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The title of the link is: "Cold War spy satellites were calibrated with marks in the Arizona desert." And it's technically true. They were calibrated with mar
by mig39 5y ago
The title of the link is: "Cold War spy satellites were calibrated with marks in the Arizona desert."
And it's technically true. They were calibrated with marks in the Arizona desert. Just not those big crosses.
> While a few sites are listed inside Arizona—near Fort Huachuca and Luke Air Force Base—they are comprised of the tri-bar optical test pattern used by the US government since the early 1950s, not 60-foot-wide concrete crosses.
- hcs 5y agoThe title of the article is "Candy CORN: analyzing the CORONA concrete crosses myth"