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

Next door to Area 51, the Nevada Test Site is a restricted area doing classified research BUT... not nearly as secret as some people imagine. The Dept. of Energy actually gives free tours of the area, something the Air Force probably won't be doing with Area 51. ;)

This video includes historic footage of the Sedan explosion that made the world's biggest man-made crater.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• Google Earth
• Nevada Test Site
• area 51
• nellis
• nuclear
• sedan crater
• groom lake
• alien
• conspiracy
• underground
• NTS

[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.

[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.

[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. :)

[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]

@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]

@puncheex

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

[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.

[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 Thanks. What happend at Changan??? 

[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.