What's Really HIDDEN Inside the Cheyenne Mountain

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What happens inside this underground complex, is #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT #longs
00:00 The Most Secure Facility in the World
01:24 How city within a mountain Works
06:06 Examples of what NORAD Really do
08:23 Big Problem for Underground Bunkers
09:00 What's Occupies Cheyenne Mountain Complex NOW?
12:10 2nd NORAD Underground Complex in Canada
14:38 Do Super Deep Combat Centers Exist?
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[@NotWhatYouThink]

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[@daholyparrot1603]

are you really thanking them?

[@DumbOrangeFrog]

how 'bout no

[@firstcynic92]

​@@DumbOrangeFrogYou don't shave your avocados?

[@Sajuuk]

"Perceives risks have subsided"? With Russia committing war crimes in their war in Europe and Chairman Xi instructing his armed forces to be ready for an invasion of Taiwan no later than 2027? Are they fucking insane? 🤦🤷

[@louisduffelbagfilledwozempic]

nah he's right, Manscaped is HORRIBLE@@firstcynic92

[@c_s_8411]

It would be hard to believe that the US doesn't have another less well-known underground bunker for VIP's.

[@letsget100subswithoutconte4]

Theres one under the White House

[@fearthehoneybadger]

Undoubtedly.

[@TheHappinessOfThePursuit]

This is the red herring complex.

[@Utubesuperstar]

There is one it’s quite well known it’s in the east coast in the appalachains

[@ZelX-]

There's thousands of private bunkers. If I had to choose I wouldn't pick a government bunker. Knowing the government it won't even be bullet proof.

[@CZpersi]

If the Governement agencies ever vacate this place, it needs to be transformed into a Cold War and sci-fi museum. The place had a huge impact in popular culture and could atract a lot of tourism.

[@captain61games49]

With a stargate of course

[@Battleneter]

Everyone knows this is a Stargate facility.

[@abberss]

It would be very expensive maintenance for a museum, but I agree that it would be awesome

[@krisspkriss]

I came it to say it would be expensive to maintain. The air needs to be circulated. The spring system needs either maintained or stabilized. There are other things as well that just goes with owning real estate and this location is large and expensive so those costs scale as well. In the end it would cost times as much to run a museum at this location, or even more. And we would lose the strategic reserve/mothball fleet aspect that we would have if we just... mothballed the building for the next few decades. Once civilians start using a ship or facility for commercial usage, your ability to ever bring that ship/facility to operational readiness is severely compromised.

[@robtapp6400]

That would be pretty cool. I visited a Titan missile museum in Tucson, AZ. That was a neat experience. I would also like to see Cheyenne complex and see how much it looks the same as when James Burke filmed there in the 70s. Also compare it to War Games - I think the director or producer of the movie talked to an actual NORAD general and they said the movie's set was way more impressive than the actual complex was.

[@NekRulez]

I love the SGC propaganda of "There are no Stargates here", its very in keeping with tradition.

[@questionmark05]

Stargate is just our worlds equivalent of wormhole Xtreme. It's all about plausible deniability. You saw a guy with a funky tatoo and a light stick? You must be watching too much TV.

[@martykarr7058]

The truth is the Stargate isn't even in the US, it's in Canada, just as the REAL area 51 is at Johnston Atoll, not Nevada.

[@NekRulez]

@@martykarr7058 That would explain the hole.

[@NorseGraphic]

And how many floors do they admit to have? Certainly not 28, with a silo going up top…

[@martykarr7058]

@@NekRulez Not there either. Did you ever see the British TV show "U.F.O"? Remember where they hid S.H.A.D.O. headquarters?

[@zhongligaming3734]

I just want to say thank you for providing quality content over all the years. There are too many channels these days using AI to make shitty clickbait videos.

[@DW-nf9qe]

It would be cool if they had a real Stargate hidden in there.

[@uninicornjoe3350]

they do lmfao thats why we invaded iraq in the 90's....wasn't a "weapon of mass destruction" they didnt want sadam using the stargate.

[@TheBlackob]

It would even be cool if they had a fake Stargate there. Just imagine the faces of whoever had to approve the budget for a replica stargate room.

