338 Comments for NRL Satellite Facility

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ha, i wrote half of that graffiti up there:-P
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this shot is so beatiful, hope you don't mind me showing it to my Roleplayinggroup ;)
And yes its very postapocalyptic
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This facility was used by none other than LJB to direct the Vietnam War. We build this system in Mountain View, California at Ford Aerospace, Space & Recovery Systems. We also built and flew the KH satellites that provided the images. The hop was from Vietnam to a ship off shore, then to Hawaii to McClellan AFB and then on to Washington, DC. This system (Compass Link) provided secure voice, data and imagery at about 5 MHz. Very fast for 1968-1975.
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It is only the 2nd 360 that I have seen in my short-time on the net. But I think it is amazing. Was it shot at Dusk or Dawn? (CANADA)
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holy cow looks like the grim reaper up there
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Hey, just wanted to say that the "No Pussy" comments are probably what a kid wrote after they were dared to go there--they weren't a pussy
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I wonder if you can get Sky TV on that thing :-)
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At first I thought it was odd that this installation couldn't be re-used for some other non-military communications function, but then I guess in spite of it's hi-tech appearance it's probably as antiquated as an Apollo rocket would be today.

Here in the UK old structures like this from the early years of the communications age are being listed (protected by law) and renovated.
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This so reminds me of the dish in Return of the Jedi which Han Solo & Leia destroy with the help of the Wookies!

Must just be the way it points above the trees like that. Geek moment over...
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This is very eerie, its so surreal it feels like a dream, great shot!
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This is a very cool series. This one looks like some kind of 20th century monumental altar to the sky gods. What would archaelogists in the future think if they found this enigmatic remnant of a lost culture?
I'm sure there would be more than one theory similar to the Mayan and Inca temples and the beliefs of the people who built them!
Would it be something like the
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lol... just compared my pictures of both locations. Shit, somebody went to some trouble.
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OK, Someone is not getting any!
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just thought I would throw this in there....
Scroll to the right, go past the first pillar and note the blue face. Look at the words the the left of the blue face.

http://opacity.us/image2477.htm
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Man, Mott, you sure have guts. I would never have made it halfway to the base! Teriffic shots of something most of us have never seen. Thanks.