Pictures: Can u identify these things?

I have seen these things from the freeway where I live and always have wondered what they are?

geodesic domes

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, also looks like doppler radar

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could be ANYTHING. Depends on what you put in them

I think those are referred to as "radomes". Inside is a rotating radar unit.

NC

I was doing a project on them they are apart of a national security agency.
they keep lunitics in there

I'm pretty ignorant of the tech, but the big ones look a bit large to be radar domes. In fact, the doppler radar dome referenced by NetStorm is one of the largest radar domes I've ever seen. And again I am fairly uneducated on the matter, but I don't think radar sites can be located that close to eachother, especially not that close at the same height.

They're radomes.



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I think an informal name for them is 'golf balls.'

[edit on 23-3-2006 by koji_K]

Origianlly developed as an early warning system to detect Soviet bombers and ICBMs, the BMEWS used radoms like these, called golf-balls, beleive it or not, to house radar dishes. en.wikipedia.org...

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