[@nutzeeer]

Yeah good story we all know the stargate is in there

[@allangibson8494]

They actually have a closet door with “Stargate Complex” on it…

[@teilzeitbernd]

They do. The whole series was an elaborate cover-up.

[@MabDarogan2]

The unbelievable element of this story is that the American military conducts "cost-cutting exercises".

[@EdwinWiles]

In fact, they do. Then congresscritters gets pissed that their area isn't getting as much money as they used to, so votes are taken and the budget gets changed to bring that money back.

[@myalt3019]

@@EdwinWiles Maybe if we used some of that money to hire more paper pushers, things wouldn't go so slow in the government.

[@EdwinWiles]

@@myalt3019 Not recommended. That's called "empire building," and generally results in *slower* action as each body added must justify its existence to continue receiving a paycheck. The problem is that the congresscritters have lost sight of their actual job: doing what is right for the country. Instead, they are focused on one thing: getting reelected. Being able to tell their district that they are the reason all this "free money" is coming is seen as an excellent reason to reelect them. So, when you get down to it, it's the voters' fault for constantly reelecting the wrong sort of people. What we need is statesmen. What we've got is politicians. Of course, politicians are focused as a group on a secondary task. Preventing the "other side" from claiming they got anything useful done. That's why things move so slowly. Again, it comes down to getting re-elected. If you cannot claim that you got anything done, then make sure you can say, "We kept those $%#@ from screwing us over!"

[@SubvertTheState]

​@@myalt3019no they would definitely slow down even more as more desks, phones, email and dumb computers (people) get added to the process.

[@asdfate1]

This totally happens, they are years-long, and the people are told not to worry about their jobs because its just an exercise.

[@mitwhitgaming7722]

Um, clearly an ancient ring of alien origin that creates a portal to other rings across the galaxy. You could almost call it a Stargate. 😅

[@Core-1948]

True

[@xlegend6462]

Good, we shall explore

[@endeyfire]

stargate is so good

[@0z3k]

Came here just to find this out. Kudos 😄

[@bredsheeran2897]

Watergate

[@ToddSauve]

I got to go inside Cheyenne Mountain when I was a 15 year teenager in a tour with my Air Cadets squadron from Regina, Saskatchewan in April 1973. It was a lot of fun! Believe it or not, the Canadian dollar was worth more than the American dollar at that time. It was my first time in the US and it seemed a bit like a magical experience. When we crossed into North Dakota we saw our first state trooper, and he looked just like they do in the movies, ha, ha! It did seem to take forever to get down to Colorado Springs from Regina, an entire day and a half of non stop driving through blizzards in Wyoming and then beautiful warm weather in Colorado. We went through Denver and drove past Mile High Stadium, which I had only ever seen before on NFL football games on TV. We also got a tour of the US Air Force academy and stuffed ourselves like pigs in the Peterson AFB mess hall. All the cooks were black. There were hardly any black people in Saskatchewan 50 years ago, except our football heroes with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. We came back via the Black Hills in South Dakota and saw Mount Rushmore. Quite an experience for a 15 year old and I remember it with great fondness at the age of 65! 👌👀💖🛸

[@cubertmiso4140]

thanks for sharing. my dreams are a bit smaller. maybe large tanker/ship/heavy industry plant.

[@Dwigt_Rortugal]

While the state troopers do look like you'd expect, I was sorely disappointed that the RCMP in their daily operations do not appear like we'd expect them to. 😉

[@ToddSauve]

@@Dwigt_Rortugal Yeah, the RCMP only wear their scarlet uniforms and trooper hats for dress occasions.

[@alvarocorral1576]

You got at least one KZbin famous black person living in Saskatchewan by the name of ‘Canadian Prepper.’

[@tinytattoomike7943]

My ex mother in law use to work there back in the 80’s in the cafeteria she use to brag about having affairs with and blowing all the Cornells and big wigs she said it was a meat market

[@karenbennett3662]

Many US underground installations exist. My father was career USAF, he worked in an underground complex at Offutt AFB in NE. It still exists and is still in service.

[@user-wz9kt7im2i]

That is where the nuclear war plans for the free world used to be made by a collective effort. You can't have an ICBM land on a city when a US bomber is flying over it to drop another warhead. Perhaps they still are. Russia knows this already. The jackass self centered egomaniac former US Air Force general McPeak, vastly despised throughout the military, shut Strategic Air Command down. One of the most disgraceful acts of any traitor.

