White House roof edited in USGS photos

I was using www.terraserver.microsoft.com to look at
aerial photographs of Washington and noticed that the USGS has
obscured the roofs of the White House and the two government
buildings to the east and west by overlaying them digitally
with featureless, though tastefully tinted, rectangles. Possibly
they're trying to conceal the location of the missile launcher
recently put in place, which a newspaper photo showed to be on
the roof of the Treasury Department building east of the White
House. I used a screen snapshot to capture the USGS image
and have put it on my Web site, temporarily at
http://cpacker.org/awh.jpg

I don't know how familiar with Washington the typical interested
viewer of this will be, so let me know if I should identify
the structures in question with arrows. I'm planning to include
this image in a forthcoming Web page about Washington's
barricades.

--
(Charles Packer)
http://cpacker.org/whatnews

Charles Packer wrote:

I'm planning to include
this image in a forthcoming Web page about Washington's
barricades.

Sounds like someone not intending to fly on US domestic airlines any
more

Lisa

Lisa Horton wrote:

Charles Packer wrote:

I'm planning to include
this image in a forthcoming Web page about Washington's
barricades.


Sounds like someone not intending to fly on US domestic airlines any
more

He does appear to have some sort of pathological desire to get his name
on every list every where.

He's already on a lot of them, rest assured.


--
The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may
often assume the appearance, and produce the effects,
of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy.
--Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

I would suggest the 'editing' is to obscure not only what missile type
(probably a platform based on the Stinger) but also what warning receivers
are in place, and possibly hide the Phalanx type system that is normally a
last ditch back-up.

"~ Darrell ~" wrote in message
.rogers.com...
I would suggest the 'editing' is to obscure not only what missile type
(probably a platform based on the Stinger) but also what warning receivers
are in place, and possibly hide the Phalanx type system that is normally a
last ditch back-up.


I SERIOUSLY doubt that there's a Phalanx system.

Spraying central DC with 20mm explosive shells at 6000
rounds per minute seems like a rather bad idea.

Keith

Vs. what?
Nick


I SERIOUSLY doubt that there's a Phalanx system.

Spraying central DC with 20mm explosive shells at 6000
rounds per minute seems like a rather bad idea.

Keith

Keith Willshaw wrote:
"~ Darrell ~" wrote in message
.rogers.com...

I would suggest the 'editing' is to obscure not only what missile type
(probably a platform based on the Stinger) but also what warning receivers
are in place, and possibly hide the Phalanx type system that is normally a
last ditch back-up.



I SERIOUSLY doubt that there's a Phalanx system.

Spraying central DC with 20mm explosive shells at 6000
rounds per minute seems like a rather bad idea.

Depends on whose side you're on. ;-)



--
The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may
often assume the appearance, and produce the effects,
of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy.
--Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

Keith Willshaw writes:

I SERIOUSLY doubt that there's a Phalanx system.

Spraying central DC with 20mm explosive shells at 6000
rounds per minute seems like a rather bad idea.

The White House is quite a source of bad ideas these days, though.

--
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Previously in dc.general, "~ Darrell ~" proclaimed :

I would suggest the 'editing' is to obscure not only what missile type
(probably a platform based on the Stinger) but also what warning receivers
are in place, and possibly hide the Phalanx type system that is normally a
last ditch back-up.




ye gads. Phalanx? Last ditch is right. Just before you start
throwing the knives and forks from the presidential kitchen.




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OK with me if there's a Phalanx (or something newer and better) on the roof.
There's a big yard for the bad guys to crash into.

--
Chuck Tribolet

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"wideglide01" wrote in message ...
Previously in dc.general, "~ Darrell ~" proclaimed :

I would suggest the 'editing' is to obscure not only what missile type
(probably a platform based on the Stinger) but also what warning receivers
are in place, and possibly hide the Phalanx type system that is normally a
last ditch back-up.




ye gads. Phalanx? Last ditch is right. Just before you start
throwing the knives and forks from the presidential kitchen.




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safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
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