A Pyramid Built To Track the End of the World

[Jazzy]

A huge pyramid in the middle of nowhere tracking the end of the world on radar. An abstract geometric shape beneath the sky without a human being in sight. It could be the opening scene of an apocalyptic science fiction film, but it's just the U.S. military going about its business, building vast and other-worldly architectural structures that the civilian world only rarely sees.

The Library of Congress has an extraordinary set of images documenting the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex in Cavalier County, North Dakota, showing it in various states of construction and completion. And the photos are awesome.

Does look like something out of a science fiction film.

What do you think?

 

[DrLeftover]

Reminds me of some of the DEW Line installations built during the good old days of the Cold War

More photos of one such site:
http://www.arcticcircle.ca/Baffin/Hall/0303/page_03.htm

 

[Evil Eye]

Does look like something out of a science fiction film.

It's Orwell's Ministry of Truth!