[@Iamthelolrus]

No evidence of the stargate? I'd heard there is a door to a broom closet actually labeled stargate command.

[@NotWhatYouThink]

yeah, I saw that during my research, but wasn't entirely sure so didn't include it in the script

[@Iamthelolrus]

@@NotWhatYouThink we may never know the truth. jk

[@klausstock8020]

This is the actual broom closet, marked "Stargate Command" as a diversion. Look for broom closet labelled "Broom Closet"

[@DarthObscurity]

Stargate Command! AWESOME!

[@flyingfloorboard4097]

Went there in 5th grade! Got to pull open the big door and did a tour of the place. Almost a decade later and I'm on track to being a fighter pilot.

[@jtgd]

Congrats, 15th grader

[@neondemon5137]

Good hunting, shortstack.

[@-sturmfalke-]

Good luck, stay true to your dream.

[@flyingfloorboard4097]

@@-sturmfalke- Thanks!

[@zsigmondfeher4624]

Good job

[@dansands8140]

This will be cool when the Space Force has space battlecruisers and not just some spy satellites.

[@Realbailistic]

And SG1

[@MrC0MPUT3R]

The USS George W. Bush will save us from the Moon Nazis.

[@Riceball01]

What would be better would be space cruiser or space battleships. Battlecruisers re overrated and historically were glass cannons. We're talking about a ship that's about the size of a cruiser, but armed with battleship caliber guns (of the time it was designed, typically 12" - 14" guns) but only cruiser level armor. Good as commerce raiders but lousy as ships of the line.

[@punishedfoxo]

The NRO operate US spy satellites, not USSF

[@Realbailistic]

BC-304 with Asgard shields and weapons

[@CurseTheDarkness]

Got a tour in the early 90’s. I remember the huge spring coils and the water reservoir with a rubber ducky floating on it. I got added on at the last minute, security just asked for my social security number. Yeah, the old days.

[@Icemann89]

So, let me get this clear. NORAD was moved to a basement, because it's as much safe as under a whole mountain, but other agencies moved in that mountain, because it's safer there. Cool! It's nice to have priorities.

[@AL-lh2ht]

I think the emp protection is the bigger deal.

[@youtubeSuckssNow]

Safer for some things and not for others.

[@MinusMedley]

You forgot to mention the fact that it can withstand a nuclear bomb.

[@gluecksdrache2054]

The new rooms shown in the video could be everywhere. 😊

[@Icemann89]

@@MinusMedley What? That basement?

[@andrewday3206]

PACCS (Post Attack Command & Control System) had “The Notch” a hardened base built inside Bare Mountain in Amherst Massachusetts. It was designed to take a blast of one Megaton one mile away. It was in charge of every nuke in the United States arsenal except the boomer submarines. It was actually in charge during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Notch came online June, 2 1958

[@user-wz9kt7im2i]

Eventually the SIP in the center of the country (Omaha Nebraska) was chosen to provide Command and Control. It was as far away from the US border as possible form every direction, and thus could give us that extra few minutes for the president to decide to retaliate. Still, a warhead coming in at Mach 40 doesn't give much time.

[@MrC0MPUT3R]

You've summoned the fandom. Reporting in 🫡

[@aliozanerbektas]

Damn I was gonna make the Stargate Command joke... :'( 1:20

[@inc2000glw]

It's click bait ad sponsored video. Any joke is a great comment

[@Trifids]

What's up with the guy with the bloody head sitting against the cave at 0:29 seconds????

[@TNStuff]

I need an answer here

[@patrikk9961]

exactly

[@9thgenvids]

We need answers we must find within the cave

[@9thgenvids]

0:44 too

[@fearthehoneybadger]

Stargate Command?

[@BizaroStormy88]

Gun mouse being input device for their computer system is the most American thing I can imagine lol

[@klausstock8020]

Probably because the light gun appeared earlier than the light pen (1936 vs. 1955). Although the 1936 light gun worked the other way around, by shooting light at a vacuum tube instead of receiving light from a computer screen - probably because arcade games were still electromechanical in the 1930s and had no video screen (the vacuum tube sat in a toy duck, which the player was supposed to shoot with the light gun). So I guess they just took what was already known and proven. And it might even be more ergonomic with a nearly vertical screen, while a pen might be more convenient for a screen (tablet) lying relatively flat.

