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09-14-2006, 03:42 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Orange County, CA
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| Identify this structure I know what it is........ lets see if you know what it is. I will give you folks some time to figure it out, and then I will post the story of its significance. Clue #1..... Its in the Pacific
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09-14-2006, 04:23 PM
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| IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO   Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Colorado, USA
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| Is it on Kwajalein?
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09-14-2006, 06:44 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Queensland
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| Bomb craters?
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09-14-2006, 06:59 PM
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| Ok, its in the Central Pacific and the structure is made of concrete. And the answer is germane to this web site and of interest to most of you. And that is a bomb crater next to the structure. Clue - look at the scale at the bottom left and compare it to the bomb crater.
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09-14-2006, 07:06 PM
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| "World Traveller"  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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  | Looks like a radar dish similar to the one in the James Bond movie in Cuba (I think it was Goldeneye).
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09-14-2006, 07:50 PM
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09-14-2006, 11:42 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Orange County, CA
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| pbfoot is the closest guess yet for location. Another clue. The shape of the structure is bowl shaped.
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09-15-2006, 05:16 AM
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| Der Crewchief  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| Hmmm, dont know got me...
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09-15-2006, 10:21 AM
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| Ok, some more information. 1) It is in the Marshall Islands 2) It has to do with explosions of the largest kind 3) It is a concrete dome shaped structure
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09-15-2006, 04:03 PM
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| Der Crewchief Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| Is that where they tested nuclear explosions..... Huh
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09-16-2006, 01:17 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Queensland
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| Bunker for A bomb tests?
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09-16-2006, 01:20 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Orange County, CA
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Lets see if you can figure out the atoll.
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09-16-2006, 10:50 AM
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| Enewetok Atoll, and its a huge crater filled with radioactive soil and material and then sealed with a concrete "cap".
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09-16-2006, 10:52 AM
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Wildcat gets a thumbs up. I will post some more info on this later today.
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09-16-2006, 11:40 AM
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| "Shooter"   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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 | It's actually on Runit Island. Wildcat beat me to it. The crater with the concrete cap was the Cactus test crater, which was one test in the Hardtack I series.
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