Google Earth Uncovers Secret UK Nuke Base 240
thefickler writes "Gone are the days when governments could easily hide top secret bases. These days it's a weekend pastime to see who can find top secret facilities using Google Earth. Now it's the UK government's turn to be outraged after a secret facility was revealed by a British tabloid. The facility is said to be located in Faslane on the River Clyde in Scotland. This nuclear base was previously blurred out by the request of the British Government. However, with the latest update provided via Google Earth, many of the blurred out locations were accidentally revealed."
Update: 3/08 at 14:24 by SS: Multiple readers have pointed out that the issue here is not the location of the base — it's simply that details of buildings and objects within the base (such as the location of a pair of nuclear submarines) are accidentally visible after the UK government specifically requested they be blurred out.
I used google search (Score:5, Funny)
What about the enemies? (Score:4, Funny)
Do the enemy nations also blur their secret bases at the request of the british government?
I NEVER KNEW IT WAS THERE! (Score:5, Funny)
Now all the mystery of the road signs, American Service personnel, people mentioning it in the media and the submarines sailing up and down the Clyde is solved.
WHO KNEW!!!!!
Public secrets (Score:5, Funny)
The places the government publicise that they want to keep secret aren't actually secret at all. They're a façade. Then there's the somewhat secret stuff that the government denies exists. The real secret stuff is the stuff the government never mentions.
Never heard the government mention their lunar base with telescopes that can see through the roofs of buildings and spy on you on the toilet? That's pretty much proof they've got one, but it's a secret!
Re:Under cover. (Score:5, Funny)
Anyone know what the circular mounds are to the north of the base?
I could probably tell you that those are the Top Secret military pancake storage facilities, but then you would have to be blurred out on google maps too.
Re:"Also revealed are MI6's London offices" (Score:5, Funny)
Back when that building was used in the Bond film, HIGNFY reported: "MI6 were concerned the film might reveal the location of... one of London's most distinctive landmarks"
Re:"Also revealed are MI6's London offices" (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry, but the UK has never been that big on keeping their secret nuclear bunkers very secret: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mimram/122464288/ [flickr.com]
Re:What about the enemies? (Score:5, Funny)
Most nations can't afford the 18,558,720 pixel wide brush required.
Re:so secret they have their own public website! (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not sure which one makes you look like more of an idiot--the fact that "kdawson" isn't two words, or the fact that the story was posted by timothy.
Re:"Also revealed are MI6's London offices" (Score:4, Funny)
Flash New Update (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Blurred out by request (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps, but Google also know the enforcement people's browsing habits, so no enforcement will be done.
Re:The actual article in The Sun (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well since big brother can be watching us... (Score:3, Funny)
.....so can us little brothers be watching big brother... No double standards here.
Of the 6 plus billion people on this planet, it is some fraction of 1% that messes things up for the rest of us.
Its about time we start watching them..
It's about time we start whacking them.
There ya go, fixed that for ya!
Re:"Also revealed are MI6's London offices" (Score:2, Funny)
Blurred out on the map == (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I NEVER KNEW IT WAS THERE! (Score:5, Funny)
"the submarines sailing up and down the Clyde"
That certainly shoots down the "very large manatees" cover story.
They should slap a Coke logo over it... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:so secret they have their own public website! (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe he meant two syllables?
Re:"Also revealed are MI6's London offices" (Score:4, Funny)
Of course, TFA talks about "terrorists" targeting the subs with rockets. Right. Could terrorists get that kind of weapon into the UK and close to a nuclear weapons installation?
They've got the weapons, they don't need to get them into the UK, there's a sea route past Arran, looks like there's a torpedoe net around the subs but I'm sure a shoulder mounted SAM would do enough damage to put them out of action for a while.
I think I'd have asked that the subs be duplicated a few hundred times around the coast line instead. Now that's a deterrent!
Re:"Also revealed are MI6's London offices" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:so secret they have their own public website! (Score:1, Funny)
And by two he meant three, right?
Re:"Also revealed are MI6's London offices" (Score:3, Funny)
You should read TFA... they're asking google to blur real life as well.
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