really big craters and a trench. I seem to recall Plowshares experemented with canal digging with nukes.
Apon revew, I see that all those links take us back to the triangle. Crap.
I think this is it. Trying the Plowshares image again.
The black circles are not just “blacked out”. You can see something in them.
link.
As manhattan mentioned earlier, they are probably sewage treatment and the thing you can see in a long pipe that sprays some fluid. . .see what CurtC wrote. The other circles are probably some kind of crop.
The “mosaic” look you refer to is because google’s maps are composed of a patchwork of satellite images, not all taken at the same time in the same light. Anywhere you look in America on Google maps has that look.
I had thought, and assumed that everyone else would also, that the circles appear almost black because they are really a fairly dark green crop, and the color just didn’t come out too well in the photo. Now that I read posts again, I see that people are asking why they’re black, thinking they can’t be crops. They still look like off-color crop photos to me. Am I wrong?
I just checked those crop circles in World Wind, and they appear balck with the NLT Landsat7 images, but the Community Landsat7 images show them as definitely green.
Now if you want to see a case of clear doctoring, take a look at the White House roof, and the roofs of the two adjacent buildings:
Was that a woosh or something? I don’t get it.
English spelling.
Really.
Just out of curiousity, has anyone checked out area 52? or area 50?
Speaking of nuclear tests, zoom in on this.