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Old 09-14-2006, 03:42 PM   #1
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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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Old 09-14-2006, 04:23 PM   #2
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Is it on Kwajalein?
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Old 09-14-2006, 06:44 PM   #3
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Bomb craters?
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Old 09-14-2006, 06:59 PM   #4
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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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Old 09-14-2006, 07:06 PM   #5
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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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pbfoot is the closest guess yet for location.

Another clue. The shape of the structure is bowl shaped.
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Old 09-15-2006, 05:16 AM   #8
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Hmmm, dont know got me...
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Old 09-15-2006, 10:21 AM   #9
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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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Is that where they tested nuclear explosions..... Huh
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Bunker for A bomb tests?
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Bunker for A bomb tests?
Good guess but no. Although it had to do with the nuclear program.

Lets see if you can figure out the atoll.
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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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Enewetok Atoll, and its a huge crater filled with radioactive soil and material and then sealed with a concrete "cap".
Yes!!!!!

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I will post some more info on this later today.
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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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