I guess not everybody in Nevada loves the Test Site as much as this postcard might suggest, but hey, what do tourists know? The image comes from _roberta’s Flickr photostream, and she doesn’t seem too critical.
About 850 miles southeast today, the Trinity Site — where the world’s first atomic weapon was detonated in a test [...]
Posted October 1, 2005 by Casey Bisson
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The above image is my followup to my Nevada Test Site Tour post from last month and comes courtesy of Adam Schneider’s very useful GPS Visualizer (you really need to see it full-sized, though). I still don’t have a cable to connect the ancient Magellan GPS I used to a computer, so I manually entered [...]
Posted May 25, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog, Technology, Travel. Tags: gps, las vegas, map, mercury, nevada, nuclear. 2 Comments.