tronagirl wrote:What Lies Below Argus Peak?
It seems that we'd have heard more about this underground facility. I realize that people who work on base aren't supposed to talk about secret facilities, but it would seem that there would be rumors. There would most likely be large tunnels which provide access to the facility and it's likely they'd be visible on Google maps satellite view. Anyone have a chance to check that out?surfsteve wrote:I would reemphasize at this juncture that I do not know whether or not any of the cavities discussed in this Army Corps of Engineers document, including the one near Trona, California, were ever excavated. Clearly, a great deal of care and time was invested in this planning study; whether that care and planning translated into actual construction I do not know. I would note, however, that the projected Trona, California site lies just inside the boundary of the China Lake Naval Weapons Center, which has long been rumored to be the site of a massive underground installation. While I cannot speak to the truth of the rumor, I nevertheless find it suggestive that in 1964 the Army Corps of Engineers published a document that sets out in some detail a plan to construct a large, deep underground cavity at that location.
There's a post in geoglyphs about google censoring a guy in Australia for taking a dozer and carving a giant image of one of their natives so I wouldn't hold out much hope of them showing any secret military bases. There are a lot of stories about mines having bottomless pits. I wouldn't be surprised if most mountains didn't hold huge undiscovered underground caverns inside them that could have been made volcanically or from plate movement. I wouldn't be surprised if something had been planned for something discovered in one of the mines. I also remember it being common knowledge 50 years ago that California was going to slide into the ocean within the next 25 years but it never did. At least not yet! I've heard estimates that the earth conservatively contains 5 times as much water underground than it does in all of it's oceans. Water and volcanic lava make steam and even if it's underground, it's got to go somewhere so that leaves a lot of room for both science and science fiction.