[@user-wz9kt7im2i]

Now that is fascinating. Thank you. @@klausstock8020

[@idcanthony9286]

I got to go inside when I was kid. Really awesome experience!

[@SP-pn7xx]

Great timing. I've just started my binge of SG1 this month!

[@John-yt5zr]

I’ve been inside, our Boy Scout troop got to tour it, an amazing place.

[@fratercontenduntocculta8161]

I have an Uncle who was the official space junk tracker guy. He was a LtCol. in the Air Force. He talked all the time about all of the cool facilities inside the mountain.

[@stephenschroeder6567]

I was stationed in there during the early 80s. Was quite the process to get in and out for your shift. Cool building inside and not surprisingly had good food in chow hall. Ah, the good old days of watching exercises that showed how the world would end.

[@spitfeueranna]

What's hillarious with any of these structures, is if they were hit, there would be structural compromise and bending, making just about all of these blast doors jam and unable to be open, trapping people inside out side of them. Anyone who's lived in a house trailer or old house that has settled on its foundation pillars over several decades knows this... doors no longer open or close properly.

[@ArsonalTech]

This is what they want us to believe, but everyone knows this is where they keep the Stargate.

[@RobC1999]

Yep. I know because I saw it on tv so it has to be true!

[@letao12]

And it was only brought back into service because Apophis showed up. "Space force", they aren't even being subtle.

[@user-wz9kt7im2i]

hehehehehe

[@josephemerine314]

Wow I don't think I've ever been this early to a new video. Always great stuff in this channel.

[@timramich]

I wouldn't call that Chinese balloon a kill for NORAD. It loomed over the US and was talked about on the news for more than a week, before it reached the east coast and was then finally shot down.

[@mycroft16]

Sometimes it is wise to watch and see to learn an enemies capabilities I stead of just blowing it away. As far as the public knows that was the 3rd balloon to go over us. Amd the first publicly spotted early. Watching it they know what it is over, ability to maneuver itself, can study transmissions and ither emissions, attempt jamming to learn effectiveness. Plenty of reasons to ask questions first and shoot later. It also wasn't small and you don't want city bus size pieces of metal truss raining down over tens of Sq miles.

[@user-wz9kt7im2i]

Many US allied countries have observed these Chinese intelligence gathering balloons over their own country for years according to the documentary at the time. Biden waited until it was not at risk of falling onto American citizens, before it was shot down. It was later claimed that it was not Chinese. It was an escaped balloon of some kind. For this avoidance of pissing off the American public, China was expected to give some counter 'provisions' @@mycroft16

[@markdraper3469]

For people in my particular Air Force job, Cheyenne Mountain was a place desired. It had only been open about 7 years. Sadly, the closest I got was helping to clear out the underground facility in San Pedro and that was before I was even in the A.F. BTW, the scopes shown @13:05 date back to the 50s. They were being decommissioned in the 70s, some were adopted as props you can see in shows like "The Six Million Dollar Man."

[@DalHrusk]

At first, I filtered out this channel because its name sounded like clickbait, but now it doesn't stop amazing me with so many interesting topics. And 1:20 is so smooth 🙂

[@Dellvmnyam]

It's really not what you thought.

[@maxscott3349]

The title really are kind of clickbaity, but he always delivers. You don't click off after twenty seconds feeling ripped off, he actually has content worthy of the title

[@DrakeOola]

You realize that 1:20 is from the television show Stargate: SG1 right? 💀

[@zhongligaming3734]

This channel is honestly extremely well run. One of the last informational KZbinrs that doesn’t just have an AI voice read the Wikipedia entry for the topic of the video.

[@elio7610]

I am not entirely sure how i feel about the channel, it is difficult to know how accurate and well researched the videos are unless you already know everything the video is telling you about (in which case, you probably would not be watching it), but it seems at least somewhat informative and stays on topic.

