Google Earth Tour of Nevada Test Site (with DoE photos and video)

[HeinoReino]

Hej! How did you got so nice video from google earth video tour. I mean how can I export it from google earth to separate video??

[greggschariot]

@HeinoReino With this one I used a video cam on a tripod and recorded the tour as it played on my flat screen. Video capture programs didn't work as well for me. Thanks for watching.

[TheFiregator5]

Good video. Went there for a radiological class. Stayed on base and went to the first site you showed for a practical application, scenario based, exercise. Also went to the area where a nuclear powered rocket was tested but never went to production. The rocket was being tested for deep space voyage possibilities. Was supposed to go to the Sedan crater but didn't work out. They took us instead to the place where the cannon shot landed that Bobby Kennedy was at. Really cool.

[SvenTviking]

Look at all those craters and imagine the amount of fallout created. They were fucking mad and stupid back in the '50s!

[puncheex]

I might point out that there are lots of other areas in the site which are interesting. I spent some time looking at the explosions on Buckboard Butte, 2 of them are nuclear, 6 are explosive. A lot of the testing took place on Piahute and Ranier mesas to the north west, and a lot of high energy physics experiments are on Jackass Flats in the south west corner.

[puncheex]

Yes, Kennedy was there for a demo and live-fire of the Davy Crockett. It was done up on the Tonopah Test Range, though, about 50 miles NW of Sedan. The test was one of the four in the Roller Coaster series; Ivy whatever was the Army's maneuver operation, a battalion-level exercise which accompanied the test.

[stellarblue51]

@greggschariot Thank you so much for the vid. Gonna take that tour, for sure..if I can. You need clearance now...

[greggschariot]

@stellarblue51 Drop me a note if you take the tour, I'd like to hear about it. I've never taken it. Thanks for watching.

[kramert25]

@ myself, i just want to see the craters. i dont have to go in these laboratories. unless even thats possible!

[kramert25]

can i visit these sites? id love to!

[igotta9]

We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when...but we'll meet again someday.

[Nguli34689]

This is a very good video! I thought I was going to get another tear-jerking video that appeals to emotion and not reason, but what I saw was appealing to both (reason and humor). The picture of SPAM made me think of Operation CUE in 1955 where the reporters on Media Hill televised this nuclear explosion. Hundreds of food items including Roast Beef were subjected to high temperatures and X-rays. The following day, I saw those same reporters consuming that irradiated food. MMM--MMM--Nom nom nom!

[greggschariot]

@Nguli34689 Thank you very much! I see so many videos with nothing but unsubstantiated speculation that I felt one based on facts, reason, and logic was in order. Good to hear from someone who gets it. :)

[Nguli34689]

@greggschariot Thank you. :)

[Ollied]

May i ask what is at 1:09 is it an entrance?? great video anyway my friend

[greggschariot]

@Ollied - Yes I believe that is an underground entrance. There is a large shadow coming from what looks like flat sand, rather than a building. You can see it much better in Google Earth. Thanks for watching.

[puncheex]

@Ollied: It's the site of four drops in the 50s; it was an alternate, small Doomtown. It's probably used a a vehicle area. It appears that they may have built a bunker there, who knows for what.

[themightyimp08]

"Spam" should pay you for that advert!

[ChrmdLabradorite]

Interesting, thanks for sharing.

[HUTCHtopher]

I hope the guys underground in NTS are getting paid well wonder how radioactive that soil is

[puncheex]

@HUTCHtopher: There are people (ordinary people; machinists, drilling riggers, electrical techs and so on) that worked there every day of their working lives. As long as you don't grow food there yourself, you're fine. Use Google Earth to go look at the USSR test site at Semiplatinsk in Khazakstan, and note the people who freely drive across it now and take pics.

[HUTCHtopher]

@puncheex I looked it up, didn't find any pics, but the ground does not look as disturbed as NTS. I had a hard time even finding a crater in the ground.

[puncheex]

@HUTCHtopher: Look in and around 50.4382,77.8142, particularly to the northwest. That's the "Experimental Area" where a lot of the early test were performed. The Chagan test (equiv to our Sedan) was held in the Balapan area at 49.936,79.008. Their trenching test Telkem (like our Buggy) is at 49.713,78.461. Notice the small blue squares; those are pic locations added to the public database. Click on them to see ground pics.

[HUTCHtopher]

@puncheex Thanks. What happend at Changan???

[puncheex]

@HUTCHtopher: Sedan was our great Plowshare demo about how well nukes could move earth; that's why it's the largest crater at the site. Chagan was the USSR's show of the same thing. They put it next to a river to dam it, this creating a backup lake, as well as filling the crater itself. Unfortunately it was (and still is, somewhat) radioactive. It is known as Lake Chagan or Balapan.

[HUTCHtopher]

@puncheex

Whats the deal with all the larger than life "crosshairs/bulleyes" embeded all over the site?

[puncheex]

@HUTCHtopher: Bombing targets, I assume. Most of the first 200 or so Soviet weapons were air dropped. I don't know how a simple bombardier could be expected to tell them apart. They didn't have such in the Northern Test Area (Novaya Zemlya), they essentially just dropped them anywhere convenient in the general area.

[HUTCHtopher]

If I ever end up in Vegas I plan to get a tour of NTS

[tolittletime]

spam? ha ha

[s911217panayotov]

Nice video!!!

[greggschariot]

Thanks! I appreciate that.