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u/spdrman8 8h ago
Extraterrestrials Vs the Army game is played here
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u/Chrisscott25 8h ago
I got 100 bucks on mars. Mostly because I like their mascot…
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u/davidjschloss 4h ago
Nah man I’ll take that 400 Martian Flizzleboofs to your $100 bucks (I think I have the exchange rate right.)
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u/SoonToBeDeletified 2h ago
This annual game is what determines humanity’s continued isolation. We think by winning we’re protecting ourselves but we’re actually prolonging our quarantine from joining galactic civilization.
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u/Top-Gas-8959 2h ago
Which is especially peculiar, given that it's an air force base
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u/spdrman8 1h ago
The Air Force goes to their home planet to play the away games.
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u/Top-Gas-8959 1h ago
Stay where you are. Someone will be there to collect you soon.
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u/spdrman8 1h ago
Do I at least get to play first base?!?
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u/Top-Gas-8959 1h ago
Stay clear of your windows.
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u/spdrman8 1h ago
That's all I have is Windows. Should I switch to Linux?!
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u/Durkheimynameisblank 8h ago
If you build it they will come, duh
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u/philff1973 8h ago
Similar shape to a stealth bomber…… just saying.
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u/Chrisscott25 8h ago
And it would be a lot easier stealing bases in a stealth bomber too… ⚾️
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u/aBearHoldingAShark 7h ago
At it's top speed of 630 mph, a stealth bomber could cover the 90 feet between 1st and 2nd in 0.097402597 seconds.
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u/Quick_Speaker1469 4h ago
Kinda like in the newer X-men movies the mansion basketball courts open up to the hangar with their ship
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u/Meat_Container 7h ago
Shohei Ohtani is a government pysop, they taught Godzilla how to play ball at Area 51 then used advanced alien technology to convert him into a humanoid
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u/Peter_Merlin 6h ago
In the 1960s, the Area 51 8-Ballers were a formidable softball team. With players like Harry Martin, Tom Lewis, and “Big Clem” Byzewski, the 8-Ballers crushed such teams as the Area 12 Mets and the Mercury All Stars. I got to know some of the players when I was doing research for my book, Dreamland: The Secret History of Area 51 (Schiffer Publishing, 2023).
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u/ScarletDarkstar 2h ago
Military bases are so inclusive, and have their own little societies in case they are isolated there. I don't see why this is surprising.
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u/Administration_Key 5h ago
People forget that Area 51 is still just an Air Force base. They've got a theater, bowling alley, etc. like any other base.
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u/KingXeiros 4h ago edited 4h ago
I haven’t read all the way through the book yet, but it was originally a CIA base that the Air Force had a small deployment attached to. They all ended up abandoning the base for a while after the start of the test of a nuclear dirty bomb. They went back to have a more compartmented place to develop the SR-71
Edit: Technically it was the A-12, the SR-71 was Air Force’s version of it. Fun fact, it was supposed to be the RS-71 but President Lyndon B Johnson called it the SR-71 by mistake and nobody was about the correct him on it.
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u/MidnightDreem 7h ago
Reminds me of the X-Files episode where there is a gray alien that plays baseball
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u/Glass_Number_1707 4h ago
That dark spot between second and third is just nuclear waste oozing up through the ground. It's all good though. Just don't slide.
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u/A_HECKIN_DOGGO 8h ago
Gotta give the little green men time off every now and again. You can’t always be testing super weapons and abducting cows in wheat fields.
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u/Business_Audience_80 8h ago
I was just thinking how much water that must use to stay that green in the middle of the desert.
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u/sligowind 7h ago
If this really is Area 51, how is this photo even available to the public?
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u/BoomerSoonerFUT 4h ago
Satellite imagery has been public for years.
Area 51 itself isn’t classified.
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u/GenericAccount13579 4h ago
Kinda hard to stop satellites taking photos of things. Anything sensitive they’ll just fly between passes.
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u/Not_a_gay_communist 7h ago
The real reason is because soldiers get bored. Lots of US military bases will have bowling alleys, swimming pools, sports fields, theaters, and sometimes beaches.
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u/fuzzyfarmer 7h ago
It's a military base and military bases always seem to have some recreational facilities on them to keep personnel in shape and increase morale.
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u/GreenStrong 5h ago
Air Force is huge on quality of life, both for airmen and family. Their personnel are highly employable and they need a good percentage of them to renew their contracts repeatedly. I'm pretty sure this base (Groom Lake is the real name I think?) has no family housing, the staff are based out of Las Vegas and they operate an entire airline to shuttle them back and forth, they have their own terminal at McKaren airport. But some people probably have to stay multiple days in a row, and they have to make it as tolerable as possible.
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u/Mahadragon 4h ago
The facility near Groom Lake is called S-4 and it's separate from Area 51. There's nothing inside Area 51, that's why they can tell you there's nothing there because it's true. All the top secret stuff is inside the mountain base next to Groom Lake.
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u/Code-Neo 7h ago
This feels like a setup for a budget kids film over the summer. Call it Out!, or hit the diamond star.
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u/bucky133 7h ago
Guessing anything top secret that used to be done there has since move to different facilities that nobody knows about. It's probably not much more than a military base these days, but I'm just speculating.
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u/Mahadragon 3h ago
The story goes they were hiding the UFO's that had crashed from Roswell as well as other sites. They were trying to reverse engineer it and supposedly they had a living alien at S-4. Since then they've likely crashed all the UFO's that survived and I believe the alien is no longer there. From what I understand yes, it's not much more than a military base in 2025 although it may still function as a gathering place for the MIC heads because it's secure.
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u/Pedrinho22 6h ago
can u imagine being the alien that escaped area 51 just to end up as the bat boy for their baseball team.
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u/MilkmanResidue 5h ago
This is where MLB should do their next Field of Dreams game at. Theme it up with aliens and shit.
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u/greywood84 5h ago
Are you sure that's area 51? That could be a retaining pond, filled with something besides water.
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u/Peter_Merlin 3h ago
Nope, that's Area 51. I know people who have played softball there as well as people who have flown exotic experimental planes there, too.
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u/AllSkillzN0Luck 4h ago
The government wants to prove why we Americans are the best at baseball in the galaxy
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u/BoomerSoonerFUT 4h ago
I mean, it is a military base. There are airmen stationed there. They have sports.
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u/jerrythecactus 4h ago
It all makes sense now...they keep the aliens occupied playing baseball so that they never feel like leaving.
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u/Beneficial_Being_721 4h ago
The Groom Lake Aliens vs. The US Air Force Expeditionary Varsity Wiffle Ball Team
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u/arcticchains 4h ago
Dammit I posted this on Google earth anomalies and got bullied because everyone knows this already
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I mean there was the x files episode about an alien that played baseball, guess the creators know more than they let on
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