[@tetraxis3011]

Irs quite possible many other countries have similar facilities. For example Yugoslavya constructed an airbase in a mountain so that it could also withstand a nuclear blast. North Korea and Iran have multiple underground facilities of similar scale, and Iran recently finished an underground airbase for their New Su35s. No doubt Russia, China, Britian, France, and perhaps India have similar facilities.

[@jonathanpfeffer3716]

I know Taiwan's got a few.

[@leaf16nut]

Fun fact, the 2013 movie ‘the colony’ was filmed in the NORAD underground bunker in North Bay, a truly insane complex!

[@robertopiedimonte2078]

Always nice have a look inside these places. Thank you

[@movingontorealfreedom7305]

Very interesting! Thank you for taking the time and interest to do what you do here! It’s much appreciated by many!

[@nommindymple6241]

I used to work there back at the dawn of time and I didn't know many of the things you mentioned here. Thanks. Good video.

[@RJ-er3gv]

The underground NORAD hole base along with BOMARC nuclear missiles in the 1970s in Northern Ontario Canada. I toured the underground hole in the 1980s and the missiles sites after their removal 10 years earlier. Like Cheyenne it was moved above ground in 2006. It's just a big abandon hole now. Living with in eye site of this complex it proved for an interesting time during the Cuban missile crisis being ground zero in the event of an attack.

[@BigStew83]

I wonder if they have that diesel reservoir lined

[@chrish6001]

Yes, NORAD still tracks Santa. You can usually hear the fun updates on radio stations Christmas Eve. In North Bay, we usually refered to the complex as the SAGE after the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment radar and SAGE System computer network. I believe they used to offer tours. I remember the city used to occasionally test the air raid sirens.

[@topquark6242]

Great Video. My Uncle used to be second in command of NORAD back in the mid 80's and I used to live in North Bay when my dad flew fighters. I got a tour of 'The Hole' as an Air Cadet and it was amazing. I was told the old computers still used vacuum tubes and the only replacement source was the USSR.

[@Gundumb_guy]

I thought 7:27 was going to be the first instance of gamer rage! Dude looked like he was about to shoot his monitor after losing a game of pong vs someone in Russia or something. 😂

[@4eef]

Well, besides top content and amazing work on getting to the point, I was amazed by ad insert. This was hilarious!

[@jh6031]

Very interesting content from a page that continuously posts interesting content. Well done.

[@alextheheck]

Great video guys! Just one hint: When you mention the floor space taken up by the computers you show an alleged equivalent in metric units, but 11900 sqft are not equivalent to 1.1km². In fact, you are off by several orders of magnitude

[@NotWhatYouThink]

Thanks for pointing that out. Correct. It should have been 1100 m2

[@TheUglyGnome]

Stupid question in the title. Everybody knows there's a stargate there. It's well documented fact.

[@theMooly]

About 3 movies and 20ish documentaries of 40ish minutes, thats right

[@ladymecha8718]

12:26 Yes! Was wondering if you were going to mention my home town’s old NORAD military base. 🎉❤

[@johnjohnson798]

Rumor has it there's a door labeled Stargate Sg-1 at Cheyenne. A prestigious storage closet.

[@Catamount1412]

You can't fool us, Stargate Command

[@cascadianrangers728]

Nuclear weapons have gotten accurate enough that they no longer carry megaton yeilds, their warheads are usually less than 500 kilotons but they are accurate within about 30 yards

[@Sanchuniathon384]

30 yards? There are videos of MIRV tests on KZbin which show the several MIRVs (no warhead inside of course) hitting the same location, repeatedly, from space. Our nukes are able to hit targets with centimetre precision.

[@cascadianrangers728]

@@Sanchuniathon384 ...but the re-entery vehicles are literally a meter wide at the base, cm level precision would be beyond redundant, especially with a hydrogen bomb

[@cascadianrangers728]

@@Sanchuniathon384 Weapons with that sort of accuracy may well exist for all I know, but if they do, I didnt transfer any on or off submarines

[@stargazer7644]

@@cascadianrangers728Whether you think it is redundant or not, that's the accuracy GPS provides.

