Memphis Pyramid Arena

Posted by James Turnbull, Saturday, 23rd April 2005

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The 32 story Memphis Pyramid Arena is the third largest pyramid in the world. The NBA Memphis Grizzlies play here and it seats 21,000 people.

Memphis Pyramid

Thanks: William S. Preissner

Elmendorf Air Force Base

Posted by James Turnbull, Friday, 22nd April 2005

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This “Elephant Cage” in Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska is part of the DOD World Wide High Frequency Direction Finding System. More information on the system is availble from the Federation of American Scientists.

Elmendorf Air Force Base

Thanks: Gabe

Bermuda

Posted by James Turnbull, Friday, 22nd April 2005

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Out in the Atlantic Ocean is a small patch of high-res photos where you’ll find the island of Bermuda, an internally self-governing island overseas territory of the United Kingdom. Reader Patrick pointed out a Cruise Liner docked to the East of the island and Bill Beaty noticed a “wave-radiating aperture” for all you physicists.

Bermuda

Space Shuttle

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Friday, 22nd April 2005

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More spaceships!

We’ve already posted Cape Canaveral, but it’s worth noting that you can also see a space shuttle with its boosters lying nearby, as well as the vehicle assembly building where they put all this stuff together. Jim Thompson has an excellent annotated flickr image of the whole area, thanks Jim :-D

Space Shuttle

Thanks this time to Jim Thompson, Editfish, Terry Foster, Adam Latz, Peter Bonnett, Adam Orford, Bill Mullins, Chinmay, Papapenguin, David and John Neilson.

Johnson Space Center, Houston

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Friday, 22nd April 2005

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Damn, that’s a big ol’ rocket! It’s a Saturn V Rocket at the Johnson Space Center. Glen Vigus said:

The Saturn V rockets were used to launch the Apollo missions to the moon from 1968 to 1972. The Saturn V in this image was intended for the Apollo 18 mission before funding for the program was cut.

And Brandon said:

The photo is before summer ‘04, when a large metal structure was built over it while the rocket was restored (mildew, rust, dirt cleaned off, etc). I believe the rocket will be covered from now on…

Saturn V

Many thanks to rob, John Chung, Dan Hadad, Kevin, Knightmare, Gus, Greg Geter, Brandon, Mark Hardman, Glen Vigus, James Martin, josh k and anyone else I missed out.