338 Comments for NRL Satellite Facility

I love that dish. It's sooo gorgeous up there. It's just something you have to experience.

Love this site. Check out Google for Teufelsberg, Berlin, also impressive, no dishes left tho...

The message from Braaa!, should read:

In Irbene, Latvia, EU, ist ein groesse Teleskop.

In German. It's a 32 metre radio telescope.
Check out :
http://www.redhaus.com...el/latvia/index.html, for pics and a short film.

Google ;-)

if you like to skateboard,
this a a must!!!
just don't get to clase th the edge

i just got home from there, and these must be OLD pics because you cant even see white anymore it is complely covered in grafitti.

its really an amazing place

the "graffiti" that is on this dish makes it beautiful.. granted, it'd be pretty amazing just standing alone... but yeah. I just recently found out about the satellite, and my friends and I visit it regularly.. hopefully it wont be demolished soon, because it is a truely amazing structure.

im running out of adjectives while watching your photos..

this is beautiful

This was our old hangout, kids used to go here to drink. We used to love the buildings, great paintball

What kind of graffitti artist would write fart?? on the very left

Haha you can probbaly see me house from there.

I love how strangely transparent the dish looks along the upper edges.

ET PHONE HOME!

Don't you mean "LBJ"?

Yeah, you've got it right on how it worked. In the hole would have been a data collector that would have translated the analog signal into digital and passed it on to a computer. I can think of two reasons it didn't have a light: the light might have interfered with transmission, and if this was a secret at the time it was put up they wouldn't want anything to identify it. After it closed down they probably just forgot to put a light on it...

if u failed miserably with this pic, i wanna know how you would define perfect. :D