[@klausstock8020]

@@Sanchuniathon384 Only if GPS isn't jammed. And the "secret" military back-up frequency. And TACAN. Traditional INS (Inertial Navigation System) were accurate only to 1 few 100 meters, while a modern MEMS INS can achieve an error of less than 50m after a flight time of 15 minutes (note that an LGM-30 Minuteman might have a longer flight time if attacking a target on the opposite side of the planet). By using data from several MEMS INS, accuracy can be greatly improved - I guess they combined 10 pairs of MEMS INS and additionally used "occasional" GPS signals getting though the jamming to get to that "about 30 yard" accuracy, ten years ago.

[@brunol-p_g8800]

« This is the Cheyenne mountain complex… » Ok then, we’re talking about the Stargate, something the entire world knows thanks to a superb film followed by a great series… (That’s second degree of course. For anyone who wouldn’t get it)

[@daviddooley5361]

Back in the '60s there was a show called You Asked For It and the Cheyenne Mountain complex was featured in an episode. I remember those springs being shown.

[@mini_bunney]

ah yes, Stargate Command

[@eraymonds]

What's up with the bloody dude at 0:30?

[@jaredmartin9086]

I love your content, keep it up big dog!

[@franswevers5039]

Cheyenne Mountain as a Space Force station. Interesting. A little Stargate thing maybe.

[@vivi_t3ch]

ok, props for the Star gate reference!

[@brandonwheeler2226]

I'll save you 15 minutes, it's actually the Stargate

[@AarronS]

I live right next to this place. It's awesome.

[@Realbailistic]

Prefer to call it SGC

[@Spencergolde]

The most 1960's american military thing about this is the use of a gun in place of the abundantly more obvious stylus/pen. Like you're telling me you couldn't fit a light inside of a pen? You had to use a handgun?

[@Unknownety]

It is actually a light sensor, and a button. Press the button and the computer scans through the various areas of the screen and looks for when the light sensor reacts. From there is has now deduced what area one pointed the sensor at. Fairly trivial to be fair and yes most such input devices were in the shape of a stylus/pen, not a gun. So I too am a bit surprised that they went for a gun.

[@user-wz9kt7im2i]

The gun was so much earlier, than the more modern components of a light pen @@Unknownety

[@statikcitten9]

That manscaping Ad was insane😅😅

[@Itsmarkyoung]

I grew up in Denver and every time I drove past this mountain I noticed the massive antenna on top haha

[@kyryllvlasiuk]

Damn, time to re-watch Stargate SG-1

[@1XX1]

It's always comforting to hear a Russian A.I. narration of sensitive American Military sites.

[@user-wz9kt7im2i]

That image of a door sliding back at 6:23 is the door over a Minuteman missile silo. It weighs 55 tons and in an emergency can be blasted out of the way.

[@ballroomscott]

It's just deep-space radar telemetry.

[@irishjoedy]

Nice try, but we all know Stargate Command is here. Showing us the gate and saying it's not really there is just a fakeout.

[@MayhemCanuck]

I have toured the NORAD base ( 22 Wing ) In North Bay Ontario. Its very interesting , sadly closed up pretty much now.

[@WmTyndale]

Fascinating!

[@OscarNassar1]

Bro.. why is there a dead body at 0:30 ?!? 😮

[@ronjon7942]

Ha😊

[@D1zZit]

This is probably as close as we'll get to Portal 2's underground laboratory

[@Brian-ru5dk]

The hell out of here zoomer, this is Stargate hood humie

[@mycroft16]

Well, since the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is in 4 old salt mines, good chance the military uses other salt mines for their own purposes. That's what Apperture was built in.

[@Sffker]

"as far as we know" is a great ending to this video... there is so much technology, weapons, and doings, that we will not have knowledge of for many, many years to come.

[@henrycarlson7514]

Interesting , Thank You

[@firstcynic92]

3:20 I didn't know that the WOPR computer was so light. It looks quite massive in that 1983 PR movie about how safe the US nukes are. 🙃

[@klausstock8020]

Still gets me every time that they had public tours in one of their most secure and secret facilities...where a teenage boy could just sneak away from the group without being noticed right away. There was also that incident where WOPR tried to brute-force the "launch codes". Had it started to try numbers beginning at 00000000, that incident would have ended badly, but I guess it tried all combinations from 00000001 to 99999999. The launch code 00000000 was pretty smart in hindsight.

[@jackmambawitsin]

7:20. Playing duck hunt to keep North America safe!

