Burning Man From Space

[Valgar]

Interesting photo...

 

[xgambit]

shows you how corporate they've become...even their camp layout looks like a © !

 

[Charmed]

Wow...it almost looks clean and organized from space:wow

 

[HiggyB]

Awesome pic, thanks for posting it.

 

[hungdaddy]

what is that?

 

[HiggyB]

what is that?

What is Burning Man? Go here:

Burning Man Website

30,000+ people go out to the desert in Nevada for a weeklong festival of sorts. I went a few years ago and had a blast. But it wasn't so much fun for me that I've gone back or anything, but it was great to go at least once... :teeth


Note: it goes from being the empty Black Rock desert to Nevada's fifth largest city (complete with its own post office), then back to empty desert again, all within a month or so (the proper event lasts a week but there's a lot of setup and take down time of course).


Edit - more stats: the ring is something like 2 miles in diameter and so a walk around the outside is a solid 6 miles or so. Nuts.

 

[HiggyB]

And because I've got *nothing* to do while waiting to head out of here for the day:

Google Maps shot of the same area

The Google maps satellite images are a few years old I believe, but in the middle you can see the man is being built, the roads of Black Rock City (the city name given to Burning Man when it's going on) and that's about it. Interesting to compare the full vs. empty shots of the desert.

:blah :blah :blah

 

[streak]

see the governement is spying on its wacky citizens.

 

[pacifisticuffs]

Do they do aerial spraying to try and sanitize them?

 

[hungdaddy]

Wow, What a crazy event. It seems so surreal.

 

[streak]

the first year i went. we knew a guy who flew up there in his airplane. a small 4 seater. we took some mushrooms and went for a ride over the event. took some nice pictures and of course it wasn't as high as that. but in that state it was fine enough.

ps the guy flying was sober.

 

[Hooli]

Where is the "O", the "C", the "K" and the "S"?

:laughing

 

[EastBayDave]

I'd like to go up there for a top-speed run or two....:teeth

 

[gmlight]

I was there this year... my first time.

What an incredible experience.

Who else was there?

 

[daventura]

I'm in that picture.
Can't you see me?

:teeth

 

[zefflyn]

Crop circles! :wow

 

[Ducky_Fresh]

Reminds me of Stargate and some kind of futuristic tribal civilization.

Or, the Death Star.

 

[ALANRIDER7]

Where is the "O", the "C", the "K" and the "S"?

In your ass.

:laughing :laughing

 

[Sprinklerhead]

In your ass.

:laughing :laughing

Pull your dick out of Hooli's ass and get back to work.