What's with this part of Russia?

[Arkaign]

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=70.970447,146.763611&spn=0.58391,3.337097&t=h&z=9

It's just really damned strange looking, at least from Satellite view. Looks like a moonscape. The strangeness persists even when zooming in, all kinds of crazy craters and insanely jaggly little rivers.

Anyone here ever been out there in person, looks like a last frontier kind of area, though I'm sure it's probably epic cold up there.

 

[El Guaraguao]

looks like a bunch of lakes to me, not craters.

 

[manlymatt83]

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=70.970447,146.763611&spn=0.58391,3.337097&t=h&z=9

It's just really damned strange looking, at least from Satellite view. Looks like a moonscape. The strangeness persists even when zooming in, all kinds of crazy craters and insanely jaggly little rivers.

Anyone here ever been out there in person, looks like a last frontier kind of area, though I'm sure it's probably epic cold up there.

That's where they filmed the moon landing. Hence the tension we had with Russia...

 

[PieIsAwesome]

Judging from the scale. . . each one of those lakes must be huge.

 

[Arkaign]

It just goes on and on, so strange.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=68.993864,159.801636&spn=0.32097,1.668549&z=10

 

[Arkaign]

Ah, this must be why it looks so crazy :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_Traps

A million years of eruptions

 

[zinfamous]

if I'm not mistaken, that's the heavy mining area of Siberia. I think Norilsk is "near" there, which is one of the largest heavy metal mining cities in the world. --built on Gulag labor, of course.

It's highly polluted and toxic--could explain the kick-ass colors. Is lake Bikhal in that area, too? it's the deepest (and largest?) natural lake in the world

 

[Arkaign]

if I'm not mistaken, that's the heavy mining area of Siberia. I think Norilsk is "near" there, which is one of the largest heavy metal mining cities in the world. --built on Gulag labor, of course.

It's highly polluted and toxic--could explain the kick-ass colors. Is lake Bikhal in that area, too? it's the deepest (and largest?) natural lake in the world

Cool I'd like to see Lake Baikal someday, it looked incredible on Planet Earth (the BBC doc). I'm sure the conditions are treacherous, but it looks fascinating.

 

[zinfamous]

ah, nvm. lake Bikhal is way south, near Mongolia

 

[96Firebird]

Norilsk is up near there, one of the most polluted places on Earth. Can barely see the city from the satellite view...

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1661031_1661028_1661022,00.html

http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=wjk6dvrbk4c8&lvl=13&dir=0&sty=b&form=LMLTCC

 

[BoomerD]

Panning around, that entire region looks like it's been hunting with Dick Cheney...

 

[Texashiker]

Looks like remains of alien weapons testing.

Maybe humans are here because of defects in genes from the radiation of alien nuclear weapons

 

[Arkaign]

Looks like remains of alien weapons testing.

Maybe humans are here because of defects in genes from the radiation of alien nuclear weapons

I like it, sounds like a fun saturday night sci-fi flick

 

[The Boston Dangler]

looks like it's wide open to attack from kamchatka. make sure you reinforce from alaska and japan.

 

[Nemesis 1]

I find the sand colored part of map intriging

 

[Crono]

Just north of it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolshoy_Lyakhovsky_Island

 

[Arkaign]

looks like it's wide open to attack from kamchatka. make sure you reinforce from alaska and japan.

+1 internets

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

That's just what tundra looks like. Look at the north slope of Alaska. It's the same thing.

Basically when the snow melts every year all of the low lying areas fill with meltwater.

 

[Arkaign]

That's just what tundra looks like. Look at the north slope of Alaska. It's the same thing.

Basically when the snow melts every year all of the low lying areas fill with meltwater.

But Alaska was once part of Russia!! It must be a conspiracy

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

True.... :hmm: