Weird
Tonight I was going to start writing about the exercise I did a few years back in Canada. So I thought I'd have a little peek at the area on Google Earth to remind myself what the prairie was like.
And I found the image above.
The diameter of the circle is over 10 miles.
How do you make a near perfect circle that big?
Have I been on exercise at an alien landing site?
Or more probably - were we driving around in circles for 4 weeks?
If anyone has any ideas please let me know.
fired down the range by DC at 6:56 pm
5 Comments:
Temporarily set up a tactical DME (distance measuring equipment) transmitter, such as those used by pilots, at what will be the centre.
Put a DME receiver on a truck and drive around the area maintaining a constant radius (e.g. 5 miles).
Lob out a handful of white powder every 100 yards or so.
Have a bunch of squaddies join up the dots with their sacks of marker powder.
Stu Savory (the bastard flying instructor).
PS: Now I suppose you want to know WHY? ;-)
Perhaps it was for the second Lieutenant with the map so that he wouldn't get lost?
Looks remarkably like some kind of huge alien bombsight to me, taking aim via Google. A good job, I think, that you're no longer there; who knows how soon the area will turn into a radioactive inferno.
STU - yes please ;)
Greavsie - aha - now it all makes perfect sense.
Nick - that's what I was worried about.
And that 10 mile circle isn't even the majority of the base.
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