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    #11
    Originally posted by TheRefactornator View Post
    If it's what I think it is, it looks like some serious hardware.
    Lost me on that one. Looks like a marina to me.
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      #12
      Originally posted by HairyArsedBloke View Post
      Lost me on that one. Looks like a marina to me.
      Oh come on, if I were to commission a naval HQ and the architect came back with a building shaped like swastika I would send him away again.

      I understand this shape of building is common in Africa where heat dissipation and shade are a consideration but I think they have air con in San Diego.

      ...the Navy says it noticed the shape but that it didn't think anyone would see it from above...


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        #13
        For some reason Treviso Airport gets wacked out on MS Virtual Earth, but not others:


        http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=45.65....8&r=0&src=msa

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          #14
          Originally posted by NoddY View Post
          For some reason Treviso Airport gets wacked out on MS Virtual Earth, but not others:


          http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=45.65....8&r=0&src=msa
          I read an explantion for those missing bits that it's just a technical issue - nothing sinister. Apparently on earlier Google earth, the Sultan of Brunei's place in Northolt was missing, but it appeared again in a 2006 update.

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            #15
            Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
            You should take a drive through Glen Douglas sometime, I did for an alternative drive down from Oban - crumbs the looks I got...
            I can imagine!

            I did some work in my other career in that neck o' the woods!

            The whole hillside is an ammo dump, conventional and nukes!

            Btw, I swam across Loch Long. Numerous times!
            Last edited by Churchill; 6 May 2009, 21:10.

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              #16
              Originally posted by Churchill View Post
              I can imagine!

              I did some work in my other career in that neck o' the woods!

              The whole hillside is an ammo dump, conventional and nukes!

              Btw, I swam across Loch Long. Numerous times!
              Did you do much Diving and Canoeing?
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                #17
                Originally posted by Churchill View Post
                I can imagine!

                I did some work in my other career in that neck o' the woods!

                The whole hillside is an ammo dump, conventional and nukes!

                Btw, I swam across Loch Long. Numerous times!
                You and I both

                Did you dive at the A-frames and Conger Alley up at Arrochar as well?

                My deepest dive was at a site on Loch Long where I was diving down a cliff at night and, thinking I was at around 30m looked at my depth gauge and realised was at 58m

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                  #18
                  its a buddhist symbol

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by mrdonuts View Post
                    its a buddhist symbol
                    That's like saying Gary Glitter is a musician.

                    I assume you're talking about the swastika building?
                    Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post
                      Not UK but I saw this on a youtube video but didn't think it was real until I checked it out just now.
                      From the air it looks like a surprise attack on that Coronado bridge would trap every ship inside the bay, although presumably not all the US Navy's Pacific Fleet are ever there at the same time, and destroying the entire bridge would be easier said than done.

                      Also it depends on the water depth. But in WW1 Admiral Lord Fisher wouldn't allow the Grand Fleet to anchor in the Firth of Forth for the same reason - in his words, that "beastly bridge".
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