[@918Boyz]

I picture him just *_pew pew pew_* *turn knob* *_pew pew pew pew_*

[@95R_1NT39RA_]

I live right by norad Cheyenne mountain Colorado springs. It's not really shut down, there's always traffic up there. Peterson space force is also just a few minutes away.

[@fuffoon]

I lived about 1.2 miles from their front door from 1984 to 1989

[@seamanmyers]

it houses the SGC. we all know that. duh

[@juch3l601]

Everyone knows thats where the Stargate is.

[@vanguard9067]

There are quite a number of hardened military and Continuity of Government sites around the country and overseas. The internet of course was initially developed to provide robust, non-centralized communications in time of war.

[@casey6556]

I’m surprised that the Canadian discussion didn’t mention the Diefenbunker in Peel, Ontario, which was intended to house the Canadian government but whose secret got out before it was even finished construction and whose protections were similarly outdated within a very short time. The Prime Minister never so much as slept the night there and it was shut down in the 1990s before being turned into a very cool Cold War museum.

[@CRAZYHORSE19682003]

This place could survive multiple direct hits by Nuclear weapons. During Nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll Battleships had no problem surviving nuclear blasts that were less than 100 feet away from ground zero.

[@Lindrios]

They were MUCH farther away that 100 feet. The closest was air dropped and detonated at an altitude of 500ft, 2000ft behind the targets. This sunk 5 of the 8 ships. No idea where you're getting the "no problem" from seeming as they were so contaminated they weren't even able to use them for further testing and sank them. Bringing in other ships for further underwater testing

[@captivahender]

No, it could not. It's not only about shielding from radiation and fire, but also surviving the incredible acceleration forces. A box-in-box concept with rooms hanging on giant springs and dampers increases the chance of survival, but there is always a limit..

[@goody82az]

I live in Colorado Springs and work at Fort Carson very close to this Space Force Base. I hope to visit someday.

[@MultiSciGeek]

Honestly from an engineering point of view, this is pretty awesome!

[@neondemon5137]

Imagine if they spent a fraction of the defense budget on welfare, healthcare and education. America could be a utopia instead of a thinly veiled feudal society.

[@SapioiT]

Sounds like they need to start stockpiling a solar power installation or multiple smaller installations, which can be deployed if the fuel gets used up, or to help with the recovery of other facilities.

[@perrybonney9090]

I remember reading in some book, years back, that someone anticipated that the Soviets would improve their missile targeting accuracy, and therefore recommended that the Cheyenne Mountain Complex be built UNDER Cheyenne Mountain, and not in it. But the powers that be wouldn’t listen.

[@kalashnikovdevil]

There actually is a room marked SGC in the Cheyenne Mountain Complex. It's a broom closet.

[@used369]

In 1976, as a College ROTC Cadet, my Unit was Flown to Ellis AF Base, and a full Tour the AF Academy, a Full Tour of NORAD... In Class in 1976,,, we were taughtthat if Russia landed a 25 ton Nuke,,, Near,,, Cheyenne Mountain,,, NORAD would be Destroyed. Interesting that the Buildings were setting on top of 4' tall Coil Springs...

[@Dwigt_Rortugal]

Those cool graphics at 11:10 illustrate the forcing of space beneath the earth. Instead of a big banner that asks, "Is this good for the company?" it says, "Space Truths."

[@whaky6294]

11:35 Journalists: leaving the complex Personnel: ok, we can Alt+Tab back to Minecraft now.

[@Tool-Meister]

I visited Cheyenne Mt. on business in 1982. Sure would like to see the changes.

[@user-wz9kt7im2i]

I would like to know more about Alice Springs in the very center of Australia, but even being assigned there is classified .

[@daneast]

The power consumption (and heat generation) should be drastically lower now than when it first opened, due to the efficiency of electronics. Just switching from CRT to LCD displays, and from incandescent to LED lighting, would have a massive impact in their heat generation and electrical consumption.

[@oldmandancing]

Avocados! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 That may be the best segue to an ad in KZbin history!! 😝

[@ericswain4177]

The Truth is an interesting perspective and viewpoint.

[@JamesOKeefe-US]

I love this channel

[@scottk6659]

As an ex-Montrealer I recognize that voice. Good to hear your voice Joe :)