| Subject: Re: Google Earth overaly for the tall tower at Groom Lake |
| From: "miso@sushi.com" <miso@sushi.com> |
| Date: 15/02/2009, 18:03 |
| Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.area51 |
On Feb 14, 7:23 pm, obviouslydelusional <obviouslydelusio...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Feb 14, 5:48 pm, "m...@sushi.com" <m...@sushi.com> wrote:www.lazygranch.com/google_earth/tower.kmzUsing the shadow of a 737 as a reference (object of known height), I put the tower at 65 meters. If correct, this new structure doesn't see much outside the base. It does see Badger and I think Hayford Peak. Still, if the base wanted range, they wouldn't put up this freakin' expensive tower.Everyone wants good cell phone coverage. Why should the base be any different? It's a black budget cell phone tower. Only difference is that it can reach Zeta Reticuli. Hope they have free roaming. Check your math on this though. Height of a 737 tail is about 41.25' high. Using the GE measurement tool, the 737 tail shadow measures at about 60'. The tower shadow measures about 203'. This is a little tricky, as you need to guess a little as to the position of the base of the tower. By proportionality, 41.25/60 = tower height/203 Thus tower height = 139.5' or 42.5 meters.
I used the body of the plane rather than the tail. However, I went back and used the C-12 as a reference. http://www.lazygranch.com/temp/measure.gif Basically, take the shadow and multiply by 17/19. Basically the same result. 37°14'26.32"N 115°48'50.18"W for the telcom microwave 37°14'26.37"N 115°48'49.32"W looks like cellular sector antennas One thing to keep in mind here is we are viewing orthorectified images. I'm not sure how accurate this shadow scheme is if the reference is far away from the target. I didn't mention it, but this view from the tower is with 1 arc second data at full resolution. I built it out of 4 pieces after painstakingly chopping off the parts of the image that didn't contain any overlay. The tower only sees into a bit of the valley where allegedly Lockmart played with polecat. Anyway, building that tower to see into the next valley would be very stupid. They could just ditchwitch a cable around the mountain for probably less than the engineering cost of the big ass tower. [Look at the size of the base of that tower. It must also be very deep since the tower is self supporting.] ] If the tower were used simply for communications, the only reason for doing so would be to have capability of all weather maintenance. That is, they wouldn't have to get the chopper to fly to Papoose, or use a tracked vehicle to reach the top of the mountain. A fat tower like the one used doesn't need guy wires, which are death to aircraft. [Remember the KFI incident.] Still, I don't rule anything out since this tower is very strange. Remember, Groom Lake is just an AFB. Granted a very cool base, but it shouldn't need much beyond what you would find at KEDW. So that leave us with a tower that sees their private valley (cameras perhaps, both ground and for flight monitoring) and one that sees Badger but not Angel Peak. You may recall I saw a chopper visit Badger, so it is not inactive as other have indicated.
