Message posted by Magoo on October 01, 2000 at 17:59:10 EST:
It'd be interesting to measure the actual border itself. Allowing for little dips and corners, I suspect it would be close to 500 miles if you were to measure it from the GLR border right around the whole Range and NTS and back again. That's one hell of a lot of territory to cover with an army, let alone with a contracted civilian security force! Has anyone actually got the map out and actually done a rough (or exact!) measurement of the border? Sounds like a job for our resident map guru...Gary!?!?!?!? What the area does have in its favor though, is the terrain and the climate. If Freeman did make the journey, he is one lucky fool-hardy SOB to have survived. As many people have said in here and elsewhere previously, you CANNOT carry enough water in the desert, not to mention the wildlife and other 'obstacles' such as unexploded ordnance and contaminated grounds. It may be a relatively easy exercise to cross the border, but as we all know, there are not many areas of interest close to the border. The chances of being 'busted' would dramaitically rise the further you go in to the Range or NTS. Ironically, although Groom Lake is probably the most sensitive 'facility', it is also the closest facility to the border, hence the guard shacks, camos and sensors! Magoo
In Reply to: Re: Groom Lake Infiltration posted by Richard on October 01, 2000 at 16:10:27 EST:
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